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Re: Eve of Destruction as 'novelty' record?



Novelty, no. Deeply related to its time, yes.

I'm not sure either type inevitably has limited legs over time... while
many of each type fade quickly, some of each type do hang on. (And who
knows which stick... who thought we'd be hearing Monster Mash played
annually over four decades?)

- -- Doug Broda

At 12:36 AM 4/18/99 -0400, Martin J. Waters wrote:
>>Rick Kelly wrote:
>>It's always been true of those novelty type records.
><snip>
>
>        I never would have applied the label novelty record to Eve of
>Destruction. Am I off base? Anyone got an opinion?
> 

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