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Old Jan 5 2008, 11:55 AM
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Originally Posted by ThePianoMan121 View Post
[re: Pop] For goodness sake, the genre is traced back to the 50s in the same article you quote from.
Perhaps the roots of Pop can be traced back then, but Pop as a genre only came to be in the 80's onward (developed out of disco). Pop is a sound, a sound that was simply not technically possible in the 50s...

I defy anyone to give a solid example of a Pop tune from 1950 - 60? ??