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>>128029571Brenda rarely had a bad song but outside The Christmas Hit (TM) she missed having a truly iconic hit like "Oh Pretty Woman."
her and Connie Francis had a lopsided domination of the early 60s charts as there was a lack of pop girls then compared to the 50s
>>128029571But first, let's remember that albums were not that big of a thing until the late 60s. Like does anyone really remember Elvis or the Everly Brothers for an album? Not really. But it's also the case that touring as we know it was born in the 1965-75 period, just as albums became a thing. I may be wrong but I don't think the old timers like Frank Sinatra or Bing Crosby ever did full tours the same way Taylor Swift does. In those days, you would perform on the TV variety shows, radio, or even plug your songs in the movies (which Crosby often did).
>>128029849First of all, I don't think it's entirely true that albums didn't take off until the late 60s. The Sinatra Capitol albums were big sellers. The West Side Story and the Sound of Music and Oklahoma soundtracks were big. Even a Vaughan Meader comedy album could sell in the millions.Touring wasn't really global and tied to album promotion like it is now, granted. But Sinatra in '58 I think played like 69 dates, Louis Armstrong was always performing around the world annually. And before that, when bands would play nightclub and theater residencies, they might do 200 dates a year.And of course Columbia might also release an album, back when it was really a record album -- a collection of 78s in an album binding, like Sinatra's The Voice of Frank Sinatra album topped the Billboard album charts for 7 weeks in 1946 when the album chart was a new thing.And jazz and mood music and classical music were being made and sold as albums throughout the '50s in ways that pop music didn't catch up to for a while.
The LP form, which generations of critics since the 60s have taken as the basic unit of music as art, wasn't really the main vehicle for pop music in those years, or not until the very end. So... it's a bit of a blank spot for critics and for listeners who get their music history from album-oriented critics.Also, an awful lot of music history, as understood since 1967 or so, seems to be organised around the Beatles - what went into them, how they changed things, and what followed from them. For my tastes, the best music of the period in question here doesn't really fit into a Beatle-centric version of popular music history. The Beatles themselves were occasional promoters of this myth (before Elvis there was nothing, etc), even if they all also loved plenty of the music that was supposedly 'nothing' (e.g. Sentimental Journey, the MPL catalogue and Kisses On the Bottom, George Formby, the Bing Crosby records in John's jukebox...).In short, there are some blinders to our vision of this period, owing to our assumptions about the form of art (LP) and the way subsequent music history cast a retrospective Beatle-centric hierarchy on the era in question.
>>128029849you only think this because you havent listened to many albums from that time
>>128029571the early 60s gets kind of dogpiled on
>>128029924It was hardly a bad time unless you like hard rock, which was definitely lacking and yes the Beatles PR machine created a lot of myths about the 1959-63 period that aren't really true. It is true that a lot of early 60s heavyweights like Connie, Brenda, Del, Roy, the Shirelles etc got wiped from the charts by the British Invasion but with The Beach Boys, Motown, soul music, Sam Cooke, folk, Dylan, Doo Wop, instrumental hit? there was quite a lot there.
>>128029941I would argue that girl groups reach their peak in this era- no one else came close to the success of The Supremes- 12 #1s on the Billboard Hot 100 between 64-69. Only Elvis and The Beatles enjoyed greater success than Mary, Florence and Diana. I would also argue that Motown and Soul in general had a far greater impact on how pop music has developed than commentators (particularly American's) give credit. Probably equal to the Beatles- it even influenced the Beatles
>>128029736>>128029667Connie was always too pretty and girly voiced to ever be accepted by rockfags, I think they respected Brenda a lot more.
I'm guessing you mean female. Wanda Jackson, Collin's Twin's. There's not a lot. Most are one hit wonders. I think Linda Scott "I've Told Every Star" is amazing but nothing else by her.
>>128029571Brenda Lee later crossed over to country but had a hard time being accepted by Nashville who pigeonholed her as a pop singer. It should be emphasized that her management insisted on marketing her as pop even though she recorded a lot of her hits in Nashville with the same session guys who backed country stars of the day and her hits were for the most part pop only and did not appear on the country charts.
>>128029571Taylor Swift used to admire BL in the early days when she pretended to be country.
Reflections In Blue is probably the weakest LP Brenda ever did. Too Muzak-sounding and her vocal delivery is pretty off. It might be because it was recorded in Los Angeles, where she was not at home, instead of Nashville, where she was.
>>128030028Connie Francis is like...it's kind of hard to listen to her songs once you know the less than pleasant circumstances around how most of them were made. Kind of like the old saying about never watch sausages being manufactured.
