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This article includes an overview of the major events and trends in popular music in the 1940s. In the developed world, swing, big band, jazz, Latin and country music dominated and defined the decade's music. After World War II, the big band sounds of the earlier part of the decade had been gradually replaced by crooners and vocal pop.
Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band; The Gentrys; George Jones; Georgie Fame; Gerry & The Pacemakers; Giles, Giles and Fripp; The Girls; Gladys Knight & the Pips; Glass Harp (band) Glen Campbell; Glenn Yarbrough; The Go-Go's; The Godz; The Goldebriars; Golden Earring; The Golliwogs; GONN; Gordon Lightfoot; Gran Coquivacoa; Grand Funk Railroad ...
The Green is a reggae band formed in 2009 from Oahu, Hawaii. [1] Their sound blends dub-heavy roots reggae , smooth lovers' rock , and contemporary pop and rock with indigenous Hawaiian musical/lyrical references. [ 2 ]
The American folk music revival began during the 1940s and peaked in popularity in the mid-1960s. Its roots went earlier, and performers like Josh White , Burl Ives , Woody Guthrie , Lead Belly , Big Bill Broonzy , Richard Dyer-Bennet , Oscar Brand , Jean Ritchie , John Jacob Niles , Susan Reed , Paul Robeson , Bessie Smith , Ma Rainey and ...
1940s; 1950s; 1960s; ... Pages in category "Musical groups established in the 1940s" ... This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 404th Armed Service Forces ...
The group was started by Jeff Lescher (guitar and vocals), John Diamond (bass and backing vocals), and John Valley (drums). This lineup recorded the 1984 four-song EP The Name of This Group Is Green and the group's 1986 self-titled debut album, which featured 14 songs, including re-recordings of all four songs from the earlier EP.
Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom.
The group ceased to exist after Green was injured in a car accident in the mid-1960s, although he released a single, "Can You Talk", on Dootone as late as 1973. [3] Since the death of Vernon Green in 2000, the group has been occasionally reconstituted by his brother Jimmy Green, Billy Foster, Buddha Carter, Jack Palti and Jerome Evans, who have ...