Sir Paul Mc Cartney Memories

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I’m a big fan of the site RateYourMusic.com (I’m also a huge fan of the site http://www.MusicByDay.com by the way!) and one thing I really like to look at is the overall charts to see which albums have been the top rated of all time. If you don’t know what RateYourMusic.com is, it’s a site where music lovers (like myself) rate all of the albums they’ve listened to. Some raters also write their own reviews which can be very interesting to read.

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I grew up middle class and happy. We had a TV which we were only allowed to turn on once a week to watch either the Brady Bunch or My Three sons. My dad had a state of the art Sony reel to reel which we were not even allowed to touch. We also had a record player with a needle so delicate that it would scratch the vinyl if you even moved so we had to sit very still. Until this day I can’t dance. When I hear great music, I just sit very still and listen – scarred from early technology.

BACKGROUND HISTORY: The first musical bands originated in New Orleans among black musicians who have traditionally been the innovators. The first jazz record ever recorded was by The Original Dixieland Jazz Band in 1917, and of course they were white because racism always rears its ugly head to hold black people back. But during the Roaring 20′s, young white people couldn’t resist the dance beat laid down by the black jazz bands. Fletcher Henderson, a black man, became the first band leader to achieve national fame possibly because he featured Louis Armstrong on trumpet. Duke Ellington, a classically trained musician, brought a level of style and sophistication to jazz that hadn’t been seen before. But it wasn’t until 1935 that jazz bands with a “swing beat” achieved national attention due to Benny Goodman who I think was the best clarinet player ever to blow air into that instrument. Benny also had the good sense and taste to bring the first great drummer, Gene Krupa, into his band.