KATE vs McCARTNEY - The Beatles weren't easy listening and didn't enunciate

   

A very queer musical term is: “easy listening.” 

    What is so difficult about music? Few things are EASIER than listening to music. You don’t have to do anything. As anyone who has suffered a bad train ride, an irritating visit to a shopping mall, or moronic neighbors know, it’s TOO easy to listen to music. The HARD part is shutting it out! 


    Years ago, snowflakes unable to tolerate voices, bought Mantovani “instrumentals,” accent on “mentals.” The idea was to "easy listening." Like having thicker white bread for your sandwich, because you don't want to taste the meat. Or adding few extra spoonfuls of sugar in your coffee and maybe fill half the cup with cream. Mmmm, good. Let's not actually taste the coffee too much. Lack of taste can be a taste. So say the fans of James Last and Ray Coniff and the rest. 

     You might think "easy listening" is now out of style. After all, Kate Smith is dead. But we do have Adele. She's made a fortune by appealing to all the saps in the trees. There are bloggers who still weep and sigh and post Acker Bilk stuff, and figure Andy Williams' take on "Bridge Over Troubled Water" was the definitive one. Contemporary pop and jazz vocalists continue to cover rock songs THE RIGHT WAY, and unlike Pat Boone doing heavy metal, there's absolutely no sense of humor behind it.  

    When “Here, There and Everywhere” came out, young rock fans figured their parents MIGHT not object to The Beatles if they heard this lovely, simple ballad. But, no…STILL not “easy listening” enough. They had to hear it from an "easy listening" vocalist, or somebody who knew how to enunciate clearly, like Kate.


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