Skiffle Music
Skiffle is a music genre with jazz, blues, folk and American folk influences, usually using a combination of manufactured and homemade or improvised instruments.
Originating as a term in the United States in the first half of the 20th century,
it became extremely popular again in the UK in the 1950s, where it was associated with artists such as Lonnie Donegan, The Vipers Skiffle Group, Ken Colyer and Chas McDevitt.
Skiffle played a major part in beginning the careers of later eminent jazz, pop, blues, folk and rock musicians such as The Beatles and Rory Gallagher.
It has been seen as a critical stepping stone to the
second British folk revival,
blues boom
and
British Invasion
of the US popular music scene.
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skiffle
Exhibit Paying Homage To Skiffle Music Genre Of The 1950’s Era
Sir Cliff Richard, OBE (born Harry Rodger Webb; 14 October 1940) is a British pop singer, musician, performer, actor and philanthropist. Richard has sold more than 250 million records worldwide.[
He has total sales of over 21 million singles in the
United Kingdom and is the third-top-selling artist in
UK Singles Chart history, behind
the Beatles and
Elvis Presley.
Richard was originally marketed as a rebellious rock and roll singer in the style of Elvis and Little Richard.
With his backing group, the Shadows, Richard dominated the British popular music scene in the pre-Beatles period of the late 1950s to early 1960s.
His 1958 hit single "Move It" is often described as Britain's first authentic rock and roll song; in the opinion of John Lennon of the Beatles, "before Cliff and the Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music".
Increased focus on his Christianity and subsequent
softening of his music led to a more
middle-of-the-road image and he sometimes ventured into
contemporary Christian music.
Source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Richard
Sir Cliff Richard Photograph Taken Off TV Screen
