Re: Market Research

["Douglas J. Broda" <dougbroda@mindspring.com>]

Actually, both become relevant in wartime... the only difference is that
"Ballad of the Green Berets" is lyrically awful. :) [Come to think of it,
I'm not sure how good a song "Eve" was, even if the message is more
palatable to my tastes, and there's a large audience today that isn't
feeling real pacifistic.]

Seriously, that just goes to show how variable music listening can be.
While I don't know a soul who admits to liking "Green Berets," many, MANY
people bought it (#1 for 5 weeks), and while that audience was certainly on
the older end of listenership, some of them are still around, I suspect.

(Aside: I listened to and bought a lot of early 70s songs that few consider
classics -- "Ben," "Afternoon Delight," "Dark Lady," etc. I may rarely
admit that I'd like to hear them on the radio sometimes... but truth be, I
would. Nostalgia and quality don't always go together.)

At 03:34 PM 4/14/99 -0400, MikeHemeon@aol.com wrote:

><< Case in Point....
> >
> > ....."Ballad of the Green Beret".....VERY popular song in it's day.
> >
> > Very irrelevant today to listeners....and NO ONE wants to
> > hear it today.
> >
> > It's not simply a question of how "popular" a song was in the
> > *past*...
> >
> > It's how relevant that song is to people *today*!. >>
>
>The Eve of Destruction by Barry McGuire not relevant three weeks ago. Do you 
>think it is relevant today?
>
>Mike
> 

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