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Title: The more things change...
Post by: cozmik_cowboy on June 11, 2020, 07:01:50 PM

...popular music category:


[/size]"The other night I spent a few hours at the radio, listening to dance bands.  I heard 458 chromatic runs on accordions, 911 'Ticker tape' brass figures, 78 sliding trombones, 4 sliding violas, 45 burps into a straw, 91 bands that played the same arrangement on every tune, and 11,006 imitations of Benny Goodman."
 
[/size]Gordon Jenkins, 1937; quoted in Elijah Wald, How The Beatles Destroyed Rock'N'Roll: An Alternative History Of American Popular Music, p. 110.
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[/size]Peter