Yesterday's music is now children's music

Sherman Willden · Post by **Sherman Willden** » 17 Jun 2011 8:06 am

The first time I ran into this is when I was an military instructor in 1981 or so. I was on CQ and a student brought out her guitar since I had mine. She liked it since I sounded like her father's playing. I started into "Puff the Magic Dragon" when she interupted me and said that she doesn't perform children's music. I thought it still was a major performance piece. So much for what I know. I was just watching a video where "Tennessee Birdwalk" was performed as a children's piece. I still like that song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-OrVQaq ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yR0NJYb ... re=related

Wally Taylor · Post by **Wally Taylor** » 17 Jun 2011 10:47 am

If you outranked her, you should have made her play it anyway!

Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 19 Jun 2011 11:02 am

It's funny how the feelings of listeners towards music change over the years. Maybe if you played the song fifteen years earlier, you would have been admired. $:\$

Their voices remind me of N.Sinatra and L. Hazelwood.

Ray Minich · Post by **Ray Minich** » 28 Jun 2011 11:42 am

I hadn't been to the dirt track in 25 years. The stock cars that were the hottest thing on wheels in 1972 had become the cadets/hooligan class.