My Sweet Lady Jane: Great pop artists become metaphors for their time. Thus, the 20s & 30s were dominated by Bing Crosby, the late 30s and 40s by Frank Sinatra & the 50s Elvis. The 60s...

crazylibertarian Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island

Great pop artists become metaphors for their time. Thus, the 20s & 30s were dominated by Bing Crosby, the late 30s and 40s by Frank Sinatra & the 50s Elvis.

The 60s were more complicated and no doubt The Beatles were the #1 music symbols but there were also The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan & The Beach Boys who came to symbolize other life styles.

All of them produced great songs but no one produced more that became standards than The Beatles. And while The Stones pulled from a completely different musical world from the rest, there really was no song more hauntingly beautiful, even tear evoking than Lady Jane. Brian Jones’ work on the dulcimer was awesome and better than anything any pop act gave us. The words are beautiful and the melody evocative of Elizabethan England.

A listen is worthwhile. Let me know if you agree.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XirG-qwMCMc

bahmer

crazylibertarian wrote:

Great pop artists become metaphors for their time.... (show quote)

I was born in 1943 Elvis was great and so were the fifties. The beatles and the other similar groups all sucked in my not so humble opinion but thanks anyway I could only last for a few moments of this stuff. Not music in my opinion.

proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

[quote=crazylibertarian]Great pop artists become metaphors for their time. Thus, the 20s & 30s were dominated by Bing Crosby, the late 30s and 40s by Frank Sinatra & the 50s Elvis.

The 60s were more complicated and no doubt The Beatles were the #1 music symbols but there were also The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan & The Beach Boys who came to symbolize other life styles.

All of them produced great songs but no one produced more that became standards than The Beatles. And while The Stones pulled from a completely different musical world from the rest, there really was no song more hauntingly beautiful, even tear evoking than Lady Jane. Brian Jones’ work on the dulcimer was awesome and better than anything any pop act gave us. The words are beautiful and the melody evocative of Elizabethan England.

A listen is worthwhile. Let me know if you agree.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XirG-qwMCMc[/qu
I like Big Bands Era, 20',30's music I love 80's music too...Love Frank Sinatra's New York!!New York! and I did it my way.....

crazylibertarian Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island

bahmer wrote:

I was born in 1943 Elvis was great and so were the fifties. The beatles and the other similar groups all sucked in my not so humble opinion but thanks anyway I could only last for a few moments of this stuff. Not music in my opinion.

I was born in 1944 and really moved by that Stones record. My parents had 78s from even the 20s which I listened to.

bahmer

crazylibertarian wrote:

I was born in 1944 and really moved by that Stones record. My parents had 78s from even the 20s which I listened to.

We all have our likes and dislikes and I guess my dislikes came when those British chaps came over. Didn't care for them nor now. I will occasionally pull for one of their golfers though I do prefer Rory McIlroy over the British and others over there. Adam Scott isn't to bad.

crazylibertarian Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island

bahmer wrote:

We all have our likes and dislikes and I guess my dislikes came when those British chaps came over. Didn't care for them nor now. I will occasionally pull for one of their golfers though I do prefer Rory McIlroy over the British and others over there. Adam Scott isn't to bad.

Yep but, for whatever it's worth, I have never played a round of golf although I did caddy for a few weeks in the summer of 1962.

bahmer

crazylibertarian wrote:

Yep but, for whatever it's worth, I have never played a round of golf although I did caddy for a few weeks in the summer of 1962.

You don't know what you are missing or then again maybe you do.

pafret Loc: Northeast

bahmer wrote:

I was born in 1943 Elvis was great and so were the fifties. The beatles and the other similar groups all sucked in my not so humble opinion but thanks anyway I could only last for a few moments of this stuff. Not music in my opinion.

I was born in 36; when Elvis was in his heyday the opinion in my set was that if he practiced for fifty years he might make the chorus at the Metropolitan. Music died at the end of the sixties and it had been sick for a long while.

bahmer

pafret wrote:

I was born in 36; when Elvis was in his heyday the opinion in my set was that if he practiced for fifty years he might make the chorus at the Metropolitan. Music died at the end of the sixties and it had been sick for a long while.

Amen and Amen

crazylibertarian Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island

pafret wrote:

I was born in 36; when Elvis was in his heyday the opinion in my set was that if he practiced for fifty years he might make the chorus at the Metropolitan. Music died at the end of the sixties and it had been sick for a long while.

Elvis was in his heyday in 1956. He was born in 1935.

I don't understand what you were trying to say.

pafret Loc: Northeast

crazylibertarian wrote:

Elvis was in his heyday in 1956. He was born in 1935.

I don't understand what you were trying to say.

I didn't like Elvis, his gyrations were ridiculous, his voice was mediocre. Does that make it clear?

crazylibertarian Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island

pafret wrote:

I didn't like Elvis, his gyrations were ridiculous, his voice was mediocre. Does that make it clear?

Well, you have his heyday completely wrong if you were born in 1936.

Good art is like beauty, it lies in the eyes of the beholder & you are entitled to your view & I am entitled to mine. I disagree with yours on this.

Big dog

crazylibertarian wrote:

Great pop artists become metaphors for their time.... (show quote)

That's a GREAT version. Mick is so young. Now I feel OLD.

pafret Loc: Northeast

crazylibertarian wrote:

Well, you have his heyday completely wrong if you were born in 1936.

Good art is like beauty, it lies in the eyes of the beholder & you are entitled to your view & I am entitled to mine. I disagree with yours on this.

Did you note the use of the semicolon in that sentence?

36; when Elvis was in his heyday

Not to become pedantic but it signifies two complete sentences and in this case the 36 was meant to give a date to me, not Elvis. Did you think I came out of the womb with my fist clutching the radio dial?

crazylibertarian Loc: Florida by way of New York & Rhode Island

pafret wrote:

Did you note the use of the semicolon in that sentence?

36; when Elvis was in his heyday

Not to become pedantic but it signifies two complete sentences and in this case the 36 was meant to give a date to me, not Elvis. Did you think I came out of the womb with my fist clutching the radio dial?

Well to be pedantic, your wording in that second clause was confusing and it made it seem possible that the semicolon was in error. Perhaps you don't think you make any.

I am quite well versed in the use of the English language, thank you.

You tell me if you came out of the womb clutching a radio dial.