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[Bud Black]

I would assume the "old standards" during the acoustic record era would have
been found on piano rolls and sheet music.

Bud 
 
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From: Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr.
Date: 04/03/09 15:55:02
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Subject: Re: [78-L] (no subject)
 
Stephen Davies wrote:
>         Writing in a philosophical mood, and knowing that there can be
> only speculation, without an absolute answer....  Recorded immortality
> hand in hand with mortality.
>
>         I was wondering about how TV kicked into high gear in the 1950's,
> and the late nights were filled with old movies, even some silents.... How
> the TV audience at some point in time (1958, 1959, 1960....?) would
> realize that many of these early actors were now dead.  Any ghoulish
> feeling might be mixed with an engrossing plotline and/or a blossoming
> sense of camp based on the style and foibles of previous generations.  (I
> don't think people were mislabelling it "Nostalgia" yet.)
>
>         So was there a similar watershed moment in the history of 78's,
> when people realized that the majority of recorded sound belonged to
> deceased personalities?  Or was the 78 rpm era based always on new songs,
> new styles without any retrospective similar to the TV programming and no
> sentimental prickings?
>
>         There seems to be a great sense of addressing posterity in the
> earliest Edison recordings.  At some point, recorded sound became so
> common that it was just a consumeable moment rather than a historic event.
>  When did discs regain the status of  being a legacy?  I presume the
> answer depends on what genre of recording is being considered:  classical,
> popular, spoken word...
>
Interesting thought.
I was just considering this myself in a way.
When the acoustical era was in full swing, what were the "old standards"?
What is lost to us and seems so corny-campy now!
Steven Foster
Old Vaudeville tunes
Operettas and their stars long forgotten...
 
No Carmichael
No Miller
No Rogers
No Kiss Me Kate
 
Is this music corny-campy to our kids? I suppose...
 
 
 
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