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I just happened in this thread going thru and looking to make sure I haven't missed anything.
I don't usually trade when I listen to music, because I find that most of the music I listen to these days is on youtube, and I am busy surfing songs rather than busy trading. I fully expect that will change when I get a good feel for trading, and I hope that comes soon because I've been at it for two months including the last two weeks of live trading.
But music almost always fills my head. In a prior career I was disc jockey for about a dozen years, doing entertainment for wedding receptions, high school dances, class reunions, formals, etc. I and an associate (mostly him) assembled a collection of over 8,000 titles that we took to every single show. That's nothing today with mp3 technology, I have more than that on a single mp3 player now. But in 1979 it was virtually impossible. We carried half the van full of records and had barely 2000 titles, and Jojo got the bright idea to start putting some of the less-used stuff on cassettes, because when people were dancing, they couldn't tell (and couldn't care less) what the source of the music was. In 1982 he had an occasion where the needles on both turntables were broken (due to an incompetent roadie at a previous gig) and found himself playing completely off of cassettes. So he began and I helped finish what at that time was the largest mobile collection of music we ever knew of and to this day until the advent of mp3 I have never seen anything else come close. We had 90% of every single that ever charted in the US since 1955, and almost 50% of those that charted prior to 1955.
I can sing along whenever I hear the most odd variety of stuff. Makes people wonder.
Recently, someone emailed us a link for a song from an Indian Bollywood film, called Chayya Chayya. I understand it was a huge hit in India, and also a fair size hit in the UK. I have looked and recently found a number of Bollywood songs that I think are wonderful music. I am sure that many of those could be hits on US pop charts if anyone brought them here and distributed them. Some are even in broken English.
If hit pop can be successful in Spanish and English, why not in Urdu and English?
Totally nothing to do with trading! Had to post it nonetheless . . .
Jeff
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