He scats, feels the song and makes them swing. Crosby sounded like anything but the little old man he is remembered as. So, what were the early discs like? Not staid, I can tell you that. Now you may be thinking, what has that got to do with rock and roll? Well, it’s everything, because without Crosby there would be no Sinatra, no Johnnie Ray, no Elvis, no Beatles and no rock bands. He was the first guy to take a solo singer and turn himself into a super star. Records would just say the name of the band, with vocal refrain.īing changed all of that. He came from a time when “singers” did not exist, just bands with vocals. This guy had sung with all the above mentioned artists, or knew them. Ellington, Beiderbecke, Trumbauer, Lang, the Dorseys and Condon were ripping up the music world and a young singer trying to make his way in the world was among them. 1929 was a whole new world to the one we live in today.
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