"Thanks to the Beatles, music in America became all about how to market sugar-coated garbage to teeny-boppers"Ah, but they were doing that in the 50's/early 60's BEFORE the Beatles with Pat Boone, Bobby Rydell, Bobby Darin, Gene Pitney, Paul Anka, Dion, etc, etc
204 posted on 12/22/2004 1:21:30 PM PST by NRA1995 ("Yew jes' go and lay yore hand on a Pittsburgh Steelers fan & Ah think yer gonna fin'lly understand")
You sluffed off Dion as a teeny bopper. Joy popper maybe.
Well...."Runaround Sue" and "Teenager In Love" struck me as sugar-coated stuff.....though I believe he DID have a rather silly version of "Purple Haze" in 69