[78-L] Yummy, yummy, yummy [cont]

[Kristjan Saag]

Steve Thornton wrote:

>> "Yummy Yummy Yummy" (the song's actual name) did appear in a Monty Python
>> episode, but despite the credit in that episode to "Jackie Charlton and
>> the Tonettes", that group doesn't exist; it is actually by The Ohio
>> Express, who had the major hit with it. It was written (and sung) by Joey
>> Levine, who worked on a lot of records for the Kasenetz-Katz production
>> team that made so many bubblegum hits.
>>
>> Bubblegum gets little respect today but was an important force in sixties
>> pop, and the genre encompasses a ton of great records, as good as or
>> bettern than a lot of the "serious" music by "real groups" (many of whom
>> used similar assemblages of studio musicians and songwriters too).
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Steven C. Barr wrote:

> BUT...?!
> Bubblegum music was a quickly-thrown-together variety of pop music...meant
> for the 10-to-13 (mostly female) audience...which is how/why it acquired 
> its
> intended-derisive name!
> Since (especially to-day!!) the pre-teen demographic has/had BUNCHES of
> spending money, this music DID...DOES...and WILL sell in huge 
> quantities...
> and coherence was/is/will be NOT a requisite value!
> Those who enjoy it (for NON-nostalgic reasons...?!) might also enjoy
> listening to music from current TV commercials...which is written for the
> same reasons and in a very similar style...?!

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The reason WHY music is written has nothing to do with its quality or value. 
Bach wrote for God, Mozart for the aristocracy, Berlin for Tin Pan Alley and 
Mancini for Universal Pictures. Raymond Scott, among other things, wrote 
soothing sounds for babies and Robert Farnon, his left hand occupied holding 
his son in his knee, composed the lovely "Tinkerbell" with his right to 
amuse the kid at the piano.
It's composing with your left hand that is dangerous. When it's not done 
wholeheartedly, no matter if the recipient is The Creator himself or a host 
of his 12 year old creatures.
Good bubblegum music - some of it on Buddah Records - will always be on my 
turntable.
Kristjan