Re: [Harp-L] the difference between funk and blues; a response to JR Ross

[billhines4@xxxxxxxxxxx]

You got it Dan. That's all I was saying - I wasn't denying the existence of Led Zep on the billboard charts and so forth. No question the music was popular and selling.  I was merely correcting the categorization of their music as 'pop' back in those early-mid 70's days. 

'Pop' was WABC and the stuff they played. Millions enjoyed it. 

'Rock' was the stuff we got on WNEW (and later WPLJ in their early days) with the Night Bird, it was new, cool, alternative stuff, LP records and this new FM frequency. That's where the cool kids hung out, the stoners, haha.

And I will confess, I did tune into some AM to get some of the R&B, Motown and other genres that I enjoyed but I sure didn't want my friends to catch me. Of course, that included Stevie Wonder (harp content!), I could never get enough Superstition. Still can't.

Bill

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From: "Dan Berger" <dberger1@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Bill,
> I don't disagree with your opinion about alot of the stuff on AM,  but 
> Allison Steele, the "Nght Bird" didn't play Stevie Wonder,
> because he wasn't hip.
> 
> Yes WABC played alot of junk, but the mix they had is completly gone today. 
> Our music is put into categories today and that is
> how it is packaged, marketed and sold to us.
> 
> You could hear on the same station, Frank Sinatra, the Beatles, Marvin Gaye, 
> Johnny Cash, Motown, Stones, Kinks, Otis Redding,
> Lovin' Spoonful, Beach Boys, Dean Martin, Jeannie C. Riley, Doors, Louie 
> Armstrong, Aretha, James Brown etc., etc. etc.
> Totally democratic and a huge part of our collective musical consciousness, 
> which is part of what we bring to the music we play.
> 
> Were'nt no Funk on FM in those days, or soul, or R & B.
> 
> But the ROCK was great!
> 
> Dan
>