Rock Evolution – The History of Rock & Roll - 1961 (pg 62)

Saddleworth2 said:
My comment was really about weight of numbers and innovation rather than the individual quality of artists.
Was he the dude that did tijuana brass? ;-)
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It was a bit tongue in check, Humph ended up more famous for I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue on R4 but he was a good trumpeter too, as well as being a well known cartoonist! But as I'm typing this something occurs to me, he was also essentially an Eton educated minor aristocratic. I wonder the degree to which the class system in the UK hobbled artistic growth especially pre-war ? Is it coincidence that the British invasion and creative explosion coincided with other structural changes in British society? These are not rhetorical questions and tbh I can't believe I've never really asked myself them before.

Btw I thought Herb Alpert the Tijuana Brass guy had died years ago but he's still very much with us.
 
threespires said:
It was a bit tongue in check, Humph ended up more famous for I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue on R4 but he was a good trumpeter too, as well as being a well known cartoonist! But as I'm typing this something occurs to me, he was also essentially an Eton educated minor aristocratic. I wonder the degree to which the class system in the UK hobbled artistic growth especially pre-war ? Is it coincidence that the British invasion and creative explosion coincided with other structural changes in British society? These are not rhetorical questions and tbh I can't believe I've never really asked myself them before.

Btw I thought Herb Alpert the Tijuana Brass guy had died years ago but he's still very much with us.
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I think there were artists for each strata of British society which gradually relaxed after the WW2 until it formed round 'easy listening' in the 50's. Did the toffs bop to Gracie and George Formby? Did the plebs get off on Noel Coward (who was a plastic toff not a real one)? Everyone liked Matt Monroe though.
 
threespires said:
It was a bit tongue in check, Humph ended up more famous for I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue on R4 but he was a good trumpeter too, as well as being a well known cartoonist! But as I'm typing this something occurs to me, he was also essentially an Eton educated minor aristocratic. I wonder the degree to which the class system in the UK hobbled artistic growth especially pre-war ? Is it coincidence that the British invasion and creative explosion coincided with other structural changes in British society? These are not rhetorical questions and tbh I can't believe I've never really asked myself them before.

Btw I thought Herb Alpert the Tijuana Brass guy had died years ago but he's still very much with us.
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Who doesn't love Herb's golden trumpet??..Im pretty sure he was the A in A+M records?..pretty much the home of easy listening artistes...Burt Backache , The Carpenters etc....
 
ok, so it's a fairly eclectic playlist at the moment, I think this is one that might benefit from putting into chronological order - I'll do that tonight and then start slotting further ones in accordingly.

If anyone is having any older relatives round for Christmas, this might be the playlist for you! Were my Dad still here, he'd be 102 years young and would have approved of a lot of these choices :-)
 
mancity111 said:
Ah yes arguably the best entertainer on stage the US has produced IMO but no doubt shared by many others Sammy Davis Jr.

Blind in one eye as a result of the car accident and thank god for music lovers he survived.

I was fortunate enough to see him live on a couple of occasions and there was little he could not do.

He could make Broadway sexy and what a voice especially for a chain smoker.

I was going to nominate him in 1962 for an obvious choice but as you actuate in a good way TS I will nominate:

I Got Plenty o' Nuttin from Porgy and Bess.
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SD Jnr is arguably massively underrated in the UK, I think loads of people in this country just think of him as a mate of Bruce Forsyth!!
 
threespires said:
ok, so it's a fairly eclectic playlist at the moment, I think this is one that might benefit from putting into chronological order - I'll do that tonight and then start slotting further ones in accordingly.

If anyone is having any older relatives round for Christmas, this might be the playlist for you! Were my Dad still here, he'd be 102 years young and would have approved of a lot of these choices :-)
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My old fella liked his blues and jazz...but every Xmas day morning he'd have the 'Sound of Tijuana Brass at Christmas' blaring out....followed by The Phil Spector Christmas album ....
 
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