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Popular music, or “classic pop,” dominated the charts for the first half of the 1950s. Vocal-driven classic pop replaced Big Band/Swing at the end of World War II, although it often used orchestras to back the vocalists. 1940s style Crooners vied with a new generation of big voiced singers, many drawing on Italian bel canto traditions. Mitch Miller, A&R man at the era’s most successful label, Columbia Records, set the tone for the development of popular music well into the middle of decade.[1] Miller integrated country, Western, rhythm & blues, and folk music into the musical mainstream, by having many of his label’s biggest artists record them in a style that corresponded to Pop traditions. Miller often employed novel and ear-catching arrangements featuring classical instruments (whooping french horns, harpsichord), or sound effects (whip cracks). He approached each record as a miniature story, often “casting” the vocalist according to type.
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