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October 14 – The Philadelphia Athletics defeat the Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 1, to win their 4th World Series Title. October 24–29 – Wall Street crash of 1929 : Three multi-digit percentage drops wipe out more than $30 billion from the New York Stock Exchange (10 times greater than the annual budget of the federal government).
In 1970, rock musician Ringo Starr surprised the public by releasing an album of Songbook songs from the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, Sentimental Journey.Reviews were mostly poor or even disdainful, [25] but the album reached number 22 on the US Billboard 200 [26] and number 7 in the UK Albums Chart, [27] with sales of 500,000.
There were two categories of live music on the radio: concert music and big band dance music. The concert music was known as "potter palm" and was concert music by amateurs, usually volunteers. [53] Big band dance music is played by professionals and was featured in remote [54] broadcasts from nightclubs, dance halls, and ballrooms. [55]
Vaudevillean Mamie Smith records "Crazy Blues" for Okeh Records, the first blues song commercially recorded by an African-American singer, [1] [2] [3] the first blues song recorded at all by an African-American woman, [4] and the first vocal blues recording of any kind, [5] a few months after making the first documented recording by an African-American female singer, [6] "You Can't Keep a Good ...
Rank Artist Title Label Recorded Released Chart positions 1: Nick Lucas "Tip Toe Through the Tulips" [3] Brunswick 4418: May 9, 1929 (): September 1929 (): US BB 1929 #1, US #1 for 10 weeks, 19 total weeks
[44] [45] Lamar's album Damn (2017) was the first work of music outside of classical music or jazz to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. [46] In 2018, Highsnobiety labeled Death Grips , a hip-hop and rock band from California, as perhaps "the most important hip-hop act of the decade", in that they were highly influential despite not being the ...
Toshiko Akiyoshi (秋吉敏子 or 穐吉敏子, Akiyoshi Toshiko, born 12 December 1929) [1] is an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader. [2]Akiyoshi received fourteen Grammy Award nominations and was the first woman to win Best Arranger and Composer awards in Down Beat magazine's annual Readers' Poll.
"Rock Island Line" (Roud 15211) is an American folk song. Ostensibly about the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, it appeared as a folk song as early as 1929. The first recorded performance of "Rock Island Line" was by inmates of the Arkansas Cummins State Farm prison in 1934.