Re: What were they playing a hundred years ago?
I remember talking about this with my grandmother before she passed away. She told me that she didn't ever listen to popular music back then because it was indecent. (If you look at the titles to songs that were popular 100 years ago I think you will agree that some of them were not very nice.)
So what did they sing and play? "hymns and camp music."
I also remember asking her about drinking during Prohibition. She said: "I never touched a drop of alcohol in my life, but I got as happy as a lord on applejack once."
She was a great lady. If she were still alive she would be 109 years old.
Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is,
When time is broke and no proportion kept!
--William Shakespeare
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