MUS 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Teen Idol, The Coasters, Tommy Steele
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British pop: the 50s and 60s: american music dominated british popular music during this period. New orleans style (what we call it) Uk pop charts tended to mirror the american pop charts. Americans brought culture. music with them during the war. Many in the uk develop a taste for it. The britain burdned by economic and infrastructural fallout of the war. Us not affected by the war in same way. Large record companies: emi, decca, pye, and philips. Licensed music from american majors and independents. Sun records = biggest american folk record company. Britons had only two radio stations that played any rock and roll. We had radio stations across the entire continent. Made the bulk of their income from the american record label. British music was not on the charts at all, only american. There were hardly any domestic records on the british charts. American artists: to(cid:374)y (cid:862)lo(cid:374)(cid:374)ie(cid:863) do(cid:374)ega(cid:374) pio(cid:374)eered this style.
