What type of music was typically played in the 40s?

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Swing and Dixie Land Jazz were pretty popular through World War II. Just afterwards you started to hear regional music like Texas Swing, and you had Country and Western in Tennessee and the southern region.

Pop music at the time consisted of crooners like Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby. Those types of people were good stage performers with good voices.

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