Pynchon and Music

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George Formby:

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From: "Ya Sam" <takoitov at hotmail.com>
> Another question to the P-listers in the know. I realise that many specific 
> references to American (British?) music of 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s etc. 
> are simply lost to me, because I am only aware of the most popular and 
> pretty obvious samples (I even didn't know about the lollypop song before 
> reading GR). So I would be grateful if you could advise me a "must music 
> package" for his novels (especially Vineland and GR) in terms of performers, 
> groups, albums, songs etc. I am not a complete ignoramus, (Sinatra I know 
> :-) but I do realise that I need to do some listening in my spare time to 
> appreciate more Pynchon's texts. Thanks in advance.
> 
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