[78-L] "Folk" music...?!

[David Lennick]

David Weiner wrote:
> Back in 1971...when I was doing "Europe On $5 a Week"...I had the
> chance to visit a London pub...which had a resident pianist and a LARGE
> group of enthusiastic singers-along! (this seems to have been a traditional
> activity at UK pubs, predating the ready availability of recorded music?!)!
> 
> I think the whole idea of "true amateur" singing has all but disappeared...
> people simply CANNOT match the carefully-digitally-edited "music"
> heard to-day...?!
> 
> Steven C. Barr 
> 
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> 
> Oh, I don't know about that - in any gay piano bar in any city or town
> you'll find an enthusiastic crowd singing along to show tunes every night of
> the week!
> 
> Dave W.

And in beer commercials. At least when the crowd doesn't spontaneously don 
Viking garb or other esoteric apparel and launch into variations on Carmina 
Burana. 'Tis enough to drive a man to drink, 'tis.

dl