P&Crooning

[Charles Albert]

There's a lotta prescient dogwhistling in that warning....haberdashers were
bracing for the Zoot Suit crossover.

Check the comment about how the use of tape may have served to accommodate
Bing's love of The Sauce....

love,
cfa


On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net>wrote:

> Better still, De Forest in his 1940 letter to the National Ass’n of
> Broadcasters:****
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> "What have you done with my child, the radio broadcast? You have debased
> this child, dressed him in rags of ragtime, tatters of jive and
> boogie-woogie."****
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> It ain’t Cotton Mather or John Knox, but then De Forest hadn’t heard
> Justin Bieber or Rush Limbaugh. Gotta take your jeremiads as you find ’em.
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> *From:* owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Charles Albert
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 16, 2013 11:18 AM
> *To:* Pynchon Liste
> *Subject:* P&Crooning****
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> How Bing Crosby and the Nazis Helped to Create Silicon Valley****
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> From “The Coming of the Crooners<http://www.shsu.edu/%7Elis_fwh/book/roots_of_rock/support/crooner/EarlyCroonersIntro2.htm>,”
> by Ian Whitcomb: ****
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> 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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> Scroll down to the comments section.......****
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> TheaKantorska 2 days ago****
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> 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.****
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> http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/05/how-bing-crosby-and-the-nazis-helped-to-create-silicon-valley.html
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> love,****
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> cfa****
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