ITT: /mu/ in 1961
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Hi.
>>128504383I just got back from Liverpool. I went to this place called the Cavern Club. There was this band there called The Beatles (lol). Four guys with silly haircuts. British music has no future.
>>128504517https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tto9-9PGVJwHit it Brenda!
>>128504655Its all just fucking skiffle these days and jazz worship. Ask anyone who they listen to big chance they say the king.
>>128504517Yes ladies, you're indeed causing our brains to ooze out our ears whenever we turn on the radio. Oiy, sheesh.
MAMA SAID THERE'D BE DAYS LIKE THIS, THERE'D BE DAYS LIKE THIS
>>128504700https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_L_GZLa5owright on Roy
Don't blame me, I voted for Nixon.
WAIT A MINUTE MISTER POOOOSTMAAAANNN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jIdYAAO7cMhey you dig these guys? they're getting some attention in the LA area lately.
RUNAWAY, RUNAWAYYYYY
>>128504383
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGMOj39-Bz0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfe2qFPn2CQA brief '61 fad. Or is he...?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGtipRqNJIU
>>128505083>The first of two albums Clooney did with Nelson Riddle, the pair had an affair around this time that ruined both of their marriages.[2]In case you thought she was totally innocent and a victim of Jose Ferrer cheating on her, both had dirty hands.
>>128505307>Riddle married his first wife, Doreen Moran, on October 10, 1945, while in the Army. The couple had seven children: Nelson Riddle III, Maureen Alicia Riddle, Christopher Riddle, Rosemary Riddle, Leonora Celeste Riddle (1957–1958), Cecily Jean Riddle, and Bettina Riddle.>Riddle had an extramarital affair with singer Rosemary Clooney in the 1960s, which contributed to the breakup of their respective marriages.[20] LOL I couldn't fuck someone with the same name as my daughter, that would be creepy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRIhld4O68c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhxmquoEJfsTeresa's final charting hit, a cover of the Edith Piaf hit. It's garbage.
country music is saved
>>128505421Patsy Cline has many more years of great music ahead I'm sure.
BOMDIGGYBOMDIBOMDIBOMBOMDIGGYBOMDIGGYBOMDIDANGDIDANGDANGhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0fy1HeJv80
>>128505401https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcYIVhdc2EThis was her second to last hit a few months before, a somewhat less annoying cover of this old country standard.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d5kRdeuNd0You'll probably prefer Patsy's version which was actually an album track and not a single.
>>128505463One of the many doo-wop remakes of an old pre-rock standard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jgi1txjrKZkFrank would record a more traditional rendition of Blue Moon later this year. It was always a popular standard that a lot of people recorded, including many big names like Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett, Julie London etc.>>128505083Clooney recorded it two years earlier.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY6PHMx-t2UAlso from '61, another Blue Moon from a guy we'd rather not remember the existence of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhszLLLKp_8
>>128505617Is that a song about BDSM? It had better not be.
Fuck, goin' to the big house.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyKXirK5U9Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY3_4kRBS2w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-udrmP90Og
HIT THE ROAD JACKDONTCHA COME BACK NO MORE NO MORE NO MORE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUMKLv9hW6ISteve, I hate you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXItYCNw_ZgMore Brenda.
>>128505965https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-ZhIuGTzMUOnly 19 and pretty much a kid on this debut album, which isn't as bad as some detractors say of her CBS years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjuIofViNFQAnd this guy, already a veteran of 5 years of recording and he's just barely begun yet in '61.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJGDgIpHSCA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqgl0VRJW0EConnie of course how could we forget you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2pIECfGL1I
>>128506128song's a bit racist no?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iPycbLYpzcMore long-running black pop pros start off their run.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pK97JS0ag4Alright, Sue, fine. I'm sorry I ever doubted you'd pull it off. Only took you until age 36 to do it but here it is. Sheesh...
>>128506256only took until 36 to LARP as a 17 year old. actually afaik she had a daughter that age by this time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnLyypuGG6oThis was in fact put out in '59 originally but it didn't chart then. Sceptre reissued it in early '61 and it became a top 10 hit.
Kennedy's a bum and a loser. Nixon woulda never let that mess in Cuba happen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmDDOFXSgAsThe ultimate Playboy Mansion slop instrumental.
>>128506551Don't you have a college exam to be studying for now, Christgau?
>>128505965Cue same filename joke.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpS-jjIVx3I
>>128506631this kid sounds like something died in his throat, he'll never go nowhere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twuAGl41SGMBB's other '61 chart appearance and an early unfortunate stab at his later 70s stabs at doing ballads with no guitar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwZNL7QVJjE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGlOuYVTEX4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aATtWybSaow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eoy9cDdCQcDuane!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUGonj90b5I
https://youtu.be/OEQAENiCztA?si=hHCuCuk29mJtROyyJamaica is the future
>>128504383Share threads would be people sharing their Song Poems with each other trying to get famous.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqUaubIqDz0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3Bj9fQkvGoHit it, Big E!
A very busy time for Frank with five albums this year. In fact '61 was his busiest ever year of recording next to 1947 and '56.
>>128505472She'll never give up her country dreams and will keep chasing that rainbow and never exactly catching it for many years to come.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEhgSnE52xo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkGhIJQYTB4Oh boy these Mormon dipshits in their first hit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3rXSKm3VYM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k4ERo3hl2cWhat a strange two hit wonder, a German bitch singing over country guitars and a name Youtube filters in the search box.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq8x01bq9cUThe Sensations reunite with a cover of Teresa Brewer's old #1 hit from eleven years ago.
>>128504383ah yes the Kennedy years the time of singing black girls with pageboy cuts, surf rock, and teen idols when the only discernible audience for pop music is 11 year old girls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXFMPamHIn4They knew it was over, didn't they?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUzegdiAyYw
Connie Francis is hot.
>>128507635>3:38Cripes that's a long one for this era.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qSXS0uX0fw
>>128507724Granted most of us prefer Etta's blues/R&B side rather than when she does Sarah Vaughn impersonations. Oh well, guess it was necessary for cred purposes+airplay on pop radio.
>>128507760t. Christgau
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xutKJkH8jgsAnother meta song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMdJccOQeMQThanks, Albert.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64DoIU2tgg0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28uT-vDoUd0As he said in the description, it's the same rhythm as "Mama Said" and no this song is not Mindy Carson's "The Fish" from six years ago, entertaining as that might be.
I still cannot believe I let Connie get away from me way back when. Fuck, what I was I thinking?
>>128508032Oh well, sucks for you, Captain Goatee. All you've got now is over-the-hill bums making "country" covers albums.
>>128508070didn't that woman have a mental breakdown a few years ago?
>>128508086Yeh but she was a Gemini anyway and you know Geminis are always a little unhinged.>>128505083As she's going to demonstrate spectacularly in a few years.
>>128508070https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwCbHZbQJ0wI'm sure you're a nice lady and all, Kitty, but this is not doing justice to its author's memory.
>>128508070oh did you know Youtube filters the word "honky"?
>>128508164Why is Youtube turning into Reddit more and more every year?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB6ifG7FoSQ
>>128508197Bobby's perpetually confused desire to be Elvis and Sinatra at the same time.
The song titles sum up her artistic vision perfectly.
>>128508234It's more likely than not a horrible meta joke like that Mindy Carson Baby, Baby album from a few years ago. The latter part of the Mitch Miller era at CBS was absolutely grim, the label actually almost went under because their sales and image got that abysmal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG0qJD3cwEYWho might save Cokelumbia from their sorry decline? Surely not some dudes from the PNW and their novelty instrumental hit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4tSFlJlMtIThe Cleftones are back and this top 10 hit sounds a little backward for '61, it feels like an unused recording from 1957 they left in the bin and dug out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brZsHe7RmWU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eiSpge8itk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be40W627tRgTurns out the Ventures have their own instrumental Blue Moon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8etiV6cX7YBit of a Connie Francis imitation there, no?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YApsD4WJuUFreddy!
>>128504655They are better than JESUS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GB4Km706gMThe first hit from this perpetual doofus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RvKbrFKQ5YAnd the only chart hit from these guys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1E6zS25bkg
>>128508683That's being optimistic, Neil. Everyone knows you can't make a whore into a wife.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqeULFsZPuQ
>>128508727Another obscure OHW that sounds 4 or 5 years out of date.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcR6gw57L1QCould have used some work on the microphone placement here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjaHQRmcYkcFrom Patti's country covers album of the same year. Definitely a better effort than certain other people's country covers albums (poor use of stereo sound aside) probably because she actually had the cultural background for it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWmfkmv3WlY
>>128508817See >>128508752
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5QmsasJIvQKay!
Curtis Mayfield and the Impressionshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um7jdzcc2H4Still holds up to this day. Featured in The Wire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wNIleglfQA
>>128508870Neat hit from this duo, probably one of the most unique-sounding songs this year.
>>128508865https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0tkS5nPJbUAlso early Miracles.
Here's Iggy Pop covering a hit by Australia's Johnny O'Keefe from the late '50s.O'Keefe was Australias first big rock and roll starhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=def3ob2h-1s
>>128507231Coral also had a variation of the same album with this, including one of the better "I Really Don't Want To Know"s ever.
Prepare your anus.This is Group Ongaku, a proto Japanoise group from 1960https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfLi7wmY1Xc
>>128508908Peggy as she often did got herself in trouble this year from overwork, lack of food/sleep, and living on alcohol and cigs, she came down with severe pneumonia and got lung damage from it.
>>128508908https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1df79txWo8ECan't say I love the flute though.
West Side Storyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wugWGhItaQA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKr1yXJ9X7s
>>128507231As things have it, she also did eventually record a rendition of "Blue Moon"...but spoiler alert, it was in the 90s on of the last albums she did when she was old as shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqXxyJ-8uwcGlenn's first hit.
>>128509070Good enough for Bobby Goldsboro to rip his entire singing style from I guess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVkpbEqUwaUTitle aside, unfortunately it's not and time is running short for her.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF4Ske503Oohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF4Ske503OoTime is running short for them too, alas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7LvDenNTp8Wrong link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXSZKYsLMTsSue's other big '61 hit. John Loudermilk was always pretty cheesy, wasn't he?
We're living in one of the best times to be an American. Surely everything won't be a tailspin a few years from now.
*crashes and dies*KWAB
These are still the only good recorded songs https://youtu.be/xKt75jUuKJY?si=WR9QgdyyJGQvcr87https://youtu.be/-NuX79Ud8zI?si=Nk2vCywCDSBJGvdB
>>128510312You don't have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore.
these slobs got no future.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRp2g-MAMjA
We're back. Fuck you, Cloudfuck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDlPTAwtHyAWouldn't say his version beats the McGuire Sisters.
>>128508276The era of housewife pop was ending in the early 60s as the focus of music shifted to the emerging boomers and the major record labels ran out of gas and were pretty irrelevant for a while when indie labels dominated the Billboard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ56MST-nGQAndy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqEM08yRFnk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKCj8qwq3i8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDQQlyCpcIwThe year Freddie King had a whole string of R&B instrumental hits.
>>128507139He was starting up Reprise but still had obligations to Capitol. The early Reprise albums mostly very faithful in tone and concept to his Capitol era, but you start to see the shift to MOR sounds and grab-bag covers collections around 1964 after he sold the label to Warner Bros.
>>128510394It’s been two years anon get over it
>>128513328they made him do pop material in exchange for which he was allowed to do albums he wanted to make on the side for cred purposes
>>128505307She had a rather fucked up life in a lot of ways.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkWsYgP91Qc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbrBUFpFGr4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOcDsOv4xek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWUzTvlgtasThe Chordettes' last hit. A little bit underwhelming way to go out.
>>128513955points knocked off for its subtle Christfaggot message
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJaWFY0eypA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU2rjoSXI34
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFch8vH81ksDion my man, how did we forget about you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm4A-3gWl7o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m1gS4gsxOc
These dudes were fucking huge at this time.
>>128514696I'm sorry to hear about your worthless family, anon, but that's between you and your therapist.
"let's twist again"? Lol come up with a new song you writer's block mf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge7-1l3LVvwThe Lennon Sisters' cover of Sad Movies Make Me Cry, which was more of an AC than a pop hit. These chicks are (I say are because somehow all of them are still living) fairly infamous for being Lawrence Welk affiliates. From a purely technical standpoint they're better singers than Sue Thompson and sound younger and more age-appropriate for the teen anguish lyrics because they were (all between the ages of 18 and 23 instead of pushing middle age). On the other hand their vocals don't have as much character as Sue's, and the arrangement, while cleaner and not as schlocky, is also more boring.
>>128518020your own write-up or is it Cuckgau pasta?
>>128518020Sad Movies never made the cut on oldies radio playlists for some reason although it was a big '61 hit.
>>128518091Neither did "Transistor Sister", one of my personal favorite '61 hits. I suspect it was a combination of both songs having lyrics that kind of dated poorly (Gen X onward wouldn't get the references to the "color cartoon" and the newsreel) and in Sue Thompson's case she wasn't considered part of the rock canon by Rolling Stone Mag and other such types. They accepted most girl groups, Del Shannon, Dion etc as canon but quite a few early 60s hitmakers didn't get in for one reason or another.
>>128518195i think they didn't exactly embrace Connie Francis either
>>128518221No they did not. Understand how much of the rock "canon" was literally just Jan Wenner and his buddies deciding it based on what singers they personally liked and didn't like.
>>128518221I imagine rock fans probably prefer Brenda Lee's vocals to hers.
>>128518299Brenda was originally discovered and signed to Decca's country division at just 12 years old and they didn't know what to do with her. They recognized her singing abilities but weren't sure how to market a 12 year old and they also didn't think they could have her perform overly raunchy rock-and-roll lyrics. Despite being signed to the country division and recording in Nashville, she was nonetheless marketed as pop and throughout her early 60s heyday got little or no airplay on country radio.
>>128518195One thing that probably did help Orbison and Del Shannon was that they were endorsed by prominent rock stars like Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen.
>>128518415yeah that's exactly it. fun as Freddy Cannon's hits were, he never had anyone to upboat him like Springsteen did with Shannon.
>>128518195a late 30s failed country singer was not gonna be accepted. her hits are cute and she seems to have been a super-nice person from everything i've heard but clearly she wasn't making any RSM list.
Gee I can't wait for The Beatles to come along and invent music already...
>>128508931https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWBPXlHPGOoMany versions of this one don't get the emotional range right, to their credit they pull off the maudlin feel it's supposed to have (as opposed to eg. Kay Starr playing the song up for yucks)
>>128518195I always heard RSM hated the early 60s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9do5GTGfYMThe last charting hit for this R&B duo who go back almost a decade (first hit was 1952's "I'm Gone")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLdmN4N17okThis Spector project is forgotten for a reason much like Bobby Soxx & The Blue Jeans are also forgotten for a reason.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQlByoPdG6cUgghhh. One of my most hated 60s songs but it was one of the year's biggest hits so we can't really avoid it. I'm still baffled that these guys had hits into the Nixon years.
>>128519559yeah i don't dig on the vocals either
>>128519571Yeah guys, don't play Freddy Cannon or anything from Aretha's debut on your supermarket oldies playlist, instead make sure we get the fucking Tokens.
>>128508683Neil Sedaka is a little bit on the annoying side.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSkIaoZNOi8Marty rides on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPy-Memj0vEA big '61 hit from a lady who sometimes get credit with inventing white soul.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av9EHZ8-WA8Thanks, Big John.
>>128514321The folk revival was pop in the late 50s-early 60s - The Kingston Trio were the top act in the US and did not budge from the charts . They were not really "folk" other than drawing from trad sources and playing acoustic instruments - their arrangements and singing style were a new thing, and influenced the multivox harmonies of the 60s.
slop
>>128519885>AIslopGet out.
>almost 200 posts
>>128524569And still we didn't do a lot with country or jazz in here.
>>128505070
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jZO15joshY
>>128504506retard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIGla91-qmk
>>128526322This was "Shep" Sheppard's second group after singing with the Heartbeats in the late 50s. "Daddy's Home" was a big '61 hit but quite behind the times, dude was still writing 1956's songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mU5K5QtAT8Revival of the old standard made famous by Benny Goodman a quarter of a century earlier.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nmcL2-2NCY
>>128527847>>128526372Doo wop was dead by 1961, it ended with the 50s. A few groups who didn't get the message were still putting out records and most sounded very outdated.
Dave Mustaine is born this year. Noooo....
>>128507231Stick to Kitty Wells's excellent rendition of YCH from a year earlier, or Skeeter Davis's or even Ernest Tubb's, not this shit. Fats Domino also does YCH this year, spoiler, he cannot into country either.
>>128528731After listening to them I find Skeeter's slightly too shrill for my taste whereas Kitty's deadpan voice fits the material perfectly.
>>128526372>a big '61 hit but quite behind the timesthe country at the time seemed to still love the sound of doo wop>There's a Moon Out Tonight (1958; rereleased 1961, #3 hit)>Rama Lama Ding Dong (1958; rereleased 1961, top 30)>That's My Desire - Dion (1960, local hit)
>>128529791"Rama Lama Ding Dong" didn't sound as backward as some of these songs tbqh and a number of them sound like mid-50s doo-wop. You might also point out that the Shirelles' "Dedicated To The One I Love" was a reissue of a '59 record but that one sounded pretty cutting edge for the time, maybe actually ahead of '59 which is why it took two additional years to land.It should be understood that not everyone was necessarily on top of the latest trends, and this has always been true in all of pop music history. Some doo-wop records particularly fly-by-night groups on indie labels weren't as bleeding edge as the Shirelles or Orbison or Dion or the other giants of the period.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEwl_sAiAtMOh yeah another big 61 hit not mentioned in here so far.
>>128514221most people aren't gonna like Wanda's pop/ballad side compared to her rockers of course
