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To: Borges
Fifty years ago, how many teenage Beatles fans knew about music from 1915. That would be the equivalent.

OTOH, a goodly portion of Beatles fans knew the music of Scott Joplin, thanks to the movie, The Sting.

85 posted on 01/05/2015 2:32:08 PM PST by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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To: Sirius Lee

Not in the ‘60s they didn’t. The Sting came out in 1973. But something like the Maple Leaf Rag was always known.


86 posted on 01/05/2015 2:35:44 PM PST by Borges
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To: Sirius Lee
"OTOH, a goodly portion of Beatles fans knew the music of Scott Joplin, thanks to the movie, The Sting."

Very little material from the 1915-era was preserved at all, and the primitive technology rendered it almost unwatchable. The comparison to 1915 was not apt because of the vast changes in technology and the vast proliferation of media in the post-war (WWII) years.
87 posted on 01/05/2015 2:36:38 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Sirius Lee

The Sting was 1973. Several years after the Beatles broke up.


90 posted on 01/05/2015 2:40:49 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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