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Thread #163999   Message #3919441
Posted By: Andy7
23-Apr-18 - 01:31 PM
Thread Name: are very long folk songs boring?
Subject: RE: are very long folk songs boring?
If you want a great example of crass musical accompaniment, try Jim Reeves's 'Distant Drums'.

Not only does the orchestration dominate the song, we also have to be treated to the sound of a drum in the 'drums' verse, and the sound of a bugle (or some other brass instrument) in the 'bugles' verse ... just in case we couldn't understand the words?