[78-L] Resonance

Wed Nov 25 09:23:49 PST 2015

probably because electronic wizardry makes their voices sound "fantastic".
I think we seldom hear what an actual singer sounds like these days.

Ron L

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Cannot understand why Vera Lynn still counts for anything, but that's me.
Nice lady, but BORING singer. Always was. And she had a hit album last year.
But I have no idea who Adele is or why she now has "the greatest album ever
made", apparently.
Or what Justin Bieber is even doing in "popular music".
Or why rap has lasted.
dl

> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 09:58:44 -0600
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> From: dpwittmann at gmail.com.invalid
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Resonance
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> I'm 30, and here is my view of how the names on the original list 
> probably resonate with the average 20-something in middle America:
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> *Still very strong on the radar*:
> The Beatles (strong for foreseeable future) Elvis (still out there but 
> I suspect he'll decline pretty fast in the next
> 20 years as Baby Boomer influence wanes) Frank Sinatra (classy 
> cocktail bar music everywhere) Ella Fitzgerald (niche but still 
> strong) Bing Crosby (only because of Christmas songs and references in 
> the animated TV show Family Guy) Nat "King" Cole (mostly Chrismas 
> music) Louis Armstrong (dangerously close to irrelevant to most) Glenn 
> Miller (seen as great-grandpa music but widely known, especially In 
> the Mood)
> 
> *Some might have a passing knowledge of these ones but most are 
> entirely
> clueless*:
> Al Jolson (is this the blackface guy?) Fats Waller (I never heard of 
> him until I took a music class in college) Doris Day (borderline fits 
> below) Duke Ellington (many probably know his songs but I doubt many 
> would know who he was) George Gershwin (borderline fits below) Vera 
> Lynn (probably only from the reference in the Pink Floyd song)
> 
> *Almost nobody knows who these people are and might have heard their 
> name once or twice in a music class:*
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> George Formby (I collect 78s and still don't really know who he is but 
> now sort of do because I looked him up on Wikipedia) Al Bowlly (I only 
> know who he is because I collect 78s) Hoagy Carmichael Johnny Mercer
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> My students, who are in their twenties, definitely know and like 
> Sinatra, Ella, Billie Holiday, and Judy Garland.
> 
> Jeff Sultanof
> 
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 2:50 AM, Julian Vein < 
> julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk.invalid> wrote:
> 
> >
> > On 25/11/15 03:36, Mark Bardenwerper wrote:
> > > On 11/24/2015 5:04 PM, Julian Vein wrote:
> > >> On 24/11/15 17:38, David Lennick wrote:
> > >>> I would disagree with a number of those "don't make it"
> > names..Sinatra, Satch and Ella (and Dean Martin and Peggy Lee) can 
> > still
> be
> > heard on PA systems and on soundtracks to many commercials. As for 
> > Al Bowlly, he was always a cult figure on this side of the world. 
> > When I took over programming a nostalgia radio show at CHFI in 
> > Toronto, my first
> orders
> > were to "get Al Bowlly and Greta Keller the hell off the air" (they 
> > had accounted for the previous programmer's nightly orgasms).
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> The Beatles!?
> > >>>
> > >>> dl
> > >>>
> > >> ==========
> > >> Another one who made it is Noel Coward.
> > >>
> > >>
> > > How long they resonated...several early bands spawned another era 
> > > of great musicians. Specht, Whiteman, Henderson...
> > =================================
> > This is not about how great they may have been, but does their music 
> > mean anything to today's audiences.
> >
> >        Julian Vein
> > >
> >
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