Salutations:

R J Carpenter wrote:

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

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..


'Tunes' I think is what you are talking about there brother R J and I would
agree with you largely even though I was brought up on 60/70's AM and the
good old CBC..

What - you're - talking about the increasing roll over of western culture
into the dark rule of the synthetic, data modelled, vertically integrated
'popular' corporate artist.. All part of the fall of Rome brother..

Not that both Berlin and Porter didn't cough up some pretty ugly stuff to
pay the bills too - but it has gotten pretty bad lately on the racks I will
agree.. And I think the kids are on to it - see what happened to Justin
Timberlake at that Toronto shindig?.

Run the search term - 30's - or - 40's - on my hobby bitcaster below..

When I put the search engine together for the site, I built it so you could
search by lyric fragment because that is about the only way I remember a
'tune' and it really puts a load on the server model for testing purposes..
Consequently - most of the playlist is populated by lyrically memorable
tunes from several eras right up to now.. Stuff I can croak and waddle
(privately) along with - which in turn attracts a very interesting group of
fans who, like us, like 'tunes'.

I have a number of big band covers in there from the Setzer Orchestra
(which were interesting enough to push the originals off my play bank) -
but - you'll probably get a bigger kick out of the some of the OEM Andrew
sisters stuff - particularly with Danny Kaye..

Now I would put it squarely at the doors of the Video media, except that
some of the very best 'tunes' came out of vegas/movie/stage song writing of
any given time.. Well except for my main man Bill Monroe - his stuff came
out of back or a 32 ford with a 'spare' tank as near as I can figure..

Anyway - it isn't being forced to dance as well as sing that is making it
all run wrong..

My take is the published financial 'decline' of the music business is more
the result of bad reactive A&R calls regarding taking risks that don't
match up with the sample generated demographic models that big station
advertisers will support (with all due respect to brother Eduardo) - rather
than - outright downloading itself.. Although I bet it's easier to get an
industry fight together against it as opposed to a campaign around 'we suck
- we have mostly crappy tunes right now - sorry that's what everyone's
numbers tell us you want'..

Every so often however - someone sneaks a darned good 'tune' out the back
door and I quickly hand over my $20 for the CD.. Check out:

En Vogue - Giving Him Everything He Can Feel
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What do you do about it? I don't know.. I'm just a propeller head..

Nobody seems to reward being a talent much anymore - well except to point
out what a talent someone is between the softcore pepsi porn.. The system
isn't broken at all according to most of the professionals here - it's the
thieving public out downloading and sharing out their old collections
that's to blame apparently..

Now I don't support downloading myself - don't use cacheable audio
dataforms specifically to not support it - but I can sure see how folks are
unwilling to fork over the money for most of the popular albums out there
right now.. With the interesting proviso that while it's still a crummy way
to make a living - most of the small Jazz and Traditional labels are doing
as well as ever - better than ever actually..

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