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My Sister Eileen (1940) Arsenic and Old Lace (1941) On the Town (1944) The Iceman Cometh (1946) Death of a Salesman (1949) Bell, Book and Candle (1950) Guys and Dolls (1950) The Seven Year Itch (1952) Wonderful Town (1953) Saturday Night (1954) A View from the Bridge (1955) Auntie Mame (1956) West Side Story (1957) Two for the Seesaw (1958) The ...
The foundations of American rock music are in rock and roll, which originated in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its immediate origins lay in a mixing together of various black musical genres of the time, including rhythm and blues and gospel music; in addition to country and western. [1]
Popular music, or "classic pop," dominated the charts for the first half of the 1950s.Vocal-driven classic pop replaced Big Band/Swing at the end of World War II, although it often used orchestras to back the vocalists. 1940s style Crooners vied with a new generation of big voiced singers, many drawing on Italian bel canto traditions.
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By the end of the 1940s, the nervous energy and tension of bebop was replaced with a tendency towards calm and smoothness, that eventually influenced the birth of cool jazz, which favoured long, linear melodic lines in the 1950s. By the 1940s, Dixieland jazz revival musicians like Jimmy McPartland, Eddie Condon and Bud Freeman had become well ...
US BB 1940 #12, US #2 for 6 weeks, 17 total weeks 13: Glenn Miller and His Orchestra (Vocal Ray Eberle) "Blueberry Hill" [15] Bluebird 10768: June 13, 1940 () July 1940 () US BB 1940 #13, US #2 for 4 weeks, 19 total weeks 14: Will Bradley and His Orchestra: Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar: Columbia 35530: May 21, 1940 ()