> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:53:40 -0800
> From: Joe Field <joe@flyingcolorscomics.com>
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Re: RRHOF
> Message-ID: <3678bbf20912181653l389fee07w353d0e50cc8df5d2@mail.gmail.com>
> 
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 4:04 PM, <garypig@aol.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > .......and
> > I'm STILL waiting
> > for.....
> >
> > http://www.roctober.com/roctober/boone2.html
> >
> 
> Before reading the stuff at the link, I'd have likely said
> 'no'. But like
> all polls, some of the answer is in the way the question is
> asked. And the
> answers, personal opinions, are colored by each
> individual's knowledge and
> experience.
> 
> It's it is a true statement to say that Pat Boone opened
> the doors of
> commercialism in rock and roll. In his time, there was
> "white" radio and
> there was "black" radio, with some exceptions in a few
> major markets. Pat
> Boone was John the Baptist to the Beatles' Jesus, thought
> eh argument could
> made that Elvis was, too. What I mean is that Boone was a
> major precursor to
> the blending of black and white markets that the Beatles
> sealed when they
> came on the scene.


What? You got that last bit, the part about the Beatles blending the black and white markets, exactly backwards.

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1906602,00.html


Gregory Sager