Re: Are the Beatles actually musically significant?

"Grammarian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > And the idea of musicians
> > covering their material depends on music in 100 years being basically
the
> > same as it now. After all, you don't hear many rock artists covering
Stephen
> > Foster. (the only one I can think of if The Byrds)
> >
> The Beatles themelves sang Foster's Beautiful Dreamer at the BCC. I
> think it was in the repertoire of a number of Mersey groups, including
> the Searchers and the Swinging Blue Jeans. Roy Orbison recorded it as
> well.

That still comes out as "not many." Any popular rock artists cover him in
the last 30 years? I suspect the general awareness of Foster has decreased
greatly in that time.