footnotes to two Reyzl postings

[Robert Cohen <rlcm17...>]

Reyzl wrote (I don't know how to cut and paste this elegantly, and can't 
find the originals anyway!--Sorry):  "I would really like to know when and 
where we have had a lyricist ... succeed in becoming a main force in any 
part of the American music industry"--Two answers come to mind, probably 
among many:  Charles K. Harris, who wrote "After the Ball" (first monster 
hit in American popular music history; turn of the century); and, for that 
matter, Irving Berlin.  Russell Sanjek's AMERICAN POPULAR MUSIC AND ITS 
BUSINESS, Vol. II, might be of interest in this regard (covers til turn of 
the century; not Berlin). This is just a footnote to the particular point; I 
know nothing at all about rap music (except that I can't stand it); though I 
do know that some of the early doo-woppers, certainly, had their writing 
credits ripped off by producers and not-even producers, at least one of 
whom, sadly, was an honored (by the community) MOT--for which the noxious PE 
stuff is, perhaps, karma of a sort, however vile....Reyzl also wrote (in re 
the idea of teaching dance teaching at KlezCamp):  "Here, here."  It's 
"Hear, Hear"!  (as in "Listen Up!") (as in "Shema"?)


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