How To Use Skiffle In A Sentence
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Well, I was in this little skiffle group, you know, just me and some fellows on the street.
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Without Elvis, we might all be listening to jazz or skiffle.
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But knowing that it does adds meaning and weight to each moment, especially when John discovers his idol, Elvis Presley, his fledgling "skiffle" band embarks on its first performances and John is introduced to two promising young musicians named Paul and George.
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Rockabilly and doo-wop provide the sturdy structures, with a nod to the skiffle of the Quarrymen as he sings "Long, long lost John" over the fade of "I'm Losing You", in a deliberate echo of Lonnie Donegan's version of a song borrowed from Woody Guthrie.
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For good measure there is even a prefatory skiffle session and musical interludes by Grant Olding.
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It's a shame that TV channels keep on making reality shows following Paris Hilton around or scripting the lives of the young and dumb for our amusement when they could be catch a psychedelic hippy skiffle group as they surf a drug- and BBQ chicken-powered wave across America.
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Country blues groups in the pre-war American south were sometimes described as skiffle acts, but it was Glasgow-born Lonnie Donegan who popularised the idea of making music with improvised instruments such as a washboard and tea-chest bass in the mid-50s.
Lonnie Donegan brings the skiffle craze
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A skiffle group is never gonna happen ever again.
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Jazzers detested the skifflers, who tended to look down their tea-chest basses at the folkies, often with good reason.
Times, Sunday Times
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The first scene sees friends sipping coffee and discussing the skiffle craze that is sweeping Britain.
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Set in Brighton in 1963 on the cusp of Beatlemania, there's a terrific skiffle band playing before each act, and each principal actor takes a solo turn on a bizarre instrument, ranging from washboard to tuned car-horns.
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For good measure there is even a prefatory skiffle session and musical interludes by Grant Olding.
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He was appearing with Tommy Trinder, Shani Wallis, a skiffle band, some tumblers called the Five Corsairs and an escape artiste called Zeno.
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The skiffle star died last week midway through a UK tour after collapsing at the home of friends in Peterborough, where the service took place yesterday.
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The glasses and the gawkiness told us that we, too, could have a go at what he was doing, if we were prepared to put away skiffle's tea-chest bass and washboard and invest in those solid-bodied electric guitars that appeared to have come off the same drawing board responsible for the era's befinned and chrome-laden Packard and De Soto automobiles and Wurlitzer and Rock-Ola jukeboxes.
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On a skiffle groove, the Chicks wag their fingers at the homemakers' life, singing about the pleasures of cooking, dusting, and breeding.
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It's an Italian term and it's short for the word skiffle and skiffle means disgusting but it doesn't really mean disgusting in the way we use that word in English.
Undefined
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Merseybeat, like skiffle, was a small club music and even if technique was valuable it was rarely shown off: what counted was energy and pace.
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King of skiffle Lonnie Donegan died after collapsing just hours before he was due to take the stage in York.
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They came a long way from a skiffle group to a big name band for those ‘trend-setters’ who played to so many happy dancers way back then.
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In the mid 50's he was a leading light of the skiffle movement, a genre that would influence the early Beatles incarnation, The Quarrymen.
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You dress as if you belong to a skiffle group.
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As a teenager he played guitar and harmonica with local bands and skiffle and rock ‘n’ roll groups.
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It's a rare reunion for the Old Line Skiffle Combo, a Maryland six-piece that plays traditional skiffle and rockabilly tunes using everything from a washboard to pedal-steel guitar to recreate the shufflin' '50s vibe.
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The skiffle star died last week midway through a UK tour after collapsing at the home of friends in Peterborough, where the service took place yesterday.
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He started off playing washboard with a skiffle group.
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Glasgow-born Donegan paved the way for the British pop explosion of the 1960s with skiffle, a blend of folk, blues and jazz.
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Faith's showbusiness career began in the 1950s in a skiffle band and he went on to become one of the music industry's most bankable stars before getting regular film, television and stage roles.
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We can't ask him whether he would prefer a father who can kick a ball around or a mother who doesn't remember skiffle.
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When John started a skiffle group, Julia was delighted.
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The production makes good use of rock 'n' roll, the wireless and the skiffle band.
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Forster makes similar observations on ‘Born to a Family,’ working off of a nice change-of-pace skiffle beat.
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He started off playing washboard with a skiffle group.
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Ever the wit, the 71-year-old king of skiffle had been closing his shows on that tour with the gospel blues of This May Be The Last Time.
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Ronnie played washboard with his brother Ted's outfit, the Candy Bison skiffle group, in the intermission between two Tommy Steele films at a local cinema.
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By the time he was 14, Rod was in a skiffle band with schoolmates from Nunthorpe Grammar, styling themselves the Green Corn Boys.
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As a teenager he played guitar and harmonica with local bands and skiffle and rock ‘n’ roll groups.
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But Bean has set the action in 1963 in Brighton, and the key point is that Francis Henshall, a failed skiffle player, finds himself working for two guvnors.
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He was in a school skiffle band at first.
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The conversation then drifted onto the place of kazoos in skiffle bands; this made me much happier.
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From swing to big bands and from skiffle to psychedelia, the face of music was ever-evolving in the four decades starting in the 1930s.
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Donegan's pioneering skiffle music provided inspiration for the British beat boom of the 1950s.
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When jiving and bepop was followed by skiffle, Ronnie's band, The Dominoes, were given a chance to play.
