• recording session. The 19421944 musicians' strike remains the longest strike in entertainment history. The strike did not affect musicians performing on live...
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  • This list of Hollywood strikes names the industrial strikes organized by Hollywood trade unions such as SAG-AFTRA (formerly the Screen Actors Guild (SAG)...
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  • demise of the swing era: the 19421944 musicians' strike from August 1942 to November 1944 (The union that most jazz musicians belong to told its members...
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    capitalize on 'Casablanca's' (1942) theme music. Because of the American Federation of Musicians' 19421944 musicians' strike, which resulted in a ban on...
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  • the commercial recording industry was restricted during the 19421944 musicians' strike which including a recording ban, but Ellington did make annual...
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    Ed Ames (category Jewish American musicians)
    Records in 1947, but because of the Musician Union's ban in 1948, a holdover from the 19421944 musicians' strike, Decca released only three singles by...
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  • Love" and "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'" in 1943. Due to the 19421944 musicians' strike, however, these recordings featured no instrumental accompaniment...
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  • and Haymes records were made during the 19421944 musicians' strike, an American Federation of Musicians strike against the recording companies. As a result...
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    records released with a choral backing because the 19421944 musicians' strike prevented union musicians from making commercial recordings. a. ^ Jordan's...
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    the 19421944 musicians' strike, which started on July 31, 1942, and lasted through November 11, 1944, for the Columbia label. Striking musicians were...
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  • recordings were made in 1943 due to the 1942–44 musicians' strike). It was released by Classics in 1995. The April 1, 1942, session includes the first recording...
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    line linking Stalingrad to Krasnodar. 19421944 musicians' strike: The American Federation of Musicians went on strike against the major U.S. recording companies...
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  • Hard times hit the orchestra in 1940 and the Petrillo BMI strike 19421944 musicians' strike orchestra leaders were suddenly without music to play ASCAP...
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    recordings by union members from 19421944 and again in 1948 to pressure record companies to improve royalty payments to musicians. These were called the "Petrillo...
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  • (As certified by Billboard magazine) On August 1, 1942, a strike by the American Federation of Musicians ended all recording sessions. Record companies kept...
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  • depth charged and sunk south of Ireland by British warships. The 1942–44 musicians' strike ends in the United States when RCA Victor and Columbia Records...
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  • Sentimental Journey (song) (category 1944 songs)
    1942–44 musicians' strike. When the strike ended, the band, with Doris Day as vocalist, recorded the song for Columbia Records on November 20, 1944,...
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  • founded in England. August 1 – The 1942–44 musicians' strike begins. The American Federation of Musicians goes on strike against the major U.S. recording...
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    Industrial relations were also poor: In the first half of 1942, there were several local strikes over wages across the country, which also reduced output...
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    Glenn Miller (category 1944 deaths)
    Connecticut. Its personnel were a talented mix of jazz musicians from major big bands and musicians from leading symphony orchestras. Miller would successfully...
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  • French Navy re-enter their base at Toulon.[citation needed] The 1942–44 musicians' strike ends in the United States when RCA Victor and Columbia Records...
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    The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 was one of the most famous and influential strikes in Canadian history. For six weeks, May 15 to June 26, more than...
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    title. A labor dispute prompted DSO musicians to strike on October 4, 2010. On February 19, 2011, after the musicians rejected a final offer made on February...
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  • Commandos Strike at Dawn is a 1942 war film directed by John Farrow and written by Irwin Shaw from a short story entitled "The Commandos" by C. S. Forester...
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  • Statistics. January 1936. Statistics, United States Bureau of Labor (1944-01-01). "Strikes in 1943 : Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics...
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    The Disney animators' strike was a 1941 American film industry work stoppage where unionized employees of Walt Disney Productions picketed and disrupted...
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  • on December 11, 1944. When Como went on the air for CBS, the 1942–44 musicians' strike was in full force. The strike by union musicians was meant to force...
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    Paul Weston (category Musicians from Springfield, Massachusetts)
    for the new label on April 6, 1942. On August first of that year, the 1942–44 musicians' strike began. No union musicians could record for any record company...
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  • only recordings that the musician's union allowed Sinatra to record during the session musicians strike between 1942 and 1944 and he took full advantage...
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    List of striking United States workers by year (category Strikes in the United States)
    Statistics. "Strikes in 1940" (PDF). Bureau of Labor Statistics. "Strikes in 1941" (PDF). Bureau of Labor Statistics. "Strikes in 1942" (PDF). Bureau...
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