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| From | Farrar Hudkins <fhudkins@gmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Musical Cultural Question |
| Date | Sat, 29 Jul 2006 09:51:00 -0500 |
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Similar story here. My dad, born in 1937, has a taste in music that
starts in about 1685 and goes up through about 1960. He said that some
of the "stuff" that appeared in the 1960s was okay, but he never really
got past the 1950s when the popular tunes were still basically a
vocalist with a big band. (Bobby Short, the Four Lads, etc.)
On the other hand, he thought Frank Sinatra was annoying -- didn't care
for "lounge singers who take themselves too seriously" -- and although
he didn't like Sam Cooke, my mother, born just a few years later, adored
him. Go figure.
I'm so out of character doing all this typing. I should go back into
lurk mode. :P
-Farrar Hudkins
New Orleans, LA
Sam Smith wrote:
> My dad was a Silent whose musical taste reached far enough into rock and
> roll to appreciate Elvis, and that's about it. He was a big fan of
> groups like The Platters, and to his credit he loved Sam Cooke. My
> in-laws are kinda the same. They were there when rock and roll happened,
> but the never seem to have developed a relationship with it.
>
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