My dad always disparaged rock and roll. The singers did not have good voices, the lyrics were repetitive. He never liked any popular song that we played. It was frustrating. He was a child of the Big Band Era.
You know...he was right. :o
I have listened to the Paper Moon sound track over and over again, for other reasons, the film's operatic use of lyrics. But I have heard the quality of voices, too. I have noticed the instrumentation. Both in the 30's were superior to the popular songs of the '60's and '70's.
I have listened to the full songs on Paper Moon and I noticed a quirk. In each of the songs that I have listened to the vocals don't come in until about half-way through the full piece. When I first noticed this, I thought I had an instrumental-only version, like you can get today for karaoke. But it was not, it was the template for the time. We're now 90 years out from 1930's music and I don't know the purpose, but it clearly was the template. I don't know when the template was abandoned but that was clearly done too.
-lyrics don't start till half-way through
