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Music U.S. Reform History
MAKING A MUSICAL SPLASH!
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MARTY ROBBINS SAYS
IT’S ALL ABOUT ROSA
ORIGINAL STORY EL PASO TEXAS 1960
Marty Robins El Paso
-Out in the West Texas town of El Paso, I fell in
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me in Rosa’s Cantina... So runs the song “El Paso,”
which Marty Robbins, who came to El Paso today,
has made the most warbled ballad in the world.
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asking me if it’s a real bar in Juarez or El Paso.”
The Chamber of Commerce, in appreciation of the
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place myself, I made it up for the
song.” -Marty Robbins
fact that Marty has
sold 3,500,000 records of the song,
presented a real
live beautiful “Felina” to the composer today at the
famed
International Club. She is
Cira S erros, an El
Paso model who
also
welcomed
King
Baudouin of the Belgians to this west Texas town a year
ago. Cira, of course, is not wicked at all, but the
21-year-old beauty could charm a cowboy off his
best horse.
It was all in fun and not only enlivened the luncheon but added to the immense publicity the song
has created. Robbins has visited El Paso before. On
a previous trip he got the inspiration for the song
that is now No. 1 on the Billboard and Cash Box
polls.
He was driving into El Paso on the Carlsbad highway at night and there, spread before him, were
the twinkling lights of El Paso and Juarez. “That
view inspired me,” Mr. Robbins said. “The words
came to me right then -a song about the old town
of El Paso. Columbia wouldn’t record it. I worked
it over again and again,” Marty related. “I worked
on that song for three years, off and on. But instead of making it shorter it got longer. I couldn’t
tell the story in less than four minutes and 37 seconds.” Meanwhile Marty continued with his other compositions. He sang with Grand Old Opry in
Nashville, Tenn. His career had started in his home
town, Phoenix, after his discharge from the Navy
after World War II. “Finally I gave up,” Marty said.
“I couldn’t make the song any shorter. So then
Columbia went ahead and recorded it. It was four
minutes and 37 seconds long.” -END
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GIVE THE GIFT OF LEARNING. OUR HISTORY IS THE BEGINNING.©
B.B. King 1971
King was enjoying a career renaissance when
he played this Chicago jail in 1970. He won over
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his blues standards and his crossover hit “The
Thrill Is Gone.”
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and opinions of the times. By exploring sheet music, students analyze issues related to industrialization and reform to answer the essential question, “How does society
respond to change?” Students will have the opportunity
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Progressive Era. Lesson Objective ■ Upon completion
of this lesson students will be able to: identify historical
events referenced in music. Examine pieces of sheet music and identify context, purpose, and perspective with
regard to the political, social, and economic conditions
existing at that time. Explore ways music is used to shape
public opinion. Create lyrics and music covers for an
original song illustrating a topic of the Progressive Era.
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B.B. KING Cook County Jail is a story of two
men—the man who “cleaned up a mess,” and a
man who felt Cook County Jail was as important an engagement as Caesar’s Palace. It was
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confrontations before he became “the jail’s only
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tlin circuit,” enjoyed a modest income and never
received the public acclaim he deserved. After a
managerial change, wider exposure has made
him recognized as the “chairman of the board of
blues singers.”
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P and Puff Daddy topped the charts, OutKast
unleashed an explosive hip-hop that deployed
live musicians, social commentary and a heavy
dose of deep funk. Hits like “Rosa Parks” put
the duo’s hometown “Hotlanta” on the rap map.
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White Blood Cells
Third album by Jack and Meg White was the
right dynamite for a mainstream breakthrough.
Jack’s Delta-roadhouse fantasies, Detroit-garage-rock razzle and busted-love lyricism, as
well as Meg’s toy-thunder drumming all peaked
at once.
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duo getting both attacked and enamored by a
clan of people wielding TV and video cameras.
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made this incredible album, highlighted by the
ecstatic eight-minute-long “I Am the Resurrection.” It single-handedly launched Nineties Brit
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found it was me.”
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