Jumping from one year to another over 2000 years of history, own reference & entertainment1930 Embraceable You
“Embraceable You” was one of the hit songs of the Gershwins’ Girl Crazy, which opened on Broadway October 14, 1930 (just about one year after the onset of the Great Depression), and ran for 272 […]
1930
1930 Pop & Big Band
Arranged alphabetically by artist name, this is an assortment of recordings posted to ‘the78prof’ channel which are not included in the HITS ARCHIVE playlists and were either recorded, released, or popularized in the year 1930.
1374 Sudden outbreak of St. John’s Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion
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325 A new church is born
312 A cross of light leads Constantine to victory
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79 Mount Vesuvius near Pompeii erupts
Romans destroy Temple of Jerusalem
161 Marcus Aurelius becomes Emperor of Rome.
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1910 Early Tin Pan Alley Recordings
1952 Your Cheatin’ Heart
The Darktown Strutters Ball
David Bowie Let’s Dance
When A Man Loves A Woman
1939 The Year Of Somewhere Over The Rainbow
1932 I’ve Got the World on a String
1968 Mr Bojangles
1961 Patsy Cline: Crazy
1952 Once in a Blue Moon
1969 Space Oddity
1960 Apache