AND THE SO-CALLED 'UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL' DOES NOTHING

Dorothy Green, president of the Central Village Block Association, said she estimates she has to listen to about 700 hours of doo-wop a year.

(Thanks to Ralph)

Comments

[Horace LaBadie]

Sort of like the quarterly PBS begging drives.

[Unholy Slacker]

I feel the same as she does about doo wop.

[queensbee]

YES! Horace!! back atcha. they are now doing monthly begging.

[Steve]

We had the same trouble on St. George Street in St. Augustine. "Street Entertainers" would set up instruments, some amplified, and play for whatever they could get. On a street maybe 20 feet wide.
Some tourists liked them, some hated. Almost everyone working at a fixed spot hated them.
Recently, there was a suggestion that some, the "talented" artists, be allowed back.
Anybody want to wade into that swamp?

[Horace LaBadie]

My local PBS station decided at some point that their viewers want to see the same Roy Orbison special eight or so times in a ten day period, and then three months later want to see that same Roy Orbison special another eight times. And each time it lasts two hours, because they interrupt it every ten minutes for ten minutes of selling DVDs of the program. And then there are the ten reruns of the Doo Wop program, the ten reruns of the "50s Music, '60s Music, The British Invasion Music, and Peter Marshall Introduces Swing Music.

[HogsAteMySister]

Think: predator drones.

[Jeff Meyerson]

Some people (Dorothy Green, Unholy Slacker) wouldn't know good music if it jumped up and bit them in the @ss.

[Afkat]

Dorothy....you're not in Kansas anymore. Would you prefer mimes?

[nursecindy]

What's doo-wop?

[Jeff Meyerson]

cindy, it is 1950's and early 1960's street corner group harmony, for the most part. Groups like Dion & the Belmonts, The Five Satins, The Penguins, The Del Vikings, etc.

*hops back on the geezer bus*

[PirateBoy]

I grew up listening to doo-wop, Neil Diamond and Barry Manilow. Mrs. Pirateboy claims I turned out "Pretty well", proof that good music doesn't rot your brain....

[Ralph]

Just station a bagpiper on the opposite corner -- the doo-wop dudes will move. Then figure out what to do about the piper.

[Betsy]

Move them from the street to the PBS studios; pay them in donated pizza from [enter name of local sponsor]. Guarantees a year-round gig, with time off during intermittent Self-Improvement tape loops and Rick Steves Visits the Latrines of Pompeii.

[Loudmouth]

The local PBS here, despite 4 sub-channels just decided to convert the cooking/home/travel channel to British TV. Now the 2 non-child channels are 24 hr unwatchable self-help/Suze Ormond/Les Mis/Public K-Tel fund raising from what I can tell. Damn their tote bags.

[Just Some Guy]

Doo-wop? That's racist!

But it could be worse. Imagine string quartets on every corner. That'd drive me to the fertilizer store.

[queensbee]

we must be watching the same PBS channel, horace. wmht in albany, and it reaches like 11 counties in upstate ny. they have so messed up 'this old house' that i think bob vila has returned. and we have a subchannel on pbs - world, and create. create used to show interesting docs, now, just cooking and home improvement. over and over.
i'd like to give money to them, but even if i did, they still wouldnt shut up. so, i'm turning them off for now.

[Omniskeptic]

"Doo-wop is not a crime."

Like many messages we receive daily, this provokes a visceral, unsurpressable response, straight from my cerebral cortex, bypassing culture, logic, and all those other funny brain-things, and springing fully formed, like Athena, from the brow of Zeus. "Oh, yes it is!"

Similar message / response reactions: Bumper stickers the pants-on-ground types used to have around here: "Skateboarding is not a crime." "Oh, yes it is!"

On the envelope of mail from a bank: "Important information inclosed." "I strongly doubt that!"

And so on. But in deference to those who seem to have a fondness for DW, can I suggest a compromise? We ban both Doo-wop and Country? Or at least, can we ban Ted Nugent? I'll throw in a Kardashian. See your Snooki and raise you a Willie Nelson?

[Just Some Guy]

Omniskeptic, you're dealing from the bottom of the deck. We might be able to negotiate, but you're going to have to offer up a Sinatra or an Ellie Fitzgerald (who are both awful).

[Just Some Guy]

Uh, Ella. Still awful.

[Omniskeptic]

Not only dealing from the bottom of the deck, but not playing with a full one.

[mazar larry]

You can't spell CRXP without RAP

[Omniskeptic]

I have no problem with hip hop -- as long as it's performed by kangaroos.