In this time period about 80% of Americans had access to a radio and this made music widely accessible. Songs during the WW2 era were more focused on strength and romance because songs that were too patriotic were rejected by the public. The 1940's was the decade of the crooner. Most households had a radio but some were lucky enough to get a phonograph which just became available to the public. Also the boycott of the ASCAP was a big deal for radio broadcasters. During this time musical comedy had some success with performers such as Paul Joey. Fun fact also in this time is when the song "Baby it's cold outside" was published. Most popular songs were remnants of older music from dirrent time periods such as "Powder your face with sunshine".
In the picture is Bing Crosby who is described as a crooner a male singer who sings soft slow songs. This is significant because this was one of the most popular artist of the 1940's. he had songs such as "Ain't We Got Fun, Only Forever, and Opus One". This is relevant because this was a main source of entertainment for Americans during world war 2 and he gave people the chance to put sown their worries and just sing along.
Some of the people in this picture are Edward B. Marks and Berry Goodman and it was taken at BMI headquarters. The ASCAP boycot was a boycot on music broadcasting happend beacuse the ASCAP raised rates for copyrighted songs three fold. This affected the everyday american because while the protest was going on people who listned to the radio couldnt listen to music.
This is Frank Sinatra, he was a famous artist who was also a crooner one of the best there was. He was performing his hit "I've go you under my skin" and it was shot for the ABC network. As you can see his music video is much different from the ones we have today with huge budgets and staff. This shows how far musicians have come because now they got tier own showtime and this is a trend that is still shown today.
This is a set of sheet music form 1959, this is the three popular songs composed by David A Warren. this piece was meant to be sung with only six people, you can tell because back then voice choirs had the bare minimum and there are only six noes being sung at the same time. this shows significance because this shows how music has stayed somewhat the and throughout time periods but has very little changes.