I didn't have to slip start records where I worked with a Russco Model 12 BID:
Posted on 10/24/2016 9:35:53 AM PDT by sparklite2
When the Beatles come on the stage,
They scream and shriek and cheer them.
Now I know why they’re such a rage,
It’s impossible to hear them.
Allan Sherman - Pop Hates the Beatles
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I didn't have to slip start records where I worked with a Russco Model 12 BID:
I knew I had arrived at a powerhouse when “working” at a station with three QRKs.
Yeah, we had 3 Russcos in the studio and 2 in the production room, it was nice. Long before digital.
I distinctly remember The Poor People of Paris as elevator music from that time, and (as a small child) I liked it; I did not like Elvis, or Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, etc. Rock and Roll struck my childish ear as chaotic noise. I don't like those performers to this day.
One of the things I find striking is the astounding magnitude of the break between the kind of music my parents were used to hearing; ballads and instrumentals by very accomplished musicians and band leaders, and the comparatively chaotic and undisciplined music that swept it aside. Looking at the Billboard rankings of that time, you can see that Rock & Roll didn't take over instantly, it was kind of a slow process that started in 1956 and proceeded inexorably until by 1961 or '62, R&R was dominant.
During that transition period, it was like two different languages were be spoken on the AM radio band, and in the record stores.
I guess there were some who tried to straddle the divide, and perhaps Bobby Vee could be put in that category. Petula Clark, Bobby Darren, Lulu, Nancy Sinatra, Engelbert Humperdinck, Tom Jones, and others also found success by bridging the chasm.
Thanks for your replies and observations.
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Even as late as 1969, you heard The Beatles, Stones, Sinatra, Glen Campbell and Johnny Cash all on the same POP radio stations.
Yes, as well as Simon and Garfunkel, Steppenwolf, Brazil '66, The Beach Boys, Stevie Wonder, Donovan, Strawberry Alarm Clock, The Cowsills, The Monkees...
Incredible musical diversity and talent. Compared to today, off the charts good.
We were very lucky to grow up during that time.
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Welcome to the FR Old Farts Club!
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Yes we were.
Little known factoid: Bobby Velline (Vee) and Bobby Zimmerman (Dylan) hung out and played music together in late teens, and remained lifetime friends.
According to his autobio, Chronicles Vol. 1, Dylan stated that he took his first wife Sarah to one of Vee’s performances.
Vee’s career took off in 1959 when Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper died in a plane crash, and Vee’s band was asked to fill in for the dead stars.
How sad. Never knew there was a Mrs. Vee, he was always the bobby-sockser to me. The recording stars of our era are beginning to thin. ‘Take Good Care Of My Baby’
RIP, Bobby. Your music will live on for years to come.
All Bobby Vee’s tunes are available on You Tube. Also some old appearances on American Bandstand. I probably saw him on Bandstand because I watched it every week. I remember hearing his songs as Golden Oldies (Rubber Ball, Take Good Care of my Baby, The Night Has a Thousand Eyes) and this was circa 1964, 1965.
Music is - at least it appears to me - secondary or tertiary to their cultural experience of youth.
My daughter (who is still at home) watches Nigahiga, Marzia, Autumn Miller, Abby Lee Miller's Dance Moms... video content featuring young people. I'm sure she watches much more than that, that she doesn't feel like sharing with me. Music is necessary but not sufficient.
When I try to show her videos of actual interesting music, she thinks it's boring.
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>> “Or just walk home five miles in the dark if not raining.” <<
Uphill both ways too! :o)
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They have digital electronic KBs that fill in the harmony and the percussion, so they rarely ever learn to play an actual instrument any more.
It's not as bad as that; both my kids played piano individually and violin in school and extracurricular orchestras.
I've actually offered to buy an keyboard/synthesizer for my daughter, but she prefers the old-fashioned acoustic piano in the living room.
But at the professional level, of course you are right.
So many pop singers use auto-tune now; they center every note with software. It's separated from lip-syncing by a hair's breadth.
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