God, 50s pop was so bad and tasteless. Though at least it was tacky in an entertaining way as opposed to tacky in a boring way like 2010s pop. And still, I don't think I'll trade Ethel Waters for the version of "Stormy Weather" included on here any time soon.
>>122790758That woman was a Jew, OP. Just wanted to get that out there.
That's not really a "pop" album more of a standards/vocal jazz album.
>>122790758When every bitch wanted to look like Audrey Hepburn.
wut
>>122790967Fuck off chud
Very odd topic to post, but I largely agree. 40s pop was vastly superior for sure. 50s is largely meh for me, the big jazz albums were at the end of the decade. 60s had superior pop, country and jazz by a huge fucking margin.
>>122790967no one cares, /pol/
>>122790758Eydie Gorme's entire schtick was being as loud as humanly possible while having absolutely no expression, just a brute show of lung capacity at a time when loud was considered commercial.
>>122795741Streisand before Streisand?
>>122790758Naaa old pop sounds.so much better is unrealEven ultra tacky shit like Going to the chapel by the dixie cups, My girl by The Temptations, or Be My Baby by The Ronettes are so much better than 90's, 00's and 10's pop. Pop from the last 30 years is absolute unlistable diahrrea.
>>122790967Grotesque jewish demon visage. My jewdar has become finely tuned.
>>122795911>My girl by The Temptations>Be My Baby by The Ronetteslmfao son i can name a million '90s pop tracks that blow 'em out the waterhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MnELifX3sQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6-X5cZzrUwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbSIn8KzrRk
>>122796014Two of these at least would be more rock than pop. By "90s pop" one generally means bullshit like Mariah Carey or Ace of Base.
>>122796014None of those songs were number one hits. Like i said, 90's, 00's and 10's pop is unlistanable diahrrea
>>122796043As to why that is is anyone's guess.
Nah oldies are good as fuck esp 40s-50s vocal jazz
>>122795848Streisand was more about being coy and doing clever vocal phrasing than being just loud and hitting the rafters.
what i'm trying to say is that that warm analog sound with a live band playing you have in 60s pop is a lot more pleasant to listen to than tinny digital recording synth pop and why Britney sounds like shit
>>122796184I agree but hip producers thought that EDM sample loop stuff was cool and futuristic. Who would want to sound like a Doris Day record in 1998?
>>122795741>>122790967Diff. She was Sephardic Jew and Sephardics are like that, they're typically really loud and obnoxious unlike neurotic self hating Ashkenazis.
>>122790758As someone else said, the OP album is vocal jazz/showtunes it is not a pop album and Eydie wasn't ever a big presence on the Billboard.
>>122795848you could make the argument that she was a younger EG for the baby boomers although of course her style was still quite distinct and different
>>122790758I mean, it's still better than Billie Eilish.
>>122790758She died in 2013. I don't remember anything of /mu/ back then to recall if she got a sticky or not. Probably no.
>>122790758There's a lot of recordings of Stormy Weather, most don't live up to Waters's original.
>>122796014Just heard the first one and it's the most bland shit I've heard in a minute. Fuck off
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>>122790758>>122795741>he hasn't listened to eydie's bossa nova albumshamefulalthough it was 1963 so it doesnt rebut OP>>122795911those were from the 60s not 50s like OP said
>>122798702that song is much more pop (in the usual chintzy early 60s pop way) and it does avoid the "Night at the Metropolitan" excesses that plague her LPs
>>122798731her voice is really subtle and subdued with an incredible dynamic range in that album. she can go from almost a whisper to her famous belting. she does bossa nova justice for sure but it was also helped by an excellent backing band.her dansero is pure sexy romance time.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2H3Ed9XTn0
>>122790758Kay Starr's Blue Starr was from the same year as this album and also features unnecessary vocal excess and bad covers, although at least her "I Really Don't Want To Know" is played up for laughs to an extent because of how ridiculous the performance is (and also the song became a live staple of hers).
>>122799054i agree and that plays into anon's earlier point >>122795911. at least bad 50s music was often bad in an entertaining way while modern bad music is just bad. the worst thing you can be is to not only suck but also be completely uninteresting on top of it (also that describes Eydie's hubby, bad and totally devoid of any interesting qualities).
>>122798731Try that "country" album of hers for horrible and totally inappropriate covers of classic country tunes.
>>12279075850s pop hater is an oasis in a sea of Kpoop generals
>>122799054Kay could belt pretty good but she didn't even match Eydie Gorme's decible level. Her singing was more nuanced though and not as much of an unmodulated wall of noise.
>>122790758my mother said she was pretty funny on the Carol Burnett Show but fuck her singing
1950 created everything you don't like about pop music
>>122798702fucking Mitch Miller, I swear
>>122796014I want Taylor Swift to do a few songs like Be My Baby something just classic, beautiful pop, not trying to make a billion dollars but effortless and pretty. Only she can cut through the noise to change the culture.
>>122803104not with her voice. she can't even stay in pitch.
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>>122790758I have to wonder who ever thought fur coats were tasteful or stylish?
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>>122796936The worst version of Stormy Weather? Oh god, it's gotta be Connie Haines's. Provided here because the Youtube link I used to have got nuked for some reason. You bastards. This is a classic case of "hey look at my cool vibrato XD."https://archive.org/details/78_stormy-weather_connie-haines-ray-bloch-and-his-orchestra-alren-koehler_gbia0446901aThere is a Youtube link of her on Ed Sullivan performing the song in a slightly different way but just as excessive and self-indulgent. That was a common problem that plagued many pre-rock singers, performances that served mainly as a flex for their chops and why you see Cuckgau was always complaining about "that" kind of singer. And that was where Sinatra's legend came from, he could emote in a way that eluded many contemporaries.
>>122790758Whatever copywriter thought putting the word "blues" in this album titled should have been dragged out into the street and shot.
>>122795741Oh try "Gotta Have Rain" which is a cute little children's song where she doesn't do any vocal acrobatics.
Connie Haines was fairly big as a big band singer but by the 50s she was more into TV and only recorded sporadically, but also somehow ended up the first white act signed to Motown (two singles released in 1965, lol). Like Teresa Brewer her main schtick was being cute, which in practice just meant nauseating.
