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US Billboard 1930 #1, US #1 for 10 weeks, 21 total weeks 2: Don Azpiazu and His Havana Casino Orchestra "The Peanut Vendor" [5] Victor 22483: May 13, 1930 () September 1930 () US Billboard 1930 #2, US #1 for 7 weeks, 28 total weeks, [3] National Recording Registry 2005: 3: Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra (voc Lewis James)
Novelty songs achieved great popularity during the 1920s and 1930s. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They had a resurgence of interest in the 1950s and 1960s. [ 3 ] The term arose in Tin Pan Alley to describe one of the major divisions of popular music ; the other two divisions were ballads and dance music . [ 4 ]
John Dulanty begins a 20-year spell as Ireland's High Commissioner (later, Ambassador) to London. [1] 31 December – Mayo County Council is dissolved by ministerial order for refusing to appoint Miss Letitia Dunbar-Harrison to the position of county librarian on the grounds that she is a Protestant. [2]
It was composed in 1930 and given its first performance on 2 October of that year by its dedicatee Helen Perkin at a Promenade Concert in the Queen's Hall. [1] The work was an immediate success and was frequently performed by pianists such as Clifford Curzon , Moura Lympany , Eileen Joyce , Gina Bachauer and Arthur Rubinstein .
A 16th century Irish Warpipe player. By the High and Late Medieval Era, the Irish annals were listing native musicians, such as the following: . 921BC: Cú Congalta, priest of Lann-Leire, the Tethra (i. e. the singer or orator) for voice, personal form and knowledge, died.
As many as 20,000 of the unmatched from across the world show up every year for the festival, which is characterized by drinking, dancing, and a general good time known in Ireland as craic.
"The Rocky Road to Dublin" – a rollicking song written by Galwayman D. K. Gavan for music-hall artist Harry Clifton around 1863 [9] [95] "The Shamrock Shore" – several songs by this name, Roud Index no. 1419. [15] "The Shores of Amerikay" – about leaving Ireland for America "The Shores of Botany Bay" – about leaving Ireland for Australia
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