A new book looks into the tunes that put the "roar" in "The Roaring Twenties." WRTI's Susan Lewis spoke with the author of Tunes of the Twenties and All That Jazz: The Stories Behind the Songs. Radio Script [Music: “Jelly Roll Blues,” Jelly Roll Morton, 1915]New Orleans–style music ushered in the decade. Jelly Roll Morton’s “Jelly Roll Blues” was published in 1915 and recorded in 1926, when the music business was shifting its focus from sales of sheet music to sales of records.Bob Rawlins: Now the real market for a song is not for the parlor, but for the professional singer or musician; now the composers could really get into it and write more complicated melodies. Musician and Rowan University music professor Bob Rawlins is the author of Tunes of the Twenties, a compilation of stories and information on 250 songs, from the '20s as well as years on either side of that decade. It was, says Rawlins, an era of experimentation.Rawlins: They were exploring the creative possibilities before
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