It was indeed, Arthur! The temptation, in the rock'n roll era of the late 1950s and early 1960s, was to assume that, because the music was perhaps harmonically and melodically simple when compared to - say - big band music - that the musicians/singers themselves weren't very good. But the oddest records can produce magnificent playing. For example, just take a listen to Shirley Ellis's (1964) take on a children's street game - "The Name Game". Sounds rather silly at first - perhaps even banal - just childish wordplay on people's names. Then listen to the backing music - really tight, funky playing - and then discover that Shirley Ellis was a seriously good R&B singer with seriously good musicians playing for her.