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1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; ... out of 2 total. M. Musicals set in the 1940s (29 P) W. Plays about World War II (4 C, 41 P) Pages in category "Plays set in the 1940s"
1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; ... This category has only the following subcategory. M. Musicals set in the 1950s ... category "Plays set in the 1950s"
The Your Hit Parade chart was established in April 1935, which operated under a proprietary formula to determine the popularity of a song based on five factors, including 1) record sales (divided between a) retail and b) wholesale), 2) sheet-music copies of the song (both retail and wholesale), 3) number of radio plays, a category that is sub ...
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.
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 ...
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During the 1950s European popular music give way to the influence of American forms of music including jazz, swing and traditional pop, mediated through film and records. The significant change of the mid-1950s was the impact of American rock and roll , which provided a new model for performance and recording, based on a youth market.
Forrest's saxophone solo on the 1951 "Night Train" recording became a part of the performance tradition of the song, and is usually recreated in cover versions by other performers. Trombonist Buddy Morrow , for example, played Forrest's solo on trombone on a 1953 recording of the song that became a hit in Great Britain and reached #12 on the UK ...