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

[Michael Biel]

Correction --  Geoffrey didn't put the attribution in his posting, and 
it turns out that it is Mark B who likes pictures in books -- and thus 
wouldn't like Geoffrey's books!) and Geoffrey only admitted to liking 
picture menus.  And French wine.  (Freedom wine??)

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com 

Michael Biel wrote:
> 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:
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>>>>> 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.
>>>>>   
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>
>
> 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