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Class of 1800

Children once thrilled to brilliant musicians
    Hayden and Mozart, Shubert and Shuman

  My generation grew up on playboys and madmen
    Hugh Hefner and Alfred E. Newman

  The musicians gave brilliant exhibitions
    My generation shed its inhibitions

Copyright © Gershon Wolf | Year Posted 2023

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Michael Tor Date: 7/8/2023 12:15:00 AM Love Mad Magazine read for years.... Login to Reply

Kim Rodrigues Date: 7/5/2023 5:46:00 PM Love that middle verse. How true that is. I used to read Mad magazine so many moons ago :) Login to Reply Gershon Wolf Date: 7/6/2023 8:30:00 AM Oh, then you know my cousin, Alfred E. Newman! ~ Gershon S. Oldman

John Watt Date: 7/4/2023 10:43:00 PM Nicely put. To think those composers did all they did without the aid of the internet, synthesizers, recording equipment, microphones, sampling, or software ~ What Me Worry? Login to Reply Gershon Wolf Date: 7/6/2023 8:35:00 AM Kind of like the Moon Landing in 1969, using technology programmed largely in Fortran IV. How did they do it?! I think the answer is that man's fears and inhibitions multiply the more he relies on super-advanced technology. ~ Just sayin'

Shirley Hawkins Date: 7/4/2023 10:02:00 PM Mine it's superstitions (some of them anyway!) Login to Reply Gershon Wolf Date: 7/6/2023 8:38:00 AM Keep shedding those superstitions, Shirley - except for the one about black-hats. lol. :)