More on the Collins kids:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdAZH7Em8kg&feature=related
interesting!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger Kulp" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 9:50 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Mitch Miller RIP


> Miller's opposition to rock and roll is legendary,but I take exception to the 
> notion that Columbia had none of note while Miller was popular music A&R 
> director.Aside from Carl Perkins,and Link Wray,we have Sid King and The Five 
> Strings (Who should have been as big as Buddy Holly or Gene Vincent.),The 
> Collins Kids,The Treniers,and a few others who slipped onto Columbia and Epic 
> back then
> 
> One need not wonder what Mr.Sing Along thought of stuff like this:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF5DvDucf7w
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4jCsq2aFe0
> Roger
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Daniel Shiman <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Tue, August 3, 2010 1:17:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Mitch Miller RIP
> 
> With Miller's musicality and experience, he might have done the same thing at 
> Columbia, but refused to acknowledge rock 'n' roll as a bonafide art form and 
> something that could have made Columbia millions. Instead, they stagnated in the 
> rock world. Only John Hammond gave Columbia any place in the rock world by 
> signing Bob Dylan, then just a folk singer who happened to develop into a rock 
> legend. As a partial result of Miller's influence, Columbia didn't have any 
> bonafide rock 'n' roll talents until Janis Joplin in the late '60s. 
> 
>>  
>> Cary Ginell
>>  
> 
> Columbia Records (and RCA and Decca, all the more so) was rapidly losing ground 
> to its West Coast counterparts in the '60s in terms of rock.  
> 
> 
> But to say there weren't any significantly talented rock acts on Columbia until 
> Joplin's signing is overstatement.  In those intervening years, Columbia 
> released albums by the Byrds, Moby Grape, the United States of America, the 
> Cyrkle, Simon & Garfunkel, Electric Flag, Sagittarius/Millenium and Leonard 
> Cohen (alongside many other, more obscure artists with appeal to contemporary 
> rock audiences).
> 
> -Dan 
> 
> 
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