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In this show we take one more rambling look at some of the most interesting music from the pre-big band era of 1928-1935.
I say ‘rambling’ because it ...read more
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It’s a shame to see how many names from the pre-big band era have become obscure or disappeared entirely, especially as so much of this music still sounds ...read more
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For the second part of series dedicated to music that pre-dates the big band era, we take a look at a few specific characters responsible for taking the ...read more
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From a distance of seventy some-odd years, history tends to neglect the fact that there was music before big band swing, but after ‘hot’ jazz. The reasons ...read more
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Perhaps you would have expected our coverage of the girl groups to sort of fizzle away at the end. After all, the Beatles had completely changed the face ...read more
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For our eighth show dedicated to the girl group era, we find ourselves at the very peak of the genre – and at exactly the point when the writing was on the ...read more
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In this show we return to a chronological format as we enter 1963, the peak year for the girl group sound.
Groups like the Ronettes and the Crystals ...read more
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Our coverage of Girl Groups is one of the few topics we have discussed in the ‘How Music Changed’ series where we did not opt for a strict chronological ...read more
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The Ronettes never had a number one hit - only one of their songs ever made the top 20 – and yet they may be the most important and influential girl groups ...read more
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Some would call it irony, others would call it sexism, but there’s little doubt that Phil Spector was the single most important progenitor of the girl ...read more
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