[Harp-L] Paul Revere, Sam and Lou Bega




On Dec 18, 2006, at 3:48 PM, icemanle@xxxxxxx wrote:



Different than going out to see the latest Paul Revere and the Raiders/Sam the Sham tour in which the audience gets all the same old hits replayed while watching a very aging Paul or Sam surrounded by a bunch of younger musicians playing parts learned off a record. (Last time I saw the Paul Revere show, I felt embarassed for him, but the audience ate it up).


I used to look down my nose at all those one hit wonders and has- beens who are stuck playing the same songs over and over again. But, when you think about it, they're still putting butts in seats and people still care enough to hear their music. What's so bad about that? Yeah they're stuck in a time warp. Yeah their lives resemble Sisyphus as they roll that same rock to the top of the hill night after night. But they still touch people and unlike most of us who live out our four score and ten within a pretty small circle, they wrote it large, at least for a little while.


Start singing, "One, two, three, four, five/ Everybody in the car so c'mon let's ride" in front of an audience with a mambo beat in the background and somebody will get up and dance. Not a bad legacy. :-)

Bob





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