Tin Pan Alley (1880-1960s)

Blues, Doo Wop, Hill Billy Music & Crooner

Swing Era Bands

Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Count Basie & Glenn Miller

What are Crooners?

Hum and soft singers.

Bing Crosby

First crooner and sang White Christmas

Crooners singers

Bing Crosby(First Crooner), Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Tony Bennett(Last Crooner), Sammy Davis Jr., Nat Kole King, Irving Berlin. Al Jolson.

Blues

• Delta Blue (Mississippi) acoustic guitar- Robert Johnson & Eric Clapton

• Urban Blue (Chicago) electric guitar

Father of Blues

W.C Handy

Jump Bands

Livies Jordan- Caldonia

Louis Prima- Just a gigolo and Ain’t got nobody

Dixie Land (1920’s) New Orleans (Improvised Music)

Lewis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Diggy Gillespie and Charlie “Bird” Parker

Doo Wop (1940-1950)

Most popular Black Style

Doo wops groups (named after cars and birds)

The Ravens, The Flamingo and The Mills Brothers

-Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers

-The Platters: Most succcessful group in the 50’s

Elvis’s Manager

Colonial Tom Parker

Sam Phillips

Owner & operator of Sun’s Records

Major Record Labels

Columbia, RCA, Decca, & Capital

Alan Freed

Payola Scandal, 1st DJ, & Created first R&R concert

Rockabilly

A sound created by Elvis & Carl Perkins

Tin Pan Alley Located?

NYC

Al Jolson

King of Blackface

Mammy

Irving Berlin

God Bless America

White Christmas

Crooner’s Music

Dean Martin- Sway/ That’s Amore

Tony Bennett- I left my heart in San Francisco

Sammy Davis Jr.- Mr. Bojangles

Nat Cole King- Unforgettable/ Quizas quizas

Irving Berlin- White Christmas (composer)

RPM?

Revolution Per Minute

Hillbilly Music

Music Tells stories like Ballads

Father Of Country Music

Jimmie Rogers

Singers: Country

Gene Autry- Back in The Saddle Again/ South Of The Border

Roy Rogers- Don’t Fence Me In/ Happy Trails

Hank Williams- Hey Good Lookin’, Your Cheating Heart & Jambalaya

Bill Monroe- Southern Flavor

Commercialized Cowboys In Hollywood

Roy Rogers

Gene Autry

Shows of Cowboy Inspired

Earl Sruggs & Lester Flatt

Father Of Bluegrass

Bill Monroe

Honke Tonk

Hank Williams- Passed away from alcohol intoxication

Rock & Roll Explosion

Post war 50’s

Rock & Roll singers

Chuck Berry- Johnny B. Goode

Little Richard- Tutti frutti & Lucille

Jerry Lee Lewis- Great Balls Of Fire

Buddy Holly- That’ll Be The Day

Richie Valens- La Bamba & Donna

Carl Perkins- Blue Suede Shoes

Fats Domino- Blueberry Hill & Ain’t That A Shame

Bill Haley & The Comets- Rock Around the Clock

Elvis Presely- Hound Dog & Love Me Tender

Pat Boone- Tutti Frutti & Ain’t That A Shame

Johnny Cash- I walk The Line & Folsum Prison Blues

Roy Orbison- Pretty Women

ASCAPE ( American Society Of Composers, Authors 7 Publishers)

Where young writers would write songs for young singers

Generational Gap

There was generation Gap in the 50’s when parents & children started to like different fashion, music, new teenage identities, creating a cultural division.

Ed Sullivan Show

A CBS show introducing rock & roll (Elvis in ‘56), comedy, opera, novelty acts, and diverse performers on a vaudeville stage.

Only You

Platters

The Great Pretender

Platters

Glow Worm

The Mills Brothers

Dizzy Gillespie

Salt Peanuts

Charlie Parker

Donna Lee