A very long time ago, it was Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms who wrote the music people enjoyed. Then it was the Strauss Family and many othersin the nineteenth century. In the beginning of the twentieth century, Caruso stole the hearts of the young and old along with Al Jolson and Helen Morgen. In the "Great Depression" of the 1930's, a new form of music took root. They called it "Dixieland" and "Swing". Such bands as the Dorsey brothers, Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller and many others won the ears and soothed and calmed the nerves of those suffering from the loss of the Gold value, unemployment, homelessness and much more.
Then came the "Great War" and the "Great Generation" marched off into battle with"Swing" music in their back packs. After the war, the big bands were still around and weretrying even up into the fifties. I was a young teenager and the big band sound was my music. Then I was in high school and a young kid from Tupelo, Mississippi, went to Memphis and began to jiggle and sing a new type of music which became known as Rock-N-Roll and he later became known as "The King".
In 1964, four young English boys landed in America and turned the music world upside down! Mike Jagger and his Rolling Stones and many others joined in. In the late 1970s, Madonna took over. Oh for your information, she is exactly 20 years my junior. She was born on August 16. What was it called in the eighties, "Bop"? That was when Michael Jackson took front and center stage.
No comments:
Post a Comment