[Misterioso]

However, I do remember my principal in grade school telling us that rock and roll would be the down fall of America.

The amplified electric guitar (developed by Les Paul, whose music I loved) turned every lamebrained pothead into a "musician" who didn't know music. Rock and roll was the end of the American Songbook and the end of the beauty of melody and harmony that enriched our lives. "Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll" should be on our country's epitaph, if it is ever written.

[OKIEDOC]

It seemed like that my folks watched the Les Paul show on our old black and white Capehart TV while living down on the farm.

That had to be back in the middle 1950’s.