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Date Posted: 7/02/02 16:51
Author: Hugh of the pond
Subject: Re: That American Chap
In reply to: Adrian 's message, "That American Chap" on 5/02/02 20:53

You mean Bob Newhart perhaps? THe record was carefully preserved in the attic of my house and, co-incidentally, was being played on our record player whilst we put away the Christmas decorations this year. All of the monologues, including Walter Scott and The Driving Instructor and the Captain of the Nuclear Sub returning after a year's voyage"..as you men know the door to my office is always open. I'd like that door returned now..."

Radio has, for some odd reason, become almost cool. And that isn't the normal music radio, but the talking stuff. Radio 4. The programme makers have undoubtedly brought down the intellectual level and in doing so have increased the number of listeners. The erudite still exists but in a diminished form. However so few people these days, even in private education, can sport the depth of knowledge in classics and arts that our parents' generation often represented, that the programmes are once again relavent to a wider audience.

We were also playing the Flanders and Swan record that has such songs as 'I'm a gnu...' and 'Glorous mud.'

Your daughter would love them, but they would have to be transcribed to a more modern form.

The mechanical, is generally speaking, in the human domain. A person with a pine needle could contrive to hear the sound locked on a vinyl record, as you could see a film by holding it to the light. Things can be looked at, pondered on and touched but the electronic tends to be in hte realm of the spiritual. No amount of careful thought would enable a person to work out what an MP3 player did unless they knew about electonics in the first place.

But does it matter? If Bob Newhart (Ed to his friends) was never played again would it make any difference. You'll tell Mary-Anne about Walt and the discovery of tobacco (although perhaps her children won't know what that was when she tells them) and she might tell her children. Who knows, the funniest joke may already have been told before anyone was able to record it at all.

Hmmm.

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