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Originally Posted by paulsherwin
SSS was very much targeted at the generation born in the 20s who would have been too old to adjust to rock/blues based pop music as it emerged in the 50s and 60s. It's the same age cohort that bought the Mantovani LPs you find in charity shops.
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Don't dis the likes of Mantovani and Bert Kaempfert: they perfectly targetted a demographic that had plenty of free cash to spend on records.
One of my musical fascinations is the 60s/70s jazzy-stuff that was the inevitable accompaniment to 'news' and 'infomercial' features and ads of the era... as in "And here's Mrs Jones in her Ford Cortina driving down to pick up tonight's tea from her new MacFisheries store..... nice parking, Mrs Jones!..... and now back home to fry it up on her new Flavel split-level cooker ready for when Mr. Jones gets back from work. He's just got a new Triumph 2000! After tea they'll all be sitting round their new Baird colour TV from Radio Rentals - only five pounds a month!"