Why did big bands die out in 1940?

it was mainly jazz and big brass bands.

All brass was melted down to make Ammo in WWII - hence no more big bands! :-) ...

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Changing musical tastes, and money. It was extremely expensive to travel with and pay 15-20 musicians in a band. ...

Actually they didn't die out. Today it is called swing and the sound is the same. There are modern bands who have CD's out. ...

Big Nose Kate died on 1940-11-02.

Marching Bands, Orchestras, Big bands, concert bands, Jazz bands, and sometimes but rarely rock bands. Marching Bands, Orchestras, Big bands, concert bands, Jazz bands, and sometimes but rarely rock bands. ...

The recording strike of 1942 dealt a blow to the big bands, from which they never recovered. In the late 1940s, bebop replaced big band as the most popular form of music among American youth. ...

There is new music now with new genres that people enjoy more

The advent of television allowed people to be entertained at home instead of going to dance at a large club with swing music. ...

Music is very much subject to changing fashions. Big bands gave way to crooning and ballads, and then to a whole series of other musical genres. The public enjoys novelty; no single genre of music remains dominant forever, although musical genres also do not tend to be completely forgotten, either, and there are still people who love the big bands and play their recordings. ...

My late father's cousins were Tommy & Jimmy Dorsey, who were 2 of the most famous bandleaders of the 1940's until they died in 1957 & 58. They died too young. The big bands were popular in the 40's and part of the 50's, until rock n roll overtook swing music. Big bands have never actually died out, in fact they are making a comeback, with young people particularly attracted to this music. Linda Rondstedt, Michael Buble, Sting, and Rod Stewart, are...

Rock and Roll as a musical genre didn't exist until the 50's. In the 40's Big Band swing music was the standard. Jimmy Dorsey was big at the time. ...

The cast of Echoes of the Big Bands - 1990 includes: Merv Griffin as Host

Doris Day preformed (singing and dancing) as a child in Ohio. For years she travelled and sang with big bands until she finally made it to Hollywood in the 1940's. ...

Four Shall Die - 1940 was released on: USA: 15 October 1940

men's band in 1940's featuring margret luncar?

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Below are some of the bands of the 1940s. Glenn Miller Harry James Jimmy Dorsey Tommy Dorsey Duke Elington Benny Goodman ...

In 1940 it was built to accommodate about 16,000 prisoners, but it was later expanded. ...

Doomed to Die - 1940 was released on: USA: 12 August 1940 Sweden: 26 September 1941 ...

Swing and big band are related. Although there were some small groups that were definitely swing bands, they mirrored the style and most of the arrangements of the big bands. However big bands also played dance music and ballads that weren't really swing tunes even though they used the same instrumentation. ...

The bands from the big four-Metallica,Megadeth,Anthrax and Megadeth.

Big Bad Smitty was born in 1940.

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