Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!fortune!polard From: polard@fortune.UUCP (Henry Polard) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: British English/American English and singing Message-ID: <3929@fortune.UUCP> Date: Thu, 2-Aug-84 16:38:44 EDT Article-I.D.: fortune.3929 Posted: Thu Aug 2 16:38:44 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Aug-84 00:44:38 EDT References: <3012@decwrl.UUCP>, <1230@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA Lines: 17English lends itself to song quite wonderfully - listen to English folk-singers such as the Watersons for evidence. English pop, rock, etc. singers sing with an "American" accent because they're imitating us. One of the reasons they do this is that the roots of the money-making music styles are American, and the foreign singers imitate the accent with the style, especially if they learn their music from records. It was on a Sunday morning, the weather being fine, Unto Brigg fair I did repair - for love I was inclined... -- Henry Polard (You bring the flames; I'll bring the marshmallows.) {ihnp4,cbosgd,amd}!fortune!polard