Thanks for The Memories By Bing Crosby

Thanks for The Memories By Bing Crosby

As the song playing at the hamburger stands in chapter 15, this song exemplifies the dichotomy between the commercialized expectations of music in the 1930's. The novel itself offers a dichotomy between Bing as the idealized folk and the trucker serenading Mae as their reality where, "Bing Crosby's voice --golden. 'thanks for the memories, of sunburn at the shore--you might have been a headache, but you never were a bore--' And the truck driver sing's for Mae's ears, you might have been a haddock but you never was a whore--" (171.)
Here is a textual representation of the dichotomy between popularized music and the folk reception of it.

Joanna