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Songs that embody high levels of remembrance or catchiness are literally known as "catchy songs" or "earworms". [1] While it is hard to scientifically explain what makes a song catchy, there are many documented techniques that recur throughout catchy music, such as repetition , hooks and alliteration .
Free Spirit ("She's a Free Spirit") – Steve Dorff and John Bettis; French and Saunders – Rowland Rivron; The Fresh Beat Band ("The Fresh Beat Band!") – Matter Music (Sung by Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer, Thomas Hobson, Shayna Rose/Tara Perry, and Jon Beavers) Fresh Beat Band of Spies – Peter Zizzo
Within a few years, JAM jingles were used by many of the most listened-to radio stations of all time including WABC, WPLJ, and WHTZ in New York, WLS AM and WLS-FM in Chicago, KIIS AM & FM in Los Angeles, Jovem Pan, Jovem Pan FM, Transamérica FM, Metropolitana FM, Rádio Globo and Manchete FM in Brazil and BBC Radio 1 and Radio 2 in London, UK.
Toward the end of the century, during the Tin Pan Alley era, sheet music was sold by dozens and even hundreds of publishing companies. [4] [5] [6] Sheet music industry also suffered of music piracy with pirated reprints, [7] [8] [9] as well various fake books rose considerable amount of copies sold. [5]
"Charleston" rhythm, simple rhythm commonly used in comping. [1] Play example ⓘ. In jazz, comping (an abbreviation of accompaniment; [2] or possibly from the verb, to "complement") is the chords, rhythms, and countermelodies that keyboard players (piano or organ), guitar players, or drummers use to support a musician's improvised solo or melody lines.
This list includes compositions written in the 1920s that are considered standards by at least one major book publication or reference work. Some of the tunes listed were already well-known standards by the 1930s, while others were popularized later. The time of the most influential recordings of a song, where appropriate, is indicated on the list.
Raymond Scott (born Harry Warnow; September 10, 1908 – February 8, 1994) [1] was an American composer, band leader, pianist, record producer, and inventor of electronic instruments.