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Yah, it's a shame music appreciation has dummed down to cheesy country vocals with nonsensical depressing lyrics in most of the resturants and stores from those merve calming old instrumentals like Billy Vaughn, Chet Atkins, Floyd Cramer, The Three Suns, Ferante & Teichler, Montovani, Some of the 101 Strings, Some of Lawrence Welk, Eddie Peabody, The Harmonicats, etc.My business is near a university and I have played tapes some of the above a lot. The younguns, some of who'd never listened to anything but metal etc loved it to the extent that I had to keep an eye out that they didn't steal my tapes. They never knew that such wonderful music existed.I really like Manheim Steamroller. Robert Shuler had them on stage where he interviewed them and they performed last week at the Crystal Cathedral. It was super! We still play 33 1/3 LPs and cassetts a lot as well as some later mostly instrumentals at home. Some of our favorites are unknowns. We have hundreds of the old 33 1/3s and tapes which we began accumulating way back in the 1950s.Oh, I forgot, Spike Jones!

On our recent trip motoring down I 10 and I 40 through the Southwest the Mexican stations came in the best on the radio. We often enjoyed the Mexican bands with the fast accordian & guitar, etc and even the vocals, though we didn't understand most of the language. The language itself when sung is quite beautiful but after a while enough is enough.Some polka is enjoyable to us as well. I play some of it on the clarinet such as the Clarinet Polka, and Irish Washerwoman.Some oldies were great like Nola, The Parade Of The Wooden Soldiers and an old march, Under The Double Eagle. When I was a kid back in the 1940s, my dad played songs like Nola and Under The Double Eagle beautifully.

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