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  2. 1940s in music - Wikipedia

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    The most notable of these, in no small part thanks to a long postwar TV career, was the band of Lawrence Welk. While swing bands could be found in most major cities during the 1930s–1940s, the most popular and famous were the bands of Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, and Artie Shaw, which had national followings and sold huge numbers.

  3. Swing music - Wikipedia

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    Swing music is a style of jazz that developed in the United States during the late 1920s and early 1930s. It became nationally popular from the mid-1930s. Swing bands usually featured soloists who would improvise on the melody over the arrangement.

  4. Swing era - Wikipedia

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    Though some big bands survived through the late 1940s (Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Stan Kenton, Boyd Raeburn, Woody Herman), most of their competitors were forced to disband, bringing the swing era to a close. Big-band jazz would experience a resurgence starting in the mid-1950s, but it would never attain the same popularity as it had during ...

  5. 1950s in music - Wikipedia

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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.

  6. List of 1950s musical artists - Wikipedia

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    Jay & The Americans; The Ames Brothers [1]; The Andrews Sisters; Dave Appell & the Applejacks; Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes; The Bell Notes; Bill Haley & His Comets

  7. '40s Junction - Wikipedia

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    The channel mainly airs big band, swing, and hit parade music from 1936 to 1949, with occasional songs from the early-1950s. Until May 7, 2015, the station was known as ' 40 s on 4 , with programming being broadcast on channel 4, as part of the "Decades" line-up of stations.

  8. Jump blues - Wikipedia

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    Jump blues evolved from the music of big bands such as those of Lionel Hampton and Lucky Millinder in the early 1940s. The typical jump blues lineup consisted of 5-7 members including sax, bass, drums and piano and/or guitar [3]. The genre produced musicians such as Louis Jordan, Jack McVea, Earl Bostic, and Arnett Cobb. [4]

  9. Music history of the United States in the 1950s - Wikipedia

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    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.