[78-L] the end of the Great Singers Era

[Mark Bardenwerper]

On 4/29/2014 7:33 AM, Don Cox wrote:
> On 28/04/2014, rjh334578gmail wrote:
>
>> Joe, I really appreciate your taking the time and effort to log these
>> numbers for us.
>>
>> Here we have the metric by which we can quantify the Rock Era and we
>> find out it took until 1967 to achieve 50% of the # 1 hits. That means
>> the Great Singers Era lasted a lot longer than 1955 or 1960.
>>
> Judging from my record collection and my recollections, it lasted until
> at least 1965.
>
> And Simon and Garfunkel, who are I think nearer to the "great singers"
> tradition than to rock, were in their first wave of mass popularity in
> 1966-7.
>
> Regards
I would place them in the folk era with Dylan, Guthrie and Seeger, 
though they were pop crossover to a great extent.

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