I watch how the songs go over, and the older ones get mostly ignored these days. Sad, because although I'm happy to see some of them dropped from the current playlist, I miss others.
As a musician, I like nice songs from any era. But you have to play the room. Most people want to hear the music of their lives, not the music of their parents' lives. “Old Cape Cod” was a hit for Patty Page, who was born in 1927. Although it was a late 1950s song, the baby-boomer kids definitely associated it with their parents.
I can pull out an Elvis Presley song once in a while, anything older than that, it has to be the right place, the right time, and the right audience.
We have over 600 songs in our songlist, so there is always plenty to choose from. https://www.nortonmusic.com/cats/songlist.html
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