Subj : Quiet!
To : Sean Dennis
From : Bob Ackley
Date : Sun Nov 05 2006 06:03 am
Replying to a message of Sean Dennis to All:
SD> Hello, All.
SD> For all the links I see in my seen-by kludges, there's no one in here
SD> that wants to talk about music? I generally see posts by Matt and
SD> myself and that's it. I /KNOW/ there's more people in here than us.
SD> :)
I drop in occasionally.
SD> The last post that was not from Matt, me or my autoposter was 27 July.
SD> That's pretty sad. :(
I haven't listened to popular 'music' for probably 20 years and am totally
unfamiliar
with any of the currently popular performers. Since that's what's been
discussed
I haven't commented.
My primary interest in music is the period from about 1920 through about 1963
(I do have quite a bit of WW I era material, too, including Irving Berlin's
first musical, 'Yip Yip Yaphank' c. about 1918, in which he performs). I do
collect phonograph records (remember those?) and have, give or take, 30,000 of
them (and a row of audio CDs that's about 20 feet long). If you can think of a
song that was popular during the aforementioned period (and well up into the
1970s) I probably have it, and probably on an original 45 or 78. FWIW I
could've started playing Christmas music a month ago and wouldn't have to
repeat anything until well after New Year's <g>.