Unfortunately, this type of radio's popularity started to decrease as commercial radio increased.This type of music is known as big band dance music.This type is played by professionals and was featured from nightclubs, dance halls, and ballrooms.…
There were two categories of live music on the radio: concert music and big band dance music.The concert music was known as "potter palm" and was concert music by amateurs, usually volunteers.…
The improvement of cinema, the development of radio, and the cheapening of the gramophone damaged its popularity greatly.It now had to compete with jazz, swing and big band dance music.…
The legacy of The Jack Staulcup Orchestra is that it operated continuously for 60 years, when many of its more famous contemporaries disbanded, or at least took a hiatus, at the end of the big band era.The orchestra provided big band dance music, to a region of the country, where live performances of the genre were otherwise unavailable.The recordings of The Jack Staulcup Orchestra were completed in two timeframes.…
The halls had recovered by the start of the First World War and were used to stage charity events in aid of the war effort.Music hall entertainment continued after the war, but became less popular due to upcoming Jazz, Swing, and Big Band dance music acts.Licensing restrictions had also changed, and drinking was banned from the auditorium.…
Rock Around the Clock tells a highly fictionalized rendition of how rock and roll was discovered.As band manager Steve Hollis observes that big band dance music is failing to draw audiences any longer, he comes across a new sound that piques his interest.While traveling through a small farming town, he attends the local teenage dance and is introduced to rock and roll music and dancing, in the person of local band Bill Haley & His Comets and their associated dancers.…
What he didn't know at the time was that the Chaparral Club would become a regular engagement every year for the next 34 years.The southwest in general, and Dallas in particular, remained a viable market for big band dance music long after the Great American Songbook faded away in most areas of the country.The Chaparral Club became his "home away from home" throughout the 1960s.…
Frankie, who had been the one who drove Betty, Edith and Loretta to the boarding house, wants to prove himself by joining the military but is turned down because he has flat feet.Frankie and Benny often joined in the girls' escapades, escorting them around town and engaging in periodic jitterbug and big band dance sessions.With play came work: Edith was employed at the Office of Price Admissions, as mentioned, Camille was a newspaper reporter, Betty worked for the U.S. Secretary of War, and Loretta, at The Pentagon for bureaucrat General Culpepper (seen in guest appearances by Richard Stahl).…
Western swing in its beginnings was just dance music.The term swing, meaning big band dance music, wasn't used until after the 1932 hit "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)".Recording companies came up with several names before World War II trying to market it -- hillbilly, old-time music, novelty hot dance, hot string band, and even Texas swing for music coming out of Texas and Louisiana.…
There is now a Honda automobile dealership at that location.The Carousel Ballroom, a former big band dance palace, was for a few brief, glorious months in 1968 operated by a collective formed by the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Big Brother and the Holding Company, a social/musical laboratory experiment.The "six-month run may well have corresponded with the height of the whole '60s Haight-Ashbury/San Francisco thing."…
One reviewer rated it as the "Album of the Month" for April 1960, calling it a "sparkling debut" with "a new, refreshing blend of music of the East and West, big band dance arrangements spiced with exotic instrumental sounds of the orient."
