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| From | "Sager, Greg" <greg.sager@bankofamerica.com> |
| Subject | Re: The day the music died? |
| Date | Mon, 14 Jul 2003 03:32:29 -0500 |
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> Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 03:39:43 -0700
> From: deedlemusic@sbcglobal.net
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: The day the music died?
> Message-ID: <p05200f00bb36e4b098ce@[66.122.134.90]>
>
> Jeff wrote:
> >Maybe I missed something, but when did the music industry die??
>
> >Jaimie Vernon wrote:
> >A multiple choice answer:
> 1) When Elvis went into the army
> 2) When the Beatles split
> 3) When vinyl was phased out and CDs brought in
> 4) When Kurt Cobain killed himself
> 5) A week ago last Friday >>>
>
> Dude, you forgot 6) All Of The Above. I put it at the Seagram's
> mergers, the rise of Clear Channel, the bankruptcy of indie
> distribution and the surge of peer-to-peer file sharing. In other
> words, the past five years or so...
>
No, you're all wrong. It's: 7) When Sinatra left the big band led by
Harry James and threw in his lot with Tommy Dorsey in January 1940.
Damn that Frankie!
Gregory Sager
(thinking that this discussion of the evils of the music industry
reminds him of the fable of the scorpion and the frog)
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