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Re: [bomp] Personality Posters on the drumhead




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From: <ItsBoss9@aol.com>
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Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 10:35 PM
Subject: [bomp] Personality Posters on the drumhead


>
> There was a definite 20s nostalgia fad during the 60s
> - - which actually began the revival/nostalgia fad
> cycle....
>
> But that doesn't mean that your hip young audience in
> 1967 would have been receptive to seeing Maurice
> Chevalier or Rudy Vallee....
>
> Mmmmmm..... well, maybe "Winchester Cathedral" was a play on Vallee,

How many people who heard Winchester Cathedral (essentially a novelty song) 
could care about Vallee?

 and of
> course there was that Disney film with Haley Mills and Chevalier.

Also Gigi, but neither were meant for the same audience as The Beatles. That 
was the point of the question. Disney and Gigi weren't relevent to the pop 
music of the day.

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