[78-L] My history of broadcasting course

[Ron L'Herault]

I was listening to a CD of "The Big Show" recently on which Eddie Cantor was
a guest.  He basically rapped about the worries he had at the time.  I'm
sure it was not spontaneous but it was rhythmic rhyming that sounded very
rap-like.  I can retrieve the set (Radio Archives) and find which program if
anyone has a burning interest.  Donna's students may be surprised at what
they hear.

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On 2/3/2014 10:47 PM, Donna Halper wrote:
> The students, all of whom have grown up mainly with rock and hip-hop, 
> were very surprised to listen to what "dance music" used to sound like 
> in the 1920s... They have had little if any exposure to the 78 era, so 
> hearing the "hits" from radio's early years is very different from 
> what they are accustomed to.  I've got some of those musical short 
> subjects to show them, the ones from the early 1930s, and I'll be 
> interested in their reaction.

The soundies, of course, are the ancestor of the godawful "videos" that have
become so essential to pop music these days, so the students ought to be
able to make that connection. If you look at enough soundies, you will find
some fairly weird stuff, too. Look for Raymond Scott pieces, for one; and
there's some odd Hawaiian stuff I've seen. And then there's a gem that might
mean something to them - Hoosier Hotshots, "From the Indies to the Andes in
His Undies," which includes the original of the scene that Monty Python used
for opening and closing, the scruffy explorer escaping into the brush.


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David Sanderson
East Waterford Maine
dwsanderson685 at roadrunner.com
http://www.dwsanderson.com

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