Remarkable music of the 30's?

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Well? know any? Either through a continued influence on popular culture, or if your old enough a strong influence on your life(perhaps the way you think?) that continued on to this day.

The lyrics are amazingly prescient. "Rock-n-roll" before rock-n-roll was even invented.

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ROCK IT FOR ME
Werner & Werner


Ella Fitzgerald w Chick Webb & his Orch
rec Nov 1st 1937 New York


also-
Mildred Bailey & her Orch '38
Trummy Young w Jimmie Lunceford & his Orch
Oran "Hot Lips" Page




I heard it came to town,
A new kind of rhythm,
Spread around,
Sort of set you sizzlin',
Now I'm all through with symphony,
Oh, rock it for me!


Every night
You'll see all the nifties
Plenty tight,
Swingin' down the fifties,
Now they're all through with symphony,
Ho ho ho, rock it for me!


Now it's true that once upon a time
The opera was the thing,
But today the rage is rhythm and rhyme,
So won't you satisfy my soul
With the rock and roll?


You can't be tame
While the band is playin';
It ain't no shame
To keep your body swayin'!
Beat it out in the minor key,
Ho ho ho, rock it for me!


Can't you hear me singin', la-la-la-la-la,
While the band is swingin',
Oh, Chick Webb's sockin'
And the band is rockin',
So send me lightly, politely,
Brightly and slightly,
Ho ho ho, rock it for me!


Now I'm all through with this stuff they call symphony,
Come on boys and sorta rock it for me!


It's true that once upon a time
The opera was the thing,
But today the rage is rhythm and rhyme,
So won't you satisfy my soul
With the rock and roll?


You can't be tame
While the band is playin';
It ain't no shame
To keep your body swayin'!
Beat it out in the minor key,
Oh rock it,
Oh rock it,
Say won't you rock it for me!


Why even all the nifties, they don't want to hear any more symphony,
I'm tellin' you Jack, you better get hip for yourself and rock it for me!

Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings (1938), his most recognizable piece
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Gloomy Sunday (1933) - the infamous Hungarian suicide ballad, sung by Billie Holiday
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48cTUnUtzx4[/youtube]

Another with Lady Day, from Gershwin's "folk opera" Porgy and Bess (1935):
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5ddqniqxFM[/youtube]

Yeah the '30's rocks, I like blues and jazz and hillbilly music from then, it was real, they got one shot in the studio and no overdubs.
Eddie Lang and Joe Venuti - check them out, brilliant.
Carol Gibbons and the Boyfriends with Anne Lenner on vocal - beautifull stuff.
Yeah i love a lot of '30's music
peace j

Creepiest song I've ever heard:

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Southern trees bear strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees

Pastoral scene of the gallant south
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh

Here is fruit for the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop
Here is a strange and bitter cry

Last edited by MrXxx on 08 Feb 2011, 5:05 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Think its poplar tree not popular tree

It is. Blame lyricsa-z.com for that.

Ah fissed it.

The people living at the time probably weren't thinking the same thing.

Anyway, this is my favorite song from the Big Band era.

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you should hear "singX3" on his 1938 carnegie hall concert recording- it ROCKS! by all means avoid the columbia/sony reissues, they sound TERRIBLE! [innumerable clicks and crackles and incessant hiss left in to dubious aural benefit]- the AVID european reissue has the best clean sound, especially of SingX3 which was in pretty sad shape on the original master transcription disc.

Mildred Bailey, especially "Blue Prelude" (that was covered by everyone)

in the later 30s-early 40s, british theatrical organist Sidney Torch did a series of 78 [rpm] side exhibiting superhuman speed/facility and creativity, on the wurlitzer pipe organ. google him.