[78-L] name that Era

[Bud Black]

Maybe because it was funny?


Sent from my iPad

On Apr 25, 2014, at 12:56 AM, rjh334578gmail <rjh334578 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ah, the Interlude Period, as in a temporary break in the action.  That  
> does kinda fit the Doggie In the Window / Mama Will Bark Era. It just  
> doesn't seem to measure up to the intensity of the big band years or  
> the rockabilly years in terms of exciting music. Some stuff, sure, but  
> decidedly bland by comparison with that which surrounded it.
> 
> The armchair social historian in me wants to find an explanation for  
> all that by looking st the folks who had just survived a horrific war  
> and found great comfort in the peacefulness of Dinah Shore records and  
> the escapist humor of Spike Jones.  Has there ever been another act  
> that came close to the zany sounds of Spike?  Ever?  And for ten years  
> America loved that stuff. Gotta ask - why?
> 
> Sent from my iPod - which explainz any bad typjng
> 
> 
> On Apr 24, 2014, at 7:40 AM, Thomas Brown <stacksofmags at aol.com> wrote:
> 
>> I like this one....
>> 
>> 
>> http://home.earthlink.net/~jaymar41/InterludeTP.html
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Rodger J. Holtin <rjh334578 at gmail.com>
>> To: 78-List <78-L at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Sent: Thu, Apr 24, 2014 12:29 am
>> Subject: [78-L] name that Era
>> 
>> 
>> My last post cited the "Big Band era" and that is usually given  
>> definition
>> by Reader's Digest and Time-Life as 1936-1945.  Close enough.
>> 
>> Is there a commonly accepted term to describe the singers hay day  
>> which
>> followed the bands and before the so-called Rock N Roll era of the  
>> Bill
>> Haley - Elvis - Beatles years??  Is the Rock n Roll era over, or is  
>> the
>> fact that the Fab Four still gets airplay mean we're still in it?
>> 
>> -- 
>> Rodger
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