Miles Jackson wrote:
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> On Sun, 3 Oct 2004, Doug Henwood wrote:
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> > But the Andrews Sisters were so much better than anything you hear today!
> >
> > Doug
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> Oh great--now we'll receive a lecture from JKS about the inherent
> superiority of Cole Porter--
>
I wonder what the generation of 2050 will think of this age. Many of us spun the dial when the Andrews Sisters came on, but sneering at them is no better than Carl sneers at the present. Doug and Carl have the same vulgar attitude towards the great unwashed, but with different temporal subscripts.
There was no Golden Age from which the current age is a degeneration.
But Doug's version is just Golden-Age nostalgia turned upside down.
Carrol