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Thread #34379   Message #465097
Posted By: Art Thieme
17-May-01 - 07:16 PM
Thread Name: Preserve Politically Incorrect Songs???
Subject: RE: Preserve Politically Incorrect Songs???
They were all old friends who knew my work and sang along enthusiastically. We had a ball. It was an excuse to revisit the songs again. The folks came up with songs I'd forgotten I had done 30 years earlier. And it was a chance to poke fun at ourselves for being maybe off the mark a few degrees back then. Still, good song is a good song is a... I always felt a song showing that people hunted whales was a way to show we had almost caused their demise and it was good, maybe, that we'd changed. As Lenny Bruce said about Sex Education classes in the schools, "Some are against these classes, but I've always felt that a knowledge of syphillis is not a prescription for one to go out and contract it."

Art