Emmy Lou by Marty Links for April 06, 2014

Starship.

I’m guilty of knowing most of them and still own most of their albums.For some reason we used to refer to Country Joe and Fish as Joe Fish and the Hooks…

I also have a Moby Grape album (didn’t like their music so much) but the album cover was somewhat ahead of its time…I bought mine before the record store put a sticker over one of the band member’s middle finger. It was really controversial at the time.

It’ll happen to you too. (Probably already has.)

Emmy Lou has interesting musical tastes. Of course, by now, if she survived the sixties, she probably would be in her mid to late sixties and wondering how the hell her grand kids can stand that stuff they call music.

I lived through those times and I never heard of Paul Butterfield either, or a couple of others. But surprised that Dad never heard of the Ray Conniff Singers and that Emmy Lou had. Also hearrd of Jack Teagarden, but not Norma. Guess Marty Links was a Jazz type fan.

I’ve heard of quite a few of those groups. Bet Emmy Lou wouldn’t have guessed that they would still be heard on the radio.

Only five people ever heard of Quicksilver Messenger Service and three of those were in the band, ;)

He’s just foolin’ Emmy Lou = he most certainly HAS heard of The Ray Confiff Singers!

The Ray Conniff Singers were a commercial pop cover group - not fit to be mentioned with the greats in that list. Paul Butterfield’s first album was great; then he sank into alcoholism … but even with his brain half-poisoned with alcohol he still managed to produce some music. Quicksilver Messenger Service were great while they lasted - not long, but their music still holds up today. Emmy Lou seems to have been into some pretty edgy music. There’s a lot more real music than pop pablum in that list.

It’s a little hard to take Dad seriously when he claims to have never heard of Bob Dylan in 1967 — and he’s reading a newspaper. No one who read newspapers could have never heard of Dylan, even if they never listened to music. There were plenty of people his age in 1967 America who had never heard of Paul Butterfield, but not Dylan or the Rolling Stones. He must be joking about some of that, exaggerating his ignorance.-Cougar :{)

I forgot the software here does weird things when you punctuate with dashes. The crossed-out words above should not be crossed out.

Hmm … maybe my memory is deceiving me. It’s been a long time. I’ll go to youtube and do some listening.-Cougar :{)