On a brighter note, my 8-year-old daughter for the most part doesn't want
anything to do with my music. But her 3rd grade class just had a music
recital featuring music from the 50's and 60's. Now all of a sudden The
Beatles are a lot cooler to her...so much that we've been playing Beatles
Rock Band with her on vocals.


On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 2:34 PM, <mkropp@comcast.net> wrote:

>
>
> wow... just wow.
>
>
>
> < sigh >
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
>
> From: "Tom Warfel" <jeffandtom@sbcglobal.net>
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 11:38:23 AM
> Subject: It finally happened
>
> I was in a fast food resturant this week.  I was wearing a tee-shirt with
> an
> image from the Beatles cartoon show.
>
>
> The clerk, who looked every bit of 16, asked me what the Beatles were and
> why it
> wasn't spelled like the insect.  I must have looked at her like I was
> dumbfounded and she got a little scared.  She told me that she thought she
> heard
> her dad talk about them the other day with one of his friends and she
> thought it
> might be a band.   (A band !!!)
>
> I proceeded to sing a little of "She Loves You" and "Yesterday".  She was
> like
> "I know those songs but I thought they were folk songs".
>
> At 54, I felt extremely old.  I told her that they played those songs on AM
> radio when I was in elementary school and that I had the 45 of Hello
> Goodbye/Penny Lane.  I could tell that that was completely foreign to her.
>
>
> Tom, who remembers when groups had two sided hits.
>