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1947 Part Two &#8211; Boptamism
A baby boom – a notable increase in babies born – may indicate many socio-economic factors at play, but most of these factors are refractions of hope. Hope that there will be a good world for your children to become adults in, hope that you will be able to provide everything they need, hope that the path of your new family will not be littered with traps and nasty surprises. As I write this in 2024, birth rates in western countries have been in decline for decades, but in 1947 we were just on the spike of the “baby boom” which was so notable it gave its name to a generation. Is this then a time of hope? Will this mix sound optimistic and hopeful?
There was an idea at one point that these mixes would provide some sort of historical narrative into the years in question. Was it an idea that I had, or was it thrust on me by the war? It’s truthfully hard to say, I was already arranging things (not music) month by month back in 1939, maybe it’s a habit I’ve slipped into. In any case the arrangement has now become fairly meaningless (with a couple of exceptions I’ll come to in a moment), just a way to break up years into more manageable chunks or chapters, for example October is fairly bop-heavy and December is winding down for the Christmas section.
That’s the second exception in this mix, the first is the independence of India and Pakistan, a large public event with newsreels and speeches to sample, but whose ramifications wouldn’t be as easy to capture. In China the civil war turned a corner, with the Nationalists increasingly looking doomed. Communists also officially took power in Poland. The spread of communism triggered The Truman Doctrine, as good a date as any for the start of The Cold War. Is any of this evident from this mix? Well no, not at all. This of course does not mean that these things are unimportant, it just means that they haven’t yet impacted the cultural record, or at least my cultural record.
The people – the musicians – here were interested in exploring their art, they were interested in entertaining, they were interested in making people dance, they were interested in making something new. All art is in some sense political, and their stretching out in this freedom to create and share tells you something about their mood. The prospect of nuclear war, even of the Korean War, were not yet in the air. So to answer my own question, yes, we are still in the brief window of hope, but we can grasp this from the absence. There are other things to write about than existential dread.
If you want to chat as listen, you can join the conversation on discord here &#8211; <a href="https://discord.gg/5a7f6wqjcJ">https://discord.gg/5a7f6wqjcJ</a>
Tracklist
0:00:00 George Melachrino Strings &#8211; Serenade (Drigo)
(Clip from Inner Sanctum &#8211; Death Bound)
(Clip from ITMA &#8211; Royal Command Performance)
0:01:20 Dizzy Gillespie &#8211; Cubana Bop
July
0:04:24 Danny Kaye &#8211; Manic Depressive Presents
0:05:15 Forrest Sykes &#8211; Tonky Boogie
(Clip from ITMA &#8211; Royal Command Performance)
0:08:33 Jo Stafford &amp; Red Ingle &#8211; Temptation
(Clip from Danny Kaye &#8211; Manic Depressive Presents)
0:11:40 Spike Jones &#8211; I&#8217;m Getting Sentimental Over You
(Clip from High-Diving Hare)
0:14:19 Jack Mcvea&#8217;s All Stars &#8211; Open The Door Richard
(Clip from Home Record of a Birthday Party)
0:17:14 Hank Williams &#8211; I&#8217;m A Long Gone Daddy
(Clip from The Lady From Shanghai)
0:20:01 Utah Smith &#8211; I Got Two Wings
0:23:09 Bama &#8211; How I Got In The Penitentiary (Interview)
0:23:52 Bama &#8211; Stackerlee
0:26:02 Vladimir Horowitz &#8211; Variations On A Theme From Bizet’s Carmen
(Clip from Dark Passage)
0:28:25 Kenneth Anger &#8211; Spoken introduction from &#8216;Fireworks&#8217;
0:29:21 Barry Ulanov&#8217;s All Star Metronome Jazzmen &#8211; 52nd Street Theme
(Clip from Easy To Get)
0:31:02 Amos Milburn &#8211; Down The Road A Piece
(Clip from The Walgreen Show with Bob Hope)
August
(Clip from India Breaks Free &#8211; British Pathe)
0:34:07 Harmonicats &#8211; Peg O&#8217; My Heart
(Clip from India Breaks Free &#8211; British Pathe)
0:36:45 Surashri Kesarbai Kerkar &#8211; Gaud Malhar
(Clip from India Breaks Free &#8211; British Pathe)
(Clip from Nehru Speech)
(Clip from India Breaks Free &#8211; British Pathe)
0:40:51 Sonny Thompson W. The Sharps &amp; Flats &#8211; Long Gone
(Clip from Shy Guy)
0:43:57 Tampa Red &#8211; Let&#8217;s Try It Again
(Clip from British Movietone Review of The Year)
0:47:01 Dodo Marmarosa &#8211; Dodo&#8217;s Dance
(Clip from British Movietone Review of The Year)
0:50:37 Roy Acuff &#8211; Freight Train Blues
(Clip from British Movietone Review of The Year)
0:53:16 Signe Flatin &#8211; Skuldalsbruri
0:54:45 Kiko Kids &#8211; Tom Tom
(Clip from Slick Hare)
0:57:43 The Big Three Trio &#8211; Signifying Monkey
(Clip from Slick Hare)
1:00:47 Louis Jordan &#8211; Barnyard Boogie
(Clip from The Walgreen Show with Bob Hope)
1:03:40 Tex Williams &#8211; Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)
(Clip from Shy Guy)
September
(Clip from Fibber McGee &amp; Molly)
1:06:41 The Bopland Boys &#8211; Cherokee (Jeronimo)
(Clip from The Lady From Shanghai)
1:12:04 Julia Lee &#8211; Snatch And Grab It
(Clip from Easy To Get)
1:14:03 Bull Moose Jackson &#8211; I Want A Bowlegged Woman
(Clip from Dark Passage)
1:17:16 Todd Rhodes Orchestra &#8211; Blues For The Red Boy
(Clip from Inner Sanctum &#8211; Death Bound)
1:19:57 Les Baxter &#8211; Mist O´the Moon
(Clip from Black Narcissus)
1:22:51 Spade Cooley &#8211; Oklahoma Stomp
(Clip from Monsieur Verdoux)
1:25:38 Wynonie Harris &#8211; Good Rockin&#8217; Tonight
(Clip from How To Discipline Children)
1:28:09 Bill Harris All Stars &#8211; A Knight In The Village
(Clip from Out Of The Past)
1:32:34 Xavier Cugat &#8211; Miami Beach Rhumba
1:34:26 Chano Pozo Y Su Ritmo De Tambores &#8211; Tambombarana
(Clip from Speech to the Berlin Philharmonic)
1:36:55 Astor Piazzolla &#8211; Se Armó
October
(Clip from It&#8217;s That Man Again)
1:38:46 Wayne Raney &#8211; Lost John Boogie
1:41:22 Dizzy Gillespie &#8211; Emanon / Things To Come
(Clip from Shy Guy)
1:44:51 Dexter Gordon &#8211; The Duel
(Clip from Out Of The Past)
1:47:16 Lionel Hampton &#8211; Mingus Fingers
(Clip from The Lady From Shanghai)
1:50:33 Dodo Marmarosa Trio &#8211; Bopmatism
(Clip from Easy To Get)
1:53:49 Charlie Parker All Stars &#8211; Chasin&#8217; The Bird
(Clip from The Jazz Singer &#8211; Radio Play)
1:56:37 Thelonious Monk &#8211; &#8216;Round Midnight
1:59:14 Billie Holiday &#8211; Solitude
2:02:16 Frank Sinatra &#8211; Try A Little Tenderness
(Clip from Dark Passage)
2:05:25 The Trenier Twins &#8211; Hey Sister Lucy
November
(Clip from British Movietone Review of the Year)
2:07:56 Stella Haskil &#8211; Bir Allah
(Clip from British Movietone Review of the Year)
2:09:52 Kasagi Shizuko &#8211; Airei Kawaii Ya
(Clip from Danny Kaye &#8211; Manic Depressive Presents)
2:12:24 Sarah Vaughan &#8211; I&#8217;m Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself a Letter
(Clip from You Bet Your Life)
2:14:53 Maddox Brothers &amp; Rose &#8211; Milk Cow Blues
(Clip from Crowing Pains)
2:18:09 Bill Monroe And The Bluegrass Boys &#8211; Blue Grass Breakdown
(Clip from Shy Guy)
2:20:50 Roy Brown &#8211; Lolly Pop Mama
(Clip from Easy To Get)
2:23:08 Jimmy Liggins &#8211; Cadillac Boogie
(Clip from Easy To Get)
2:25:45 Walter Brown &amp; Jay Mcshann Quartet &#8211; W. B. Blues
2:28:11 Albert Ammons &amp; His Rhythm Kings &#8211; Swanee River Boogie
2:30:40 T-Bone Walker &#8211; Bobby Sox Blues
(Clip from Home Record of a Birthday Party)
2:33:27 Leadbelly &#8211; Laura
December
(Clip from Odd Man Out)
2:35:30 Arthur &#8216;Big Boy&#8217; Crudup &#8211; That&#8217;s All Right
(Clip from It&#8217;s That Man Again)
2:36:36 Tiny Bradshaw &#8211; Take The Hands Off The Clock
(Clip from Tweety Pie)
2:39:13 Spike Jones &amp; His City Slickers &#8211; I Kiss Your Hand Madame
(Clip from It&#8217;s That Man Again)
2:41:14 Watanabe Hamako &#8211; Tokyo No Yoru
(Clip from Shanghai)
2:43:13 The Barton Brothers &#8211; Cockeyed Jenny
2:44:40 Abbott &amp; Costello &#8211; Christmas Tree
2:47:31 Frankie Laine &#8211; That&#8217;s My Desire
(Clip from The Bishop&#8217;s Wife)
2:50:49 Sarah Vaughan &#8211; The Lord&#8217;s Prayer
(Clip from Miracle on 34th Street)
2:53:39 Sister Rosetta Tharpe And Marie Knight &#8211; Beams Of Heaven
(Clip from Miracle on 34th Street)
2:56:19 Nat King Cole Trio &#8211; For Sentimental Reasons
(Clip from Life of Riley)
2:58:25 Jacob Do Bandolim &#8211; Flamengo
(Clip from Truth or Concequences)
Ending
3:00:21 Miles Davis &#8211; Out Of Nowhere
(Clip from The Lady From Shanghai)
3:04:35 Nat King Cole Trio &#8211; There I&#8217;ve Said It Again
(Clip from Monsieur Verdoux)
3:07:45 Cecil Gant &#8211; Special Delivery
(Clip from Inner Sanctum &#8211; Death Bound)
(Clip from Danny Kaye &#8211; Manic Depressive Presents)

<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;At Centuries of Sound I am making mixes for every year of recorded sound. The download here is only for the first half-hour of the mix. For the full 3-hour version either see below for the Mixcloud player, or come to &lt;a href="http://patreon.com/centuriesofsound"&gt;patreon.com/centuriesofsound&lt;/a&gt; for the podcast version and a host of other bonus materials for just $5 per month. This show would not be possible without my supporters on there, so please consider signing up or sharing this with someone who may be interested.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mixcloud player with full mix&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;#8211; or &lt;a href="https://www.mixcloud.com/centuries_of_sound/1947-part-two-boptimism/"&gt;listen on the Mixcloud website&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;


&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1947 Part Two &amp;#8211; Boptamism&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A baby boom – a notable increase in babies born – may indicate many socio-economic factors at play, but most of these factors are refractions of hope. Hope that there will be a good world for your children to become adults in, hope that you will be able to provide everything they need, hope that the path of your new family will not be littered with traps and nasty surprises. As I write this in 2024, birth rates in western countries have been in decline for decades, but in 1947 we were just on the spike of the “baby boom” which was so notable it gave its name to a generation. Is this then a time of hope? Will this mix sound optimistic and hopeful?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There was an idea at one point that these mixes would provide some sort of historical narrative into the years in question. Was it an idea that I had, or was it thrust on me by the war? It’s truthfully hard to say, I was already arranging things (not music) month by month back in 1939, maybe it’s a habit I’ve slipped into. In any case the arrangement has now become fairly meaningless (with a couple of exceptions I’ll come to in a moment), just a way to break up years into more manageable chunks or chapters, for example October is fairly bop-heavy and December is winding down for the Christmas section.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That’s the second exception in this mix, the first is the independence of India and Pakistan, a large public event with newsreels and speeches to sample, but whose ramifications wouldn’t be as easy to capture. In China the civil war turned a corner, with the Nationalists increasingly looking doomed. Communists also officially took power in Poland. The spread of communism triggered The Truman Doctrine, as good a date as any for the start of The Cold War. Is any of this evident from this mix? Well no, not at all. This of course does not mean that these things are unimportant, it just means that they haven’t yet impacted the cultural record, or at least my cultural record.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The people – the musicians – here were interested in exploring their art, they were interested in entertaining, they were interested in making people dance, they were interested in making something new. All art is in some sense political, and their stretching out in this freedom to create and share tells you something about their mood. The prospect of nuclear war, even of the Korean War, were not yet in the air. So to answer my own question, yes, we are still in the brief window of hope, but we can grasp this from the absence. There are other things to write about than existential dread.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you want to chat as listen, you can join the conversation on discord here &amp;#8211; &lt;a href="https://discord.gg/5a7f6wqjcJ"&gt;https://discord.gg/5a7f6wqjcJ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tracklist&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;0:00:00 George Melachrino Strings &amp;#8211; Serenade (Drigo)
(Clip from Inner Sanctum &amp;#8211; Death Bound)
(Clip from ITMA &amp;#8211; Royal Command Performance)
0:01:20 Dizzy Gillespie &amp;#8211; Cubana Bop&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;July&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;0:04:24 Danny Kaye &amp;#8211; Manic Depressive Presents
0:05:15 Forrest Sykes &amp;#8211; Tonky Boogie
(Clip from ITMA &amp;#8211; Royal Command Performance)
0:08:33 Jo Stafford &amp;amp; Red Ingle &amp;#8211; Temptation
(Clip from Danny Kaye &amp;#8211; Manic Depressive Presents)
0:11:40 Spike Jones &amp;#8211; I&amp;#8217;m Getting Sentimental Over You
(Clip from High-Diving Hare)
0:14:19 Jack Mcvea&amp;#8217;s All Stars &amp;#8211; Open The Door Richard
(Clip from Home Record of a Birthday Party)
0:17:14 Hank Williams &amp;#8211; I&amp;#8217;m A Long Gone Daddy
(Clip from The Lady From Shanghai)
0:20:01 Utah Smith &amp;#8211; I Got Two Wings
0:23:09 Bama &amp;#8211; How I Got In The Penitentiary (Interview)
0:23:52 Bama &amp;#8211; Stackerlee
0:26:02 Vladimir Horowitz &amp;#8211; Variations On A Theme From Bizet’s Carmen
(Clip from Dark Passage)
0:28:25 Kenneth Anger &amp;#8211; Spoken introduction from &amp;#8216;Fireworks&amp;#8217;
0:29:21 Barry Ulanov&amp;#8217;s All Star Metronome Jazzmen &amp;#8211; 52nd Street Theme
(Clip from Easy To Get)
0:31:02 Amos Milburn &amp;#8211; Down The Road A Piece
(Clip from The Walgreen Show with Bob Hope)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;August&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Clip from India Breaks Free &amp;#8211; British Pathe)
0:34:07 Harmonicats &amp;#8211; Peg O&amp;#8217; My Heart
(Clip from India Breaks Free &amp;#8211; British Pathe)
0:36:45 Surashri Kesarbai Kerkar &amp;#8211; Gaud Malhar
(Clip from India Breaks Free &amp;#8211; British Pathe)
(Clip from Nehru Speech)
(Clip from India Breaks Free &amp;#8211; British Pathe)
0:40:51 Sonny Thompson W. The Sharps &amp;amp; Flats &amp;#8211; Long Gone
(Clip from Shy Guy)
0:43:57 Tampa Red &amp;#8211; Let&amp;#8217;s Try It Again
(Clip from British Movietone Review of The Year)
0:47:01 Dodo Marmarosa &amp;#8211; Dodo&amp;#8217;s Dance
(Clip from British Movietone Review of The Year)
0:50:37 Roy Acuff &amp;#8211; Freight Train Blues
(Clip from British Movietone Review of The Year)
0:53:16 Signe Flatin &amp;#8211; Skuldalsbruri
0:54:45 Kiko Kids &amp;#8211; Tom Tom
(Clip from Slick Hare)
0:57:43 The Big Three Trio &amp;#8211; Signifying Monkey
(Clip from Slick Hare)
1:00:47 Louis Jordan &amp;#8211; Barnyard Boogie
(Clip from The Walgreen Show with Bob Hope)
1:03:40 Tex Williams &amp;#8211; Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)
(Clip from Shy Guy)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;September&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Clip from Fibber McGee &amp;amp; Molly)
1:06:41 The Bopland Boys &amp;#8211; Cherokee (Jeronimo)
(Clip from The Lady From Shanghai)
1:12:04 Julia Lee &amp;#8211; Snatch And Grab It
(Clip from Easy To Get)
1:14:03 Bull Moose Jackson &amp;#8211; I Want A Bowlegged Woman
(Clip from Dark Passage)
1:17:16 Todd Rhodes Orchestra &amp;#8211; Blues For The Red Boy
(Clip from Inner Sanctum &amp;#8211; Death Bound)
1:19:57 Les Baxter &amp;#8211; Mist O´the Moon
(Clip from Black Narcissus)
1:22:51 Spade Cooley &amp;#8211; Oklahoma Stomp
(Clip from Monsieur Verdoux)
1:25:38 Wynonie Harris &amp;#8211; Good Rockin&amp;#8217; Tonight
(Clip from How To Discipline Children)
1:28:09 Bill Harris All Stars &amp;#8211; A Knight In The Village
(Clip from Out Of The Past)
1:32:34 Xavier Cugat &amp;#8211; Miami Beach Rhumba
1:34:26 Chano Pozo Y Su Ritmo De Tambores &amp;#8211; Tambombarana
(Clip from Speech to the Berlin Philharmonic)
1:36:55 Astor Piazzolla &amp;#8211; Se Armó&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;October&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Clip from It&amp;#8217;s That Man Again)
1:38:46 Wayne Raney &amp;#8211; Lost John Boogie
1:41:22 Dizzy Gillespie &amp;#8211; Emanon / Things To Come
(Clip from Shy Guy)
1:44:51 Dexter Gordon &amp;#8211; The Duel
(Clip from Out Of The Past)
1:47:16 Lionel Hampton &amp;#8211; Mingus Fingers
(Clip from The Lady From Shanghai)
1:50:33 Dodo Marmarosa Trio &amp;#8211; Bopmatism
(Clip from Easy To Get)
1:53:49 Charlie Parker All Stars &amp;#8211; Chasin&amp;#8217; The Bird
(Clip from The Jazz Singer &amp;#8211; Radio Play)
1:56:37 Thelonious Monk &amp;#8211; &amp;#8216;Round Midnight
1:59:14 Billie Holiday &amp;#8211; Solitude
2:02:16 Frank Sinatra &amp;#8211; Try A Little Tenderness
(Clip from Dark Passage)
2:05:25 The Trenier Twins &amp;#8211; Hey Sister Lucy&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;November&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Clip from British Movietone Review of the Year)
2:07:56 Stella Haskil &amp;#8211; Bir Allah
(Clip from British Movietone Review of the Year)
2:09:52 Kasagi Shizuko &amp;#8211; Airei Kawaii Ya
(Clip from Danny Kaye &amp;#8211; Manic Depressive Presents)
2:12:24 Sarah Vaughan &amp;#8211; I&amp;#8217;m Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself a Letter
(Clip from You Bet Your Life)
2:14:53 Maddox Brothers &amp;amp; Rose &amp;#8211; Milk Cow Blues
(Clip from Crowing Pains)
2:18:09 Bill Monroe And The Bluegrass Boys &amp;#8211; Blue Grass Breakdown
(Clip from Shy Guy)
2:20:50 Roy Brown &amp;#8211; Lolly Pop Mama
(Clip from Easy To Get)
2:23:08 Jimmy Liggins &amp;#8211; Cadillac Boogie
(Clip from Easy To Get)
2:25:45 Walter Brown &amp;amp; Jay Mcshann Quartet &amp;#8211; W. B. Blues
2:28:11 Albert Ammons &amp;amp; His Rhythm Kings &amp;#8211; Swanee River Boogie
2:30:40 T-Bone Walker &amp;#8211; Bobby Sox Blues
(Clip from Home Record of a Birthday Party)
2:33:27 Leadbelly &amp;#8211; Laura&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;December&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Clip from Odd Man Out)
2:35:30 Arthur &amp;#8216;Big Boy&amp;#8217; Crudup &amp;#8211; That&amp;#8217;s All Right
(Clip from It&amp;#8217;s That Man Again)
2:36:36 Tiny Bradshaw &amp;#8211; Take The Hands Off The Clock
(Clip from Tweety Pie)
2:39:13 Spike Jones &amp;amp; His City Slickers &amp;#8211; I Kiss Your Hand Madame
(Clip from It&amp;#8217;s That Man Again)
2:41:14 Watanabe Hamako &amp;#8211; Tokyo No Yoru
(Clip from Shanghai)
2:43:13 The Barton Brothers &amp;#8211; Cockeyed Jenny
2:44:40 Abbott &amp;amp; Costello &amp;#8211; Christmas Tree
2:47:31 Frankie Laine &amp;#8211; That&amp;#8217;s My Desire
(Clip from The Bishop&amp;#8217;s Wife)
2:50:49 Sarah Vaughan &amp;#8211; The Lord&amp;#8217;s Prayer
(Clip from Miracle on 34th Street)
2:53:39 Sister Rosetta Tharpe And Marie Knight &amp;#8211; Beams Of Heaven
(Clip from Miracle on 34th Street)
2:56:19 Nat King Cole Trio &amp;#8211; For Sentimental Reasons
(Clip from Life of Riley)
2:58:25 Jacob Do Bandolim &amp;#8211; Flamengo
(Clip from Truth or Concequences)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ending&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;3:00:21 Miles Davis &amp;#8211; Out Of Nowhere
(Clip from The Lady From Shanghai)
3:04:35 Nat King Cole Trio &amp;#8211; There I&amp;#8217;ve Said It Again
(Clip from Monsieur Verdoux)
3:07:45 Cecil Gant &amp;#8211; Special Delivery
(Clip from Inner Sanctum &amp;#8211; Death Bound)
(Clip from Danny Kaye &amp;#8211; Manic Depressive Presents)&lt;/p&gt;</description>

At Centuries of Sound I am making mixes for every year of recorded sound. The download here is only for the first half-hour of the mix. For the full 3-hour version either see below for the Mixcloud player, or come to patreon.com/centuriesofsound for the 

At Centuries of Sound I am making mixes for every year of recorded sound. The download here is only for the first half-hour of the mix. For the full 3-hour version either see below for the Mixcloud player, or come to patreon.com/centuriesofsound for the podcast version and a host of other bonus materials for just $5 per month. This show would not be possible without my supporters on there, so please consider signing up or sharing this with someone who may be interested.
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Mixcloud player with full mix &#8211; or listen on the Mixcloud website.


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1947 Part Two &#8211; Boptamism
A baby boom – a notable increase in babies born – may indicate many socio-economic factors at play, but most of these factors are refractions of hope. Hope that there will be a good world for your children to become adults in, hope that you will be able to provide everything they need, hope that the path of your new family will not be littered with traps and nasty surprises. As I write this in 2024, birth rates in western countries have been in decline for decades, but in 1947 we were just on the spike of the “baby boom” which was so notable it gave its name to a generation. Is this then a time of hope? Will this mix sound optimistic and hopeful?
There was an idea at one point that these mixes would provide some sort of historical narrative into the years in question. Was it an idea that I had, or was it thrust on me by the war? It’s truthfully hard to say, I was already arranging things (not music) month by month back in 1939, maybe it’s a habit I’ve slipped into. In any case the arrangement has now become fairly meaningless (with a couple of exceptions I’ll come to in a moment), just a way to break up years into more manageable chunks or chapters, for example October is fairly bop-heavy and December is winding down for the Christmas section.
That’s the second exception in this mix, the first is the independence of India and Pakistan, a large public event with newsreels and speeches to sample, but whose ramifications wouldn’t be as easy to capture. In China the civil war turned a corner, with the Nationalists increasingly looking doomed. Communists also officially took power in Poland. The spread of communism triggered The Truman Doctrine, as good a date as any for the start of The Cold War. Is any of this evident from this mix? Well no, not at all. This of course does not mean that these things are unimportant, it just means that they haven’t yet impacted the cultural record, or at least my cultural record.
The people – the musicians – here were interested in exploring their art, they were interested in entertaining, they were interested in making people dance, they were interested in making something new. All art is in some sense political, and their stretching out in this freedom to create and share tells you something about their mood. The prospect of nuclear war, even of the Korean War, were not yet in the air. So to answer my own question, yes, we are still in the brief window of hope, but we can grasp this from the absence. There are other things to write about than existential dread.
If you want to chat as listen, you can join the conversation on discord here &#8211; https://discord.gg/5a7f6wqjcJ
Tracklist
0:00:00 George Melachrino Strings &#8211; Serenade (Drigo)
(Clip from Inner Sanctum &#8211; Death Bound)
(Clip from ITMA &#8211; Royal Command Performance)
0:01:20 Dizzy Gillespie &#8211; Cubana Bop
July
0:04:24 Danny Kaye &#8211; Manic Depressive Presents
0:05:15 Forrest Sykes &#8211; Tonky Boogie
(Clip from ITMA &#8211; Royal Command Performance)
0:08:33 Jo Stafford &amp; Red Ingle &#8211; Temptation
(Clip from Danny Kaye &#8211; Manic Depressive Presents)
0:11:40 Spike Jones &#8211; I&#8217;m Getting Sentimental Over You
(Clip from High-Diving Hare)
0:14:19 Jack Mcvea&#8217;s All Stars &#8211; Open The Door Richard
(Clip from Home Record of a Birthday Party)
0:17:14 Hank Williams &#8211; I&#8217;m A Long Gone Daddy
(Cli

1947 Part Two – Boptamism

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1947 Part One &#8211; Cubana Bop
From time to time in music there are sparks which briefly spring to life, then almost immediately fizzle out again, but not without leaving long-lasting reverberations. One of these moments began in the summer of 1947, when 32-year-old dancer, bodyguard, shoeshiner and noted percussionist Chano Pozo arrived in New York on a passenger ship from the rich man’s playground of Havana. Raised in one of the most dangerous slums in Cuba, Pozo had found himself in reform school at the age of 13, only having had three years of education. His crime may have been the accidental killing of an American tourist. While there he learned not only literacy and the Afro-Caribbean religion Santería, but also to play a range of percussion instruments. On release he became a “rumbero” – the beating heart of a musical/dance troop at carnival, and after only a few years he had had become perhaps the most famous one in Cuba.
He may have achieved fame, but there was no fortune to be found in working-class Cuba, and in 1947 he decided to move to the USA, where a nascent Cuban music industry was already in place. Band leader Mario Bauza, who already had a good deal of success, arranged a series of recording sessions for Pozo, and at a party at Harlem in September introduced him to Dizzy Gillespie, who was already interested in Cuban music, and who immediately invited him to join his band. Before the end of the month they would be on stage together at Carnegie Hall.
The music that Gillespie and Pozo made together in the next 15 months is so arresting that it’s astonishing that it isn’t better-known. Perhaps the musicianship on display prevented anyone else from easily borrowing. In any case the 75 years since have done nothing to blunt its power. Taking all the unpredictable, stimulatingly jarring musical shapes from be bop and fusing them to this driving, complex Cuban rhythm is nothing short of magical.
The collaboration was cut short prematurely when Pozo was murdered by another Cuban expat outside a Harlem bar, but by that point Pozo and Gillespie had collaborated on Cubana Be, Cubana Bop, Tin Tin Deo and Manteca, all to be featured prominently in these two mixes.
There’s been a bit too much history in Centuries of Sound of late, too many events taking place. This is supposed to be a celebration and exploration of sound. Sure, 1947 traditionally marks the start of the Cold War – and there is one large international event which we’ll get to in part two – but I’m pleased to say there’s little sign of it here. When I listen back to the records (and the sounds) here the joy in experimentation is the biggest takeaway. I hope it is for you too.
If you want to chat as listen, you can join the conversation on discord here &#8211; <a href="https://discord.gg/5a7f6wqjcJ">https://discord.gg/5a7f6wqjcJ</a>
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Tracklist
0:00:00 Unknown Birds &#8211; Birdsong (from Louis Kaufman &#8211; Vivaldi Four Seasons intro)
(Clip from You Bet Your Life &#8211; Secret Word &#8216;Air&#8217;)
0:00:36 Dizzy Gillespie &#8211; Cubana Be
(Clips from Are You Popular?)
(Clip from Easy To Get)
0:02:59 Amos Milburn &#8211; Chicken Shack Boogie 
January
0:05:25 Charlie Parker Quintet &#8211; Bird Of Paradise
(Clip from Alastair Cooke &#8211; Letter From America &#8211; New Year 1947)
(Clip from Are You Popular?)
0:08:31 Maddox Brothers &#038; Rose &#8211; Honky Tonkin&#8217;
(Clip from The Walgreen Show &#8211; Groucho Marx/Bob Hope)
0:11:01 Ella Fitzgerald &#8211; How High The Moon
(Clip from Are You Popular?)
0:14:23 Wild Bill Moore &#8211; We&#8217;re Gonna Rock
0:16:11 Frank Sinatra &#038; Jimmy Durante &#8211; From The Heart
0:20:47 Spike Jones &#038; His City Slickers &#8211; William Tell Overture
0:23:54 Sonny Boy Williamson II &#8211; Shake That Boogie
(Clip from You Bet Your Life &#8211; Secret Word &#8216;Air&#8217;)
0:26:53 Sister Rosetta Tharpe And Marie Knight &#8211; Up Above My Head I Hear Music In The Air
(Clip from Monsieur Verdoux)
0:29:19 Julia Lee &#8211; Tell Me, Daddy
(Clip from Easy To Get)
0:32:18 Little Brother Montgomery Quintet &#8211; El Ritmo
(Clip from Home Record of a Birthday Party)
0:35:21 Tadd Dameron Sextet &#8211; The Chase
February
(Clip from Bob Hope &#038; Bing Crosby &#8211; The Road To Hollywood)
0:38:26 Chet Atkins &#8211; Canned Heat
(Clip from Dark Passage)
0:41:51 Hank Williams &#8211; Move It On Over
(Clip from Montreal By Night)
0:44:45 Chano Pozo Y Su Orquestra &#8211; Rumba En Swing
0:47:18 Dizzy Gillespie &#8211; Manteca
(Clip from Human Reproduction)
0:50:20 Manhattan Paul &#038; Paul Bascomb Orchestra &#8211; Rock And Roll
(Clip from Alan Lomax &#8211; What Makes A Work Song Leader?)
0:53:18 &#8217;22&#8217; With Little Red, Tangle Eye, &#038; Hard Hair &#8211; Early In The Mornin&#8217;
(Clip from Alan Lomax &#8211; What Makes A Work Song Leader?)
0:55:39 Tangle Eye &#8211; Tangle Eye Blues
(Clip from Black Narcissus)
0:58:00 John Cage, Maro Ajemian, William Masselos &#8211; Three Dances for Two Pianos
(Clip from Marlon Brando &#8211; Screen Test for Rebel Without A Cause)
0:59:48 Nellie Lutcher &#8211; He&#8217;s A Real Gone Guy
(Clip from Inner Sanctum &#8211; Death Bound)
1:02:51 Vladimir Horowitz &#8211; The Hut On Fowl&#8217;s Legs
(Clip from The Postman Always Rings Twice)
(Clip from The Lady From Shanghai)
(Clip from The Postman Always Rings Twice)
1:06:15 Charlie Parker Quintet &#8211; Superman (The Hymn)
March
(Clip from British Movietone Review of the Year)
1:08:48 Band Of The Gold Coast Police &#8211; Dagomba
(NBC in Chicago ident)
1:11:41 Muddy Waters &#8211; I Feel Like Going Home
(Clip from Out of the Past)
1:15:01 Betty Hutton &#8211; I Wish I Didn&#8217;t Love You So
1:17:41 Henry Red Allen &#8211; Indiana
(Clip from India Breaks Free &#8211; British Pathe)
1:21:34 Ivory Joe Hunter &#8211; I Like It
(Clip from Oor Willie &#8211; The Man With Many Voices)
1:24:13 Johnny Doran &#8211; My Love Is In America
(Clip from Oor Willie &#8211; The Man With Many Voices)
1:27:01 Pete Seeger &#8211; Come All Fair Maids
(Clip from Don&#8217;t Be A Sucker)
1:29:48 Robert Mitchum &#8211; Foolish Pride
(CLip from The Lady From Shanghai)
1:32:59 The Four Aces Of Western Swing &#8211; Yodel Your Blues Away
(Clip from Lux Radio Theatre &#8211; The Jazz Singer)
1:35:46 Freddy Martin &#038; His Orchestra &#8211; Managua, Nicaragua
(Clip from Lux Radio Theatre &#8211; The Jazz Singer)
1:37:12 Edmundo Ros &#8211; Manana
April
1:39:10 Ella Logan &#038; Donald Richards &#8211; Look To The Rainbow (Introduction)
1:39:27 Annie Laurie &#8211; Since I Fell For You
(Clip from Black Narcissus)
1:42:21 Thelonious Monk &#8211; Who Knows?
(Clip from Dark Passage)
1:45:03 Ichimaru &#8211; Samisen Boogie
(Clip from Shanghai)
1:47:05 Yukie Kubo &#8211; Shin Shin Tankoubushi (Coalminer&#8217;s Tale)
(Clip from Shanghai)
1:49:06 Tabata Yoshiro &#8211; Machi No Dateotoko
(Clip from The Lady From Shanghai)
1:51:59 Gatemouth Moore &#8211; Did You Ever Try To Cry
(Clip from Babe Ruth &#8211; Farewell To Baseball)
1:54:10 Dizzy Gillespie &#038; Charlie Parker &#8211; Dizzy Atmosphere
(Clip from Babe Ruth &#8211; Farewell To Baseball)
1:57:16 Bill Harris And Charlie Ventura &#8211; High On An Open Mike
(Clip from Babe Ruth &#8211; Farewell To Baseball)
2:02:03 Stan Kenton &#8211; Peanut Vendor
(Clip from Babe Ruth &#8211; Farewell To Baseball)
2:06:51 Ted Weems &#038; His Orchestra &#8211; Heartaches
May
(Clip from Are You Popular?)
2:09:34 Ray Noble &#038; His Orchestra &#8211; Linda
(Clip from Shy Guy)
2:13:00 Ernest Tubb &#8211; Have You Ever Been Lonely?
(Clip from Shy Guy)
2:15:48 Big Maybelle &#8211; Sad And Disappointed Girl
(Clip from DDT &#8211; So Safe You Can Eat It)
2:18:25 Mamica &#8211; Nwomboko
(Clip from DDT &#8211; So Safe You Can Eat It)
2:19:36 Woody Herman &#8211; Sabre Dance
(Clip from Along Came Daffy)
2:22:10 Cab Calloway &#8211; Everybody Eats When They Come To My House
(Clip from Along Came Daffy)
2:25:02 Spike Jones &#8211; Popcorn Sack
(Clip from Easy To Get)
2:27:39 Stick Mcghee &#8211; Drinkin&#8217; Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee
(Clip from Crowing Pains)
2:29:46 The Sons Of The Pioneers &#038; Roy Rogers &#8211; Cool Water
(Clip from Bob Hope &#038; Bing Crosby &#8211; The Road To Hollywood)
2:31:58 Sons Of The Pioneers &#8211; Tumbling Tumbleweeds
(Clip from The Humpbacked Horse)
2:33:36 Joe Morris &#8211; The Applejack
June
(Clip from Don&#8217;t Be A Sucker)
2:35:15 Mahalia Jackson &#8211; Amazing Grace
(Clip from Don&#8217;t Be A Sucker)
2:38:24 Louis Kaufman &#8211; Vivaldi&#8217;s Four Seasons
(Clip from Odd Man Out)
2:41:57 Louis Jordan &#8211; Run Joe
(Clips from Montreal By Night)
2:45:19 Les Baxter &#8211; Radar Blues
(Clip from Montreal By Night)
2:48:18 Ernie Harper &#8211; Chicago Boogie
(Clip from Out of the Past)
2:51:15 Merle Travis &#8211; Sixteen Tons
(Clip of Albert Camus reading L&#8217;etranger)
2:54:12 Line Renaud &#8211; Ma Cabane Au Canada
(Clip of Albert Camus reading L&#8217;etranger)
2:56:40 Django Reinhardt Et Le Quintette Du Hot Club De France &#8211; Diminishing
2:57:36 The Stanley Brothers &#8211; Standing In The Need Of Prayer
2:59:23 Jimpson With Men Chopping Trees &#8211; No More, My Lord
(Clip from Odd Man Out)
3:00:59 Sister Rosetta Tharpe &#8211; How Far From God
Ending
(Clip from Odd Man Out)
3:03:15 Ethel Waters &#8211; A Hundred Years From Today
(Clip from Monsieur Verdoux)
3:06:13 Big Maceo Merriweather &#8211; My Own Troubles
(Clip from Monsieur Verdoux)

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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1947 Part One &amp;#8211; Cubana Bop&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From time to time in music there are sparks which briefly spring to life, then almost immediately fizzle out again, but not without leaving long-lasting reverberations. One of these moments began in the summer of 1947, when 32-year-old dancer, bodyguard, shoeshiner and noted percussionist Chano Pozo arrived in New York on a passenger ship from the rich man’s playground of Havana. Raised in one of the most dangerous slums in Cuba, Pozo had found himself in reform school at the age of 13, only having had three years of education. His crime may have been the accidental killing of an American tourist. While there he learned not only literacy and the Afro-Caribbean religion Santería, but also to play a range of percussion instruments. On release he became a “rumbero” – the beating heart of a musical/dance troop at carnival, and after only a few years he had had become perhaps the most famous one in Cuba.
He may have achieved fame, but there was no fortune to be found in working-class Cuba, and in 1947 he decided to move to the USA, where a nascent Cuban music industry was already in place. Band leader Mario Bauza, who already had a good deal of success, arranged a series of recording sessions for Pozo, and at a party at Harlem in September introduced him to Dizzy Gillespie, who was already interested in Cuban music, and who immediately invited him to join his band. Before the end of the month they would be on stage together at Carnegie Hall.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The music that Gillespie and Pozo made together in the next 15 months is so arresting that it’s astonishing that it isn’t better-known. Perhaps the musicianship on display prevented anyone else from easily borrowing. In any case the 75 years since have done nothing to blunt its power. Taking all the unpredictable, stimulatingly jarring musical shapes from be bop and fusing them to this driving, complex Cuban rhythm is nothing short of magical.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The collaboration was cut short prematurely when Pozo was murdered by another Cuban expat outside a Harlem bar, but by that point Pozo and Gillespie had collaborated on Cubana Be, Cubana Bop, Tin Tin Deo and Manteca, all to be featured prominently in these two mixes.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There’s been a bit too much history in Centuries of Sound of late, too many events taking place. This is supposed to be a celebration and exploration of sound. Sure, 1947 traditionally marks the start of the Cold War – and there is one large international event which we’ll get to in part two – but I’m pleased to say there’s little sign of it here. When I listen back to the records (and the sounds) here the joy in experimentation is the biggest takeaway. I hope it is for you too.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you want to chat as listen, you can join the conversation on discord here &amp;#8211; &lt;a href="https://discord.gg/5a7f6wqjcJ"&gt;https://discord.gg/5a7f6wqjcJ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tracklist&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;0:00:00 Unknown Birds &amp;#8211; Birdsong (from Louis Kaufman &amp;#8211; Vivaldi Four Seasons intro)
(Clip from You Bet Your Life &amp;#8211; Secret Word &amp;#8216;Air&amp;#8217;)
0:00:36 Dizzy Gillespie &amp;#8211; Cubana Be
(Clips from Are You Popular?)
(Clip from Easy To Get)
0:02:59 Amos Milburn &amp;#8211; Chicken Shack Boogie &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;January&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;0:05:25 Charlie Parker Quintet &amp;#8211; Bird Of Paradise
(Clip from Alastair Cooke &amp;#8211; Letter From America &amp;#8211; New Year 1947)
(Clip from Are You Popular?)
0:08:31 Maddox Brothers &amp;#038; Rose &amp;#8211; Honky Tonkin&amp;#8217;
(Clip from The Walgreen Show &amp;#8211; Groucho Marx/Bob Hope)
0:11:01 Ella Fitzgerald &amp;#8211; How High The Moon
(Clip from Are You Popular?)
0:14:23 Wild Bill Moore &amp;#8211; We&amp;#8217;re Gonna Rock
0:16:11 Frank Sinatra &amp;#038; Jimmy Durante &amp;#8211; From The Heart
0:20:47 Spike Jones &amp;#038; His City Slickers &amp;#8211; William Tell Overture
0:23:54 Sonny Boy Williamson II &amp;#8211; Shake That Boogie
(Clip from You Bet Your Life &amp;#8211; Secret Word &amp;#8216;Air&amp;#8217;)
0:26:53 Sister Rosetta Tharpe And Marie Knight &amp;#8211; Up Above My Head I Hear Music In The Air
(Clip from Monsieur Verdoux)
0:29:19 Julia Lee &amp;#8211; Tell Me, Daddy
(Clip from Easy To Get)
0:32:18 Little Brother Montgomery Quintet &amp;#8211; El Ritmo
(Clip from Home Record of a Birthday Party)
0:35:21 Tadd Dameron Sextet &amp;#8211; The Chase&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;February&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Clip from Bob Hope &amp;#038; Bing Crosby &amp;#8211; The Road To Hollywood)
0:38:26 Chet Atkins &amp;#8211; Canned Heat
(Clip from Dark Passage)
0:41:51 Hank Williams &amp;#8211; Move It On Over
(Clip from Montreal By Night)
0:44:45 Chano Pozo Y Su Orquestra &amp;#8211; Rumba En Swing
0:47:18 Dizzy Gillespie &amp;#8211; Manteca
(Clip from Human Reproduction)
0:50:20 Manhattan Paul &amp;#038; Paul Bascomb Orchestra &amp;#8211; Rock And Roll
(Clip from Alan Lomax &amp;#8211; What Makes A Work Song Leader?)
0:53:18 &amp;#8217;22&amp;#8217; With Little Red, Tangle Eye, &amp;#038; Hard Hair &amp;#8211; Early In The Mornin&amp;#8217;
(Clip from Alan Lomax &amp;#8211; What Makes A Work Song Leader?)
0:55:39 Tangle Eye &amp;#8211; Tangle Eye Blues
(Clip from Black Narcissus)
0:58:00 John Cage, Maro Ajemian, William Masselos &amp;#8211; Three Dances for Two Pianos
(Clip from Marlon Brando &amp;#8211; Screen Test for Rebel Without A Cause)
0:59:48 Nellie Lutcher &amp;#8211; He&amp;#8217;s A Real Gone Guy
(Clip from Inner Sanctum &amp;#8211; Death Bound)
1:02:51 Vladimir Horowitz &amp;#8211; The Hut On Fowl&amp;#8217;s Legs
(Clip from The Postman Always Rings Twice)
(Clip from The Lady From Shanghai)
(Clip from The Postman Always Rings Twice)
1:06:15 Charlie Parker Quintet &amp;#8211; Superman (The Hymn)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;March&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Clip from British Movietone Review of the Year)
1:08:48 Band Of The Gold Coast Police &amp;#8211; Dagomba
(NBC in Chicago ident)
1:11:41 Muddy Waters &amp;#8211; I Feel Like Going Home
(Clip from Out of the Past)
1:15:01 Betty Hutton &amp;#8211; I Wish I Didn&amp;#8217;t Love You So
1:17:41 Henry Red Allen &amp;#8211; Indiana
(Clip from India Breaks Free &amp;#8211; British Pathe)
1:21:34 Ivory Joe Hunter &amp;#8211; I Like It
(Clip from Oor Willie &amp;#8211; The Man With Many Voices)
1:24:13 Johnny Doran &amp;#8211; My Love Is In America
(Clip from Oor Willie &amp;#8211; The Man With Many Voices)
1:27:01 Pete Seeger &amp;#8211; Come All Fair Maids
(Clip from Don&amp;#8217;t Be A Sucker)
1:29:48 Robert Mitchum &amp;#8211; Foolish Pride
(CLip from The Lady From Shanghai)
1:32:59 The Four Aces Of Western Swing &amp;#8211; Yodel Your Blues Away
(Clip from Lux Radio Theatre &amp;#8211; The Jazz Singer)
1:35:46 Freddy Martin &amp;#038; His Orchestra &amp;#8211; Managua, Nicaragua
(Clip from Lux Radio Theatre &amp;#8211; The Jazz Singer)
1:37:12 Edmundo Ros &amp;#8211; Manana&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;April&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1:39:10 Ella Logan &amp;#038; Donald Richards &amp;#8211; Look To The Rainbow (Introduction)
1:39:27 Annie Laurie &amp;#8211; Since I Fell For You
(Clip from Black Narcissus)
1:42:21 Thelonious Monk &amp;#8211; Who Knows?
(Clip from Dark Passage)
1:45:03 Ichimaru &amp;#8211; Samisen Boogie
(Clip from Shanghai)
1:47:05 Yukie Kubo &amp;#8211; Shin Shin Tankoubushi (Coalminer&amp;#8217;s Tale)
(Clip from Shanghai)
1:49:06 Tabata Yoshiro &amp;#8211; Machi No Dateotoko
(Clip from The Lady From Shanghai)
1:51:59 Gatemouth Moore &amp;#8211; Did You Ever Try To Cry
(Clip from Babe Ruth &amp;#8211; Farewell To Baseball)
1:54:10 Dizzy Gillespie &amp;#038; Charlie Parker &amp;#8211; Dizzy Atmosphere
(Clip from Babe Ruth &amp;#8211; Farewell To Baseball)
1:57:16 Bill Harris And Charlie Ventura &amp;#8211; High On An Open Mike
(Clip from Babe Ruth &amp;#8211; Farewell To Baseball)
2:02:03 Stan Kenton &amp;#8211; Peanut Vendor
(Clip from Babe Ruth &amp;#8211; Farewell To Baseball)
2:06:51 Ted Weems &amp;#038; His Orchestra &amp;#8211; Heartaches&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;May&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Clip from Are You Popular?)
2:09:34 Ray Noble &amp;#038; His Orchestra &amp;#8211; Linda
(Clip from Shy Guy)
2:13:00 Ernest Tubb &amp;#8211; Have You Ever Been Lonely?
(Clip from Shy Guy)
2:15:48 Big Maybelle &amp;#8211; Sad And Disappointed Girl
(Clip from DDT &amp;#8211; So Safe You Can Eat It)
2:18:25 Mamica &amp;#8211; Nwomboko
(Clip from DDT &amp;#8211; So Safe You Can Eat It)
2:19:36 Woody Herman &amp;#8211; Sabre Dance
(Clip from Along Came Daffy)
2:22:10 Cab Calloway &amp;#8211; Everybody Eats When They Come To My House
(Clip from Along Came Daffy)
2:25:02 Spike Jones &amp;#8211; Popcorn Sack
(Clip from Easy To Get)
2:27:39 Stick Mcghee &amp;#8211; Drinkin&amp;#8217; Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee
(Clip from Crowing Pains)
2:29:46 The Sons Of The Pioneers &amp;#038; Roy Rogers &amp;#8211; Cool Water
(Clip from Bob Hope &amp;#038; Bing Crosby &amp;#8211; The Road To Hollywood)
2:31:58 Sons Of The Pioneers &amp;#8211; Tumbling Tumbleweeds
(Clip from The Humpbacked Horse)
2:33:36 Joe Morris &amp;#8211; The Applejack&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;June&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Clip from Don&amp;#8217;t Be A Sucker)
2:35:15 Mahalia Jackson &amp;#8211; Amazing Grace
(Clip from Don&amp;#8217;t Be A Sucker)
2:38:24 Louis Kaufman &amp;#8211; Vivaldi&amp;#8217;s Four Seasons
(Clip from Odd Man Out)
2:41:57 Louis Jordan &amp;#8211; Run Joe
(Clips from Montreal By Night)
2:45:19 Les Baxter &amp;#8211; Radar Blues
(Clip from Montreal By Night)
2:48:18 Ernie Harper &amp;#8211; Chicago Boogie
(Clip from Out of the Past)
2:51:15 Merle Travis &amp;#8211; Sixteen Tons
(Clip of Albert Camus reading L&amp;#8217;etranger)
2:54:12 Line Renaud &amp;#8211; Ma Cabane Au Canada
(Clip of Albert Camus reading L&amp;#8217;etranger)
2:56:40 Django Reinhardt Et Le Quintette Du Hot Club De France &amp;#8211; Diminishing
2:57:36 The Stanley Brothers &amp;#8211; Standing In The Need Of Prayer
2:59:23 Jimpson With Men Chopping Trees &amp;#8211; No More, My Lord
(Clip from Odd Man Out)
3:00:59 Sister Rosetta Tharpe &amp;#8211; How Far From God&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ending&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Clip from Odd Man Out)
3:03:15 Ethel Waters &amp;#8211; A Hundred Years From Today
(Clip from Monsieur Verdoux)
3:06:13 Big Maceo Merriweather &amp;#8211; My Own Troubles
(Clip from Monsieur Verdoux)&lt;/p&gt;</description>

At Centuries of Sound I am making mixes for every year of recorded sound. The download here is only for the first half-hour of the mix. For the full 3-hour version either see below for the Mixcloud player, or come to patreon.com/centuriesofsound for the podcast version and a host of other bonus materials for just $5 per month. This show would not be possible without my supporters on there, so please consider signing up or sharing this with someone who may be interested.
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1947 Part One &#8211; Cubana Bop
From time to time in music there are sparks which briefly spring to life, then almost immediately fizzle out again, but not without leaving long-lasting reverberations. One of these moments began in the summer of 1947, when 32-year-old dancer, bodyguard, shoeshiner and noted percussionist Chano Pozo arrived in New York on a passenger ship from the rich man’s playground of Havana. Raised in one of the most dangerous slums in Cuba, Pozo had found himself in reform school at the age of 13, only having had three years of education. His crime may have been the accidental killing of an American tourist. While there he learned not only literacy and the Afro-Caribbean religion Santería, but also to play a range of percussion instruments. On release he became a “rumbero” – the beating heart of a musical/dance troop at carnival, and after only a few years he had had become perhaps the most famous one in Cuba.
He may have achieved fame, but there was no fortune to be found in working-class Cuba, and in 1947 he decided to move to the USA, where a nascent Cuban music industry was already in place. Band leader Mario Bauza, who already had a good deal of success, arranged a series of recording sessions for Pozo, and at a party at Harlem in September introduced him to Dizzy Gillespie, who was already interested in Cuban music, and who immediately invited him to join his band. Before the end of the month they would be on stage together at Carnegie Hall.
The music that Gillespie and Pozo made together in the next 15 months is so arresting that it’s astonishing that it isn’t better-known. Perhaps the musicianship on display prevented anyone else from easily borrowing. In any case the 75 years since have done nothing to blunt its power. Taking all the unpredictable, stimulatingly jarring musical shapes from be bop and fusing them to this driving, complex Cuban rhythm is nothing short of magical.
The collaboration was cut short prematurely when Pozo was murdered by another Cuban expat outside a Harlem bar, but by that point Pozo and Gillespie had collaborated on Cubana Be, Cubana Bop, Tin Tin Deo and Manteca, all to be featured prominently in these two mixes.
There’s been a bit too much history in Centuries of Sound of late, too many events taking place. This is supposed to be a celebration and exploration of sound. Sure, 1947 traditionally marks the start of the Cold War – and there is one large international event which we’ll get to in part two – but I’m pleased to say there’s little sign of it here. When I listen back to the records (and the sounds) here the joy in experimentation is the biggest takeaway. I hope it is for you too.
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Tracklist
0:00:00 Unknown Birds &#8211; Birdsong (from Louis Kaufman &#8211; Vivaldi Four Seasons intro)
(Clip from You Bet Your Life &#8211; Secret Word &#8216;Air&#8217;)
0:00:36 Dizzy Gillespie &#8211; Cubana Be
(Clips from Are You Popular?)
(Clip from Easy To Get)
0:02:59 Amos Milburn &#8211; Chicken Shack Boogie 
January
0:05:25 Charlie Parker Quintet &#8211; Bird Of Paradise
(Clip from Alastair Cooke &#8211; Letter From America &#8211; New Year 1947)
(Clip from Are You Popular?)
0:08:31 Maddox Brothers &#038; Rose &#8211; Honky Tonkin&#8217;
(Clip from The Walgreen Show &#8211; Groucho Marx/Bob Hop

1947 Part One – Cubana Bop

Previously at Centuries of Sound:
<a href="https://centuriesofsound.com/2022/12/14/christmas-1902-1924-deep-magic-from-before-the-dawn-of-time-the-mix/">Christmas 1902-1924: Deep Magic From Before The Dawn Of Time</a>
<a href="https://centuriesofsound.com/2022/12/17/a-holiday-between-the-wars-christmas-records-1926-1938/">A Holiday Between The Wars, Christmas Records 1926-1938</a>
<a href="https://centuriesofsound.com/2022/12/20/a-wartime-christmas-1939-1945/">A Wartime Christmas 1939-1945</a>
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The period between the end of the Second World War and the Rock &#038; Roll craze of 1954 may be strangely absent from popular memory on the whole, but when it comes to the Christmas season everything is suddenly reversed. The age of It&#8217;s A Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street, of Nat King Cole&#8217;s The Christmas Song, The Andrews Sisters&#8217; Winter Wonderland, the hit version of Bing Crosby&#8217;s White Christmas, and of course Baby, It&#8217;s Cold Outside &#8211; these all seem to have been set in amber as the prototypical classic American Christmas experience. But meanwhile, of course, Rhythm &#038; Blues, Western Swing, Mambo and Be-Bop are all at their peak, so don&#8217;t expect an entirely mainstream Christmas here.
Tracklist
0:00:00 Red Skelton &#8211; Clip from Raleigh-Kool Radio Program &#8211; Christmas Stories (1946)
0:00:04 Nat King Cole &#8211; The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You) (1946)
0:03:11 Jimmy Stewart &#8211; Clip from It&#8217;s A Wonderful Life (1946)
0:03:50 Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter Orchestra &#8211; White Christmas (1947)
0:06:43 Burns &#038; Allen &#8211; Clip from Christmas Presents (1946)
0:07:31 Guy Lombardo &#038; The Andrews Sisters &#8211; Winter Wonderland (1946)
0:10:09 Abbott &#038; Costello &#8211; Clip from Christmas Show (1947)
0:11:24 Frankie Carle &#038; His Orchestra with Majorie Hughes &#8211; Little Jack Frost Get Lost (1947)
0:14:02 Gene Lockhart &#8211; Clip from Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
0:14:32 Gene Autry &#8211; Here Comes Santa Claus (1947)
0:17:02 Life of Riley &#8211; Clip from Family Christmas Present (1947)
0:17:05 Spike Jones &#038; His City Slickers &#8211; All I Want For Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth) (1948)
0:20:12 Phil Harris &#038; Alice Faye Show &#8211; Clip from Christmas Present (1948)
0:20:23 Andrews Sisters &#038; Danny Kaye &#8211; Merry Christmas At Grandmother&#8217;s House (1948)
0:22:38 David Niven &#8211; Clip from The Bishop&#8217;s Wife (1947)
0:23:01 Kay Starr &#8211; December (1949)
0:26:21 Unknown &#8211; Radio Commercial for Eggnog (1949)
0:26:36 Louis Jordan &#038; Ella Fitzgerald &#8211; Baby, It&#8217;s Cold Outside (1949)
0:29:15 Much Binding In The Marsh &#8211; Clip from Christmas Programme (1948)
0:29:28 Amos Milburn &#8211; Let&#8217;s Make Christmas Merry, Baby (1949)
0:32:18 Dragnet &#8211; Clip from 22 Calibre Rifle for Christmas (1950)
0:32:23 Lionel Hampton Orchestra &#8211; Boogie Woogie, Santa Claus (1950)
0:35:04 Matinee with Bob and Ray &#8211; Clip from Christmas Season Program (1949)
0:35:08 Henry Jerome and His Orchestra &#8211; Sleigh Ride (1950)
0:36:47 Stars Over Hollywood &#8211; Clip from A Christmas Carol (1951)
0:36:57 Sauter-Finegan Orchestra &#8211; Midnight Sleighride (1952)
0:39:13 Suspense &#8211; Clip from The Night Before Christmas (1951)
0:39:35 Weekend Hyttens Kor And Orkester &#8211; Bjaldeklang (Jingle Bells) (1951)
0:41:53 Jack Benny Program &#8211; Clip from Christmas Shopping (1951)
0:42:26 Jan Garber And His Orchestra &#8211; Frosty The Snowman (1951)
0:45:01 Let&#8217;s Pretend &#8211; Clip from &#8216;Twas the Night Before Christmas (1952)
0:45:23 Les Brown Orchestra &#8211; Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! (1952)
0:47:46 Billy May and His Orchestra &#8211; Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer Mambo (1954)
0:50:20 Bing Crosby with The Rhythmaires &#8211; Sleigh Ride / Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer (1953)
0:55:30 John Payne &#8211; Clip from Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
0:55:54 Eartha Kitt &#8211; Santa Baby (1953)
0:59:13 Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet &#8211; Clip from The Lost Christmas Gift (1953)
0:59:16 Clyde McPhatter &#038; The Drifters &#8211; White Christmas (1954)
1:01:53 Truth or Consequences &#8211; Clip from Christmas Show (1947)

<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Previously at Centuries of Sound:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://centuriesofsound.com/2022/12/14/christmas-1902-1924-deep-magic-from-before-the-dawn-of-time-the-mix/"&gt;Christmas 1902-1924: Deep Magic From Before The Dawn Of Time&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://centuriesofsound.com/2022/12/17/a-holiday-between-the-wars-christmas-records-1926-1938/"&gt;A Holiday Between The Wars, Christmas Records 1926-1938&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="https://centuriesofsound.com/2022/12/20/a-wartime-christmas-1939-1945/"&gt;A Wartime Christmas 1939-1945&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;If you enjoy my mixes, please consider &lt;a href="https://www.patreon.com/centuriesofsound"&gt;supporting the show on Patreon&lt;/a&gt; for $5 per month &amp;#8211; as well as helping me keep going, you will get access to a load of bonus stuff.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


&lt;p&gt;The period between the end of the Second World War and the Rock &amp;#038; Roll craze of 1954 may be strangely absent from popular memory on the whole, but when it comes to the Christmas season everything is suddenly reversed. The age of It&amp;#8217;s A Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street, of Nat King Cole&amp;#8217;s The Christmas Song, The Andrews Sisters&amp;#8217; Winter Wonderland, the hit version of Bing Crosby&amp;#8217;s White Christmas, and of course Baby, It&amp;#8217;s Cold Outside &amp;#8211; these all seem to have been set in amber as the prototypical classic American Christmas experience. But meanwhile, of course, Rhythm &amp;#038; Blues, Western Swing, Mambo and Be-Bop are all at their peak, so don&amp;#8217;t expect an entirely mainstream Christmas here.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tracklist&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;0:00:00 Red Skelton &amp;#8211; Clip from Raleigh-Kool Radio Program &amp;#8211; Christmas Stories (1946)
0:00:04 Nat King Cole &amp;#8211; The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You) (1946)
0:03:11 Jimmy Stewart &amp;#8211; Clip from It&amp;#8217;s A Wonderful Life (1946)
0:03:50 Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter Orchestra &amp;#8211; White Christmas (1947)
0:06:43 Burns &amp;#038; Allen &amp;#8211; Clip from Christmas Presents (1946)
0:07:31 Guy Lombardo &amp;#038; The Andrews Sisters &amp;#8211; Winter Wonderland (1946)
0:10:09 Abbott &amp;#038; Costello &amp;#8211; Clip from Christmas Show (1947)
0:11:24 Frankie Carle &amp;#038; His Orchestra with Majorie Hughes &amp;#8211; Little Jack Frost Get Lost (1947)
0:14:02 Gene Lockhart &amp;#8211; Clip from Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
0:14:32 Gene Autry &amp;#8211; Here Comes Santa Claus (1947)
0:17:02 Life of Riley &amp;#8211; Clip from Family Christmas Present (1947)
0:17:05 Spike Jones &amp;#038; His City Slickers &amp;#8211; All I Want For Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth) (1948)
0:20:12 Phil Harris &amp;#038; Alice Faye Show &amp;#8211; Clip from Christmas Present (1948)
0:20:23 Andrews Sisters &amp;#038; Danny Kaye &amp;#8211; Merry Christmas At Grandmother&amp;#8217;s House (1948)
0:22:38 David Niven &amp;#8211; Clip from The Bishop&amp;#8217;s Wife (1947)
0:23:01 Kay Starr &amp;#8211; December (1949)
0:26:21 Unknown &amp;#8211; Radio Commercial for Eggnog (1949)
0:26:36 Louis Jordan &amp;#038; Ella Fitzgerald &amp;#8211; Baby, It&amp;#8217;s Cold Outside (1949)
0:29:15 Much Binding In The Marsh &amp;#8211; Clip from Christmas Programme (1948)
0:29:28 Amos Milburn &amp;#8211; Let&amp;#8217;s Make Christmas Merry, Baby (1949)
0:32:18 Dragnet &amp;#8211; Clip from 22 Calibre Rifle for Christmas (1950)
0:32:23 Lionel Hampton Orchestra &amp;#8211; Boogie Woogie, Santa Claus (1950)
0:35:04 Matinee with Bob and Ray &amp;#8211; Clip from Christmas Season Program (1949)
0:35:08 Henry Jerome and His Orchestra &amp;#8211; Sleigh Ride (1950)
0:36:47 Stars Over Hollywood &amp;#8211; Clip from A Christmas Carol (1951)
0:36:57 Sauter-Finegan Orchestra &amp;#8211; Midnight Sleighride (1952)
0:39:13 Suspense &amp;#8211; Clip from The Night Before Christmas (1951)
0:39:35 Weekend Hyttens Kor And Orkester &amp;#8211; Bjaldeklang (Jingle Bells) (1951)
0:41:53 Jack Benny Program &amp;#8211; Clip from Christmas Shopping (1951)
0:42:26 Jan Garber And His Orchestra &amp;#8211; Frosty The Snowman (1951)
0:45:01 Let&amp;#8217;s Pretend &amp;#8211; Clip from &amp;#8216;Twas the Night Before Christmas (1952)
0:45:23 Les Brown Orchestra &amp;#8211; Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! (1952)
0:47:46 Billy May and His Orchestra &amp;#8211; Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer Mambo (1954)
0:50:20 Bing Crosby with The Rhythmaires &amp;#8211; Sleigh Ride / Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer (1953)
0:55:30 John Payne &amp;#8211; Clip from Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
0:55:54 Eartha Kitt &amp;#8211; Santa Baby (1953)
0:59:13 Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet &amp;#8211; Clip from The Lost Christmas Gift (1953)
0:59:16 Clyde McPhatter &amp;#038; The Drifters &amp;#8211; White Christmas (1954)
1:01:53 Truth or Consequences &amp;#8211; Clip from Christmas Show (1947)&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Previously at Centuries of Sound:
Christmas 1902-1924: Deep Magic From Before The Dawn Of Time
A Holiday Between The Wars, Christmas Records 1926-1938
A Wartime Christmas 1939-1945
If you enjoy my mixes, please consider supporting the show on Patreon for

Previously at Centuries of Sound:
Christmas 1902-1924: Deep Magic From Before The Dawn Of Time
A Holiday Between The Wars, Christmas Records 1926-1938
A Wartime Christmas 1939-1945
If you enjoy my mixes, please consider supporting the show on Patreon for $5 per month &#8211; as well as helping me keep going, you will get access to a load of bonus stuff.


The period between the end of the Second World War and the Rock &#038; Roll craze of 1954 may be strangely absent from popular memory on the whole, but when it comes to the Christmas season everything is suddenly reversed. The age of It&#8217;s A Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street, of Nat King Cole&#8217;s The Christmas Song, The Andrews Sisters&#8217; Winter Wonderland, the hit version of Bing Crosby&#8217;s White Christmas, and of course Baby, It&#8217;s Cold Outside &#8211; these all seem to have been set in amber as the prototypical classic American Christmas experience. But meanwhile, of course, Rhythm &#038; Blues, Western Swing, Mambo and Be-Bop are all at their peak, so don&#8217;t expect an entirely mainstream Christmas here.
Tracklist
0:00:00 Red Skelton &#8211; Clip from Raleigh-Kool Radio Program &#8211; Christmas Stories (1946)
0:00:04 Nat King Cole &#8211; The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You) (1946)
0:03:11 Jimmy Stewart &#8211; Clip from It&#8217;s A Wonderful Life (1946)
0:03:50 Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter Orchestra &#8211; White Christmas (1947)
0:06:43 Burns &#038; Allen &#8211; Clip from Christmas Presents (1946)
0:07:31 Guy Lombardo &#038; The Andrews Sisters &#8211; Winter Wonderland (1946)
0:10:09 Abbott &#038; Costello &#8211; Clip from Christmas Show (1947)
0:11:24 Frankie Carle &#038; His Orchestra with Majorie Hughes &#8211; Little Jack Frost Get Lost (1947)
0:14:02 Gene Lockhart &#8211; Clip from Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
0:14:32 Gene Autry &#8211; Here Comes Santa Claus (1947)
0:17:02 Life of Riley &#8211; Clip from Family Christmas Present (1947)
0:17:05 Spike Jones &#038; His City Slickers &#8211; All I Want For Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth) (1948)
0:20:12 Phil Harris &#038; Alice Faye Show &#8211; Clip from Christmas Present (1948)
0:20:23 Andrews Sisters &#038; Danny Kaye &#8211; Merry Christmas At Grandmother&#8217;s House (1948)
0:22:38 David Niven &#8211; Clip from The Bishop&#8217;s Wife (1947)
0:23:01 Kay Starr &#8211; December (1949)
0:26:21 Unknown &#8211; Radio Commercial for Eggnog (1949)
0:26:36 Louis Jordan &#038; Ella Fitzgerald &#8211; Baby, It&#8217;s Cold Outside (1949)
0:29:15 Much Binding In The Marsh &#8211; Clip from Christmas Programme (1948)
0:29:28 Amos Milburn &#8211; Let&#8217;s Make Christmas Merry, Baby (1949)
0:32:18 Dragnet &#8211; Clip from 22 Calibre Rifle for Christmas (1950)
0:32:23 Lionel Hampton Orchestra &#8211; Boogie Woogie, Santa Claus (1950)
0:35:04 Matinee with Bob and Ray &#8211; Clip from Christmas Season Program (1949)
0:35:08 Henry Jerome and His Orchestra &#8211; Sleigh Ride (1950)
0:36:47 Stars Over Hollywood &#8211; Clip from A Christmas Carol (1951)
0:36:57 Sauter-Finegan Orchestra &#8211; Midnight Sleighride (1952)
0:39:13 Suspense &#8211; Clip from The Night Before Christmas (1951)
0:39:35 Weekend Hyttens Kor And Orkester &#8211; Bjaldeklang (Jingle Bells) (1951)
0:41:53 Jack Benny Program &#8211; Clip from Christmas Shopping (1951)
0:42:26 Jan Garber And His Orchestra &#8211; Frosty The Snowman (1951)
0:45:01 Let&#8217;s Pretend &#8211; Clip from &#8216;Twas the Night Before Christmas (1952)
0:45:23 Les Brown Orchestra &#8211; Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! (1952)
0:47:46 Billy May and His Orchestra &#8211; Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer Mambo (1954)
0:50:20 Bing Crosby with The Rhythmaires &#8211; Sleigh Ride / Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer (1953)
0:55:30 John Payne &#8211; Clip from Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
0:55:54 Eartha Kitt &#8211; Santa Baby (1953)
0:59:13 Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet &#8211; Clip from The Lost Christmas Gift (1953)
0:59:16 

Baby It’s Cold War Outside – Christmas Records 1946-1954

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1946 Part Two &#8211; That&#8217;s All Right For You
In the popular imagination the late 1940s is poorly represented. In the 1930s there’s the great depression (which is also somehow the golden age of Hollywood), then WWII takes place, then [SCENE MISSING], then there’s the 1950s, rock &amp; roll, teenagers, fashion, Hollywood glamour, the beat poets, Rosa Parks, the golden age of TV, and you know I could keep on just listing themes here but I’ll stop. These signifiers make the decade easy to get a grip on, and have been constantly revisited on TV, in films and – of course – in music ever since. For anyone under the age of 66 or so, this mythologised version of the fifties is the only fifties you’ve ever known. The late 40s on the other hand have had no such treatment – I can think of only a handful of films set in the period, all fairly obscure.
How can we begin to transition from one era to another then? The soldiers arrive back from the second world war, everyone settles down to keep quiet and do nothing for five years, then BOOM here we are in the modern age? Well, of course that’s not how it’s going to be. Those cultural threads spread out wide, and as our main concern here is music, the headline here is that the musical movements associated with that later era are not being anticipated in 1946, they aren’t starting to get underway, they are in fact already in full bloom. The headline could even be “1946 – The Year Rock &amp; Roll Started!” – but for reasons I will surely go into later, there is no easy start date.
Though the majority of this mix is rock &amp; roll in all but name, plenty does not fit that pattern. Some is in fact quite traditional pop music, but with artistry and production seemingly years ahead of its time. Jazz selections have been picked with a general feel of bubbling excitement. These songs are not so concerned with dreaming or looking into the future as in part one, but they push into the future by being (for the first time in a long time) fully able to immerse into the now. Most of this mix is dance music, though there are also plenty of calmer breaks.
One final thought before I say “just listen” – the reason many of these performers disappeared in the rock &amp; roll era (as we know it) is that many were simply not around anymore. Big Maceo Merriweather had a severe stroke in 1946, and died in 1953. Sonny Boy Williamson I would be killed in a robbery in 1948. Albert Ammons would survive to play Truman’s inauguration in 1949, but then died later that year. Cecil Gant made it no further than 1951. A disappointing truth is that these are still very tough years, and this small sampling of joy tells just one story from many. I could say the same for any mix, of course, but it seems more important to point it out here.
Ok, so if I haven’t ruined it, just listen. And if you want to chat as you do so, you can join the conversation on discord here &#8211; <a href="https://discord.gg/jw5vZcN8">https://discord.gg/jw5vZcN8</a>
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Tracklist
0:00:00 Charles Mingus and his Orchestra &#8211; Shuffle Bass Boogie
(Clip from Notorious)
(Clip from Wacky Weed &#8211; Andy Panda)
July
(Clip from Television Is Here Again)
0:03:10 Sonny Boy Williamson I &#8211; Shake The Boogie
0:05:53 Big Maceo &#8211; Chicago Breakdown
(Clip from The Story of Menstruation)
0:08:48 June Christy &#8211; Willow Weep For Me
0:11:43 Dizzy Gillespie Big Band &#8211; &#8216;Round Midnight
0:15:25 Bob Wills &amp; His Texas Playboys &#8211; Fat Boy Rag
(Clip from The Big Sleep)
0:18:41 Cousin Joe &#8211; Weddin&#8217; Day Blues
0:20:42 Albert Ammons &#8211; Jammin&#8217; The Boogie
0:24:39 Dylan Thomas &#8211; On The Marriage of a Virgin
0:26:07 Johnny Guarnieri Quartet &#8211; Temptation
0:27:00 Lennie Tristano Trio &#8211; I Can&#8217;t Get Started
(Clip from La Belle et la Bête)
0:29:48 Duke Ellington and his Orchestra with Django Reinhardt &#8211; Improvisation #2
0:30:47 T-Bone Walker With Jack McVea&#8217;s All Stars &#8211; Bobby Sox Blues
August
(Clip from Pathe &#8211; Very early mobile phone prototype)
0:33:53 Sister Rosetta Tharpe ft. Sam Price Trio &#8211; This Train
(Clip from A Gruesome Twosome)
0:37:12 Lucky Millinder and His Orchestra &#8211; How Big Can You Get, Little Man?
(Clip from It&#8217;s A Wonderful Life)
0:40:00 Cecil Gant &#8211; Nashville Jumps
(Clip from Hair-Raising Hare)
0:42:49 Arthur &#8220;Big Boy&#8221; Crudup &#8211; That&#8217;s All Right, Mama
(Advertisement for Squibb Dental Cream)
0:44:44 Louis Jordan &#8211; Reet Petite And Gone
0:47:17 Freddie Slack &amp; Ella Mae Morse &#8211; Pig Foot Pete
0:50:05 Big Joe Turner &#8211; Rebecca
(Clip from Baseball Bugs)
0:52:54 Roosevelt Sykes &#8211; Date Bait
0:55:51 Barry Moral Y Su Orquesta De Jazz &#8211; El Boogie Woogie De Artie Shaw
0:58:58 Philip Larkin &#8211; Wedding Wind
1:00:10 Charlie Parker Septet &#8211; I&#8217;ve Always Got The Blues
(Clip from Adam Hats)
1:01:49 Spike Jones &amp; His City Slickers &#8211; Rhapsody From Hunger(y)
September
(Clip from Television Is Here Again)
1:04:02 Tex Ritter &#8211; Trouble In Mind
1:06:48 Moon Mullican &#8211; New Pretty Blond (New Jole Blon)
(Clip from La Belle et la Bête)
1:09:53 Django Reinhardt &#8211; Django&#8217;s Tiger
(Clip from La Belle et la Bête)
1:10:37 Velma Nelson &#8211; If I Were A Itty Bitty Girl, Part 1
(Clip from It&#8217;s A Wonderful Life)
1:13:34 Don Byas &#8211; How High The Moon
1:16:03 Dizzy Gillespie &#8211; Salt Peanuts
1:17:58 Luke Jones &#8211; Shufflin Boogie
(Clip from The Great Piggy Bank Robbery)
1:20:09 Eddie &#8216;Cleanhead&#8217; Vinson &#8211; Juice Head Baby
(Clip from Notorious)
1:12:15 Tampa Red &amp; Big Maceo &#8211; Crying Won&#8217;t Help You
(Clip from Interview With Somerset Maugham)
1:25:25 Louis Jordan &#8211; Choo Choo Ch&#8217;boogie
1:28:06 Pat Flowers &#8211; Googie Woogie
October
1:30:55 Woody Herman Orchestra (cond. by Igor Stravinsky) &#8211; Ebony Concerto Part 2
(Clip from Final Judgement Read at Nuremberg Trials)
1:35:36 Woody Herman Orchestra (cond. by Igor Stravinsky) &#8211; Ebony Concerto Part 2
(Clips of judge sentencing Goering and Hess at Nuremberg)
1:36:55 Duke Ellington &#8211; Transblucency
1:39:10 Út Trà Ôn, Hu?, Th?y &#8211; Tôn T?n Gi? ?iên (Vietnam)
1:42:32 Tshamumania Anastasie And Singers &#8211; Ndumba Wakumi Diekde Dikasa (Luba-Kasai; Congo)
1:45:17 Francisco Canaro &amp; Nelly Omar &#8211; Rosa De Otoño
(Clip from The Killers)
1:48:19 Les Brown (Vocal &#8211; Doris Day) &#8211; All Through The Day
1:49:43 The Ink Spots &#8211; I Never Had A Dream Come True
1:52:27 Freddie Slack &amp; Ella Mae Morse &#8211; Your Conscience Tells You So
(Clip from The Big Sleep)
1:55:22 Ella Fitzgerald &#8211; I&#8217;m Just A Lucky So And So
1:58:13 Lester Young &#8211; D.B. (Detention Barracks) Blues
(Clip from Hair-Raising Hare)
2:01:21 Django Reinhardt Et Le Quintette Du Hot Club De France, Avec Stéphane Grappelli &#8211; Coquette
November
(Clip from Notorious)
2:04:19 Jack McVea &amp; His Band &#8211; Open The Door, Richard
2:07:07 Amos Milburn &#8211; Amos&#8217; Blues
2:09:29 Big Maceo Merriweather &#8211; Maceo&#8217;s 32-20
2:12:16 Joe Turner &#8211; My Gal&#8217;s A Jockey
2:15:24 Lionel Hampton &#8211; Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop
2:18:41 Jay Mcshann &#8211; Voodoo Woman Blues
2:22:16 Roy Milton &#8211; R.M. Blues
2:24:09 Nat King Cole &#8211; You Call It Madness
2:27:05 Charlie Parker &#8211; Ornithology
2:28:36 Eddie &#8216;Cleanhead&#8217; Vinson &#8211; Mr Cleanhead Steps Out
2:30:00 Lucky Millinder And His Orchestra &#8211; Shorty&#8217;s Got To Go
December
(Clip from It&#8217;s A Wonderful Life)
2:33:31 Merle Travis &#8211; Pigmeat Stomp
2:34:45 Delmore Brothers &#8211; Freight Train Boogie
2:37:24 Jazz Gillum &#8211; Look On Yonder Wall
(Clip from Casey Crime Photographer)
2:39:19 Pixinguinha, Benedito Lacerda &#8211; 1 X 0
(Clip from Baseball Bugs)
2:40:12 Spike Jones &amp; His City Slickers &#8211; Hawaiian War Chant
(Clip from Baseball Bugs)
2:42:21 Lester Young and his Band &#8211; Lover, Come Back To Me
2:44:54 Joe Liggins &#8211; Got A Right To Cry
2:48:08 Dan Burley Skiffle Boys &#8211; South Side Shake
(Clip from Casey Crime Photographer)
2:51:04 Coleman Hawkins &#8211; I Mean You
2:52:40 Lionel Hampton &#8211; Hamp&#8217;s Salty Blues
2:55:48 Lionel Hampton &amp; His Orchestra &#8211; Hamp&#8217;s Boogie Woogie
Ending
3:02:53 Charlie Parker &#8211; Lover Man
(Clip from My Darling Clementine)
3:06:17 Charles Trenet &#8211; La Mer
(Clip from The Killers)
(Clip from Baseball Bugs)

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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1946 Part Two &amp;#8211; That&amp;#8217;s All Right For You&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the popular imagination the late 1940s is poorly represented. In the 1930s there’s the great depression (which is also somehow the golden age of Hollywood), then WWII takes place, then [SCENE MISSING], then there’s the 1950s, rock &amp;amp; roll, teenagers, fashion, Hollywood glamour, the beat poets, Rosa Parks, the golden age of TV, and you know I could keep on just listing themes here but I’ll stop. These signifiers make the decade easy to get a grip on, and have been constantly revisited on TV, in films and – of course – in music ever since. For anyone under the age of 66 or so, this mythologised version of the fifties is the only fifties you’ve ever known. The late 40s on the other hand have had no such treatment – I can think of only a handful of films set in the period, all fairly obscure.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;How can we begin to transition from one era to another then? The soldiers arrive back from the second world war, everyone settles down to keep quiet and do nothing for five years, then BOOM here we are in the modern age? Well, of course that’s not how it’s going to be. Those cultural threads spread out wide, and as our main concern here is music, the headline here is that the musical movements associated with that later era are not being anticipated in 1946, they aren’t starting to get underway, they are in fact already in full bloom. The headline could even be “1946 – The Year Rock &amp;amp; Roll Started!” – but for reasons I will surely go into later, there is no easy start date.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Though the majority of this mix is rock &amp;amp; roll in all but name, plenty does not fit that pattern. Some is in fact quite traditional pop music, but with artistry and production seemingly years ahead of its time. Jazz selections have been picked with a general feel of bubbling excitement. These songs are not so concerned with dreaming or looking into the future as in part one, but they push into the future by being (for the first time in a long time) fully able to immerse into the now. Most of this mix is dance music, though there are also plenty of calmer breaks.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;One final thought before I say “just listen” – the reason many of these performers disappeared in the rock &amp;amp; roll era (as we know it) is that many were simply not around anymore. Big Maceo Merriweather had a severe stroke in 1946, and died in 1953. Sonny Boy Williamson I would be killed in a robbery in 1948. Albert Ammons would survive to play Truman’s inauguration in 1949, but then died later that year. Cecil Gant made it no further than 1951. A disappointing truth is that these are still very tough years, and this small sampling of joy tells just one story from many. I could say the same for any mix, of course, but it seems more important to point it out here.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ok, so if I haven’t ruined it, just listen. And if you want to chat as you do so, you can join the conversation on discord here &amp;#8211; &lt;a href="https://discord.gg/jw5vZcN8"&gt;https://discord.gg/jw5vZcN8&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tracklist&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;0:00:00 Charles Mingus and his Orchestra &amp;#8211; Shuffle Bass Boogie
(Clip from Notorious)
(Clip from Wacky Weed &amp;#8211; Andy Panda)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;July&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Clip from Television Is Here Again)
0:03:10 Sonny Boy Williamson I &amp;#8211; Shake The Boogie
0:05:53 Big Maceo &amp;#8211; Chicago Breakdown
(Clip from The Story of Menstruation)
0:08:48 June Christy &amp;#8211; Willow Weep For Me
0:11:43 Dizzy Gillespie Big Band &amp;#8211; &amp;#8216;Round Midnight
0:15:25 Bob Wills &amp;amp; His Texas Playboys &amp;#8211; Fat Boy Rag
(Clip from The Big Sleep)
0:18:41 Cousin Joe &amp;#8211; Weddin&amp;#8217; Day Blues
0:20:42 Albert Ammons &amp;#8211; Jammin&amp;#8217; The Boogie
0:24:39 Dylan Thomas &amp;#8211; On The Marriage of a Virgin
0:26:07 Johnny Guarnieri Quartet &amp;#8211; Temptation
0:27:00 Lennie Tristano Trio &amp;#8211; I Can&amp;#8217;t Get Started
(Clip from La Belle et la Bête)
0:29:48 Duke Ellington and his Orchestra with Django Reinhardt &amp;#8211; Improvisation #2
0:30:47 T-Bone Walker With Jack McVea&amp;#8217;s All Stars &amp;#8211; Bobby Sox Blues&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;August&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Clip from Pathe &amp;#8211; Very early mobile phone prototype)
0:33:53 Sister Rosetta Tharpe ft. Sam Price Trio &amp;#8211; This Train
(Clip from A Gruesome Twosome)
0:37:12 Lucky Millinder and His Orchestra &amp;#8211; How Big Can You Get, Little Man?
(Clip from It&amp;#8217;s A Wonderful Life)
0:40:00 Cecil Gant &amp;#8211; Nashville Jumps
(Clip from Hair-Raising Hare)
0:42:49 Arthur &amp;#8220;Big Boy&amp;#8221; Crudup &amp;#8211; That&amp;#8217;s All Right, Mama
(Advertisement for Squibb Dental Cream)
0:44:44 Louis Jordan &amp;#8211; Reet Petite And Gone
0:47:17 Freddie Slack &amp;amp; Ella Mae Morse &amp;#8211; Pig Foot Pete
0:50:05 Big Joe Turner &amp;#8211; Rebecca
(Clip from Baseball Bugs)
0:52:54 Roosevelt Sykes &amp;#8211; Date Bait
0:55:51 Barry Moral Y Su Orquesta De Jazz &amp;#8211; El Boogie Woogie De Artie Shaw
0:58:58 Philip Larkin &amp;#8211; Wedding Wind
1:00:10 Charlie Parker Septet &amp;#8211; I&amp;#8217;ve Always Got The Blues
(Clip from Adam Hats)
1:01:49 Spike Jones &amp;amp; His City Slickers &amp;#8211; Rhapsody From Hunger(y)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;September&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Clip from Television Is Here Again)
1:04:02 Tex Ritter &amp;#8211; Trouble In Mind
1:06:48 Moon Mullican &amp;#8211; New Pretty Blond (New Jole Blon)
(Clip from La Belle et la Bête)
1:09:53 Django Reinhardt &amp;#8211; Django&amp;#8217;s Tiger
(Clip from La Belle et la Bête)
1:10:37 Velma Nelson &amp;#8211; If I Were A Itty Bitty Girl, Part 1
(Clip from It&amp;#8217;s A Wonderful Life)
1:13:34 Don Byas &amp;#8211; How High The Moon
1:16:03 Dizzy Gillespie &amp;#8211; Salt Peanuts
1:17:58 Luke Jones &amp;#8211; Shufflin Boogie
(Clip from The Great Piggy Bank Robbery)
1:20:09 Eddie &amp;#8216;Cleanhead&amp;#8217; Vinson &amp;#8211; Juice Head Baby
(Clip from Notorious)
1:12:15 Tampa Red &amp;amp; Big Maceo &amp;#8211; Crying Won&amp;#8217;t Help You
(Clip from Interview With Somerset Maugham)
1:25:25 Louis Jordan &amp;#8211; Choo Choo Ch&amp;#8217;boogie
1:28:06 Pat Flowers &amp;#8211; Googie Woogie&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;October&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1:30:55 Woody Herman Orchestra (cond. by Igor Stravinsky) &amp;#8211; Ebony Concerto Part 2
(Clip from Final Judgement Read at Nuremberg Trials)
1:35:36 Woody Herman Orchestra (cond. by Igor Stravinsky) &amp;#8211; Ebony Concerto Part 2
(Clips of judge sentencing Goering and Hess at Nuremberg)
1:36:55 Duke Ellington &amp;#8211; Transblucency
1:39:10 Út Trà Ôn, Hu?, Th?y &amp;#8211; Tôn T?n Gi? ?iên (Vietnam)
1:42:32 Tshamumania Anastasie And Singers &amp;#8211; Ndumba Wakumi Diekde Dikasa (Luba-Kasai; Congo)
1:45:17 Francisco Canaro &amp;amp; Nelly Omar &amp;#8211; Rosa De Otoño
(Clip from The Killers)
1:48:19 Les Brown (Vocal &amp;#8211; Doris Day) &amp;#8211; All Through The Day
1:49:43 The Ink Spots &amp;#8211; I Never Had A Dream Come True
1:52:27 Freddie Slack &amp;amp; Ella Mae Morse &amp;#8211; Your Conscience Tells You So
(Clip from The Big Sleep)
1:55:22 Ella Fitzgerald &amp;#8211; I&amp;#8217;m Just A Lucky So And So
1:58:13 Lester Young &amp;#8211; D.B. (Detention Barracks) Blues
(Clip from Hair-Raising Hare)
2:01:21 Django Reinhardt Et Le Quintette Du Hot Club De France, Avec Stéphane Grappelli &amp;#8211; Coquette&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;November&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Clip from Notorious)
2:04:19 Jack McVea &amp;amp; His Band &amp;#8211; Open The Door, Richard
2:07:07 Amos Milburn &amp;#8211; Amos&amp;#8217; Blues
2:09:29 Big Maceo Merriweather &amp;#8211; Maceo&amp;#8217;s 32-20
2:12:16 Joe Turner &amp;#8211; My Gal&amp;#8217;s A Jockey
2:15:24 Lionel Hampton &amp;#8211; Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop
2:18:41 Jay Mcshann &amp;#8211; Voodoo Woman Blues
2:22:16 Roy Milton &amp;#8211; R.M. Blues
2:24:09 Nat King Cole &amp;#8211; You Call It Madness
2:27:05 Charlie Parker &amp;#8211; Ornithology
2:28:36 Eddie &amp;#8216;Cleanhead&amp;#8217; Vinson &amp;#8211; Mr Cleanhead Steps Out
2:30:00 Lucky Millinder And His Orchestra &amp;#8211; Shorty&amp;#8217;s Got To Go&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;December&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Clip from It&amp;#8217;s A Wonderful Life)
2:33:31 Merle Travis &amp;#8211; Pigmeat Stomp
2:34:45 Delmore Brothers &amp;#8211; Freight Train Boogie
2:37:24 Jazz Gillum &amp;#8211; Look On Yonder Wall
(Clip from Casey Crime Photographer)
2:39:19 Pixinguinha, Benedito Lacerda &amp;#8211; 1 X 0
(Clip from Baseball Bugs)
2:40:12 Spike Jones &amp;amp; His City Slickers &amp;#8211; Hawaiian War Chant
(Clip from Baseball Bugs)
2:42:21 Lester Young and his Band &amp;#8211; Lover, Come Back To Me
2:44:54 Joe Liggins &amp;#8211; Got A Right To Cry
2:48:08 Dan Burley Skiffle Boys &amp;#8211; South Side Shake
(Clip from Casey Crime Photographer)
2:51:04 Coleman Hawkins &amp;#8211; I Mean You
2:52:40 Lionel Hampton &amp;#8211; Hamp&amp;#8217;s Salty Blues
2:55:48 Lionel Hampton &amp;amp; His Orchestra &amp;#8211; Hamp&amp;#8217;s Boogie Woogie&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ending&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;3:02:53 Charlie Parker &amp;#8211; Lover Man
(Clip from My Darling Clementine)
3:06:17 Charles Trenet &amp;#8211; La Mer
(Clip from The Killers)
(Clip from Baseball Bugs)&lt;/p&gt;</description>

At Centuries of Sound I am making mixes for every year of recorded sound. The download here is only for the first half-hour of the mix. For the full 3-hour version either see below for the Mixcloud player, or come to patreon.com/centuriesofsound for the podcast version and a host of other bonus materials for just $5 per month. This show would not be possible without my supporters on there, so please consider signing up or sharing this with someone who may be interested.
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1946 Part Two &#8211; That&#8217;s All Right For You
In the popular imagination the late 1940s is poorly represented. In the 1930s there’s the great depression (which is also somehow the golden age of Hollywood), then WWII takes place, then [SCENE MISSING], then there’s the 1950s, rock &amp; roll, teenagers, fashion, Hollywood glamour, the beat poets, Rosa Parks, the golden age of TV, and you know I could keep on just listing themes here but I’ll stop. These signifiers make the decade easy to get a grip on, and have been constantly revisited on TV, in films and – of course – in music ever since. For anyone under the age of 66 or so, this mythologised version of the fifties is the only fifties you’ve ever known. The late 40s on the other hand have had no such treatment – I can think of only a handful of films set in the period, all fairly obscure.
How can we begin to transition from one era to another then? The soldiers arrive back from the second world war, everyone settles down to keep quiet and do nothing for five years, then BOOM here we are in the modern age? Well, of course that’s not how it’s going to be. Those cultural threads spread out wide, and as our main concern here is music, the headline here is that the musical movements associated with that later era are not being anticipated in 1946, they aren’t starting to get underway, they are in fact already in full bloom. The headline could even be “1946 – The Year Rock &amp; Roll Started!” – but for reasons I will surely go into later, there is no easy start date.
Though the majority of this mix is rock &amp; roll in all but name, plenty does not fit that pattern. Some is in fact quite traditional pop music, but with artistry and production seemingly years ahead of its time. Jazz selections have been picked with a general feel of bubbling excitement. These songs are not so concerned with dreaming or looking into the future as in part one, but they push into the future by being (for the first time in a long time) fully able to immerse into the now. Most of this mix is dance music, though there are also plenty of calmer breaks.
One final thought before I say “just listen” – the reason many of these performers disappeared in the rock &amp; roll era (as we know it) is that many were simply not around anymore. Big Maceo Merriweather had a severe stroke in 1946, and died in 1953. Sonny Boy Williamson I would be killed in a robbery in 1948. Albert Ammons would survive to play Truman’s inauguration in 1949, but then died later that year. Cecil Gant made it no further than 1951. A disappointing truth is that these are still very tough years, and this small sampling of joy tells just one story from many. I could say the same for any mix, of course, but it seems more important to point it out here.
Ok, so if I haven’t ruined it, just listen. And if you want to chat as you do so, you can join the conversation on discord here &#8211; https://discord.gg/jw5vZcN8
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Tracklist
0:00:00 Charles Mingus and his Orchestra &#8211; Shuffle Bass Boogie
(Clip from Notorious)
(Clip from Wacky Weed &#8211; Andy Panda)
July
(Clip from Television Is Here Again)
0:03:10 Sonny Boy Williamson I &#8211; Shake The Boogie
0:05:53 Big Maceo &#8211; Chicago Breakdown
(Clip from The Story of Menstruation)
0:08:48 June Christy &#8211; Willow Weep For Me
0:11:43 Dizzy Gillespie Big Band &#8211; &#8216;Round Midnight
0:15:25 Bob Wills &amp; His 

1946 Part Two – That’s All Right For You

This Halloween special was first broadcast in 2022 and features music from 1927 to 1938 and also features my son Milan. To get full downloads and a host of extras, and help the show survive, come to <a href="http://patreon.com/centuriesofsound">http://patreon.com/centuriesofsound</a>



When we think of the great depression of the 1930s, the images which may spring to mind – The Grapes of Wrath, the dustbowl songs of Woody Guthrie – are generally from the 1940s. Popular entertainment of the thirties leaned not on realism, but on escapism. This is the golden age, not only of Hollywood musicals, Fred Astaire &amp; Ginger Rodgers, Busby Berkley routines and screwball comedy, but also of horror movies. Aside from the film clips, we naturally have plenty of novelty recordings, original sound effect records, hot jazz, and to close a suite of particularly morbid blues records.

<description>&lt;p&gt;This Halloween special was first broadcast in 2022 and features music from 1927 to 1938 and also features my son Milan. To get full downloads and a host of extras, and help the show survive, come to &lt;a href="http://patreon.com/centuriesofsound"&gt;http://patreon.com/centuriesofsound&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;When we think of the great depression of the 1930s, the images which may spring to mind – The Grapes of Wrath, the dustbowl songs of Woody Guthrie – are generally from the 1940s. Popular entertainment of the thirties leaned not on realism, but on escapism. This is the golden age, not only of Hollywood musicals, Fred Astaire &amp;amp; Ginger Rodgers, Busby Berkley routines and screwball comedy, but also of horror movies. Aside from the film clips, we naturally have plenty of novelty recordings, original sound effect records, hot jazz, and to close a suite of particularly morbid blues records.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

This Halloween special was first broadcast in 2022 and features music from 1927 to 1938 and also features my son Milan. To get full downloads and a host of extras, and help the show survive, come to http://patreon.com/centuriesofsound



When we think of

This Halloween special was first broadcast in 2022 and features music from 1927 to 1938 and also features my son Milan. To get full downloads and a host of extras, and help the show survive, come to http://patreon.com/centuriesofsound



When we think of the great depression of the 1930s, the images which may spring to mind – The Grapes of Wrath, the dustbowl songs of Woody Guthrie – are generally from the 1940s. Popular entertainment of the thirties leaned not on realism, but on escapism. This is the golden age, not only of Hollywood musicals, Fred Astaire &amp; Ginger Rodgers, Busby Berkley routines and screwball comedy, but also of horror movies. Aside from the film clips, we naturally have plenty of novelty recordings, original sound effect records, hot jazz, and to close a suite of particularly morbid blues records.

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