Guest: Rose Looney

Seventy-seven year old Rose Looney considers herself a fan of the 1950’s and it’s not just because of her devotion to singer Dion DiMucci and all of the great talent of the Doo-Wop age.

“It was a time of innocence,” she says. “I’m sure there were things happening that we didn’t know about, but for the most part it was the greatest of times.”

She points to her music teen-idols as good role models and as an example of why she defends the fifties.

“There was no swearing on stage,” she remembers. “Men wore suits and ladies dressed up to look like ladies. We wouldn’t have imagined women coming out hardly wearing anything.”

Looney believes that the key difference between then and now was that they bore their talents instead of bearing their bodies.

“They weren’t singing about drugs, they were perfect gentlemen and had respect for the audience knowing that their fans were good people,” she said. “No one threw their underwear on the stage.”

Listen in and get ready to take a trip to the 1950's with both The Senior Editor and our guest, Rose Looney.