On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Doug Henwood wrote:
>> So, here's the question: Why are there no Rock and Roll standards like
>> there are in Jazz, Blues and Folk?
>
> There was a piece in last weekend's Financial Times by Elijah Wald arguing
> that it was all the doing of Mitch Miller, who ran Columbia's pop division
> starting in 1950. Well, Miller and technology - the development of the 45 and
> the LP. An excerpt:
This is a great cite. The whole article is great and seems as if it was written to answer Alan's question. And unusually, it's all still available for free on the FT web even to non-subscribers:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/eeca345e-8de1-11de-93df-00144feabdc0.html
Michael