Pilgrimage to Music Part 7 : 1930 -1933 Music Facts & Events

1930 Warner Brothers buys Brunswick

1931 ' Adolph Rickenbacker' invents the electric guitar. Known as the Frying Pan, it was a lap-steel guitar with an electromagnetic pickup, created by Adolph Rickenbacker and George Beauchamp, in which a current passed through a coil of wire wrapped around a magnet. This created a field that amplified the strings' vibrations.

EMI (Electrical and Musical Industries), formed by the merge of Gramophone and the British subsidiary of Columbia, opens the largest recording studio in the world at Abbey Road in London, while the USA division of Columbia is sold

"It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" is a jazz song composed by Duke Ellington in 1932 with lyrics by Irving Mills. Singer Ivie Anderson introduced the song with the Duke Ellington Band, and the same year a rendition by the Mills Brothers rose to the charts. The song's title introduced the term "swing" into common usage and gave name to the swing era.



1932 Thomas Dorsey's Precious Lord invents gospel music in Chicago

Milton Brown and Bob Wills invent "western swing"

1933 Cuban bandleader Ignacio Pineiro releases Echale Salsita, the song that gives the name "salsa" to Cuba's dance music



Only six million records are sold in the USA

The IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) is founded to represent the recording industry worldwide

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