[78-L] name that era

[Mark Bardenwerper]

On 4/25/2014 4:45 AM, John Wright wrote:
> I have often struggled myself to put a name to that era. In Britain that era
> would be 1946-1960.
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> A few years ago an old colleague, Don Wicks, was struggling for a title for
> his excellent  booklet and part-discography of that era in Britain, and he
> came up with:
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> 'The Ballad Years' - a comprehensive encyclopaedia of British popular music
> performers, spanning the period from the war years to the early sixties.
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> The encyclopaedia also covered dance bands and jazz perfomers during the
> era, so 'Ballad Years' wasn't the right name but it was the best he could
> think of!
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I read somewhere that in bad times, lyrical and happy songs were more 
popular. Derive your own reasons.

I recall too, that someone called it the "Ensemble Years," as the 
average size of the musical units reduced drastically. Marketing moved 
decidedly away from naming bands to naming singers. For instance, we 
went from King Cole Trio to just Nat King Cole.

All this was interrupted, but not completely stopped for a time (until 
the audience aged) the "Adult Contemporary" age, which is the name hung 
by commercial radio.

-- 
Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr.

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