Year
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Hint
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Answer
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1949
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Famous jazz club, named after Charlie Parker, which opened in NYC
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Birdland
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1948
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Italian maestro who conducted the first TV production of Beethoven's 9th
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Arturo Toscanini
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1947
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Now-censored Disney movie which introduced the song "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah"
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Song of the South
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1946
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Blue-eyed crooner who recorded his first #1 hit: "Give Me Five Minutes More"
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Frank Sinatra
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1945
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Trumpeter who dropped out of Julliard to join Charlie Parker's quartet
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Miles Davis
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1944
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Bandleader who disappeared 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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Musical, named after a U.S. state, which was the first collaboration between Rodgers and Hammerstein
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Oklahoma!
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1942
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Christmas favorite recorded by Bing Crosby, 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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Jazz-loving youths who the Nazi regime cracked down on, later memorialized in a 1993 Hollywood movie
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Swing Kids
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1940
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Folk singer who wrote the lyrics to "This Land is Your Land"
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Woodie Guthrie
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1939
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Jazz singer who recorded the anti-lynching protest song "Strange Fruit"
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Billie Holiday
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1938
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Song from "Snow White" which was one of the year's most popular
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Whistle While You Work
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1937
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What young country singer Hiram Williams changed his name to
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Hank Williams
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1936
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Musical fairy tale composed by Sergei Prokofiev
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Peter and the Wolf
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1935
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Hollywood dancer who recorded the chart-topping song "Cheek to Cheek"
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Fred Astaire
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1934
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Composer whose musical "Anything Goes" debuted on Broadway
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Cole Porter
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1933
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Song by Ethel Waters which was the best-selling recording of the year
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Stormy Weather
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1932
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Bandleader who recorded "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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Singer who released 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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Songwriting brothers who composed "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.