19th Century Composers
Top 10 Songs From 1960
Instrument History
Musicals From 1930-1950
2020's RNB
100

Best known for his operas in a career cut short by his early death

Georges Bizet

100

Percy Faith

"Theme from A Summer Place"

100

an instrument that uses reeds and air to create sound

accordion

100

The genre emerged alongside the invention of sound in the late 1920s thanks to the first full-length — and controversial — sound picture

The Jazz Singer (1927)

100

Rodarius Marcell Green

Rod Wave

200

was a Swedish organist, composer, and conductor

Elfrida Andrée

200

Jim Reeves

"He'll Have to Go"

200

thin strips of material that air passes over to vibrate, which in turn creates a sound

Reeds

200

Which is why a bulk of the earliest musicals were simple Broadway adaptations

Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929)

200

"I lost a Ferrari Las Vegas, Nevada."

Lil Baby and Drake

300

was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period

Johannes Brahms

300

The Everly Brothers

"Cathy's Clown"

300

A baton, which is the French word for "stick," is used by conductors primarily to enlarge

conductor's baton

300

plotless song-and-dance productions

The Hollywood Revue of 1929

300

Oh-whoa, oh-whoa
Look, uh
Tour bus sliding in the rain, headed out of state
So much going through my brain, I can barely think

"Boyz don't cry"

400

was a New Zealand music and singing teacher, performer, composer, and entertainment promoter

Elizabeth Mary Palmer

400

Johnny Preston

"Running Bear"

400

may be categorized as idiophones, or instruments sounding by the vibration of resonant solid material

Bell

400

centers on a gambler’s journey to redemption after he’s shot and given a second chance

Cabin in the Sky (1943)

400

Double Jeopardy:

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Tecca

500

was a Russian composer, a member of the group of composers known as The Five

Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov

500

Mark Dinning

"Teen Angel"

500

Squidward plays this

Clarinet

500

In the 1950s, public interest in the decline of Old Hollywood inspired studios to produce some of cinema’s biggest classics like All About Eve (1950)

Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

500

"Fight The Feeling"

Rod Wave

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