Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Jean Goldkette's Orch. - I'd Rather Be..., 1926

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  1. Pretty Racie stuff...Don't you think? The first Follies Berger poster showed a girl in a bikini...This was probably the first bikini...

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  2. Here's a portion of a Wikipedia story about the beginnings of the Hays Code for motion pictures, about the 1920s...

    By the 1920s, the New York stage — a frequent source of subsequent screen material—had topless shows, performances filled with curse words, mature subject matters, and sexually suggestive dialogue.[14] Early in the sound system conversion process, it became apparent that what might be acceptable in New York would not be so in Kansas.

    They called it "The Roaring Twenties" for a good reason it seems...

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