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During and despite the Great Depression, the entertainment industry was working overtime. The roughest years in American history produced what many consider the greatest era of popular music. Elliot Majerczyk looks at the songs that became the soundtrack of the ‘lost generation’ and helped pull America through the hard times. He says that given the state of the economy, we may get to hear more songs like these in the near future. Also: Historians Nigel Sellars and Eric Rauchway explain that Roosevelt’s New Deal originally focused on regulation and stimulating the industrial economy. It was not until 1935 when the Second New Deal began putting millions of people to work that most Americans felt relief from the Great Depression.
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Piece Description
During and despite the Great Depression, the entertainment industry was working overtime. The roughest years in American history produced what many consider the greatest era of popular music. Elliot Majerczyk looks at the songs that became the soundtrack of the ‘lost generation’ and helped pull America through the hard times. He says that given the state of the economy, we may get to hear more songs like these in the near future. Also: Historians Nigel Sellars and Eric Rauchway explain that Roosevelt’s New Deal originally focused on regulation and stimulating the industrial economy. It was not until 1935 when the Second New Deal began putting millions of people to work that most Americans felt relief from the Great Depression.
Broadcast History
Aired December 20-26, 2008 on ten radio stations in Virginia.
Transcript
"With Good Reason" - Ten Cents a Dance Script
Excerpt from FDR’s speech…
This recording was made less than a month after the Stock Market Crash, when the devastating consequences of Black Friday were just becoming apparent.
Even Franklin Roosevelt used Happy Days as his 1932 Campaign theme to convey hope and optimism. In fact, there were a lot of happy songs that were hits in the dark days of the Depression, along with music about the plight of the forgotten men and women of the era. I’m Sarah McConnell and this is With Good Reason.
Later in the show, the new deal:
(Roosevelt’s “nothing to fear…”
But first, during the Great Depression, the entertainment industry created what many consider the greatest era of popular music. Standards like “Ten Cents a Dance” and “Just a Gigolo” have their roots in the Depression. Elliot Majerczyk is the producer of With Good Reason and he joins m...
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Timing and Cues
In cue: music bed
Program length: 29:00
Out cue: I'm Sarah McConnell. Thanks for listening.
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Stephen L. Gilbreath
Posted on August 14, 2009 at 11:19 AM | Permalink
More! More!
Where is part two? This was pretty good! Whole thing just good -- entertaining and informative. There are some great American jocks from the era I would like to hear speaking -- jocks who featured the music you featured that male patrons would pay a dime to the gals to dance to. Bringing in the history with this makes this very relevant to just what this music was all about. And, since there are at least 50,000 or more tunes from this era, you've got some stuff to work with for future programs. You got my dime!