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Thread #85514   Message #1595945
Posted By: Amos
02-Nov-05 - 03:19 PM
Thread Name: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
Subject: RE: 2005 Getaway Reflections Here...
Sigh..ah, you purists; I love ya like brothers, but you'd'a hadda been there -- swamped by the fire of hormones and terrified by nukes and people of the opposite sex alike -- to understand what a joyful thing doowop was in the hearts of the young just before the Beatles started, just before the Kingston Trio hit the Big Time, when Bob Dylan was still thinking about his first kiss hopefully... it is the emblazoned Badge of an Era, is doowop. A genuine grassroots evolution, born out of Memphis and Mississippi by Pat Boone and Patti Page. Like Dixieland, like Gershwin, or like Barbershop before it, it is a unique musical stamp, an icon of its time. Show some respect!!! ROFLMAO!

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