At 5:49 PM +0000 2/19/07, Ken Moore wrote:
John Howell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So the complaint seems to be not that the songs are '70s songs,
because they can't help being. It's that they supposedly don't
SOUND like '50s songs, and there I'll certainly agree, although
anybody who didn't live through the era has a very skewed idea of
the importance of '50s rock 'n' roll and how abysmally far under
the radar it was at the time.
I recall hearing Bill Haley and the Comets playing "Rock around the
Clock" on Radio Luxembourg Top Twenty in 1955 or '56, so it had made
some impact in Europe.
Yes, but a whole generation--well, probably at least two or three by
now--has been brainwashed into thinking that rhythm and blues WAS the
music of the '50s, and it wasn't. At least it wasn't on the
venerable Your Hit Parade, which was middle of the road with a
vengeance. It was underground music, and for the most part performed
by bad singers and bad instrumentalists, which was the main reason
most musicians like me ignored it.
And then came the massive K-Tell collections of rhythm and blues and
rock 'n' roll as "The Hits Of The 50s"!!!!!
John
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