From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #16634 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Friday, September 5 2025 Volume 14 : Number 16634 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Help research, edit, and publish articles from home ["Global Editors" Subject: Help research, edit, and publish articles from home Help research, edit, and publish articles from home http://novahearth.click/X9qy3W5GbAPbTxDsPHooc8eJVLjADPWOZeYtI3G5IMWps8jrXQ http://novahearth.click/uSbQUl-95RPeN3339z6LdIfgHgkQ_0pbUCzeSPI-wpLOyV0ViA nge in the late 1930s, when the growing record-buying public began including a younger age group. During the swing era, when a bobby soxer went looking for a recorded tune, say "In the Mood", typically she wanted the version popularized by her favorite artist(s), e.g. the Glenn Miller version (on RCA Victor's cheaper Bluebird label), not someone else's (sometimes presented on a more expensive record company's label). This trend was marked closely by the charting of record sales by the different artists, not just hit tunes, on the music industry's hit parades. However, for sound commercial reasons, record companies still continued to record different versions of tunes that sold well. Most audiences until the mid-1950s still heard their favorite artists playing live music on stage or via the radio. And since radio shows were for the most part aimed at local audiences, it was still rare for an artist in one area to reach a mass audience. Also radio stations tended to cater to broad audience markets, so an artist in one vein might not get broadcast on other stations geared to a set audience. So popular versions of jazz, country and western or rhythm and blues tunes, and vice versa, were frequent. An example is "Mack the Knife" ("Die Moritat von Mackie Messer"), originally from Bertolt Brecht's 1928 Die Dreigroschenoper. It was popularized by a 1956 hit parade instrumental tune, "Moritat", for the Dick Hyman Trio, also recor ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #16634 ***********************************************