Year
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Hint
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Answer
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1949
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This famous jazz club, named after Charlie Parker, opens in NYC.
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Birdland
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1948
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This Italian maestro conducts the first TV production of Beethoven's 9th.
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Arturo Toscanini
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1947
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"Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah", from this now-censored Disney movie, is one of the top songs of the year.
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Song of the South
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1946
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This blue-eyed crooner records his first #1 hit: "Give Me Five Minutes More".
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Frank Sinatra
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1945
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This trumpeter drops out of Julliard and joins Charlie Parker's quartet.
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Miles Davis
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1944
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This bandleader disappears over the English Channel while traveling to entertain U.S. troops in France.
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Glenn Miller
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1943
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This musical, named after a U.S. state, is the first collaboration between Rodgers and Hammerstein.
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Oklahoma!
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1942
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Bing Crosby sings this Christmas favorite, estimated by some to be the best-selling single of all time.
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White Christmas
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1941
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The Nazi regime cracks down on these jazz-loving youths, later memorialized in a 1993 Hollywood movie.
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Swing Kids
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1940
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This folk singer writes the lyrics to "This Land is Your Land".
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Woodie Guthrie
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1939
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This jazz singer records the anti-lynching protest song "Strange Fruit".
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Billie Holiday
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1938
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This "Snow White" song is one of the year's most popular.
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Whistle While You Work
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1937
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This young country singer, born Hiram Williams, changes his name to this.
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Hank Williams
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1936
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Sergei Prokofiev composes this musical fairy tale.
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Peter and the Wolf
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1935
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This Hollywood dancer records the chart-topping song "Cheek to Cheek".
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Fred Astaire
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1934
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This composer's musical "Anything Goes" debuts on Broadway.
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Cole Porter
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1933
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This Ethel Waters song is the best-selling recording of the year.
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Stormy Weather
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1932
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This bandleader records "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)".
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Duke Ellington
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1931
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This singer releases his signature song "Minnie the Moocher", also known as "Hi De Hi De Hi De Ho".
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Cab Calloway
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1930
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These songwriting brothers compose "I Got Rhythm".
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George & Ira Gershwin
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This is my way of saying that this was slightly before my time.
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.