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Introduced by Abbie Mitchell, [111] it is one of Gershwin's best-known compositions. [112] Sidney Bechet's 1939 hit record helped establish the Blue Note record label. One of the best-known renditions is by Miles Davis and Gil Evans on Porgy and Bess (1958). [111] Billy Stewart had a top ten hit with the song in 1966. [112]
Suntans (called at the time "sunburns") became fashionable in the early 1930s, along with travel to the resorts along the Mediterranean, in the Bahamas, and on the east coast of Florida where one can acquire a tan, leading to new categories of clothes: white dinner jackets for men and beach pajamas, halter tops, and bare midriffs for women.
The top popular records of 1930 listed below were compiled from Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890–1954, [3] record sales reported on the "Discography of American Historical Recordings" website, and other sources as specified. Numerical rankings are approximate, there were no Billboard charts in 1930, the numbers are only used for a frame of ...
This is a list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1930s, as determined by Publishers Weekly. [1] The list features the most popular novels of each year from 1930 through 1939.
"Mood Indigo" [8] [11] [29] [30] is a jazz song composed by Barney Bigard and Duke Ellington, with lyrics by Irving Mills. Bigard has admitted borrowing parts of the song from a composition called "Dreamy Blues" by his teacher Lorenzo Tio. [31] The lyrics were written by Mitchell Parish, who then sold them to Mills's publishing company for a ...
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.
XXX (30, 1995) Cowboys 27, Steelers 17 Dallas endured, thanks to some gift interceptions from Pittsburgh QB Neil O'Donnell, and became the first team to win three Super Bowls in a four-year span.
Hundreds of voters, who included elected officials, people from the music industry and from the media, teachers, and students, were asked in 2001 by the NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) and the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) to choose the top 365 songs (not necessarily by Americans) of the 20th century with historical ...