[78-L] Well EXCUUUUUUSE MEEEEE!!!

[David Lennick]

And it was none of the above in the early fifties..I used the phrase in the 
wrong context. What I really meant was "pop" and the trend in the early 50s to 
cannibalize folk, R&B and country music and whitewash it. I think folk tended 
to survive the adaptation best.

dl

On 9/17/2010 12:00 AM, Cary Ginell wrote:
>
> 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