We’re told that we shouldn’t try to live in the past and I agree.  However, there’s nothing wrong with visiting the past.  I have fun hosting two weekend radio shows featuring music from yesteryear, one on 98Cool, the Sunday Sockhop from 9am to 1pm, and the other on CJWW, Vic’s Country Classics from 1pm to 4pm Sundays.  The songs played on these shows remind us of who we were and who we’ve become.   When I look back at television, Westerns were all the rage in the 1950’s and 60’s.   Some of my favourites were Have Gun Will Travel that ran from 1957-63, Gunsmoke that was on for an amazing 20 seasons, 1955-75, and the 14 season Bonanza, 1959-73.    Some other shows were  the Lone Ranger, The Rifleman, Zorro, Wanted Dead or Alive, Rawhide, Maverick, Wyatt Earp, Kung Fu, The Big Valley, the High Chaparral, The Virginian, Wagon Train, and I could go on.  The Western genre is still here today with shows like 1923 that ran in 2022 and 2023 and of course Yellowstone that started in 2018.  Most Westerns focus on the fantasy of the Old West in the latter part of the 19th and early 20th centuries, and as long as there’s a public taste for them, meaning money to be made by making them, I’m sure we’ll continue to see them popping up on tv and streaming services, and in theatres. 

That’s Coffeetalk.  I’m Vic Dubois.