1900–1919 Popular Music: Ragtime, Broadway Songs, Patriotic Music, Irish Ballads, Early Blues, Tin Pan Alley, and Songs Before Radio Took OverPopular music from 1900 to 1919 lived in a different world than the hit songs that came later. Before commercial radio became part of everyday American life in the 1920s, most people heard songs through […]
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1905 History, Facts, and TriviaQuick Facts from 1905 Popular Songs: In My Merry Oldsmobile, Yankee Doodle Boy, and Everybody Works But FatherU.S. Life Expectancy: Males 47.3 years; Females 50.2 yearsThe Conversation: The Russo-Japanese War ended, and a non-European power had defeated a European empire for the first time in the modern eraTop Ten Baby Names
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Asa Don Dickinson’s Letter to Mark Twain regarding taking the Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn books out of a children’s libraryNovember 19, 1905DEAR SIR:I happened to be present the other day at a meeting of the children’s librarians of the Brooklyn Public Library. In the course of the meeting it was stated that copies of
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Tommy DorseyTommy Dorsey (November 19, 1905 –November 26, 1956) was an American jazz trombonist, composer, conductor, and bandleader who led one of the most popular big bands during the Swing Era. Known as the “Sentimental Gentleman of Swing,” Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra created a smooth and danceable sound that captivated audiences in the 1930s
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George Bernard Shaw’s Review of a woman at a Don Giovanni performance to the London TimesJuly 3, 1905Sir,The Opera management of Covent Garden regulates the dress of its male patrons. When is it going to do the same to the women?On Saturday night I went to the Opera. I wore the costume imposed on me
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Jack London’s letter of Advice for a Fan ~1905 Dear Sir: Every time a writer tells the truth about a manuscript (or book), to a friend-author, he loses that friend, or sees that friendship dim and fade away to a ghost of what it was formerly. Every time a writer tells the truth about a
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