[78-L] Susan Reed obit

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How old are you, Steven? The phrase "younger generation" has got to be at least fifty years old, and the youth of the 60s was pretty notoriously "sex-crazed", as was those of the 70s, the 80s, the 90s, and the 00s. 

So I'm a little confused about the timeliness of this rant. It sounds like something my grandparents might have said, when they were still alive, several decades ago.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven C. Barr" <stevenc at interlinks.net>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 7:56:43 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Re: [78-L] Susan Reed obit

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From: "Cary Ginell" <soundthink at live.com>
>
> Folk singer Susan Reed has died at the age of 84. Reed was one of Jac 
> Holzman's first folk artists recorded on the Elektra label in the early 
> 1950s but before that, she recorded an album of 78s of folk songs for RCA 
> Victor: (M-1086: "Folk Songs and Ballads"), one of the first albums of the 
> so-called "urban folk revival."
>
Another sad reminder that many...probably MOST...of us 78-ophiles are "on 
our
way out"...?! I have no idea what the current average age of us "78-Lers" 
is...but
I tend to believe it may well be 60-something...?!

If that is the case, we can very well expect that a LOT of major 78 
collections
will either be (1) offered for sale...or (2) hauled off and dumped in 
landfills...in
the next decade or two...?! Remember that events of the fifties occured
about half-a-century or more ago...even though we may well personally
remember them, we are among a diminishing demographic!

We are about to be replaced by an Internet-savvy, sex-crazed "younger
generation" that wots not of 78's nor how to play them...?!

Steven C. Barr 

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