[78-L] Susan Reed obit

[Cary Ginell]

Along with "How can you listen to that noise?" 

Cary Ginell

> Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 03:06:16 +0000
> From: fnarf at comcast.net
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Susan Reed obit
> 
> 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
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> 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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