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Let's Do It

Bob Stanley

Pop music didn't begin with the Beatles in 1963, or with Elvis in 1956, or even with the first seven-inch singles in 1949. There was a pre-history that went back to the first recorded music, right back to the turn of the 20th century . . . Let's Do...

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Opening Credits

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Dedication

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Introduction

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Prologue

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1 1900: Pop in the Beginning

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2 Elite Syncopations: Scott Joplin and Ragtime

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3 Songs for Sale: Tin Pan Alley

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4 Doing What Comes Naturally: Irving Berlin

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5 A Culture of Consolation: Music Hall and Musical Theatre

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6 On the Other Side of a Big Black Cloud: World War I

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7 A Conversation of Instruments: The Birth of Jazz

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8 The Greatest Love of All: Louis Armstrong

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9 The Blab of the Pave: Jerome Kern and Broadway

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10 Let Me Entertain You: Al Jolson

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11 I’m Gonna Do It If I Like It: The Jazz Age

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12 In a Silent Way: Race Records

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13 Invisible Airwaves Crackle with Life: Radio

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14 Trying Hard to Recreate What Had Yet to Be Created: Hillbilly

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15 Black and Tan Fantasy: Duke Ellington and the Cotton Club

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16 Learn to Croon: Rudy Vallee and the Dawn of the Electric Era

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17 All Hollywood and All Heaven: Talking Pictures

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18 Ten Cents a Dance: The Great Depression

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19 Nothing but Blue Skies: Bing Crosby

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20 Industrial Light and Magic: The Movie Musical

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21 Pardon My Pups: The Boswell Sisters

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22 Make Those People Sway: British Dance Bands

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23 Fascinating Rhythm: Fred Astaire and the Dance-Hall Boom

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24 Eighty-Eight Key Smiles: Fats Waller and Friends

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25 Tight Like That: The Age of Swing

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26 Serenade in Blue: The Great American Songbook

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27 The Winds Grow Colder: Judy Garland and Billie Holiday

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28 Be Like the Kettle and Sing: Britain at War

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29 Why Don’t You Do Right: America at War

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30 Hot Licks with Vanilla: Glenn Miller

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31 Someone to Watch Over Me: Vocal Refrains

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32 We Had to Break Up the Band: Post-War Jazz

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33 Call Me Irresponsible: Frank Sinatra

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34 Saturday Night Fish Fry: Rhythm and Blues

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35 California Suite: The Long-Player

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36 It’s Mitch Miller’s World and We Just Live in It: The 45

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37 Breaks a New Heart Every Day: Peggy Lee

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38 Almost Like Praying: Post-War Broadway

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39 Squeeze Me: Vocal Jazz

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40 Experiments with Mice: British Big Bands

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41 Revival: Trad Jazz and Folk

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42 In a Restless World: Nat King Cole

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43 Ports of Pleasure: Exotica

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44 Sharks in Jets Clothing: Rock ’n’ Roll

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45 The Summit: Frank, Dino and Sammy

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46 TV Is the Thing: The Rise of Television

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47 I Could Go on Singing: The Next Generation

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48 The Strength of Strings: Film Soundtracks

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49 What Kind of Fool Am I: Lionel Bart and Anthony Newley

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50 Whipped Cream and Other Delights: Adventures in Beatleland

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51 The Last Waltz: Tom Jones and the New Balladeers

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52 Some Kind of Rapprochement: The 1970s

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Epilogue

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End Credits

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