Klarinet Archive - Posting 000084.txt from 1997/09

From: Jrykorten@-----.com
Subj: Re: Welk's Taste in Music
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 1997 15:41:30 -0400

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SNIP...
Acker Bilk (of the same ilk, perhaps) I found inspiring in 1962 (I was
11). Welk was, and is, just a pain in the ears.

To top it all off, Lawrence Welk and I share the same birthday. Life is
so unfair.

Bill E.
>>

Concening recent threads about Lawrence Welk...

You guys talking about Lawrence Welk as a purveyor of "bad taste" in music
(Dr. Lacy?) are heading nowhere fast!

The quote cited by someone on this list about Pete Fountain pshawing Welk
(square music) in favor of Jazz (hip?) says volumes. I am listening to a Pete
Fountain CD purchased in the "Easy Listening" music section out of curiosity.
The similarities between Fountain and Welk are more evident to me than any
differences!

This may be news to some but - there is no accounting for taste.

I am currently a collector of late 50's and early 60's LPs that are
considered in exceptionally poor taste by everyone but my 3 year old and
myself (I find them hilarious, earnest and musically creative). My wife
shakes her head when she realizes she no longer even feels repulsed when
hearing yet another cha-cha-cha on organ (harp, or harmonica...). Of course I
also love Bartok, Primus, Monk and Beethoven just to even things out a bit.
None of the later have decent record covers like those LPs from the late
50's!

Ahhh but the sound on those London Blueback Mantovani records!!!

Sharing my birthday with Stravinsky and not afraid to hear Welk (Mantovani
even better) in the right company for the right reasons...

Jerry Korten
NYC

PS - I do have a recording of 8 harmonicas, 4 accordions and the rest of a
big band playing "Bridge over River Kwai". Perhaps more musically satisfying
is a trombone choir and male voices playing "Hawaiian War Chant". Anybody
stopping by in NYC is welcome to give me a call to come on over and listen!

   
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