Posted by Baxter Tocher on 11/15/65 11:29

Jim Higgins wrote:

>>>Roberta Flack: First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
>>
>>Soul. And definitively so.

> The sista is a Soul sista, but that particular song is as Pop as
> Pepsi. If it isn't Pop, then everything Michael Jackson did after
> leaving the Jackson Five is Soul too. ;-)

Subjective, as I said. And I disagree that it's pop. Technically it's a
folk song. But it sure sounds like soul to me.

But please don't make the Michael Jackson comparison ;-)

>>>Ink Spots
>>
>>Doowop, or 50s/60s.

> Depends on the song. The Ink Spots did everything from Easy Listening
> to Harmony (Doo Wop)

I haven't heard anything of theirs that I'd describe as easy listening,
but of course that doesn't mean that there ain't no such thing.

>>>Judy Collins: Send in the Clowns
>>
>>Folk.

> Collins was a folk singer, but "Send in the Clowns," "Both Sides Now,"
> and a few more were done outside her usual genre during the perios
> when she was accompanying herself on piano. Not sure what it is, but
> it's definitely not Folk.

It's folk to my ears.

> I know you said it's subjective, so that's my subjective view of it.

Yep - no problem with that at all :-)

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Baxter

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