[78-L] Well EXCUUUUUUSE MEEEEE!!!

[Taylor Bowie]

And even worse than what Cary and others have mentioned...some posters here 
have belittled the singing of SID GARY which does not please me.  What kind 
of a world have we made for ourselves where Sid is not held in the highest 
regard by the musical public?

By the same token,  I loathe much of what Scrappy Lambert put on wax...and I 
don't  like a lot of his singing,  either (haha Joke).

But that doesn't make me smarter or Scrappy-ites dumber and for all we know 
Sid and Scrappy might have been each other's biggest fans.  And there are 
some Scrappy sides where he really hits his mark,  e.g. The Captivators on 
Brunswick of "Building a Nest For Mary."  Great singing with more than a 
little jazz feel to it.  And even I tend to cringe a little at Sid Gary's 
version of "Sonny Boy."  Makes the Jolson version sound like Whispering Jack 
Smith.

I do plead guilty to having been at times sophisticated,  snobbish and 
ludicrous...sometimes all at once.

Last...on more than one occasion...on MANY occasions...I have returned to a 
record,  or a band or a singer which I was sure I "didn't like" and 
discovered...hey,  this stuff is all right!

Taylor


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cary Ginell" <soundthink at live.com>
To: <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 9:35 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Well EXCUUUUUUSE MEEEEE!!!


>
> Actually, they have. There have been several posters who have made blanket 
> statements about the inherent inferiority of country music and blues based 
> on infantile and ignorant generalizations that I, for one, take extreme 
> offense to. You can have a personal opinion about music or an artist, but 
> don't expand your judgments, whether they are justified or not, into a 
> statement of fact.
>
> Cary Ginell
>
>> From: timhuskisson at btinternet.com
>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>> Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 17:25:06 +0100
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Well EXCUUUUUUSE MEEEEE!!!
>>
>> I don't think anyone here has claimed that one musical idiom is greater 
>> or
>> better than another (If that's what you mean). That would be a ludicrous
>> argument.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Tim Huskisson
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com
>> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of Thatcher Graham
>> Sent: 16 September 2010 16:43
>> To: 78-L Mail List
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Well EXCUUUUUUSE MEEEEE!!!
>>
>> There's some elegance in brevity.
>> Everyone here doubtlessly likes something different and has a different
>> reason for doing so. It's pointless and bordering on rude to post to the
>> list trumpeting the inherent superiority in the subjective greatness of
>> your own personal preferences or the inferiority of all else.
>>
>> -Thatcher
>>
>>
>> David Breneman wrote:
>> > --- On Thu, 9/16/10, Thatcher Graham <thatcher at mediaguide.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >> "sophisticated"
>> >> I don't think there's a more meaningless term that could
>> >> be used to bolster pointless music snobbery.
>> >>
>> >
>> > That's a pretty unsophisticated argument, isn't it? :-)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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