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| From | GaryPig@aol.com |
| Subject | Everyday's A Holly Day |
| Date | Sat, 19 Nov 2005 14:20:40 EST |
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<< Speaking of Not Lame, go buy the Everyday Things. For some reason I think
if Buddy Holly made power pop, it might have sounded like this. >>
** IF ** Buddy Holly made Power Pop ???!!
I thought he INVENTED the darn genre, Craig!
"Think It Over," "Maybe Baby," "Rave On," "Not Fade Away," "It's So Easy,"
(I could go on and on, and then on some more,
....maybe I'll just wait til the Shake Some Action book tho ;-)
These were songs/arrangements/recordings absolutely without precedent
for 1950's American rock and roll,
and created a most powerful musical stream that really didn't get fully
picked up upon til those first dozen or so Lennon/McCartney compositions half a
decade and half a world away.
Crickets begat Beatles, I always say
(as Searchers led to Byrds),
Gary "was just having this very discussion with some good pals at IPO NYC
the other night, in fact
(John B? I finally introduced David Bash to the infamous Popsterman, btw!!)"
Pig
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