Re: What is a folk song?: P.S.

[Lori M Simon <lorelecs...>]

Is it Eleanot Rigby?
Lorele

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 22:25:34 -0700 music (at) sterlingmp(dot)org writes:
> I meant to add, re:  
> 
> > I think of art songs as someone's poetry set to music. 
> 
> and speaking of setting poetry to music, that not for nothing 
> was a superb TV special -- I don't know if it was PBS -- on 
> Dylan and the Beatles and the music they inspired called 
> "Shakespeare in the Alley" (after, of course, a line in a
> Dylan song).
> 
> Speaking of which, here's this week's OK-not-Jewish music
> trivia question:
> 
> What's (sfaik) the only (commercially) recorded Beatles song 
> with only acoustic instrumentation?
> 
> -- Robert Cohen
> 
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