To me, Buddy Holly and Elvis fall into Golden, or Early Rock, or Rock & Roll. (The Who is Classic Rock, for me.) I guess we all have our own definitions, and for me, Classic Rock (with caps) is album-based and a little later than either of these two songs.... and wouldn't have come into existence without them.
But this is nothing but making categories for ease of conversation. Because I definitely agree that those two are seminal, roots-of-rock, classic-with-a-small-c, rock-would-not-exist-without-them songs, both of them.
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Ahemm... I ain't gonna comment about little Ricky being rock, except to say classic pop? Maybe? Nah... I wouldn't stop at Neil Young, either, when there's stuff like this out there;
Well, we may have differences about what's Classic and what's classic. Setting aside any "official" definitions, I was just describing a general idea. I guess I got stuck on the term because one of my favorite radio stations that's been around forever calls themselves "Classic Rock." But now I'm not so sure.
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Ahemm... I ain't gonna comment about little Ricky being rock, except to say classic pop? Maybe? Nah... I wouldn't stop at Neil Young, either, when there's stuff like this out there;
And you wouldn't go back all the way back to Hank Williams in the classic country category?
Fleetwood Mac's Rumours is definitely on my all-time favorites list!
And I certainly meant to include Hank Sr. in my time frame, but now that I'm thinking, I guess he was a little earlier than the mid-sixties. I think I did say "roughly" or "approximately," though. It's hard to remember exact dates for those of us old enough to be talking in geologic time.
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Speaking of classic country, how many country stars have had a hit with this one. I guess a true classic can even transcend into other genres, like, say, jazz...
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