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Bing Crosby was the best selling pop artist of the 1940s. Ragtime, a genre that first became popular in the 1890s, was popular through about the 1940s. After its best-known exponent, Scott Joplin, died in 1917, the genre faded. As the 1920s unfolded, jazz rapidly took over as the dominant form of popular music in the United States.
Glenn Miller was one of the top-selling musical performers of the 1940s whose recordings were in every jukebox in America. "By the early 1940s, a third of all records played on American jukeboxes were Glenn Miller recording." [3] The song highlights three top big band leaders of the era, Benny Goodman, Kay Kyser, and Glenn Miller.
August – Edmundo Ros forms his own rumba band. November 9 – Joaquín Rodrigo 's Concierto de Aranjuez is premièred in Barcelona . November 13 – Première of the Walt Disney animated film Fantasia in the United States set to classical music conducted by Leopold Stokowski .
From Spirituals to Swing was the title of two concerts presented by John Hammond in Carnegie Hall on 23 December 1938 and 24 December 1939. The concerts included performances by Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Big Joe Turner and Pete Johnson, Helen Humes, Meade Lux Lewis, Albert Ammons, Mitchell's Christian Singers, the Golden Gate Quartet, James P. Johnson, Big Bill Broonzy and Sonny Terry.
The original members of the band had met in Mississippi in 1938 at the Piney Woods Country Life School, a school for poor and African American children. [6] The majority who attended Piney Woods were orphans, including band member Helen Jones, who had been adopted by the school's principal and founder (also the Sweethearts' original bandleader), Laurence C. Jones. [6]
Most of 1942's number ones were in the jazz and swing genres, which were among the most popular styles of music in the early 1940s. [5] The first chart-topper was "Take It and Git" by tuba player and bandleader Andy Kirk and his band the Twelve Clouds of Joy, which occupied the top spot for a single week.
In the early 1940s, he headlined at the National Barn Dance, broadcast on AM radio station WLS Chicago. When the U.S. entered WW II, he returned to the Navy as a morale officer with the rank of Lt. Commander, performed in shows for servicemen, and directed the music and band departments of the Great Lakes Training Station near Chicago, Illinois.
Pages in category "Musical groups established in the 1940s" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .