[78-L] Unfortunate!

[Julian Vein]

Steven C. Barr wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bill Knowlton" <udmacon1 at hotmail.com>
>> "Fortunately for almost ALL of us, 1954 and "Sh-Boom" suddenly brought in 
>> a whole NEW musical style...!
>> Count me as one of the small REST of us who didn't regard the change as 
>> "fortunate..." <g>
>>
> That assumes, then, that you actually LIKED hits like "This Old House," "Oh 
> Mein Papa" and
> the rest of the (dubiously) "music" that was what one HAD to hear on radio 
> in that era! I grew
> up with that...I didn't like it then, and I doubt if I would even these 
> days.
> 
> I had a cousin who was two or three years older than myself...I recall she 
> used to have
> her friends over, most of whom brought their favourite records...and the 
> result was a
> near-endless series of "slow dances"...?!
> 
> Steven C. Barr 
> 
> _______________________________________________
The unfortunate aspect is not that the popular music scene gradually 
moved away from big bands in favour of vocalists in the 50s, but the 
inordinate amount of novelties we had to suffer.

      Julian Vein


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