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Oh, well... Enuff w/the psychoanalysin' of me & condemnation of the Great State of Tennessee...I AM quite probably insane, as well as exhibiting dangerous latent sadomasochistic/latent homosexual tendencies...I'll plead guilty, even if I don't really know-Or particularly CARE-what most o' them $400 words are talkin' about...All I know is I generally like music that is from the postwar era up til the late Sixties-Lush instrumental tunes, by guys such as Les Baxter, Martin Denny, Henry Mancini, Leroy Anderson, etc. I think some of it could be called "Lounge Music", but that's maybe a bit harsh to lump ALL of it in w/"Lounge", & the very term "Lounge" has some certain less-than-savoury connotations. I prefer the term "Empire Music", an era when Ike or a handsome young man from Beantown was president, your dad worked, Mom was in the kitchen, TV was B/W, & America was unquestionally the best place in the whole wide world on Earth. OK, it was a bit naive, but what have we gained from the last 40-45 years worth of listening to our self-appointed critics ? Music was confident, self-assured, strong then...And it was made by real, live humans playing INSTRUMENTS, not some narrow-glasses wearing geek programming a feckin' Autotuner gizmo. Go to YouTube & watch "A Summer Place" by Percy Faith from 1960-There is a B/W kinescope of his orchestra playing it-and then name me ANY modern pop song that comes close.
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