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It’s Monday…add a little crooner culture into your life.

All about the style, swagger, and sexy hip of the smooth-voiced singers from the 40’s, 50’s, and 60’s era of music and life.Crooner Culture is all about the style, swagger, and sexy hip of the smooth-voiced singers from the 40’s, 50’s, and 60’s era of music and life.

Two tracks from Crooner Culture that you should have on your iPod

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Some crooners, most notably Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Bing Crosby or Jean Sablon, incorporated other popular styles into their music, such as Blues, Dixieland and even native Hawaiian music. Crooning became the dominant form of popular vocal music from the late 1920s to the early 1960s, coinciding with the advent of radio broadcasting and electrical recording. For example, Bing Crosby’s radio show, Kraft Music Hall (1935-1946) was heard by 50 million listeners every Thursday evening (Giddins, Gary. “A Pocketful of Dreams”)

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