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User Name	Thread Name	Subject	Posted
Joe Offer	Commercial popular music (86* d)	RE: Commercial popular music	15 Sep 15
1. A lot of commercially popular songs are a lot of fun, and they will endure. The Duke of Earl will live forever, and so will Love Potion Number Nine. But then, I don't think songwriters write songs "purely to make money." Leiber & Stoller and Rodgers & Hammerstein certainly wrote to make money, but I think they also wrote songs because they loved music. 2. Do commercially popular songs become folk music? Depends on how one defines folk music. Are Stephen Foster songs and Carter Family songs folk music? I think they are, but some think they aren't. -Joe-

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