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| From | "Sager, Greg" <greg.sager@bankofamerica.com> |
| Subject | Re: Preferences ... |
| Date | Thu, 10 Jun 2004 09:09:06 -0500 |
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Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 10:38:32 -0700
From: "Judy B" <HeyJude@socal.rr.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Subject: Preferences....
Message-ID: <00a501c44e48$957c0000$628e1c41@homesystem>
kids and very talented. But, I am still discovering so much obscure older
material, too. I am tired of the Top 40 songs from the past and that's why
I don't listen much to oldies radio, but I love finding older, more obscure
songs that I missed growing up since all I knew was Top 40 material. There
is so much out there that we never heard
OK. I thought that by "my old music" you meant stuff with which you had been
long familiar. Like you, I too love discovering long-lost music from my
youth. Hence my pleasure at recently discovering that debut album by the
Bears from the mid-eighties.
(or that some heard but others
never did depending upon where you lived...we had Gloria by Them here in the
L.A. area but others in other parts of the country got the Shadows of Knight
version which I didn't even know until the last few years and don't like
very much).
Those would be fighting words here in Chicago -- literally. I'm not kidding.
I once saw a fight break out in a bar between someone who insisted that the
original version by Van Morrison and Them was the best "Gloria", and another
guy who considered that an insult to civic honor (the Shadows of Knight
being a Chicago band). It's the only music-discussion dustup I've ever seen
in my life. It was a truly weird spectacle, akin to the barroom brawl in the
softball episode of *The Simpsons* in which Barney Gumbel punches out Wade
Boggs after they disagree over who was the better British prime minister,
Lord Gladstone or Pitt the Elder.
I remember commenting to the friend I was with, "It's a good thing that the
first guy hadn't said that the version by the Doors was the best "Gloria",
or else the other guy would've put him in the hospital."
Gregory Sager
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