"Rich Wood" wrote in message
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On 22 Aug 2003 18:50:31 GMT, "R J Carpenter"
wrote:

You children don't seem to remember the "Fitch Bandwagon" from the late
30s
/ early 40s. Songs were "sung so clearly you can understand every word".

You're joking! Every word? That would mean the lyricist would actually
have to write something meaningful. This is too hard to comprehend.

You're too young to remember when skilled people wrote lyrics - Ira
Gershwin, Cole Porter. Irving Berlin and the whole lot. For your musical
education of that period I'd suggesting listening to XM-4 ;-))

On rethought - maybe the slogan was "hear" ever word. The idea being that
you could listen to the program and then start singing the songs yourself -
no need to buy records or sheet music. Remember that 78 records were VERY
expensive. Two songs for 50 cents or more, Bluebird was RCA's cheapo label
at 35 cents. Multiply by about 14 to get the equivalent in today's
dollars - very roughly the equivalent of $5 for a Bluebird 78 with two
songs..