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  2. Dandy (song) - Wikipedia

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    Musically, the tune harks back to the music hall tradition of George Formby; Dave Davies' guitar is so trebly and clean that it sounds like a ukulele – or perhaps an electrified rubber band – and the gently swinging tune sounds like it could have been an old vaudeville hit. 'Dandy' is a charming, slightly subversive, gem."

  3. The Chocolate Dandies (jazz combos) - Wikipedia

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    A band led by Don Redman was the first to record with the name "Chocolate Dandies" on the Okeh label in 1928–1929. He also recorded with McKinney's Cotton Pickers and released material with that ensemble under this name. [1] King Oliver and Lloyd Smith's Gut-Bucketeers recorded under the name for Vocalion Records in 1931. [2]

  4. Honorific nicknames in popular music - Wikipedia

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    [5] [6] In the 1930s and 1940s, as jazz and swing music were gaining popularity, it was the more commercially successful white artists Paul Whiteman and Benny Goodman who became known as "the King of Jazz" and "the King of Swing" respectively, despite there being more highly regarded contemporary African-American artists.

  5. Dandy - Wikipedia

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    Female dandies did overlap with male dandies for a brief period during the early 19th century when dandy had a derisive definition of "fop" or "over-the-top fellow"; the female equivalents were dandyess or dandizette. [34] Charles Dickens, in All the Year Around (1869) comments, "The dandies and dandizettes of 1819–20 must have been a strange ...

  6. Union List of Artist Names - Wikipedia

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    Sample entry, for Mark Rothko, screen 1 Sample ULAN Record, Mark Rothko continued.. The Union List of Artist Names (ULAN) is a free online database of the Getty Research Institute using a controlled vocabulary, which by 2018 contained over 300,000 artists and over 720,000 names for them, as well as other information about artists. [1]

  7. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    A musician who plays any instrument with a keyboard. In Classical music, this may refer to instruments such as the piano, pipe organ, harpsichord, and so on. In a jazz or popular music context, this may refer to instruments such as the piano, electric piano, synthesizer, Hammond organ, and so on. Klangfarbenmelodie (Ger.)

  8. List of original names of bands - Wikipedia

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    Many notable bands originally went by different names before becoming successful. [1] This list of original names of bands lists former official band names, some of them are significantly different from the eventual current names. This list does not include former band names that have only minor differences, such as stylisation changes, with ...

  9. List of music genres and styles - Wikipedia

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    List of styles of music: A–F; List of styles of music: G–M; List of styles of music: N–R; List of styles of music: S–Z; List of country genres; List of electronic music genres; Styles of house music; List of industrial music genres; List of trance genres; List of hip hop genres; List of jazz genres; Reggae genres; List of rock genres ...