10-12-2013, 02:36
Another type of jazz that often typifies the 20s nowadays is âcorn jazz.â Corn was popular among the younger white kids primarily the college set. When you see a 1920s college student today they are typified as wearing pork pie or straw hats, long fur coats and carrying pennants as they drove about in Stutz Bearcat automobiles (a popular sports car of that era). Another image is the cheerleaders with the letter sweaters shouting through megaphones.
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Corn bands often co-opted both looks. Many colleges, in fact, had their own corn bands. Lou Weimerâs Gold & Black Aces were Perdue Universityâs corn band and recorded a great corn number called âMerry Widowâs Got a Sweetie Now.â Corn jazz is considered a subset of sweet jazz and often included hillbilly skits and what not. Kay Kyser carried on the corn jazz band legacy into the 40s and had a radio show called âThe Kollege of Musical Knowledgeâ that went off the air for good in 1950 unable to compete with the rise of rocknroll. Below, a nice corn number from 1929:
Corn bands often co-opted both looks. Many colleges, in fact, had their own corn bands. Lou Weimerâs Gold & Black Aces were Perdue Universityâs corn band and recorded a great corn number called âMerry Widowâs Got a Sweetie Now.â Corn jazz is considered a subset of sweet jazz and often included hillbilly skits and what not. Kay Kyser carried on the corn jazz band legacy into the 40s and had a radio show called âThe Kollege of Musical Knowledgeâ that went off the air for good in 1950 unable to compete with the rise of rocknroll. Below, a nice corn number from 1929:
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