P&Crooning

[Charles Albert]

How Bing Crosby and the Nazis Helped to Create Silicon Valley

>From “The Coming of the
Crooners<http://www.shsu.edu/%7Elis_fwh/book/roots_of_rock/support/crooner/EarlyCroonersIntro2.htm>,”
by Ian Whitcomb:

The press had a field day disseminating the attacks on the “crooning boom”
by moral authorities. In January 1932 they quoted Cardinal O’Connell of
Boston: “Crooning is a degenerate form of singing…. No true American would
practice this base art. I cannot turn the dial without getting these
whiners and bleaters defiling the air and crying vapid words to impossible
tunes.” The New York Singing Teachers Association chimed in, “Crooning
corrupts the minds and ideals of the younger generation.” Lee DeForest, one
of radio’s inventors, regretted that his hopes for the medium as a
dispenser of “golden argosies of tome” had become “a continual drivel of
sickening crooning by ‘sax’ players interlaced with blatant sales talk.”


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TheaKantorska 2 days ago

If you want a Nazi-connection, however of a different kind (as the first US
patent for a magnetic recorder invented by Valdemar Poulsen of Denmark was
issued in 1900, when Adolf Hitler was just 11 years old): Austrian-born
Fritz Pfleumer, who improved Poulsen's invention by replacing steel wire
with tape, in 1928 sold the right of utilization to the German Company AEG
in 1932. The American company General Electric had already acquired a share
of 27.5% in 1929/30, providing for five American seats on the company's
supervisory board. In 1933 AEG donated 60,000 Reichsmark (no mean sum then)
to Hitler's organization in 1933 and later used slave labor in Auschwitz
until 1945.


http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/05/how-bing-crosby-and-the-nazis-helped-to-create-silicon-valley.html


love,

cfa
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