Re: (TV) RE: Beatles Influence on Television

[Ken Thompsen <joseph-k@swbell.net>]

on 7/30/01 7:20 PM, greggluvox at murderedman@earthlink.net wrote:

> What about our man Burt Bacharach and all those Burt Bacharach minor chords
> (and major sevenths - oooh!; and augmented thirds etc) in say 'Baby It's
> You' by the Shirelles? Or 'Don't Make Me Over' by Dionne Warwick?

I just wrote a new reply to someone trying to clarify that I didn't mean
necessarily chords, progressions.

> With two electric guitars, maybe, but it certainly isn't a musical or
> compositional innovation. And why is it always just Beatles vs. Stones? What
> about the Kinks? Those bar chords took the pop format the new uncharted
> places. Also, I should mention before I go get some dinner -
> Barry/Greenwich, Phil Spector (or Beatle Phil), Smokey Robinson, Mort
> Shuman, The Cookies, Mann/Weil, Gene Pitney, Kim Fowley, the original
> Broadway cast of Hair and Carla Thomas.
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If we mention the Kinks, why don't mention every other British Invasion
band? What about the Who?
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