Interestingly, Frank Sinatra got his start on "The Original Amateur Hour." I believe it was while Major Bowes was the host. When I was a child, Ted Mack hosted it and more recently Willard Scott has hosted it.

I've never particularly liked song contests as entertainment. If I want to watch contests, I watch sports or politics. If I want art, I listen to music or look at paintings. Nothing wrong with contests, they just don't float my boat. So, I've never seen more than maybe 10 minutes of AI, ever. But, there's always an outcry about the new from the old. I remember the "Disco Sucks" movement, the criticism about modern pop reminds me of that.

Personally, I have yet to hear a genre of music that didn't have good and bad music. In all my life, there has yet to be a time during which the current music wasn't dismissed as inferior to previous music. The folkies thought the Beatles sucked. The flower children thought the glam rockers sucked. The glam rockers thought the punks sucked. The punks sucked, but they were proud of it. It's the same in Country, the same in Bluegrass, the same in Irish music.

Pretty funny.

You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way. -Johnny Cash

It's only music.
-niteshift

Mike Dunbar Music