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• Saturday, July 19, 2008 04:45 PM

  I'm alway surprised by the number of people who loathe "mexican" music, usually meaning Mariachi bands ...

  they are very stylized and as long as they aren't too loud -- hey -- I feel about as some feel about Abba or polka -- but I don't know if it is a matter of key or timre or rhythm -- THEY make me smile.

  I meant what I said about "you might as well be listening to Lawrence Welk" who appears every Sunday night on my local PBS station and -- I have been told -- is one of the most popular PBS programs.

  ... there's nothing wrong with that.... except he (like Liberace) has been dead FOREVER and personified (imho) rather low-brown white people music.

  However, having worked in an office with someone too sophisticated to tolerate Andrew Lloyd Weber with someone who idolized him ... I think ANY music appreciation is better than none. I realize now that I have no idea what the Andrew Lloyd Weber "hater" liked. I grew up on Billie Holiday, Missisippi John Hurt AND Broadway show tunes .. go figure.

  We are talking about what we are going to call "pop" and/or hear played on the "Top 40" stations (if they still exist) .. So Bach or Beethoven's lack of funk doesn't figure.

  There were a lot of cheesy British invasion bands too. Gerry and the Pacemaker made Herman's Hermits look BRILLIANT... Yeah, Eric Burden and the Animal got my vote (and almost no air time)... Jim Morrison WISHED he could be Eric Burden.

  —susan sunflower Read susan sunflower's other letters
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