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history of music
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Buddy Bolden invents jazz
buddy bolden was born in New Orleans in 1877, Bolden is said to have worked as a barber but was leading his own band at dances and parties in the city by the age of 18. Photographs show that by 1905 the lineup of his ensemble – cornet, trombone, two clarinets, guitar and double bass – approximated the classic instrumentation of later traditional jazz bands -
the first divas of the blues
In 1912, the 18 year old Bessie Smith had an audition with the Stokes troupe, a travelling African-American company. She was hired as a dancer, because the company already had a powerful singer in Gertrude "Ma" Rainey. Rainey, perhaps the most significant female blues singer of the first generation, -
the first electric guitar
in 1932 the first electric guitar was invented by gaga brewer. The idea soon appealled to guitarests all over tyhe country. -
elvis the pelvis
This wasn't Elvis's first TV appearance – six months earlier he'd featured on The Dorsey Brothers Stage Show on CBS but his performance on The Milton Berle Show was the one that saw him christened Elvis the Pelvis -
motown get first number 1
motown get first number 1 the US 3 piece girl band got there first number 1. called the marvelettes
