ITT: /mu/ in 1954
Jazz is reigning supreme. A great year in my book.
Fuck you Perry Como, seriously...just fuck you.
Only 11 years left until music gets good.
>>127997276There's this little 12 year old shit in Queens named Bob Christgau. If any of you see him, kick his ass.
>>127997276the last year of the malaise period of muzic that began after the war ended
A LINE A DAY WHEN YOU'RE FAR AWAYLITTLE THINGS MEAN A LOT
What is this Negro noise doing on my radio? I bet the communists did this.
>>127997708yeah to hell with that little punk
It's only 35 years until Taylor Swift is born. Enjoy it while it lasts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6enJYluQv0Snapping little tune I heard on the Negro music station the other day. Wouldn't it be a shame if every white group in the known universe covered this and ran it into the ground lol.
>>127997839who?
You all never believed I'd be back after all those years but here we are.
>>127997935if only you'd stayed gone, Kitty, because let's be honest. The new stuff just ain't "I'm Beginning To See The Light."
Hi.
>>127997276What the hell do you even call this? It just sounds like a bunch of noisehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gJg7_FgVTI
>>127997977You and your Four Lads buddies can stuff it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQAewxbjzMs
>>127997576Can’t stop winning
>>127998051They wrote off ol' Frank as dead as a dodo a few years ago. Then again they also wrote off Kitty Kallen as dead too.
Son, if I catch you listening to that Negro station again I'm whipping you with a belt. That racket'll turn you into a hedonistic sex fiend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C7SzKv2uLUNeedless to say, a big big '54 hit that made Kallen into a (temporary) superstar again. If you overlook that the song is a male songwriter's deluded fantasy.>as if any real woman would be satisfied with anything but expensive bling
It begins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgO2ZN4BxOIThe B-side was a hit too.
>>127998114Please no, "Secret Love" is one of the worst examples of 50s dreck there is.
>>127998188that kid's getting some attention down South in the last six months. he may go places someday.
Hey buddy, need a Negro tune covered for white radio? We can do that.
i swear i'm not of gommie please don't beat me up, J. Edgar.
>>127998318I just never liked CB that much. Maybe it's just me.
>>127998363Ha ha I hope Mike Love doesn't cover this song on his solo album 27 years from now and utterly mutilate it.
>>127998363https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnMhUb5Ce1wYoutube rec-ed a bunch of other versions over their original with Dinah Washington's at the top.
>>127998363you gusanos enjoy your fun while it lasts, you and Perez Prado before your property is expropriated and returned to the people in a few years
>>127998363sluts
>>127998437Back in that time Latin girls were kind of seen as exotic and more allowed to get away with it than white women.
>>127998417https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emkqc3PIw8EDinah's cover which is arguably the best of many of them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfbmpVp54W4Kay's voice was a power tool with attachments and that wasn't always a good thing.
>>127997771this was the first doo-wop tune to make the Billboard top 30, a watershed moment of sorts
Hi yo!
Go Giants!
"Gee, Pop, these burgers are sure swell. Thanks for taking me to that baseball game earlier today.""You're welcome, Billy. You know, in the communist countries they don't have baseball or burgers. In fact they don't even have food at all.""I'm glad I live in America, Pop.""Me too, son, me too."
>>127998700some lewd sweater puppies there
>>127998700This year is her climax as a pop star. She also became her Puerto Rican bvll's incubator around this time.
>>127998829https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T45e9EzFFHQThis had a harpsichord arrangement which had a funny story to it, the thing was discovered locked in a closet at the CBS studio in New York City and Percy Faith and Mitch Miller found it in there and had to jimmy the lock to get to it. They used it on a number of recordings including "Hey There."
>>127997276i bought some reefer cigarettes from the colored fellow who plays piano in my apartment building's lobby. they smelled awful like a skunk broke into my apartment, but he was right--they made my doris day records sound better than i've ever heard them before
>>127998879check if Dizzie Gillespie needs a keyboardist, maybe he'll offer that guy a job in his band
>>127998829Clooney eventually got her hard-won freedom to do jazz records and not make Mitch Miller pop slop.
>>127998879I hope the cops bust up you reefer smoking commie punks and the judge gives you an option of jail or the Army.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxikpVx0y60
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n4a_CCCoPAUgh, I hate the Four Aces though.
>>127999039Speak of the devil. Yes, the Four Aces really did suck and they were very big in this time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNnUdjC3yucMeanwhile on black radio, in case you decided the Four Aces and that other group with Four in their name should shut the fuck up.
>>127999103ha ha i hope some pasty white British dudes don't steal this song 15 years from now and add a bunch of retarded "baby baby" and Tolkien shit to it
only one year until Pat Boone blows up on the charts. fug.
Ha ha whoops!
>>127999182Big Mama Thornton gave an extremely graphic account of his death.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re2max0ozDcUghhh...
>>127999243yep that's a classic Mitch Miller number. he loved those campy pop folk tunes.
>>127999103if you thought they were bad, there's a new big name in annoying earworms this year
>>127999277This new fad of covering Negro songs is starting to bug me. hopefully we don't see more of it, and by that I mean a lot more next year.
Rosemary Clooney and Teresa Brewer are the waifu b8 of the industry, guys. Don't be fooled.
>>127999277they sound amazing when you've tried some reefer though. my contact Al in Queens gets me the green stuff.
sneed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9kkVo7h0X8Christgau hates this guy. Also his first hit in three years.
>>127998114https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiueIiFJdN8Schlock times infinity. Also that Patti Page imitation on here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebGNmVGEBxcThat is a problematic song title, more 1924 than '54.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6QD5gzHy7c
OH MY PAPA, HE WAS SO WONDERFUL TO MEEEEEE
>>127999813ah fuck i was hoping we'd not remember that song but it was a top 10 '54 hit so alas
WHEN THE MOON HITS YOUR EYE LIKE A BIG PIZZA PIE
>>127999309https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjbW9A2AI4ANot the Clapton tune, not hardly. Relatively non-obnoxious by her usual standards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVGt-qNQ4OsHey we forgot about you, Nat.
>>127997472https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0mbdgPn5yUBig hit for her this year.
>>128000001>>127999915lot of Navy themes here
>>128000032Not surprising for that era. In fact my mom was born this year and when she was a kid she said everyone's dad had been in WW2 or Korea pretty much.
>>128000067goddamn your mom is old as fuck. mine was born in 72.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG5Brc9KrS8Jo's last really big hit. Last year where most of the big pre-rock singers were in the top 10.
>>128000288If you complain about today's music being stale and that Swift et al have been around a needlessly long time, consider that the Billboard in 54 was heavily populated with singers who'd been recording since before Pearl Harbor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIxFr2HMx6Y
>>127997884https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm66TadVYCoDidn't take them long to get on it. Though this is the only version that keeps the original unaltered lyrics.
>>128000460two things you can count on of Nashville. nepo babbies and their weird periodic country jailbait fetish.
>>128000256begone zoomer
>>128000307>>127999039BTW when they call Teresa the baby of show biz on here, they mean it. She was born in '31 and younger than basically every other major pop act at the time, a number of whom were older than 30 and some pushing 40, and pretty much held that title until Connie Francis emerged a few years later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mupNf8uF684
>>128000576>Tony forced to sing Mitch Miller junk
>>128000598It's not the worst thing I've ever heard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np8q6CHMaAo
>>128000667Etta James stole this song and made it better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TCakAC_PAIit's our favorite non-hit making ex candy factory queen back for more
>>128000747https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFAqftIqU3wI think this is really a comp and not a real album.
>>127997276Hey out there hepcat! Why, you is a slick damn fiend with your souped-up hot rod and these iggy little motley four-strings... hey how about let's listen here you rat! Get down to this highway impudence already, gee whillikers!https://youtu.be/2hkb76EmBWc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIk94AxEQTQJaye's first Billboard hit (charted '55 technically but came out late '54)
who's gonna buy this thing? bunch of noise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ENXNEzBm8s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdeLVrLEHDIThe McGuire Sisters did it better though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnwOGVjQYh0another cute little R&B tune that hopefully doesn't get bawlerized by a white pop singer/group
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSK5cmM7tNU
>>127997276https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHiFsRQEHQwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbsCoDKt-TEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0eQyVaiBDAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wIPwkPhqc4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZLeZc6PhUchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzseIGaFGHwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1r_VS2slTchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3j1c1nY3a4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfoseSZtllohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_04gApuN8ohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iitquX6vNJUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usWVEG3fUCwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYrfGt5IGS8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGY5E0Y3XhEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB9qghkOD4Yhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J61wRKVq26khttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF-HkpAB_z4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvzqnOX9Q4chttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5D_jCtdG20https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz88jtE17oYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0JZ4P9RiWohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2Y6jZCBpVwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mWb47xZzO0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WclW0NuKcuohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruWHWXRkHHkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhe1zoKGqFQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiFSYJjvgwcPost-War music is not my area of expertise, even with the 45Prof's playlists as a guide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le0b0qmrA4EThis multi-feature record is just...ughhh. Columbia may have taken good singers and forced them to sing garbage but Coral had a roster of people who never were anything but schlock meisters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbPUsm_DONs
i hate niggerfied modern music is.
>>128001265Can't believe everyone's covering coon tunes these days.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5d9rTL0Fp0
>>128001177Coral was Decca's imprint for their more schlock tier acts and it was run by Bob Thiele, as great a schlock god as Mitch Miller but not quite as famous.
>>128000747I give Peggy points for that, she hasn't done a Negro cover record and hopefully never does.
>>128001282https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3j1c1nY3a4yep
>>128001331The Big Joe Turner original had a bit more edgy lyrics. Good song though, lays down the truth about women.>his hussy of a wife spends all day dolling up her hair and putting on unnecessarily revealing outfits while there's no food on the table when he gets home from work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMVDQi16d4sof course how could we forget
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpdT8MNrK00
>>127999068https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqFBfpwWu1ENeeds a cover to improve on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpjltbEVZ8Q
this thread is way less racist than i expected
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaIs2DHkC-8
damn i missed I Love Lucy the other night. wish someday they'd invent some kind of recorder so you could record TV shows when you're out of town.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mOOHhRh09s
He is Born this year
BIRD LIVESam I too early?>>128001981hide your wallets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tN1qdCpaSw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7tXqQSYM88
>>127998083>He was right
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGocil_Bj7c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubDKbodFgY4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7Yup2VBKxE
>>128002258Too restrained and orchestral compared to Kay. She can't escape the Euro in her.
Also this is some bong thing isn't it? Because who the fuck are Alma Cogan and Norma Wisdom?
>>128002272>Too restrained and orchestral compared to Kay. She can't escape the Euro in her.I see you Christgau.
>>128001331>>128001371>I'm like a one-eyed cat peeping in a seafood storeWhat did he MEAN by this
Love me leaded gasoline, love me Lucky Strikes, love chewing on asbestos insulation, simple as.
>>128002351Love me over the hill ex-big band singers who were in the top 10 ten years ago and are still in the top 10. If only some new revolutionary music movement happened. About time already.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVi96k75EgM
>>128002519Those early Capitol recordings of his still sound half like his Columbia style, he hadn't quite made the jump yet to how he'll sound on Chicago That Toddlin' Town.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61HW8uxzEZs
>>127998363Christgau wrote a column about this song which is rather interesting as it's not in his usual realm of interest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6bWjUbYxOU
>>128002645ha wow his voice was sure different back then
>>128002658He was only 19 and hadn't gotten his style down pat yet. Yeah he did sound like a squeaky teenager on those Sun recordings.
REMINDER: Do not play Negro records in your place of business if you do not want to attract the wrong crowd. This degenerate noise is bad for everyone.
>>128002469Somehow Georgia Gibbs didn't have anything chart this year.
https://rilds.com/song/1487496952-april_stevens/04470336791080423766-treat_me_nice/Not on Youtube, but the queen of exotica impersonates Kitty Kallen here but more lewd. It's also the last recording she'll make for a number of years.
It's funny how /mu/ seems more enthusiastic about shitty 50's housewife pop than the amazing blues, country, and rock n roll the decade had to offer
>>128002984whut? we posted quite a bit of blues and R&B stuff in here. rock and roll obviously hasn't quite emerged yet in 54. yes there isn't much country I give you that but /mu/ kind of sucks at country. but here, have a Lula Reed for your trouble. she was always good.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZawlTtVJs8
>>128003068One Kitty Wells tune for the entire thread. Plus a stupid cover by her crotch spawn.
>>128002984Everybody's heard all that boomer shit. It's more interesting to find something new.
>>128002469yeah things were stale. as he said the magazine cover hyping up Teresa Brewer because her and Joni James (who didn't have a hit this year) were then the only major pop stars born after the 1920s.
>>128003116>boomer shitYou keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.gif
>>128003115Eddy Arnold's also big in this time but he's really a pop singer with a country flavor not a "real" country singer like Kitty or Hank.
>>127998228The Moonglows' deconstruction of Secret Love is funny.
>>128001445we could have more jazz not enough of it posted
>>128000866>Bill Haley & The Comets recorded the epochal song at Decca's Pytheum in New York City on April 13, 1954, but it wasn't a hit and failed to even chart at all. Only after the song was later featured in Blackboard Jungle did it take off and become one of the biggest hits of '55 and one of the decade's most defining songs.
>>127998401TMTN was a Sammy Kahn tune and despite him being a close friend of Sinatra, the latter didn't cover the song at the time or any time until the 80s and LA Is My Lady.
>>128003170>yeah things were staleAs proof, the resurrection of Kitty Kallen who was last on the charts during WW2.
>>128003225Had both of Chet Baker's 54 lps though I'm not especially a fan of him.
>>127998542https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYKou3jq778
>>128003068cool song
>>128003276Can't say I'm overly fond of the piano here.
>>127997276
>>127998266>leafslop
can we do a thread about 1990 next?
