Another exception might be Chevy Chase, subject of two articles by Joseph Addison in the Spectator in 1711. I preferred to concentrate on songs that were deserving but slightly too arcane to be in every household the also-rans, the misfits, the hidden jewels.Įxceptions - songs truly popular across all classes and maintaining longevity in some cases for hundreds of years - might include Barbara Allen, which Samuel Pepys admired and learned from the singing of a dairymaid and which is still sung in schools and folk clubs and less self-consciously by farmers and tinkers. A truly popular selection might include the likes of Greensleeves, I Gave My Love a Cherry, anything from the Sound of Music - perhaps people in large numbers don't always have the best taste. So I did a little research, dug out a few old favourites and A Thousand Years of Popular Music was born. But all was not lost: the Getty Museum asked me to contribute something a little out of the ordinary to a concert series, and the "thousand years'" concept seemed like a goer. I was probably subverting the Playboy philosophy, but I was somewhat crushed when the magazine failed to print my entry.
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