Word: avalon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wealthy industrialist who later became Secretary of the Treasury and U.S. Ambassador to Britain-awards grants in education, the arts, medicine, and other fields. It was created in 1968 by the merger of two older foundations-Avalon and Old Dominion-each of which had been endowed by one of Andrew Mellon's children: Ailsa Mellon Bruce and Paul Mellon...
...laid on her bed gazing through the semi-darkness, punctured only by her night light, at the pictures of Bobby which covered every square inch of wall space. Pictures of him even lined her bureau drawers. She considered Bobby her roommate. She had never heard of Frankie Avalon...
After a while, the singers as well as the lyrics were changed. For every funky performer like Chuck Berry, there were a dozen droopy-eyed, ducktailed teen-idol types like Bobby Rydell, Frankie Avalon, Fabian and even Tab Hunter, all of whom threatened to turn rock into lachrymose lullabies for lovelorn girls. It was British groups like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, with their heavy and acknowledged debt to American soul and blues, who revitalized rock by getting back to its roots...
...more high energy our music got, the more the establishment tried to kill it; They sent out Frankie Avalon and Fablan, exemplars of honkey culture. Lawrence Welk. Or listen, now to top-40 radio: the same awful shit; songs of boys driving around in cars trying to pick up girls, or vice versa. Most pop music is still low energy music...