Up until the swing era, Jazz had been taken in high regard by the most serious musicians around the world, including classical composers like Stravinsky ; swing on the contrary, with its " dance craze ", ended being regarded as a degeneration towards light entertainment, more of an industry to sell records to the masses than a form of art.

The surf music craze, with the careers of almost all surf acts, was effectively ended by the British Invasion beginning ca.

After the boogie-woogie craze ended, Lewis continued working in Chicago and California.

When the disco craze ended in 1979 and record sales for both The Bee Gees and Casablanca's Village People plummeted, the company's fate was sealed.

The surf music craze, and the careers of almost all surf acts, was effectively ended by the arrival of the British Invasion from 1964.

By the onset of the Great Depression, the saxophone craze had ended, and the contrabass, already rare, all but disappeared from public view.

The Vampyre has been accounted by cultural critic Christopher Frayling as one of the most influential works of fiction ever written and spawned a craze for vampire fiction and theatre ( and latterly film ) which has not ceased to this day.

They were pioneers of the vocal " surf music " craze that was popularized by The Beach Boys.

Fueled by fictional depictions in martial arts movies, this led to the ninja craze of the 1980s United States.

Johnny's haircut inspired a craze for sideburns, followed by James Dean and Elvis Presley, among others.

Some historians of music have pointed to important and innovative developments that built on rock and roll in this period, including multitrack recording, developed by Les Paul, the electronic treatment of sound by such innovators as Joe Meek, and the Wall of Sound productions of Phil Spector, continued desegregation of the charts, the rise of surf music, garage rock and the Twist dance craze.

The skiffle craze, led by Lonnie Donegan, utilised amateurish versions of American folk songs and encouraged many of the subsequent generation of rock and roll, folk, R & B and beat musicians to start performing.

In their wake, pop music filled the radio waves, dominated by teen idol crooners who sang cleansed formulas like those about the twist dance craze and " death discs " like " Teen Angel " and " Endless Sleep ".

The puzzle craze that was created by the 15 Puzzle began in January 1880 in the US and in April in Europe.

The intellectual and spiritual tensions erupted in the Early Modern witch craze, further reinforced by the turmoil of the Protestant Reformation, especially in Germany, England, and Scotland.

Line matrix printers were originally popularized by the mini-computer craze and continued its growth as a bar code printer.

Columbia Pictures cashed in on the new craze by hiring Haley and his band to star in two quickie movies, Rock Around the Clock ( 1956 ) and Don't Knock the Rock ( 1957 ).

' Intense trade with the Roman Empire soon followed, confirmed by the Roman craze for Chinese silk ( supplied through the Parthians ), even though the Romans thought silk was obtained from trees.

Nevertheless, the real witch-hunting craze was yet to come and arrived with the Protestant Reformation when Salem-style witch trials began to proliferate in the " Reformed " areas of Europe, the Reformers sometimes borrowing from books like " Malleus " precisely because it had been condemned by the Catholic Church.

Developed by Kathryn Wilson, the Charleston became a popular dance craze in the wider international community during the 1920s.

His lifestyle would be restored to one of luxury, and his hold on his fans raised to an amazing level, by his position of leadership in the sports memorabilia craze that swept the USA, beginning in the 1980s.

In 1982, Atari attempted to take advantage of the craze following the arcade game Pac-Man by releasing a version for the Atari 2600.

After being prodded by Dennis to write a song about the local water sports craze, Brian and Mike Love together created what would become the first single for the band, " Surfin '".

The skiffle craze was largely over by 1958 as its enthusiasts either abandoned music for more stable employment, or moved into some of the forms of music it had first suggested, including folk, the blues and rock and roll.

By the late 1970s leotards had become common both as exercise and street wear, popularized by the disco craze, and aerobics fashion craze of the time.

Calypso, especially a toned-down, commercial variant, became a worldwide craze with the release of the " Banana Boat Song ", or " Day-O ", a traditional Jamaican folk song, whose best-known rendition was done by Harry Belafonte on his album Calypso ( 1956 ); Calypso was the first full-length record to sell more than a million copies.

Egg made her a star by frequently featuring her in its pages during the height of the ganguro craze.

The movie inspired a brief craze for the Nim variation played by the characters.

The game became a craze in the U. S. in February 1880, Canada in March, Europe in April, but that craze had pretty much dissipated by July.

On 7 July 1962 BBC TV broadcast ' Twist Music With A Beat ', a pop music programme about the dance craze ' The Twist ', featuring a Twist competition between Juke Box Jury members and members of the cast of ' Compact '.

This is false — Loyd had nothing to do with the invention or popularity of the puzzle, and in any case the craze was in 1880, not the early 1870s:

However, Loyd had nothing to do with the invention or initial popularity of the puzzle, and in any case the craze was in 1880, not the early 1870s.

It was invented by Noyes Chapman and created a puzzle craze in 1880.

Within a few years, the sneezing powder craze that swept the country had subsided, and Sam set out to innovating new products.

Fred Allen's December 30, 1936 radio broadcast included a humorous wrapup of the year's least important events, including a supposed interview with the man who " invented a negative craze " on April 1st: " Ramrod Dank ... the first man to coin a Knock Knock.

Worms 2 marked the first true step in the widespread Worm craze and characterised the direction which the series would take from then on.

Valli had his first truly solo hit in the summer of 1975 ( all of his prior " solo " hits were in fact Four Seasons productions ) when the Bob Crewe-produced " Swearin ' to God " followed " My Eyes Adored You " into the upper reaches of the Hot 100, peaking at the # 6 position and capitalizing on the growing disco craze.

Many encountered blues for the first time through the skiffle craze of the second half of the 1950s, particularly the songs of Leadbelly covered by acts like Lonnie Donegan.

In 1706 he confessed, first to friends and then to the general public, although by this time London society had largely grown tired of the " Formosan craze ".

The first popular music craze in Tanzania was in the early 1930s, when Cuban Rumba was widespread.

In the early years of the 20th century, dancers and orchestras from Buenos Aires travelled to Europe, and the first European tango craze took place in Paris, soon followed by London, Berlin, and other capitals.

Created by Al Capp ( 1909 – 1979 ), it first appeared in his classic comic strip Li ' l Abner on August 31, 1948, and quickly became a postwar national craze in the USA.

In 1928, blending traditional work, blues, hobo and cowboy music, Jimmie Rodgers released his first recording " Blue Yodel No. 1 ", and created an instant national craze for yodeling in the United States.

While guitar amplifiers from the beginning were used to amplify acoustic guitar, electronic amplification of guitar was first widely popularized by the 1930s and 1940s craze for Hawaiian music, which extensively employed the amplified lap steel Hawaiian guitar.

Initially this was dominated by American acts, or re-creations of American forms of music, but soon distinctly British forms began to appear, first in the uniquely British take on American folk music in the Skiffle craze of the 1950s, in the beginnings of a folk revival that came to place an emphasis on national traditions and then in early attempts to produce British rock and roll.

It became the first worldwide dance craze in the early 1960s, enjoying immense popularity among young people and drawing fire from critics who felt it was too provocative.

In the 21st century Yeovil became the first town in Britain to institute a system of biometric fingerprint scanning in nightclubs and the first English council to ban the children's craze Heelys.

In February 2007, Yeovil Town Council became the first English council to ban the children's craze Heelys in the centre of the town and High Street.

Latin dance styles also exerted a huge influence on the direction of western popular music ; this was especially true of jazz, which was profoundly altered by the advent of the first wave of Latin music in the 1940s and then by the bossa nova craze of the 1960s, which also had a massive influence on American pop music.

The commercial success of the first " Stars On 45 " single started a medley craze in the years of 1981, 1982 and 1983, with a multitude of similar, more or less anonymous studio productions being released by both minor and major record labels in both Continental Europe and the U. K., such as Hits On 45 with " Disco Beatles ", Disco On 33 with " 28 Hits of the Superstars ", Disco Dancing On 33 with " Disco Dancing On 33 ", Magazine 60 with " Magazine 60 ", Intro Disco with " Intro Disco ", Startrax with their Bee Gees medley " Startrax Club Disco ", Tight Fit with " Back to the 60's Vol.

Martin Easterbrook began his 1977 review of Ogre ( first edition ) by saying " Be warned: this game could become a craze " adding that " the idea of the microgames themselves is remarkable enough in itself.

In The Rookie's Guide to Crazes, a supplement for the Judge Dredd D20 System RPG, Sky-Surfing is the first craze covered.

Levi ’ s jeans apparently were first introduced to the East during the dude ranch craze of the 1930s, when vacationing Easterners returned home with tales ( and usually examples ) of the hard-wearing pants with rivets.

The first known use of the French term décalcomanie, in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Eleanor's Victory ( 1863 ), was soon followed by the English decalcomania in an 1865 trade show catalog ( The Tenth Exhibition of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association ); it was popularized during the ceramic transfer craze of the mid-1870s.