Let’s Talk About Music and its Unspoken Controversy
Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart I know I’m ancient, and I am aware that there is a huge generation gap on many issues in America. I suffer some of the same problems as other men and women my age. However, my mind and my memory are intact. I am fortunate to have lived in some of the greatest times in world history. I certainly experienced more changes than any other generation in the past, and probably in the future. Electronics, how we live our daily lives, none of these were imaginable as I was growing up in the 1950’s and 1960’s. I feel extremely lucky to have experienced the origins of Rock and Roll music, and the advancement of blues, jazz, R& B, and country music. The primary origin of Rock and Roll comes from Gospel Music. Like Gospel Music, Rock and Roll touches our souls, our deepest emotions. I heard, and occasionally watched the most incredible individuals and bands in the history of music in the 20 th century. In 1956, I watched a man perform on the Ed Sullivan Show. The date w...