[78-L] Odeon acoustic beauty

[Malcolm Rockwell]

Bob Rice wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kristjan Saag" <saag at telia.com>
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 6:58 AM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Odeon acoustic beauty
>
>
>   
>> Bob Rice wrote:
>>     
>>> Marek Weber does a great repatoire of 20-30's danz(dance)Music.
>>> A facinating viriety of OOmpa to Waltz stuff, and considering the
>>> backround
>>> ,of Germany's decent into hell, the Hitler Years, Music to build V-2's 
>>> and
>>> Jet planes,U-boats, and early attempts at nuclear weapons,by. Guyz on 
>>> here
>>> guided me to a CD of Marek Weber's stuff, He MUST have done more than on
>>> the
>>> German CD? mailman/listinfo/78-l
>>>       
>> --
>>
>> A strange observation. I wouldn't dream of speaking about the US nuclear
>> program in the 1940's or Hiroshima when evaluating the efforts of Glenn
>> Miller and Artie Shaw.
>> Show business in Germany was as vital as anywhere else in the world, 
>> despite
>> the Nazis. The repertoire was, basically the same, there was Oompa and 
>> Waltz
>> and Foxtrot and Rumba and Tango and jazz music was as hot as in Brooklyn -
>> even got hotter during the restriction years, immediately before and 
>> during
>> the war.
>> There's so much written about this, but it has yet to reach US shores.
>>     
>
>        Maybe it should? "Nagasaki, where the fellows chew Tobacci and the 
> women wiki wacky woo??"No Japanese "answer" song? But we(U.S.) put Nagasaki 
> on the map in a more regrettable way.
>
>   
>> Kristjan
>>     
>      Hi Kristjan;
>
>     An interesting observation. I don't wish to Diss ANY nationality. I 
> think it wonderful that music, 78 or otherwise can transcend boarders and 
> regimes. Probably(example) a lot of lovely old, and maybe NEW North Korean 
> pop songs, MAYBE they still make 78's?but I'm sure not much from the 
> Talaban? Imagine, HORRORS!, living in a non music world?No wonder they have 
> suicide bombers!  I had some Japanese 78's from the War years, copying big 
> band sounds and militery marches, I guess? They were given to me by a friend 
> in Taiwan, when he heard I liked 78's. They even had a wind up player! Not a 
> Victrola but a Japanese thing that looked like one.This was nearly half a 
> century ago.
>
>     But back to the origional theme: Where can ya get MORE Marek Weber 
> stuff?
>   
*******

You jiving me? There's more Arabic music - both classic and modern - on 
FM radio than there ever was pre-2000. And some of it is even listenable 
to! Not particularly my cuppa tea but that's just me, and not the point.
And... suicide bombers? Top which do you refer, sir? Japanese kamakazi 
or Arabic nutjob? And don't tell me you're leaving the "over the hill" 
US psychos out of the mix? A zealot is a zealot, no matter what side 
they're on.
Your "no music" comment hasn't a leg to stand on.
Mal