No, no. Strong Drink will likely be the saviour of Western Civilization.
Strong Drink lets us cut through the fog of all sorts of lunacy; musical,
political, social, etc.; that and the profound contemplation achieved while
fishing.
Gerry
Most definitely this lunatic music is the root cause of the Decline of
Western Civilization. That, and Strong Drink.
--R (sent from my miniPad)
On Aug 24, 2013, at 5:25 PM, "Gerry Archer" <arche...@embarqmail.com>
wrote:
The broad field of nonsense music from which all modern music is derives
actually began in the 1920s with a South African song written by a Zulu:
"Mbube" (Zulu: lion) was written in the 1920s by Solomon Linda, a South
African singer of Zulu origin, who worked for the Gallo Record Company as
a cleaner and record packer, and who performed with a choir, The Evening
Birds, where, according to South African journalist Rian Malan:
"Mbube" wasn't the most remarkable tune, but there was something terribly
compelling about the underlying chant, a dense meshing of low male voices
above which Solomon yodelled and howled for two exhilarating minutes,
occasionally making it up as he went along. The third take was the great
one, but it achieved immortality only in its dying seconds, when Solly
[Solomon Linda] took a deep breath, opened his mouth and improvised the
melody that the world now associates with these words:
'In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight.'
Linda's improvised melody was wordless; no English words occur in the
recording.
Issued by Gallo as a 78 recording in 1939 and marketed to black audiences,
"Mbube" became a hit and Linda a star throughout South Africa. By 1948,
the song had sold about 100,000 copies in Africa and among black South
African immigrants in Great Britain and had lent its name to a style of
African a cappella music that evolved into isicathamiya (also called
mbube), popularized by Ladysmith Black Mambazo.....snip"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=_LBmUwi6mEo&feature=endscreen
As everyone knows this led to scream music, ( Barbra Streisand and
others), which has become the current female standard; and all the
infinitely variegated forms of lunatic music (Grateful Dead, Punk, etc.)
as a primary cause of the current decline of Western Civilization.
Ou only hope is to go back to "real music" as best demonstrated by
Lawrence Welk.
Gerry....tic
..............................................
From: "Rich Thomas" <richthomas79td...@constructivity.net>
I am out working on my addition, listening to KPFT Houston streaming over
the tubernets, and they just played a set of songs about Louie Louie.
How many of y'all remember Louie Louie by the Kingsmen? It caused all
kinds of stir, clearly the commienists were behind it, subverting the
morals of Merkin youth with that filthy rocknroll trash. We knew it had
dirty lyrics but no one could figure out what they were.
We would spontaneously break into playing that in band class in jr high,
the band teacher Mr. Broome who was about 5ft tall and wide, and who
hated that song with a passion (which of course became the lore of Mr.
Broome that all kids knew, passed along, remembered, etc.) would go into
an altered state when he heard us playing it before class started. It
was the most awesome thing about band class. I think it was the only
song we all learned to play without music and a band leader, go figure.
After the first two years there he retired, another guy took over, a
young guy, we tried that once and he had no issue with it so it just
faded away.... but then the Laugh In song became popular and he had
issues with that, so of course what did we do!
--R
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