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Skiffle music

Posted by Tracy Tomlinson on August 28, 2011 at 9:37am in Other stuff - off topic, fun stuff, whatever

   One of my customers was telling me about "Skiffle Bands" the other day so I looked it up. It was part of the evolution of homemade music and instruments around the turn of the century and again in the post war times. Some famous players and bands were born in skiffle music. Skiffle became very popular in England,  John Lennon and the Quarry Men got their start here! Roger Daltery, Mick Jagger, Ritchie Blackmore were all part of the movement. It is estimated that at one time there were 30-50,000 skiffle bands in the UK alone!

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  • Tracy Tomlinson August 28, 2011 at 12:01pm
       Ya...I remember lots of that old music from my childhood. All this old time music had a common denominator....IT WAS FUN!!!!!
  • Slowpaw Steve T August 28, 2011 at 11:16am
    Nice little piece Tracy!  I remember Lonnie Donegan was very popular when i was about 5, though i'm told Skiffle groups were very prolific at the time in all areas, everyone was at it! (-;
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