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Originally Posted by nicepace
"Old Cape Cod"! I would love it, since I live on Cape Cod.
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You lucky devil, you. I bet I would love Cape Cod.
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Did you know that Patti Page had never been to Cape Cod when she recorded the song?
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No, I didn't! I'll be damn!
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Nobody's answered my query about the definition of a standard. Anybody?
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A standard is a song that, over time & through exposure -- sinking in slowly but surely into the miasma of popular culture -- has achieved recognition in & of itself, apart from its initial performance & recording. The upshot is that the standard continues to be sung & recorded by many people, & used in multivarious ways. Its actual popularity (in terms of the market) may wax & wane through the years, but it has by then firmly been embedded into our collective psyche.
All this occurs, incidentally, independently of the intrinsic merits (or lack thereof) of the song -- which is generally true of all popular phenomena in the art-commerce continuum.
Would you agree or disagree?