"was attended by 20,000, including many of Hollywood’s silent screen stars. Klieg lights illuminated minaret structures on the roof. The dance hall was renamed Rainbow Gardens by real estate developer Raymond Lewis, who purchased the property, added an indoor miniature golf course and changed the name to the Palomar Ballroom. It soon became a prime venue for the well-known bands that were rapidly gaining popularity. On August 21, 1935, Benny Goodman began his first Palomar engagement that marked the start of the swing era. The ballroom hosted popular bands including those led by Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, Glen"
"a strict color policy, as well. The Palomar burned to the ground on October 2, 1939. The response of LAFD was delayed by an address error. The Charlie Barnet Orchestra lost most of its equipment in the fire. Their tune ""All Burned Up"" was a gallows humor reference to the event. Palomar Ballroom The Palomar Ballroom, built in 1925, was a famous ballroom in Los Angeles, California, in the United States. It was destroyed by a fire on October 2, 1939. Originally named the El Patio Ballroom and located on the east side of Vermont Avenue between 2nd and 3rd"
"overwhelming reception in Oakland had been a fluke. The next night, August 21, 1935, at the Palomar Ballroom in Los Angeles, Goodman and his band began a three-week engagement. On top of the ""Let's Dance"" airplay, Al Jarvis had been playing Goodman's records on KFWB radio. Goodman started the evening with stock arrangements, but after an indifferent response, he began the second set with arrangements by Fletcher Henderson and Spud Murphy. According to Willard Alexander, the band's booking agent, Krupa said, ""If we're gonna die, Benny, let's die playing our own thing."" The crowd broke into cheers and applause. News"
"Palomar Ballroom The Palomar Ballroom, built in 1925, was a famous ballroom in Los Angeles, California, in the United States. It was destroyed by a fire on October 2, 1939. Originally named the El Patio Ballroom and located on the east side of Vermont Avenue between 2nd and 3rd Street, it boasted being “the largest and most famous dance hall on the West Coast.” The building featured a large mezzanine, a balcony and a seventy-five hundred square foot patio. The dance floor could accommodate four thousand couples. Admission was 40 cents for gentlemen and 25 cents for ladies. Opening night"
"during the 1950s. The earliest popular Latin American music in the United States came with rhumba in the early 1930s, and was followed by calypso in the mid-1940s, mambo in the late 1940s and early 1950s, chachachá and charanga in the mid-1950s, bolero in the late 1950s and finally boogaloo in the mid-1960s, while Latin American music mixed with jazz during the same period, resulting in Latin jazz and the bossa nova fusion cool jazz. The first Mexican-Texan pop star was Lydia Mendoza, who began recording in 1934. It was not until the 1940s, however, that musica norteña became popularized"
"stars such as Lou Cass. Beginning in 1988, there was a hip-hop dance club that appealed to the African Americans in the neighborhood. In 1989, the year rave dances first started in San Francisco, Wednesday night became ""Acid house Night"" at the I-Beam. Starting on 28 July 1980 with The Lloyds and Ultrasheen, ""New Music Night"" was instituted on Monday night, and later Tuesdays at which emerging new rock groups played. With the temporary closing of The Fillmore Auditorium following the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, the I-Beam was able to book many bands that would otherwise have played the larger"
"[[mariachi]]) had brief periods of popularity during the 1950s. The earliest popular Latin music in the United States came with rumba in the early 1930s, and was followed by [[calypso music|calypso]] in the mid-40s, mambo in the late 1940s and early 1950s, chachachá and [[Charanga (Cuba)|charanga]] in the mid-50s, [[bolero]] in the late 1950s and finally [[boogaloo]] in the mid-60s, while Latin music mixed with jazz during the same period, resulting in [[Latin jazz]] and the [[bossa nova]] fusion [[cool jazz]]. The first Mexican-Texan pop star was [[Lydia Mendoza]], who began recording in 1934. It was not until the 1940s,"
"Gray, Jimmy Dorsey and Kay Kyser, among others. Nightly radio broadcasts on local station KFLJ attracted large crowds to the “Dining, Dancing and Entertainment Center of the West.” An aircheck from a Charlie Barnet broadcast is included in the LP “Radio Rhythm” (IAJRC 14). The famed structure was the backdrop for several major Hollywood films that included ""The Big Broadcast of 1937"", made during Benny Goodman’s return engagement, and ""Dancing Coed"", which starred Lana Turner and Artie Shaw’s band. By 1939, the Palomar had been remodeled. A modern cooling system was installed, cocktail lounges and soda fountains were added and"
"The Fonda Theatre The Fonda Theatre (formerly Music Box Theatre, Guild Theatre, Fox Theatre, and Pix Theatre) is a concert venue located on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. Designed in the Spanish Colonial Revival Style, the theater has hosted live events, films, and radio broadcasts. On October 18, 1926, the Carter DeHaven Music Box opened with a revue called ""Fancy"". Among the first investors in the new theater were John Barrymore, John Gilbert, Reginald Denny, King Vidor, and Mae Murray. The Music Box switched from revues to legitimate theater in 1927 with the west coast première of ""Chicago"", starring"
"Pan Alley"" (1940), ""The Song of Bernadette""(1943), ""Mother Wore Tights"" (1947), ""With a Song in My Heart"" (1952), ""Call Me Madam"" (1953), ""Love Is a Many Splendored Thing"" (1955), ""The King and I"" (1956) and ""Camelot"" (1967). He composed the familiar fanfare which accompanies the studio logo at the beginning of 20th Century Fox's productions, and still introduces Fox pictures today. A segment of Newman's score for David O. Selznick's ""The Prisoner of Zenda"" (1937) became the standard music which accompanied the Selznick International Pictures logo when introducing its films. At the University of Southern California, the 280-seat Allan Hancock"
"Gleaming)"". It was practically impossible to wedge your way into the Palace Barn where Red Murrell and his band were playing. A mile down the hill was the Riverside Rancho. You were lucky to find a ticket on a Wednesday night. Tex Williams and his Western Caravan were playing there."" In 1950, Hank Penny and Armand Gautier opened the Palomino in North Hollywood, ""one of country music's most fabled venues, the commercial and social focal point of Hollywood's country set."" ""Western jazz"" brought it its initial popularity. According to one report, crowds of ten thousand people were not uncommon at"
"new cinematic genre made possible by sound: the musical. Over sixty Hollywood musicals were released in 1929, and more than eighty the following year. Even as the Wall Street crash of October 1929 helped plunge the United States and ultimately the global economy into depression, the popularity of the talkies at first seemed to keep Hollywood immune. The 1929–30 exhibition season was even better for the motion picture industry than the previous, with ticket sales and overall profits hitting new highs. Reality finally struck later in 1930, but sound had clearly secured Hollywood's position as one of the most important"
"The following were among contemporary releases: Jubilee (musical) Jubilee is a musical comedy with a book by Moss Hart and music and lyrics by Cole Porter. It premiered on Broadway in 1935 to rapturous reviews. Inspired by the recent silver jubilee of King George V of Great Britain, the story is of the royal family of a fictional European country. Several of its songs, especially ""Begin the Beguine"" and ""Just One of Those Things"", became independently popular and have become part of the American Songbook. The musical opened on Broadway in October 1935, in the midst of the Great Depression."
"genre of Latin music that combined sexually charged romanticism with high energy salsa, which he named Ballada en Salsa (later renamed and marketed as romantic salsa or salsa romántica by major record labels). In December 1979 La Palabra partnered with Jesús ""El Niño"" Alejandro Perez to form Orquesta Versalles. La Palabra and ""El Niño"" showcased their new arrangements weekly, packing such popular nightclubs as Club Candilejas in Los Angeles, Club Riviera in Eagle Rock, and the Marina Hotel in Las Vegas. In early 1981 La Palabra (working as Fito Foster) and El Niño released a single as Orquesta Versalles (a.k.a."
"""crystal palmroom"" was announced, the ""Los Angeles Times"" wrote: ""The room will be one of the largest of its kind in California and will be available for social affairs of every nature. Its primary object, however, will be more of a furnishing a convenient place for afternoon teas, card parties and evening receptions."" When the new ballroom opened in October 1911, it was acknowledged for its beauty. The room was ""christened"" in a gala attended by 385 of the city's ""most prominent names."" The Alexandria orchestra played throughout the evening,"" and the ""Los Angeles Times"" reported the next day on"
"a series of successful Broadway shows, including ""On Your Toes"" (1936, with Ray Bolger, the first Broadway musical to make dramatic use of classical dance), ""Babes in Arms"" (1937) and ""The Boys from Syracuse"" (1938). Porter added ""DuBarry Was a Lady"" (1939). The longest-running piece of musical theatre of the 1930s was ""Hellzapoppin"" (1938), a revue with audience participation, which played for 1,404 performances, setting a new Broadway record. Still, a few creative teams began to build on ""Show Boat""s innovations. ""Of Thee I Sing"" (1931), a political satire by the Gershwins, was the first musical awarded the Pulitzer Prize."
"theatrical manager had bought the London performance rights during the show's Boston run, and he produced it at the West End's Palace Theatre. The musical opened on June 14, 1935 and ran for 261 performances. The cast included Jeanne Aubert as Reno Sweeney (the name changed to Reno La Grange, to suit Aubert's French background), Sydney Howard as Moonface Martin and Jack Whiting as Billy Crocker. P. G. Wodehouse was engaged to replace the specifically American references in the book and lyrics with references more appropriate to an English audience. The production was revived in an Off Broadway production in"
"of Musicians, for back pay, especially salaries owed to Andy Kirk's band. The location subsequently opened as a nightclub called the Latin Quarter. Ten original members Subsequent members Cotton Club Boys (chorus line) The Cotton Club Boys were African American chorus line entertainers who, from 1934, performed class act dance routines in musical revues produced by the Cotton Club until 1940, when the club closed, then as part of Cab Calloway's revue on tour through 1942. They debuted in the 24th edition of the ""Cotton Club Parade"" in spring 1934, a period at the beginning of the swing era, the"
"Paramount, including ""Big City Fantasy"" (1929), ""Phil Spitalny and His Musical Queens"" (1934), ""Ladies That Play"" (1934), ""Phil Spitalny and His All Girl Orchestra"" (1935) and ""Sirens of Syncopation"" (1935). For promotional purposes, major film stars, including Gary Cooper and Clark Gable, made guest appearances in such musical shorts as MGM's ""Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove"" (1934) and ""Starlit Days at the Lido"" (1935), while others featured a single band, such as ""Freddie Rich and His Orchestra"" (1938). Richard Barrios (author of ""A Song in the Dark: The Birth of the Musical Film"") provided notes for Kino Video's compilation,"
"Boat"" (1929), the lavish musical ""Broadway"" (1929) which included Technicolor sequences; and the first all-color musical feature (for Universal), ""King of Jazz"" (1930). The more serious ""All Quiet on the Western Front"" (1930), won its year's Best Picture Oscar. Laemmle, Jr. created a niche for the studio, beginning a series of horror films which extended into the 1940s, affectionately dubbed Universal Horror. Among them are ""Dracula"" (1931), ""Frankenstein"" (1931), ""The Mummy"" (1932) and ""The Invisible Man"" (1933). Other Laemmle productions of this period include ""Imitation of Life"" (1934) and ""My Man Godfrey"" (1936). Universal's forays into high-quality production spelled the"
"Los Angeles and elsewhere in the 1920s and 1930s created a new market for jazz, blues, and related genres of music. These genres of music were often performed by full-time musicians, either working alone or in small groups. The precursors of rhythm and blues came from jazz and blues, which overlapped in the late-1920s and 1930s through the work of musicians such as the Harlem Hamfats, with their 1936 hit ""Oh Red"", as well as Lonnie Johnson, Leroy Carr, Cab Calloway, Count Basie, and T-Bone Walker. There was also increasing emphasis on the electric guitar as a lead instrument, as"
"in 1922. Raised largely in the Watts area of Los Angeles, he recorded in a band in Los Angeles in the 1940s. In 1928, World War I veteran William J. Powell founded the Bessie Coleman Aero Club. In 1931, Powell organized the first all-black air show in the United States for the Club in Los Angeles, an event that drew 15,000 visitors. Powell also established a school to train mechanics and pilots. Singer-songwriter Ray Charles moved to Los Angeles in 1950. In 2004, his music studio on Washington Blvd. in Los Angeles was declared a historic landmark. The Watts Riots"
"to the public who crammed into the theatre to hear the new sound, demanding seven encores from Moten's orchestra. With the early 1930s came the financial difficulties of the Great Depression that curtailed recording of the new music and drove some bands out of business, including the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra and McKinney's Cotton Pickers in 1934. Henderson's next business was selling arrangements to up-and-coming bandleader Benny Goodman. ""Sweet"" dance music remained most popular with white audiences but the Casa Loma Orchestra and the Benny Goodman Orchestra went against that grain, targeting the new swing style to younger audiences. In 1935"
"opened on January 26, 1988. With a record-breaking 12,806 performances to date, it is currently the longest-running production in Broadway history. Designed by architect Herbert J. Krapp, the present-day Majestic was constructed by the Chanin Brothers as part of an entertainment complex including the John Golden Theatre, the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, and Lincoln Hotel (now the Row NYC Hotel, and previously the Milford Plaza). It opened on March 28, 1927 with the musical ""Rufus LeMaire's Affairs"". The theater was designed in a Spanish style, with Adam style detailing within the auditorium, a large single balcony, and steep stadium seating"
"them. The testimonies of the two girls did not align with the story. While all nine boys were convicted, Hammond viewed this trial as a ""catalyst for black activism"". Record integration became an important component of jazz music. Starting in 1935, musicians began to record in mixed-race groups. While some of this integration had already taken place, Hammond remembers it as being hidden. However, in 1935, the Goodman Trio began recording. In 1936, the group appeared in a live concert at the Chicago Hot Jazz Society. Hammond fondly remembers this as an innovative moment in jazz history. J. Edgar Hoover,"
"The Broadway Melody The Broadway Melody, also known as The Broadway Melody of 1929, is an American pre-Code musical film and the first sound film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. It was one of the first musicals to feature a Technicolor sequence, which sparked the trend of color being used in a flurry of musicals that would hit the screens in 1929–1930. Today the Technicolor sequence is lost; only a black and white copy survives in available versions. The film was the first musical released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and was Hollywood's first all-talking musical. ""The Broadway Melody"" was"
"Great Depression began in October of 1929, many people turned to dance. Because of this, the Charleston and the Lindy hop are now considered to be under the umbrella term ""swing dance"" because they were most popular during the swing era of music (1935-1945). The 1930s were also the start of jazz dance being combined into live musical theatre shows and movie musicals. A few of the prominent musical theatre choreographers were Jerome Robbins, Jack Cole and Michael Kidd. They created the dances for ""West Side Story"", ""Gypsy"", ""Seven Brides for Seven Brothers"", and many more. These three choreographers and"
"Jubilee (musical) Jubilee is a musical comedy with a book by Moss Hart and music and lyrics by Cole Porter. It premiered on Broadway in 1935 to rapturous reviews. Inspired by the recent silver jubilee of King George V of Great Britain, the story is of the royal family of a fictional European country. Several of its songs, especially ""Begin the Beguine"" and ""Just One of Those Things"", became independently popular and have become part of the American Songbook. The musical opened on Broadway in October 1935, in the midst of the Great Depression. It had strong reviews and was"
"She is best remembered for introducing the song ""Lullaby of Broadway"" in the musical film ""Gold Diggers of 1935"" (1935). Shaw's only recording, (Decca 408) with Dick Jurgens and his Orchestra, was ""Lullaby of Broadway"" and ""I'm Goin' Shoppin' with You"". Both songs were from the film, and the recording was made on February 28, 1935. She also sang ""The Lady in Red"" in the musical film ""In Caliente"" (1935), starring Dolores del Rio; the song was later made famous when Bugs Bunny sang it in drag. Shaw appeared in a brief revival of the musical-theatre production of ""Simple Simon"""
"a whole new audience for popular music, which had been recorded mainly for adults up to that time. The phenomenon became officially known as ""Sinatramania"" after his ""legendary opening"" at the Paramount Theatre in New York on December 30, 1942. According to Nancy Sinatra, Jack Benny later said, ""I thought the goddamned building was going to cave in. I never heard such a commotion ... All this for a fellow I never heard of."" Sinatra performed for four weeks at the theatre, his act following the Benny Goodman orchestra, after which his contract was renewed for another four weeks by"
"all time, and also featured the hit song that became the anthem in fighting the Great Depression: ""Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf"". In the Mickey Mouse series, he continued to add personality to his characters; this resulted in the creation of new characters such as Pluto with The Chain Gang in 1930, Goofy with Mickey's Revue in 1932 and Donald Duck in 1934 with ""The Wise Little Hen"" (under the ""Silly Symphony"" series). When Disney's contract with Technicolor expired, the Mickey Mouse series was moved into Technicolor starting with The Band Concert in 1935. In addition, Mickey was"
"music scene, beginning in 1951. The first popular groups were [[The Five Keys]] (""Glory Of Love"") and [[The Flamingos]] (""Golden Teardrops""). Doo wop diversified considerably later in the decade, with groups like [[The Crows]] (""Gee""), creating a style of [[uptempo doo wop]] and the ballad style via [[The Penguins]] (""Earth Angel""), while singers like [[Frankie Lymon]] became sensations; Lymon became the first black teen idol in the country's history after the release of the Top 40 pop hit ""Why Do Fools Fall in Love"" (1956). Latin music imported from [[Cuba]] ([[Cha-cha-cha (music)|chachachá]], [[Mambo (music)|mambo]], [[Cuban Rumba|rumba]]) and Mexico ([[ranchera]] and"
"were developed by wealthy settlers. It was also the period when women of Los Angeles took up the study and practice of landscape architecture. The iconic amphitheater, the Hollywood Bowl was formally opened in 1921 next to the location of the future Hollywood Freeway. It was the venue of music concerts, university graduation ceremonies, and other events of the community. It came to be formally known as the Bowl after 27 March 1921 when its first formal event was the Los Angeles Philharmonic performance, an Easter sunrise service attended by some 800. The first official summer season of the Philharmonic"