October 25, 2003

  •                               65 YEARS AGO TODAY


                                              Oct 25 1938

                                       

    The Archbishop of Dubuque, the Most Reverend Francis J.L. Beckman, denounces the newfangled Swing music -- the latest craze -- as nothing more than "a degenerated musical system... turned loose to gnaw away the moral fiber of young people." Its cannibalistic rhythms are said to lead one down "primrose path to Hell."

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