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There will have to be invented, soon, a term comparable to "well-read" to describe those children of the record-boom generation who are knowledge-able about popular music the way some people are with bodies of literature. Elvis Costello has that kind of nearly encyclopedic knowledge of recorded sound, and he moves easily from the Beatles to early Motown, '60s psyche-delic, Burt Bacharach, George Jones. He'll speak of a song Dolly Parton re-corded on Monument Records 16 years ago, the drum track on a particular single, the backup singers on a commercial. | There will have to be invented, soon, a term comparable to "well-read" to describe those children of the record-boom generation who are knowledge-able about popular music the way some people are with bodies of literature. Elvis Costello has that kind of nearly encyclopedic knowledge of recorded sound, and he moves easily from the Beatles to early Motown, '60s psyche-delic, Burt Bacharach, George Jones. He'll speak of a song Dolly Parton re-corded on Monument Records 16 years ago, the drum track on a particular single, the backup singers on a commercial. | ||
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