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 Good Afternoon Music 1020 classmates. For this weeks Listening Blog I decided to write about the first song I saw on this list of choices. I am writing about the song “Papas got a brand new bag” by James Brown. The first thing that I noticed when I started playing this song was the jazz music sound. I like how you can hear each individual instrument throughout the song. He followed the basic concepts of music and  kept everything really simple. I related this song to a personal experience in my life, I spent 6 years in band class playing this at football games and I thought that it was really annoying because it was so easy. So it is nice to hear the origins of the song. I really like being able to see how music has progressed up until this point in time. I feel like this is setting everything up for the next few decades of music to come. I can hear a lot of the same concepts in this music as we hear in todays music and its really cool to me. Thank you!!

 Good Afternoon, for this week I decided to listen to and write about the song from chapter 8 “sh-boom” by the Chords. I chose this song because it gave me so many memories from the days when I would spend countless hours watching the cars movies. This quartet published the song in 1980 and it was a hit. I am sure you have heard a few of their other songs as well. A common misconception that people have with this song is the fact that they can’t get the cars movie out of their heads to listen to the words. After listening to this great song for the third time, I started to realize that this song was a love song. I mainly got confused because of the absolute nonsense sounds that they sing. Instead of focusing on the words I focused on that a lot of the time. I couldn’t help but chuckle when I heard them. One example of this is towards the start of the song when they are singing do do do do sh-boom. There are a few others in there as well that I don’t know that there is even a way to...

 For this weeks blog post I chose to write about Hound Dog by Elvis Presley. Elvis was a world renowned singer. I believe that everyone knows of Elvis. Everyone from the older generation to the new generation. I feel like everyone teaches their kids about the “legend” Elvis. In this song you can tell how much passion he puts into all of his songs. The reason this song stuck out to me is because it is an iconic dance song. When this song came out, it instantly became a hit. Not only is it a good song, but I believe that it shaped dance music into what it is today. The main reason for this is because of how up beat this is. If you think of a dance that isn’t a slow dance, a lot of the music is upbeat and follows the same pattern as this song. And finally, I enjoy how catchy the lyrics are. If you can create a song that everyone can easily remember the words and sing along with it, then your song is going to do a ton better when it comes to the billboards. Everyone knows of at least o...

 For this weeks listening blog I chose to listen to “Deed I Do” by Ruth Etting. I chose this song for no particular reason other then that it was the first song on the list. This song sounds like any classical love song. It was written and released in 1926 and it was produced by Fred Rose. If you were to take the words out of this song, you would almost be able to guess what words she is singing just from the music. It is like any song you here today that if you hear one clip of the sound, you instantly know it word for word. I feel like this song was very popular during its time just because it was an easy song to memorize and it was kind of catchy. I like how she uses the tempo to change emotion from happy to sad. One other way she changes emotions is through the volume of her voice. When she gets quite you can tell it is a sad part and when she sings a little louder you can tell that she wanted you to feel happy. This makes sense because she is singing about her true love and wh...