Glenn - While I can agree you can recall a song heard many years ago, you won't hear it the same.  That is what makes live performances so exciting, you may have seen the show a 100 times, but each time you see it, it is different, a new experience, both for the actor/singer and for the listener.

How can something that lasts only as long as it is heard be a record?  It can't.

You ever play the game gossip?  What happens as the phrase or story is passed from person to person, it becomes different, changed to the point you cannot rely on it as anything but what was passed.

That's what makes oral history so suspect.  In one of the posts they talk about giving weight to the first nations oral history, but I will bet money that the oral history was 'captured' in another medium before being 
presented in court.

Interesting discussion, but not sure it will help any of us become better records, data and information professionals.

Tom Owens
Consultant for RIM services


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>From: Glen Sanderson <[log in to unmask]>
You can probably recall a time where you heard a song or saw something one time and then many years later you recall it.

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