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| From | RSMko@webtv.net (Marston Moor) |
| Subject | Re: Early 60s |
| Date | Sat, 23 Aug 2003 00:21:14 -0400 (EDT) |
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--- In audities@yahoogroups.com, Bill <billm45s@p...> wrote:
> At 08:06 PM 8/22/2003 -0600, Ron wrote:
>
>
> >If it hadn't been for the Beatles rock might never have come back
from the
> >dreck of the early 60's. What good music there would have been would
have been
> >just a small blip on the radar of my generation.
>
> NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! For years and years the early
60's
> have been portrayed as this god awful period. Well it just isn't so.
Sure
> the Beatles changed everything, but they didn't save the world from a
> dearth of good popular music. Great rock and soul was being made a
plenty
> in the early 60's and it was popular. You had the beginnings of
Motwon,
> Stax and Chicago Soul. You had surf and wonderful girl groups and
Phil
> Spector at the peek of his powers. You had great Brill Building
> records. The Doo-wop revival and the return of Elvis and Chuck Berry.
Roy
> Orbinson was coming into his own. Dion was making great singles. The
Four
> Seasons, the Impressions, James Brown, Smokey, Marvin Gaye, Del
Shannon,
> the Drifters, the Ventures, Lesley Gore, the Everlys, the start of the
> Beach Boys, Gene Pitney, Ricky Nelson, Sam Cooke, Jan & Dean, Booker
T.
> etc. etc. etc. The early 60's were not dreck. The early 60's are not
> Fabian and Frankie Avalon, but the movement of R&B to soul. The world
was
> forever changed by the Beatles, but what came before was not worthless
and
> the good music from that period was much, much more than a blip.
>
> Bill
That is fucking Brilliant! NEVER heard it explained so convincingly in
so short a time. Shout it out loud, you tell it, brotherman.
That phenomenal list makes it sound like a goddamn Golden Era (which it
surely was).
Best vibes,
R.Stevie Moore
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