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

[Bob Cohen <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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