CROONERS & SONGBIRDS
The Jazz Age!
Tin Pan Alley!!
The Great White Way!!!
croon ( P ) Pronunciation Key (krn)
v. crooned, croon·ing, croons
v. intr.
1. To hum or sing softly.
2. To sing popular songs in a soft, sentimental manner.
3. Scots. To roar or bellow.
v. tr. To sing softly or in a humming way: crooning a lullaby.
n. A soft singing or humming.
song·bird ( P ) Pronunciation Key (sôngbûrd, sng-)
n. A bird, especially one of the suborder Oscines of passerine birds, having a melodious song or call.
songbird
n : any bird having a musical call [syn: songster]
This is a lens about old music - especially from the 20's and 30's.
The Jazz Age, Tin Pan Alley and The Great White Way!
Russ Columbo, Whispering Jack Smith, Lee Morse, AL Bowlly, Jane Green, Gene Austin, Greta Keller, Sophie Tucker, Marlene Dietrich, Josephine Baker, Helen Morgan, Rudy Vallee, Mildred Bailey, Bessie Smith, Libby Holman, Tiny Tim, Ethel Waters, Hoagy Carmichael, Bing Crosby, The Boswell Sisters, to name just a few...
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TODAYS SPOTLIGHT!
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MUSIC
Echoes of a Songbird-50 Recordings from 1924-30
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His Eye Is On The Sparrow: An Autobiography (Quality Paperbacks Series)
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VIDEOS
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THE CROONERS
MUSIC
The Very Thought of You: The Ultimate Collection
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COMPILATIONS
Flappers, Vamps And Sweet Young Things
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The Rise of the Crooners: Gene Austin, Russ Columbo, Bing Crosby, Nick Lucas, Johnny Marvin and Rudy Vallee (Studies and Documentation N the History of Popular Entertainment, 2)
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GUESTBOOK
jaktraks wrote...
This lens is great fun. I didn't know I would enjoy Crooners so much.
Posted August 23, 2008
SHEET MUSIC
LINKS
- The Red Hot Jazz Archive
- A history of Jazz before 1930. This site contains over 2000 songs from this era in Real Audio 3 format, as well as hundreds of biographies and discographies of Jazz musicians.
- Jazz (or Jass) - The About.com Jazz Web Site
- The About.com Jazz Web site (jazz.about.com) provides news and information about early jazz.
- The Early Jazz and Blues Ring
- This site is devoted to early jazz and blues.
- Jazz Age - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Jazz Age From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Jazz Age Chicago
- Jazz Age Chicago--Home Page!
- The Internet Guide to Jazz Age Slang
- Herein is contained an alphabetical listing of slang words used in the 1920's.
- Jazz of the Harlem Renaissance
- Harlem Renaissance: The Jazz Age - the decade following World War I, an artistic explosion occurred within the African American community that produced a wealth of music, literature poetry,
dance, social discourse and visual art. - The Jazz Age in Paris: 1914-1940
- The Jazz Age in Paris 1914-1940 - As a beacon of personal and artistic freedom, Paris, the "City of
Light," lured thousands of American musicians, artists, and writers in the 1920s and 1930s. They crossed the Atlantic, bringing with them a unique facet of the modern age--jazz.
