Oblivious?
Nov. 3rd, 2021 10:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stickmakerA few years ago I read a rant by a columnist who hates rock and roll. He spent several hundred words railing against the entire genre, saying the fad should have ended decades ago. He finished by essentially saying "Is there any other form of entertainment where the work of someone is promoted to the point of veneration long after they're dead?!"
I wanted to find this guy, back him into a corner and scream in his face "Have you never heard of Lawrence Welk? His show's still on the air!"
(Nothing against Lawrence Welk. His version of "12th Street Rag" is a favorite of mine. How many fingers did that guy have?! Anyway, I just listened to that, which is what reminded me of this.)
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Date: 2021-11-03 06:22 pm (UTC)Hell to really irritate that sort of person bring up Mozart or Beethoven. :-)
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Date: 2021-11-04 02:12 pm (UTC)I thought about going further back, but in the end decided to stay contemporary (as in going back less than a half century) for music genres and performers.
Yeah, big fan of many types of old music. The pipe organ was an early keyboard synthesizer. :-)
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Date: 2021-11-04 07:07 am (UTC)When Lawrence Welk and his orchestra were doing their music - as in, the music that got them interested in being musicians - they were in fact actually pretty good.
It's only when they tried to do later "contemporary" music that they were mockably terrible. That's what got them the Wayne-and-Wanda parodies and all that. But even then, hey - last big band standing. Something to be said for that.
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Date: 2021-11-04 02:14 pm (UTC)I actually used to watch this show. Mainly due to only having one TV and that show being what the adults were watching, but I actually saw episodes. :-)
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Date: 2021-12-30 02:20 pm (UTC)Finally watched that video. Not sure that's the same version I have on iTunes, but it sounds very close. This answers my "How many fingers?" question. It's like on "Hello Goodbye" where I used to wonder how Ringo made all those percussion sounds. Turns out Paul added a kick drum.
Neither of these revelations diminishes the abilities of Welk or Ringo.