Negro music in America Program 24
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A negro music and American.
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Negro music in America.
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An exploration of it and its impact on American culture.
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Here is your host for the survey's Tony look at Vox the riverboats
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carry jazz northward from New Orleans from the Mississippi to the Missouri River its
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influence moved into Kansas City where in the early 1920s riverfront
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dives featured fine blues singing Beryl house and ragtime playing. From
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this developed a style of play that became known as Kansas City jazz. The Bennie Moten
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orchestra in the 20s and 30s used the blues as a base for this style. After Moon's
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death in 1935 count basi took over the band and brought it into the popular swing
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style of the 30s. Members of the basi band play here for us a fine example of
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their music. Don't be that way.
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Junior me and her boyfriend play my favorite kind of Kansas City Music featuring Julia's
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piano and vocals. Here she sings a great Johnny Mercer Dune. When a
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woman loves a man.
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I.
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May not.
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Do in a body.
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When a woman.
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Had just gone. All through.
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All.
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Of my current
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strong.
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Last one went wrong.
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That one fat.
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Lot of women that we.
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Know.
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Yes.
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And. No.
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Joe Turner's blues shouting in a noisy Kansas City saloon exerted an influence on blues
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singers everywhere. Hearing James at bay Johnson on piano to give you a real trade
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with. It's all right baby.
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That is an
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entertainer who made her debut very early singing with her father's string trio when she was
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four years old. She began the study of piano at 10 and was singing and playing
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professionally when she was 14 years old. She played in Kansas City from
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1933 until her death in 1958. Recording for Capitol
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Records in the 1940s she made this fine session of until the real thing comes
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along.
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What.
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Do you. Think.
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You know what.
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Next week we'll have some great music for you from another river to Memphis Tennessee.
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Negro music in America with Tony look and Bach transcribed by the
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Radio Network next week as we continue our
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exploration of the negro and American music.
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This program was distributed by national educational radio. This is the
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national educational radio network.
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