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5 unusual facts about 1930 in music


He Was Too Good to Me

It was introduced in the tryouts of their 1930 Broadway musical Simple Simon, but was dropped before the show's New York opening.

Lady, Play Your Mandolin!

The title theme, written by Oscar Levant with lyrics by Irving Caesar, was a 1930 #5 pop hit sung by Nick Lucas and released by Brunswick Records, which had been purchased by Warner Brothers the previous year (Another recording, by the Havana Novelty Orchestra was released the same year on RCA's Victor Records).

Ninety-Nine Out of a Hundred

"Ninety-Nine Out of a Hundred (Want To Be Loved)" is a song recorded by Rudy Vallee in 1930.

Piano quartet

In the 20th century, composers have also written for more varied groups, with Anton Webern's Quartet, opus 22 (1930), for example, being for piano, violin, clarinet and tenor saxophone, and Paul Hindemith's quartet (1938) as well as Olivier Messiaen's Quatuor pour la fin du temps (1940) both for piano, violin, cello and clarinet.

Seven Cent Cotton and Forty Cent Meat

Seven Cent Cotton and Forty Cent Meat is an American song of the Great Depression, which was published in 1930 by Bob Miller and Emma Dermer.



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