From mit-eddie!sppip7.lkg.dec.com!jc Mon Jun 1 11:53:41 1992 Return-Path: Received: by minya.uucp (/\=-/\ Smail3.1.18.1 #18.16) id ; Mon, 1 Jun 92 11:53 EDT Received: from CRL.DEC.COM by EDDIE.MIT.EDU with SMTP (5.65/25-eef) id AA28515; Mon, 1 Jun 92 10:43:36 -0400 Received: by crl.dec.com; id AA16437; Mon, 1 Jun 92 10:43:28 -0400 Received: by sppip7.lkg.dec.com (5.57/ULTRIX-fma-071891); id AA09974; Mon, 1 Jun 92 10:43:30 -0400 Date: Mon, 1 Jun 92 10:43:30 -0400 From: mit-eddie!sppip7.lkg.dec.com!jc (John Chambers) Message-Id: <9206011443.AA09974@sppip7.lkg.dec.com> To: jchome@sppip7.lkg.dec.com Cc: Subject: rec.humor.funny #3600 - A Fad That Pains the Ears In article , RICHARD@lane.cc.ukans.edu (Richard Kershenbaum) writes: Path: nntpd.lkg.dec.com!nntpd2.cxo.dec.com!pa.dec.com!decwrl!uunet!looking!funny-request Message-ID: Date: Sat, 30 May 92 19:30:3 EDT Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny From: RICHARD@lane.cc.ukans.edu (Richard Kershenbaum) Subject: A Fad That Pains the Ears Keywords: true, chuckle Approved: funny@clarinet.com Lines: 36 "A Fad That Pains the Ears" "Rock and roll is an annoying development in American popular music that is now at its peak. It is awful. But from this point we can expect it to subside toward a deserved extinction. It can no more survive than could the Big Apple or goldfish swallowing or any other temporary aberration of the American past. In the meantime, we see no cause for panic on the part of parents or sociologists who deplore rock and roll and fear its effect on the youth of the land. We can't see how it could deprave anybody who isn't already depraved. At worst it brands the devotee as one of dubious ear and taste. Rock and roll is not a Red plot or an instrument of the devil; it is a fad seized upon and commercialized by songwriters and musicians with neither talent nor skill. In an article on this page recently, Clyde B. Neibarger, The Star's music editor, advanced the opinion that rock and roll is a fleeting idiom that will run its course. Robert Sanford discussed the subject in his popular records column last Sunday, with scorn and loathing. And teenagers will no doubt continue to turn our in force for the rock and roll concerts and buy the records by the millions. But for how much longer?" --- Editorial in The Kansas City Star, Wednesday, May 2, 1956. (I found this under some old linoleum in a house I'm renovating.) --- Richard -- | Richard M. Kershenbaum | Manager, Technical Services | The University of Kansas | Computer Center -- Selected by Brad Templeton. MAIL your joke (jokes ONLY) to funny@clarinet.com. Attribute the joke's source if at all possible. A Daemon will auto-reply. If you don't need an auto-reply, submit to rhf@clarinet.com instead. -- To a man who feels, life is a tragedy. To a man who thinks, life is a comedy. [Who said that?]