at the beginning
Mar. 13th, 2008 06:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bardiphoukaWe all know about the beginnings of rock (well sort of..may get back to that later). But there was also jazz, which we have touched a bit, and folk.
If you weren't there it is hard to understand how popular folk music was in the 60s. The Folk Scare as Tom Paxton called it. Folk singers were actually getting signed on major labels and getting top 40 radio play. Coffee Houses were everywhere in every city. Songs of social injustice and songs to out angst anything available today. And some that pretended to be one thing while actually just being..well..silly? Especially at the beginning..such as this song.
If you weren't there it is hard to understand how popular folk music was in the 60s. The Folk Scare as Tom Paxton called it. Folk singers were actually getting signed on major labels and getting top 40 radio play. Coffee Houses were everywhere in every city. Songs of social injustice and songs to out angst anything available today. And some that pretended to be one thing while actually just being..well..silly? Especially at the beginning..such as this song.
