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Retro Metal Wall Clock - Silvertone $32.99 Red dots highlight each hour which enhances the cream-colored face. Black numbers and black hands are classic looking. The silver finished case is a perfect way to frame this retro-inspired wall clock. Metal construction. Silver finish. Takes two AA batteries (not included). 9 1/2" diameter. 2 3/4" deep....

Antiqued Chester Wall Clock with Pendulum $38.95 Antiqued Chester Wall Clock With PendulumDecorative antiqued "Chester" wall clock. Features a working pendulum and roman numerals at every hour. Operates by a highly accurate quartz movement and one "AA" battery, not included. Guaranteed by a one year manufacturer"s warranty.DIA 14" X D 7/8"...

Retro Green Metal Wall Clock $32.99 Retro Round Metal Wall Clock (Green)Round metal clock with Arabic numbers at every hour. Cream dial with black metal hands. Operates by a highly accurate quartz movement and one "AA" battery, not included. Guaranteed by a one year manufacturer"s warranty.DIA 9 1/2" X D 2 3/4"...

Enclosure Two: Harry Partch $29.02 Enclosure 2, all four cds, is curated as a sprawling notebook filled with sounds and speech instead of sketches and words. Of any Partch recording extant, it gives the best picture of the man--as the curmudgeonly, extremely innovative misanthrope that he was, as the composer who was impossibly unlike anyone else before or since. The essence of Partch's music reflects the history of the world--from...

Rostropovich: The Russian Years, 1950-1974 $88.98 ...

1940s/1950s Firebird Suite; Concerto For Piano And Wind Instruments 10 Vinyl LP Record 10" vinyl record. # MMS-64A....

Songs of the 1940's: The Decade Series $11.59 61 songs, featuring: Come Rain or Come Shine, God Bless the Child, How High the Moon, The Last Time I Saw Paris, Moonlight in Vermont, A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square, A String of Pearls, Swinging on a Star, Tuxedo Junction, You'll Never Walk Alone....

Swing Shift: “All-Girl” Bands of the 1940s $17.06 The forgotten history of the “all-girl” big bands of the World War II era takes center stage in Sherrie Tucker’s Swing Shift. American demand for swing skyrocketed with the onslaught of war as millions—isolated from loved ones—sought diversion, comfort, and social contact through music and dance. Although all-female jazz and dance bands had existed since the 1920s, now ...

Swing to Bop: An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s $30.00 This book willserve as the basic work on the rise and development of bop in jazz. Engendered by Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, bebop, now known as bop, quickly became the most powerful musical force in modern jazz. Today it is still the main musical language of jazz musicians. Over a ten-year period, Ira Gitler interviewed more than 50 of the seminal figures in jazz history to preserve for ...

Pretty much the same types that are used today. If you look at performances from that era, you’ll find lots of Fender electric guitars (Telecasters were as popular then as they are now), as well as big hollowbodied electric guitars just like the ones you see today. Acoustic guitars were used, as well. Drum kits were a little simpler then, with fewer drums and cymbals, but the essentials — the bass drum, snare, hi-hat and a tom — were all there. And you’d see more upright basses during that era, since lots of players hadn’t yet transitioned to the more portable electric basses.