Sinatra to Marley, Spalding to Spearmint, RR regular Fuel picks the highs and lows of songs that show how they’re affected by other music from last week’s topic
Cole Porter wrote Begin the Beguine to describe how a beguine (a dance) first raises good memories then summons others he would rather not face. Frank Sinatra does the rest. I wonder if the tune is ever number A-11 on a jukebox? Play A-11 and Johnny Paycheck says there will be tears. Meanwhile, Paleface has been listening to a more modern rock sound and it makes him want to steal, take drugs, kill. So I ask you, is music a force for good?
Ask the residents of Jericho or Hamelin. Would they have welcomed the Grateful Dead and that “rainbow of sound … Like Jehovah’s favorite choir. People joinin’ hand in hand. While the music plays the band.” Well would they? Or would they have regarded them as potential vandals, or pied pipers corrupting youths into an extraordinary counter-culture of freaks and geeks that upset the “natural order”.
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