Post #523080 by ikitnrev on Fri, Apr 9, 2010 1:49 PM

I am 48 years old - was 7 years old when the Lawrence Welk 'Tiny Bubbles' clip first aired. It was more likely those 10-20 years older than myself then that rebelled against the older generation.

One of my favorite examples showing this gap was the movie 'The Graduate' - released one year before the Welk clip. Here is an excerpt of what I previously posted several years ago on this topic.

In the Graduate, the older generation is the one that is into mixing cocktails, and it is Mrs Robinson who wears the exotic leopard-skin outfits and goes to hotel lounges to listen to the bands playing there.

Young Benjamin, played by Dustin Hoffman - hates this whole culture - and equates it with being plastic - he prefers drinking beer in the pool versus cocktails, and prefers rock and roll music to the old bump and grind music being played in the strip clubs.

I consider the success of 'The Graduate' to be one real reason of why the original lounge culture never was adopted by the younger generation of that era. But now it is 42 years later, and the generational differences that existed in the 60's are long past - we are more free to listen to whatever music we like, without having the emotional baggage it once did. Some of us listen to the music with an awareness of its historical significance, while others will listen to it simply because they like the way it sounds.

Vern