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Thread #61496   Message #990873
Posted By: GUEST,Q
25-Jul-03 - 10:54 PM
Thread Name: The Great Watershed of 1958
Subject: RE: Folklore: The Great Watershed of 1958
I think a lot of this depends on when you were in your late teens-early 20s and getting seriously involved with life.
I know the words to very few of the songs on the list, the titles of many mean nothing to me.
Now, if the list included Bob Wills and his Playboys and others of 1940-1945, when the U. S. had most of us in that age group in its grasp, and especially those of us who did their dancin' and romancin' in the honky tonks of Texas and Oklahoma, I might be able to hum or even sing snatches of the songs that were on the southwestern jukeboxes. That time was our watershed.

Sorry, the music of 1958 meant little to my generation. We were too busy consolidating our hold on middle class necessities- houses and symphony tickets and station wagons. We read House and Garden and Time or Newsweek. Earlier, we had listened to Tom Lehrer when we were in college but he was almost forgotten. We might have picked up the odd Oscar Brand. Remembered are Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Kingston Trio-