Record

Ref NoMS 4000/6/1/53/55/C
TitleCD Rom listening copy
LevelItem
Date12 November 1965
DescriptionTrack 1: Enoch Kent talks about marketing in pop music, he says that the top 20 has nothing to do with public taste, he talks about Ken Dodd's record 'Tears', which is schmalz, the industry pumps out sounds which get into your mind subliminally, teenagers accept this because their minds are receptive and they are not old enough to have prejudice or they have something in common the artists, they see them as heroes, 2.25 mins
Track 2: He talks about the status associated with knowing what's going on, 'it's fashion they are selling', he talks about music and sounds associated with decades of the twentieth century, he says that the sixties have no sound and that is sad, 3.25 mins
Track 3: He says that confusion sells, that there is no direction or aesthetic; he talks about 'pseudo-protest' songs and Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and Pete Seeger, 2.31 mins
Track 4: He talks about Bob Dylan, 'the city boy lost, commercially right', 'as an artist, completely worthless', 3.18 mins
Track 5: He talks about Joan Baez not paying income tax, protest does not enter into her music, he talks about bad tunes in pop music, 2.03 mins
Track 6: He says that all pop music is played at the same volume, you don't have to adjust the radio when you're listening to pop music, the Beatles are sold because of their craftmanship, but they make a lot of bad records - he talks about the Beatles film 'Help', 3.06 mins

Total: 16.50 mins

Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0778880
Extent1
FormatCd-rom
Access StatusOpen
LanguageEnglish
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