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Re: [ARSCLIST] Slides and inconvenient media (was spin it again)
David Breneman wrote:
--- Rod Stephens <savecal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yep, I can remember when a 45 RPM record was the big thing for the
latest "hits", and the LP album was for older folk who had time to
stop and listen. It was and is, I think, that youth feels it
has so little time when there is so much to do.
I'm guessing you're talking about the 60s.
Nope, I'm talking about the revolution (round and round it goes) of the
50s when the LP and the 45 began the migration from 78 singles "hits".
My record store on San Fernando Road in Burbank, California was a
beehive of kids listening and buying something new for their record
collection. And, the sharing of "cuts" with other teenagers was really
"neato". And. even more amazing, we danced to them!!! As you say,
David, "history can repeat itself". Round and round it goes.
By the time I was
in high school, the mid-70s, we were all listening to "long
format" rock, whether on LP, 8-track or FM radio. Singles
were mostly the "AM Mix" played on top-40 stations (which we
derisively referred to an "AM Boogie" music. At least for
people near my age, the attention span seems to have increased
for popular music. Maybe that's part of the reason why I think
history can repeat itself. Given long enough, it usually does.
David Breneman david_breneman@xxxxxxxxx
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