My favorite era in music?
AFTER they drafted Elvis into the Army, and BEFORE the Beatles.
Listening now to the greatest Christmas album ever. ( in my opinion )
It was released on November 22, 1963 - does that date sound familiar?
My mother bought it and played it at Christmas for years.
"A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pVon5xDARc
Phil gives Christmas his Wall of Sound treatment.
Oscar Levant and Phil Spector were two of my greatest heroes in music. They both went on to prove that there is indeed a very fine line between genius and insanity. I'm not a psychiatrist, but I think they both crossed that line.
Creepy Phil even gives a creepy little Christmas speech at the end.
It just seemed like a great few years to me. North America had survived the Cuban Missile Crisis. That must have been a good feeling. JFK was in office most of those years. There seemed to be no better time to look good, kick ass, and get laid.
There's been a lot of good music before, and since. I just believe those few short years were the high water mark in music. Before the civil unrest in the cities and Draft protests. Drugs. Crime. Terrorism.
