Essential 40s music?
>>122567003this was an era of singles not albums. the war years were a nadir due to the recording ban and a lot of very dated topical war songs.
>>122567003https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvH-t0GkRmghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvH-t0GkRmg
>>122567059Whoops meant to put A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Squarehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTeiYN_Vq6E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oawnj3-1Zpg
>>122567026Columbia released 32 sides with Peggy Lee and Benny Goodman Orchestra. There were several more they left on the cutting room floor and did not see the light of day until a 1980s Swedish Peggy Lee compilation. If you heard them you'd realize why--most were very cringy and Reddit tier topical songs about the war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKxg6TCMfwYcute little tune before their 5 minutes of fame doing R&B covers in the mid-50s
no. '40s music is bad. many baby boomers were conceived to that stuff.>>122567003very likely one was conceived shortly after that OP photo was taken.
Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, the list goes on...
Tthe 40s is divided in three part:>1940-41This was continuation of the 30s when big band dominated the charts>1942-45War years, which as already noted was affected by all the usual stuff that one would expect in wartime and a lot of dated topical/propaganda songs. Big bands were getting replaced with solo singers due to the war and Frank Sinatra's overnight success.>1946-49Postwar period when ex-band singers went solo. The charts became very unadventurous with most pop hits being chintzy novelty songs and ballads. Black music which was transitioning to R&B was more exciting. Also jazz was turning into bebop but it was still mostly a live format not a recorded one.Further radio performances were a major part of pop music in this era as many singers did radio shows and would feature songs they never did on record or else different takes of them than the recorded version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkKOm1fYzS4For example Kay Starr does this radio performance of one of the more famous-ever standards (courtesy of the Flamingoes later on). She never made a record of this song though. I also recall that Frank Sinatra did a radio performance of "A Bicycle Built For Two" but he never made a recorded version of it.
>>122567490it's kind of interesting to hear the young, early version of singers like Kay Starr or Peggy Lee before they went on to stardom in the 50s
>>122567003Most of Woody Guthrie's recordings were from the 40s although the vast majority weren't released until laterJosh WhiteBill MonroeBob WillsMerle Travisearly Hank Williamsearly Muddy Watersearly John Lee HookerGod BlessCaptcha: KOXX 4G
https://archive.org/details/78_twelve-oclock-flight_patti-page-and-the-george-barnes-trio-patti-page-melis-hubbar_gbia0048432bRelevant because my area just got him with a blasting rain storm half an hour ago.
not enough mention of blues or country in here, too much odd focus on lame 40s pop hits
>>122570067post some good country from the 40s
>>122570254I like Hank Williams:https://youtu.be/lCgicPdsxxg?si=AWIvRiKgYohN4gSm
>>122567059don't apologize, i never thought such kino would ever be posted on /mu/. cole porter is the greatest songwriter ever.
>>122567003Blues was in a bit of a down period compared to the previous two decades, but I absolutely would recommend R&B from that decade. Look into the subgenre of "jump blues", which is basically just "uptempo early R&B". Easily the best music being recorded in the 40s.
Ernest Tubb for sure. Start with "Walking the Floor Over You", "Filipino Baby" and "Drivin' Nails in My Coffin".
Bing Crosby- Danny Boy (1945)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2QtBYR7NJs
>>122567340>'40s music is badMaybe 40s pop music...>>122567003Olivier Messiaen
>>122572352>Maybe 40s pop musicI mean, if you're referring to all the bleh Sinatra wannabe weepy ballads then yeah. And those things were perceived as the go-to way to get a top 10 hit.
>>122573891Yeah that's pop music
>>122573891https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHBTUaN5lEgEveryone wanted to be FS back then but none were ever as good as him. These gushy string ballads were hot stuff then and usually always the A-side of a record (the B-side being an uptempo novelty piece).
>>122574029ballads were a staple of top 40 all the way up to the 90s then just kind of disappeared after the boomers retired from the music industry and get replaced by Gen Xers who've been trying to convince us that hip-hop and Nirvana are all you need.
>>122567003Everything by Duke Ellington.Everything by Charlie Parker.
>>122573891Even when it comes to Sinatra himself nobody really cares about his 40s recordings today.
>>122567003why isn't that whore wearing any shoes?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk41aYJzimMYou could tell from the early postwar music where the direction of things was heading. Here they have the soon-to-be-familiar "going to California" tune.
idk man i can't fap to 40s-50s women because they look like my grandma and i don't want to fap to my grandma
>>122567003DIE FAHNE HOCH
>>122575613Nigga how old are you if your grandma was alive and had pubic hair back then? Mine was born in '58.
>>122574057Oversaturation of hair metal power ballads put a stink on ballads but groups like Five for Fighting still existed and charted.
>>122575613Think of them like your grandmas co-worker or something
