[78-L] Well EXCUUUUUUSE MEEEEE!!!

[Cary Ginell]

Before it was Easy Listening, it was known (at least as far as radio formats go) as Beautiful Music. Before that, it was "MOR" (for Middle-Of-the-Road).
 
Cary Ginell
 
> From: stevenc at interlinks.net
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 23:39:26 -0400
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Well EXCUUUUUUSE MEEEEE!!!
> 
> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> > I found myself enjoying a lot of the pure stuff once I began exploring it, 
> > but
> > as far as I was concerned the well had been poisoned by the easy listening
> > covers by Tony Bennett, Frankie Laine et al. That to me was garbage. Dinah
> > Shore's "Keep it a Secret"? Blechhhh.
> >
> Point being that so-called "Easy Listening" (an actual radio category at one
> time?!) was music carefully designed to offend as few listeners as possible,
> while NOT inspiring any of its hearers...?! It is effectively music stripped 
> of
> any emotional content...and the latter is and always has been the primary
> purpose of its existence...?!
> 
> Steven C. Barr 
> 
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