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The most recorded 1920s standard is Hoagy Carmichael and Mitchell Parish's "Stardust". [6] Several songs written by Broadway composers in the 1920s have become standards, such as George and Ira Gershwin's "The Man I Love" (1924), Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies" (1927) and Cole Porter's "What Is This Thing Called Love?" (1929). However, it was not ...
The 1920s and 30s also saw a marked rise in the number of songs which protested against racial discrimination, such as Fats Waller's "(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue" in 1929, and the anti-lynching song "Strange Fruit" by Lewis Allan and performed and recorded by Billie Holiday, which contains the lyrics "Southern trees bear strange ...
The most recorded 1920s standard is Hoagy Carmichael and Mitchell Parish's "Stardust". [4] Several songs written by Broadway composers in the 1920s have become standards, such as George and Ira Gershwin's "The Man I Love" (1924), Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies" (1927) and Cole Porter's "What Is This Thing Called Love?" (1929). However, it was not ...
1920s portal This category is for songs written or first produced in the decade 1920s , i.e the years 1920 to 1929 . For more information, see 1920s in music
January 19 – The Salzburg Festival is revived. [1]September 4 – City of Birmingham Orchestra (England) first rehearses (in a city police bandroom). Later this month, its first concert, conducted by Appleby Matthews, opens with Granville Bantock's overture Saul; in November it gives its "First Symphony Concert" when Edward Elgar conducts a programme of his own music in Birmingham Town Hall.
The resulting illicit speakeasies that grew from this era became lively venues of the "Jazz Age", hosting popular music that included current dance songs, novelty songs and show tunes. By the late 1920s, a new opposition mobilized across the U.S. Anti-prohibitionists, or "wets", attacked prohibition as causing crime, lowering local revenues ...
1920 Soviet Union: The Partisan's Song: Yuri Cherniavsky and Peter Parfenov: 1915-1922 Soviet Union: A popular Red Army song from the Russian Civil War and World War I. [37] Tachanka (song) Mikhail Ruderman and Konstantin Listov: 1937 Soviet Union: Glorifies the Tachankas (machine gun carts) used by the Red Army during the civil war. [38]
This is an A–Z list of jazz tunes, which includes jazz standards, pop standards, and film song classics which have been sung or performed in jazz on numerous occasions and are considered part of the jazz repertoire.