[78-L] Did vocals help sell records? [was Can Anyone Identify

[Michael Biel]

Geoffrey Wheeler wrote:
> As for the above statement, I can full sympathize, as I will not read
> any book that does not have accompanying pictures.
>
>   
Oh my goodness.  I just spent over a hundred bucks on two of your books 
-- and there are NO PICTURES!!!!  (and I wish there were because you 
discuss some records and albums I need pictures of!)


> I feel the same way about menus. Waiter, I’ll have picture 8.
>   

I agree.  I'll challenge Americans to be able to order dinner in Hungary 
or Finland off of a menu only in Hungarian or Finnish with no pictures 
and nothing to point at on a nearby table.   The best meal I had in 
Budapest was at the Radio Budaapest cafeteria where we weree able to 
point.  The food was great, the desserts were fantastic, and my students 
wished we could find a way to eat there every day.   The only picture 
menu I saw there was at McDonalds! 

> > Jeff Sultanof wrote:
>   
>> >> Julian,
>> >>
>> >> I believe that those vocals most definitely helped to sell records. One of
>> >> my students (elementary school age) commented to me a week ago when I played
>> >> part of a symphony by Beethoven, "Where is the singing part?" I explained
>> >> that not all music had singers. She was most disappointed in that answer.
>> >>   
>>     


Oh my goodness.  I am going to be blasted for posting this worse than 
Bill K can do.  When Leah was about six, my wife took her to see "The 
Nutcracker" ballet.  She sat patiently halfway, but then whispered a 
question "When are they going to talk?"  She thereafter has proclaimed 
that she HATES ballet!  She's only been to one other in her life, a 
rather experimental one, a rather unusual one, one which I can't 
describe in a family list . . . .

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com