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From 1945 to 1955 Carson was one of the most prolific songwriters in country music. Women weren't absent from the scene as vocalists; in fact, the No. 1 song on Billboard magazine's very first Most Played Juke Box Folk Records chart, dated January 8, 1944, saw The Andrews Sisters get co-credit along with Bing Crosby on "Pistol Packin' Mama."
All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues. San Francisco, California: Backbeat Books. ISBN 0-87930-736-6. Harrison, Daphne Duval (1990). Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers. ISBN 0-8135-1280-8. Russell, Tony (1997). The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray.
In the 1920s, women singing jazz music were not many, but women playing instruments in jazz music were even less common. Mary Lou Williams, known for her talent as a piano player, is deemed as one of the "mothers of jazz" due to her singing while playing the piano at the same time. [4] Lovie Austin (1887–1972) was a piano player and bandleader.
[26] [27] [28] Dixie Henderson died aged 33, on her wedding anniversary, July 10, 1963, following an overdose of barbiturates, [29] [30] and is buried in Gunnersbury Cemetery, Acton. [ 31 ] After their father's death in 1955, their mother remarried and was known as Veda Matteson; she died, aged 94, in 2000.
Some swing era musicians, like Louis Jordan, later found popularity in a new kind of music, called "rhythm and blues", that would evolve into rock and roll in the 1950s. [1] Bebop emerged in the early 1940s, led by Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, and others.
In that routine, the Nicholas Brothers leapt exuberantly across the orchestra's music stands and danced on the top of a grand piano in a call and response act with the pianist, to the tune of "Jumpin' Jive". [3] Fred Astaire once told the brothers that this dance number was the greatest number he had ever seen on film. [14]
Gwen Stefani is all about resurrecting vintage pieces. Stefani, 55, reached into the back of her closet and pulled out a vintage Vivienne Westwood corset to wear in a preview for her new music ...
Men begin to dominate recordings of blues music, after women have been the most common recording performer since 1920. [9] John Dopyera and his brothers invent the Dobro guitar in response to requests for a louder instrument. [60] The Soul Stirrers, the "real creators of the modern gospel sound", is formed by Roy Crain in Trinity, Texas. [155]