Word: concertizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rock is in its second childhood. Senility is not pending, but familiarity certainly is, as rock's raffishness gets currycombed by nostalgia, spiffed up and repackaged for more genteel consumption. The musical past is being reprocessed, in all sorts of unlikely places, from shopping malls to concert stages. A second generation is starting to catch the beat of the music their parents grew up with, the music that, very often, helped their parents grow up. If all that is a little disorienting, or even baffling, remember the words of the classic R.-and-B. tune: "The little girls understand...
This week a Dirty Dancing concert revue comes to Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, with a brace of nostalgically inclined singers and a bevy of pelvicly primed dancers. After eight shows at Radio City, the concert will head out to 65 cities in the heartland. "How many people here under 20?" shouts Bill Medley, once a Righteous Brother and now the revue's closing act, before jumping into (I've Had) The Time of My Life, his hit theme from the movie. His question gets a good roar from the crowd. "How many over 20?" Another roar. The show...
...Dirty Dancing concert tour might be just another oldies show if it were not for the fact that the record business has already scoped out a trend that goes beyond recycling oldies. Producers are trying to realchemize the sound of early '60s pop with singers too young to know the decade by anything but rumor and parental reminiscence. Tiffany, a 17-year-old singer from Norwalk, Calif., had a surprise No. 1 hit last year with her version of the Tommy James and the Shondells 1967 hit I Think We're Alone Now. Tiffany, who concertized in shopping malls...
...that rock was the real thing, a way for a lot of kids to find a balance, share a feeling, even, sometimes, stay ahead and stay alive. It's not that way anymore. For the millions who saw the movie or buy the records or check out the concert, these songs are no longer reflections of immediate experience. They are bedtime stories...
...city concert tour of Dirty Dancing and the success of pube rockers like Tiffany signal the discovery of '60s sounds by '80s teens...