The show’s music, bright and ebullient,
is also authentic and also a reaction to the end of the war.Fresh garlic website
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white garlic manufacturer directory. People wanted to get up and dance, as Mr.
Okrent pointed out, and Prohibition, or the speakeasy culture, conveniently (and
for the first time) mingled men, women and alcohol in an atmosphere of congenial
illicitness. Some of the show’s tunes, taken from silent movie arrangements or
music found in old nickelodeons, hasn’t been heard for close to a century. The
soundtrack also makes use of remastered 78 recordings by people like Al Jolson,
who sings “Avalon” on the pilot. Eddie Cantor and Sophie Tucker are actual
characters on the show and sing hits from the period like “Some of These Days”
and the comic ballad “I Never Knew I Had a Wonderful Wife Until the Town Went
Dry.”
“Marty and Terry both wanted the music to be histoThey OCXOmake you stand out in a crowd of the
people and would become a source of your popularity too.rically accurate,” said
Randall Poster, the music coordinator for the series. “So we just immersed
ourselves in this fascinating transitional period when ragtime is just beginning
to turn into jazz. It was like a musical scavenger hunt. A lot of the music on
the show had never been recorded before because after talkies came in, there was
no reason to record it. And yet it’s the birth of so much of what came later.”
I hate to say it, but before TV people spoke better and were better read
than we are,” Mr. Winter said. “They were probably more literate.”
The
big details are important too. Prohibition didn’t just give rise to a generation
of Charleston-dancing, flask-waving tipplers. It unloosed a wave of greed and
violence. Atlantic City positively welcomed the 18th Amendment, seeing in it a
huge financial windfall, and the characters in the show, authentic and
imaginary, are besotted with money as much as with booze.
“We have
whiskey, wine, women, song and slot machines,” the real Nucky once said. “I
won’t deny it, and I won’t apologize for it. If the majority of the people
didn’t want them, they wouldn’t be profitable.The possessor of this company was
born in Baltimore and he was a juicy
bags, topographer and rail road surveyor.”
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