weekly musical Diversity Challenge

Last week the challenge was listening too Bond, an all girl group that put a new spin on classical music. This week we are taking a little trip back into time before I was even born. To a time when my mom was just a little girl, it was called the Big Band era. The time between the 1st and 2nd world wars and during the 2nd world war. It was a time before the modern TV, where everyone gathered around the radio and believe it or not, even had shows aired over the radio like Bing Cosby Entertians, Gunsmoke (before it aired on TV) and Batman (also before it aired on TV). Granted I never heard any of these shows in audio but I had gotten to learn about them through my mother and from a few of her friends. But let's get back to the music aspect of all of this.

Back then it seems that music was more of a family thing than it is today. It wasn't all about the music conveying a message about a particular theme or shock value or even how racy a song can get. It was about how it gathered a family together in troubling times and made them forget about what was going on in the world. So with no further adui, here are a few songs from the big band era starting with my favorite, the Andrews Sisters...