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Music by Year, 1930-1949

One question per year about the music industry. Can you answer them all?
Quiz by MusicPunk
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Last updated: November 13, 2019
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First submittedNovember 13, 2019
Times taken820
Average score45.0%
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1949
This famous jazz club, named after Charlie Parker, opens in NYC.
Birdland
1948
This Italian maestro conducts the first TV production of Beethoven's 9th.
Arturo Toscanini
1947
"Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah", from this now-censored Disney movie, is one of the
top songs of the year.
Song of the South
1946
This blue-eyed crooner records his first #1 hit: "Give Me Five Minutes More".
Frank Sinatra
1945
This trumpeter drops out of Julliard and joins Charlie Parker's quartet.
Miles Davis
1944
This bandleader disappears over the English Channel while traveling to
entertain U.S. troops in France.
Glenn Miller
1943
This musical, named after a U.S. state, is the first collaboration
between Rodgers and Hammerstein.
Oklahoma!
1942
Bing Crosby sings this Christmas favorite, estimated by some to be the
best-selling single of all time.
White Christmas
1941
The Nazi regime cracks down on these jazz-loving youths,
later memorialized in a 1993 Hollywood movie.
Swing Kids
1940
This folk singer writes the lyrics to "This Land is Your Land".
Woodie Guthrie
1939
This jazz singer records the anti-lynching protest song "Strange Fruit".
Billie Holiday
1938
This "Snow White" song is one of the year's most popular.
Whistle While You
Work
1937
This young country singer, born Hiram Williams, changes his name to this.
Hank Williams
1936
Sergei Prokofiev composes this musical fairy tale.
Peter and the Wolf
1935
This Hollywood dancer records the chart-topping song "Cheek to Cheek".
Fred Astaire
1934
This composer's musical "Anything Goes" debuts on Broadway.
Cole Porter
1933
This Ethel Waters song is the best-selling recording of the year.
Stormy Weather
1932
This bandleader records "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)".
Duke Ellington
1931
This singer releases his signature song "Minnie the Moocher", also known as
"Hi De Hi De Hi De Ho".
Cab Calloway
1930
These songwriting brothers compose "I Got Rhythm".
George & Ira
Gershwin
vermiciousknid
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Level 86
Jan 16, 2020
Fun quiz! I got 18 out of 20, way better than I expected to do.
kalbahamut
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Level 83
Jan 16, 2020
I only got 14 but if I were to write about the events of the 1930s today and then put them in a book and found a new religion based on them, 2000 years from now the faithful would call my recounting a contemporaneous eye-witness account.

This is my way of saying that this was slightly before my time.

jmellor13
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Level 67
Jan 17, 2020
Got them all except Cole Porter (which I really should have gotten) and Toscanini (whose name I recognize but would never have summoned on my own). I was really into the development of early 20th-century music for a few years. I have to dust off some of my old books.
Sifhraven
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Level 66
Mar 14, 2020
I am quite good at remembering songs, but very bad at remembering names (and titles), for any decade.

Surprised at how low Astaire is, you/I would think Astaire and Sinatra would be the ones people know even if they dont know anything else about that era.

Sifhraven
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Level 66
Mar 14, 2020
I guess it might even out later, the quiz has only been taken s 100 times. Btw is musicpunk=quizmaster? (Got here through a link in the comments, music by year 1990-2009)
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