[78-L] My history of broadcasting course

[Malcolm Rockwell]

On 2/4/2014 4:02 AM, David Sanderson wrote:
> 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.
>
>
...aaaaaand here they are!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5U8iJ0fEns
Malcolm