Six months before four mop tops calling themselves The Beatles degraded our shores with their "ugga bugga" noise, Fred MacMurray tried to warn us of the perils of rock and roll music. This program needed to be taped, if only to chide those libertine progressives Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, who actually encouraged their boy, Ricky, to caterwaul on television for two years and making "hit" records to boot! What an outrage to family television in 1963.
Rock AND Roll music is "fiddle faddle" as The Boss reminds Fred. Well, that's what it sounded like to unbiased old farts in those days. If only The Youth of America had listened to the wisdom of the 70-year-old fathers behind My Three Sons in September of 1963, how much more conserved our nation would be! For one thing, we probably would not have assassinated President Kennedy that November. And we might still have pull-tabs on our beer cans. My Three Sons reminds us why Rock and Roll music will never last.
Review of Almost the Sound of Music
