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Friendly Warning: Multi-Chapter Test (# 3). Covers Chapters 5-6-7 Thursday, 7 April 2016 (nine days from today). Chapter 7. “Choo Choo C’ Boogie” : The Post-War Era, 1946-1954. Chapter 7 (outline). Popular Music and Technology in the Postwar Era The Rise of the Big Singers
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Friendly Warning:Multi-Chapter Test (# 3) Covers Chapters 5-6-7Thursday, 7 April 2016(nine days from today)
Chapter 7 “Choo Choo C’ Boogie” :The Post-War Era, 1946-1954
Chapter 7 (outline) Popular Music and Technology in the Postwar Era The Rise of the Big Singers Urban folk Music: The Weavers The Mambo Craze (1949-1955) Southern Music in the Postwar Era Rhythm & Blues Vocal Harmony Groups Country and Western Music
Mambo! • Ballroom dance, c. 1930s (Cuban origins) • Derived from Danzón, montuno section • Modular form(repeated short ideas) • Peak of popularity- 1950s-easy to do • Exs. (Perez Prado Band)- MAMBO No 5 - PEREZ PRADO – YouTube (Text book LG, 216-7) Damaso Perez Prado (1916-1989) – leading exponent of the “mambo”
The Mambo Craze (mid-50s) • Sophie Tucker – “The Middle Age Mambo”- Sophie Tucker -the middle age mambo - YouTube • Ruth Brown – “Mambo Baby”- Mambo Baby - Ruth Brown • Perry Como – “Papa Loves Mambo”- Perry Como Papa Loves Mambo Perry Como Show '54B&W ORGINAL • Rosemary Clooney – “Mambo Italiano”- Rosemary Clooney - Mambo Italiano - 1954 originals – YouTube (Text book LG, p. 217-8) • Leonard Bernstein, West Side Story, “Mambo” - West Side Story - Mambo!
Southern Music – post WW II • Billboard (1942) – new “Western & Race” category - later called: “American Folk Records” • Billboard (1949) – renames categories - “Race” becomes “Rhythm & Blues” - “Hillbilly” becomes “Country and Western” • Growth of these categories on: - Radio (average of more than 1 hour daily) - Jukebox (Southerners generally not in AFM) - Independent record labels (renewed prosperity)
Rhythm and Blues (new term) • Was “Race” records for Black consumers • Mixture of styles (united by audience) - Urbanized (southern) folk (Blues, etc.) - Gospel harmonies - Tin Pan Alley crooners - “Jump” bands (smaller swing groups) • “Indie” labels, small (local) markets • Payola (to promote records on black radio) • Emergence of “Jump blues”
Louis Jordan (1908-1975) “Kingof theJuke box” • Born Arkansas- Father : band music teacher- performed on minstrel circuit • Chick Webb band (to 1938)- LJ develops stage persona- non-threatening, comedic actor • Leads own nine-piece band- soon reduced to “five” • Strong cross-over appeal- “Victory Records”- often scores on “white” charts • Top black recording artist- 113 weeks at No. 1 (all-time leader)- 18 # 1 hits, 54 top ten records (1940s)
Louis Jordanand His Tympany Five Louis Jordan -- What's the Use of Getting Sober – YouTube(1942 # 1 Harlem) Caldonia / Louis Jordan – YouTube(1945, # 1 R&B, # 6 Pop) Louis Jordan Singalong Choo Choo C'Boogie (Text book LG, p.221-23)(1946, # 1 R&B, # 7 Pop) LOUIS JORDAN - AIN'T NOBODY HERE BUT US CHICKENS- 1956 – YouTube (1946, # 1 R&B, # 6 Pop) Louis Jordan & The Tympany Five ~ Beans and Cornbread (1949) – YouTube (1949, # 1 R&B) Strong Boogie Woogie beat Almost Rock ‘n Roll
“Muddy Waters”(McKinley Morganfield, 1915[?]-1998) • Mississippi (plantation work)- harmonica, then guitar- Son House, Robert Johnson- Alan Lomax discovers (1941) • Chicago (from 1943)- opens for Big Bill Bronzy- Electric guitar (1945)- Chess Records • Exs.- Muddy Waters - Hoochie Coochie Man ( Chess 1954) – YouTube(Text book LG p. 225-6)- Got My Mojo Working Muddy Waters full version newport jazz - YouTube
“Doo Wop”(Vocal Harmony Groups) • Based in Gospel Quartets • Mills Brothers (1930-68)- Ex. Paper Doll • Dominoes (c. 1951)- Billy Ward coachedClyde McPhatter lead • Exs.- Billy Ward and The Dominoes - Sixty Minute Man - YouTube
Ruth Brown (1928-2006) • Southern Gospel traditions • Big band, club singer • Signed to Atlantic Records- “House that Ruth Built”- leading R&B singer (1949-55) • Ex.- RUTH BROWN - Mama He Treats Your Daughter Mean – YouTube(Text book LG, p. 228-30) • Advocate for R&B performers- sued for royalties (and won!) “Miss Rhythm”“The Queen of R&B”
Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton (1926-1984) • Southern Baptist • Vaudeville Circuit • Houston, TX nightclubs • “Rough” personality • Exs.- Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog (1952) Blues - YouTube(Text book LG, p. 228-30)- Big Mama Thornton - Ball And Chain
Country and Western Music • Continued broadening of C&W market • Radio Broadcasts in all parts of US- Boston, “Hayloft Jamboree”- Los Angeles, “Hometown Jamboree” • 1/3 of all record sales in 1950 • “Mainstreaming”- pop performers cover country- country performers go “pop” • Patti Page – country crossover- The Tennessee Waltz - singer Patti Page 1950- How Much Is That Doggie In The Window - Patti Page - YouTube
147 hits on Billboard charts (85 million copies sold!) “Tennessee Plowboy” The “Nashville Sound”- Crooning lead sing- Orchestral accompaniment- Background vocals Exs.- Eddy Arnold - Bouquet of Roses (With Lyrics) – YouTube (1947 crossover)- Eddy Arnold - You Don't Know Me - Grand Ole Opry Classics – YouTube- MAKE THE WORLD GO AWAY - EDDY ARNOLD.mpg (1965) Eddy Arnold (1918-2008)