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  2. Category:Musical groups established in 1920 - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Musical groups established in 1920" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  3. 1920 in music - Wikipedia

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    6 Top Popular Recordings 1920. 7 Classical music. 8 Opera. 9 Jazz. 10 Musical theatre. 11 Births. ... This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the ...

  4. List of 1920s jazz standards - Wikipedia

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    Popular numbers in the 1920s were pop hits such as "Sweet Georgia Brown", "Dinah" and "Bye Bye Blackbird". The first jazz artist to be given some liberty in choosing his material was Louis Armstrong , whose band helped popularize many of the early standards in the 1920s and 1930s.

  5. 1920s in jazz - Wikipedia

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    The song is arguably the most recorded popular song, and one of the top jazz standards. Billboard magazine conducted a poll of leading disk jockeys in 1955 on the "popular song record of all time"; four different renditions of "Stardust" made it to the list, including Glenn Miller's (1941) at third place and Artie Shaw's (1940) at number one. [127]

  6. List of big bands - Wikipedia

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    While the Big Band Era suggests that big bands flourished for a short period, they have been a part of jazz music since their emergence in the 1920s when white concert bands adopted the rhythms and musical forms of small African-American jazz combos.

  7. Roaring Twenties - Wikipedia

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    Dance clubs became enormously popular in the 1920s. Their popularity peaked in the late 1920s and reached into the early 1930s. Dance music came to dominate all forms of popular music by the late 1920s. Classical pieces, operettas, folk music, etc., were all transformed into popular dancing melodies to satiate the public craze for dancing.

  8. Great American Songbook - Wikipedia

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    In 1970, rock musician Ringo Starr surprised the public by releasing an album of Songbook songs from the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, Sentimental Journey.Reviews were mostly poor or even disdainful, [25] but the album reached number 22 on the US Billboard 200 [26] and number 7 in the UK Albums Chart, [27] with sales of 500,000.

  9. List of best-selling music artists - Wikipedia

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    The following list of best-selling music artists includes musical artists from the 20th century to the present with claims of 75 million or more record sales worldwide. The sales figures are calculated based on the formula detailed below.