WHY is it that rock musicians (usually four or five in number) mistakenly call themselves bands? Surely they are not bands and should be labelled appropriately as groups.
In the 40s and 50s, bands comprised about 17 musicians who played trumpets, saxophones, trombones and clarinets, also with a drummer.
One recalls Joe Loss, Ted Heath and Jack Payne on this side of the Atlantic with Tommy Dorsey, Harry James and the great Glenn Miller, among others, on the other side.
Those band members were always smartly dressed and did not sport weird hairstyles, have facial trinkets and wear scruffy jeans. Also, their vocalists sung without screeching and contorting their faces like many of today's entertainers' and the words of their songs were easy to hear.
Indeed, those were the good old (musical) days.
JACK WALKER, Totton.
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