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Dancing Through The 20th Century: 1940s
Dancing Through The 20th Century: 1940s
08.09.16 · London

Dancing Through The 20th Century: 1940s

Rock ‘n’ roll didn’t start in the 1950s. It started years earlier, with the proto-RnR genres of jump blues and rhythm & blues, and pre-Elvis stars like Louis Jordan, Wynonie Harris and Arthur Crudup. In this week’s Dancing Through The 20th Century, David McNamee examines the predominantly black dance music that rock was before it became infused with white hillbilly music.

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Tracklist

  • Lewis Jordon
    GI Jive
  • Louis Jordan
    Saturday Night Fish Fry
  • Louis Jordan, Hot Lips Page, Don Byas
    Caledonia
  • Louis Jordan & His Tympany 5
    Show Me How (You Milk The Cow)
  • Joe Liggins
    The Honeydripper
  • Jimmy Preston
    Drinking Woman
  • Arthur Crudup
    That’s All Right
  • Arthur Crudup
    Crudup's After Hours
  • Arthur Crudup
    I Don’t Know
  • Wynonie Harris
    Good Rockin' Tonight
  • Roy Brown
    Good Rockin' Tonight
  • Wynonie Harris
    I Want My Fanny Brown
  • Amos Milburn
    Don't Beg Me
  • Duke Ellington
    The Sidewalks Of New York
  • Lil Green
    Why Don't You Do Right?
  • Jimmy Preston & The Prestonians
    Number Blues
  • Joe Liggins And His Honeydrippers
    Going Back To New Orleans