ITT: /mu/ in 1956
Rock & Roll is just a fad!https://youtu.be/vAocGovwo9U?si=LkYvLG6T8gIzVHnr
OH GOD, ELVIS SUCKS
>>128954036Did they even have music in 1956?
>>128954080Yeah you don't wanna listen to that garbage. Uncle Mitch sez buy this instead.
EDDIE MY LOVE, I LOVE YOU SO OH
>>128954165>Did they even have music in 1956?yes but /mu/ probably is only going to rec the worst stuff. watch this thread for a bit and you'll see.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmaBhZG1wj8
Read the video descriptionhttps://youtu.be/Djki0Kv0hUE?si=E7-xk6kYEUxBx1F3
>>128954165Since you're probably a zoomer, strap on your skates because we're going in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NQtXKfBb1w
Chet Baker Sings comes out this year.
Billboard’s Top 100https://youtu.be/21fR7nqLq08?si=lbzbMTTWvngfXJ_a
>>128954188>R&B hit>white roasties cover it and make it much much biggerAnd that's the mid-50s in a nutshell.
Here’s some actually weird shithttps://youtu.be/vkOMmjLoz-M?si=7CW7bqvTdFm2zAU0
>>128954297ditto Nervous Norvus, that would qualify for weird shit
WELL YOU AIN'T NOTHING BUT A...
>1956I am so sick of JAZZ>JAZZ ISN'T REAL MUSIC
>OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD ELVIS IS SO CUUUUUTTEEE!!!!Shut up shut up shut up.
You say Elvis Presley-I say SchoenbergYou say Les Baxter-I say XenakisYou say Pat Boone-I say KoechlinYou say Fats Domino-I say HoneggerYou say Patty Page-I say IvesYou say Rock&Roll-i say shut the ---- upYou say Jazz-I scream Serialism!!You say Frank Sinatra, I punch you in the face92% of teenagers have turned to Rock&Roll and Jazz.If you are part of the 8% that still listen to real music,copy and paste this message to another 5 posts. DON'T LET THE SPIRIT OF 20TH CENTURY ATONALITY DIE!
ROLL OVER, BEETHOVENROLL OVER, BEETHOVENAND TELL TCHIAKOVSKY...
>>128954429>>128954344Not music.
Psst, kiddo, wanna buy our records? Don't let your mother know about this.
>>128954477Begone, evil spectres! Crawl back to the nether realm from whence you came.
>>128954530gonna argue with a guy who has 9 Billboard hits this year? (^:
>>128954551Yes, yes I will.
Yeah he's right. You really don't want to listen to that rock and roll stuff.
>>128954617https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJkeSKdfzIgApparently this is what you consider music for sophisticated adults, Mitch. Get out of here.
>>128954638oh dear
>>128954638I wonder how many times these guys got slapped or pepper sprayed while watching and trying to make a move on the chicks?
I'll be honest, I'm not sure this whole desegregation thing is gonna turn out so good...
>>128954638Even by the usual standards of the 50s this record represents an absolute nadir.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2eiDOrr8mo
>>128954638Absolutely vile.
> Be an aspiring Jazz musician in Jazz's peak years>Gets gig playing at high school dance> Band plays contemporary pop songs. Earth Angel and shit.>Song and band starts to get groooovy. Crowd is digging it. Starts jiving. >"Wow, what is this? I've never heard this kind of music before!" >At the peak of the song you start going crazy on your guitar solo like you're Masterbaiting your guitar. >Crazy licks, key changes and anti-theory MAYHAM all ovet your 50s GRETSCH guitar. >Crowd stops dancing and simply stares at you as you pour your HEART OUT.>Your band stops and stares at you.>Song ends.....Silence...>I guess you kids aren't ready for that yet.>But your Grandparents are gonna love it!
>>128954702there's a reason the Four Lads live rent free in Christgau's head and he mentioned them in reviews a few times over the years. evidently repressed childhood memory.
>>128954701That's the stuff.
BLUEJEAN BABY
Far too many jazz albums to post.
RIP Tommy. Gone too soon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GL4Hz4B1P4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQy2j58uqHcON A PICNIC MORNINGWITHOUT A WARNINGI LOOKED AT YOUAND SOMEHOW I KNEW
>>128954779can't shake Patti who after a brief break last year has a big new hit out with Allegheny Moon
>>128954157Just many hits does the Big E have in 56? Seventeen of them. That's right.
>>128954818Ah Coral, we meet at last.
>>128954675You lost, chud
>listening to new musichttps://youtu.be/c8nHqOJ80Y4?si=pxglTztEJcdspaN8
>>128954875Coral, CBS, and Dot are the Axis of '50s Evil.
>>128954766He lived to see Elvis take overhttps://youtu.be/IQW0xTiPwn0?si=mhuFhYpQTSNIlUzB
>>128954663This is the Four Lads' peak year with six Billboard hits. I dare not even link the others, I'd just as soon not know what horrors lurk in them.
>>128954927and his brother dies only a year later
>>128954818A little more showtune-y here compared to their R&B novelty hits of the previous two years, I guess this one was done for cred purposes to prove they were a "serious" group.
What's this? Yes it's her first-ever record, cut for a gospel label at the tender age of 14.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Urg2x9dLQc
Hey if any of you guys are ever in Queens, there's this little 14 yo shithead named Bob Christgau. If you see him, kick his ass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMiv_Y7Yf6YInteresting fellow, Buddy Johnson. One-time big band guy still making hits in the 50s with his sister at vocals and was pretty successful at updating his sound to incorporate a rock beat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYYxfmw4TSA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4w454Lape8And that's where it all began.
>>128955284>>128955236>>128955159Not a fan of the kids listening to Negro tunes and they're all doing it these days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEsLjsm5s9U
QUE SERA SERAWHATEVER WILL BE WILL BE
>>128954710My grandpa hates Jazz!He calls it music that those kids separated over there listen to!
>>128954754>we have elvis and carl perkins at home
>>128955321Pa, didn't you used to have some Chick Webb records when you were a kid?
when are the Russians ever going to leave my cou...
>>128955681Yeah but that was completely different.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qlbcn75fLr8Apparently this was a thematic song and CBS intended this record as the female "answer" to "Standing On The Corner." At least it's a hell of a lot more tasteful than the other one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9XP6cReySkAs he notes, the last record of hers to chart, making #34. She was part of the group of new young singers Mitch Miller brought aboard in the early 50s but never really panned out the way Clooney or Bennett did. And it wouldn't be Mindy without the word "baby" used somewhere in a song now, would it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzuSp3_kmNsAaaaanndddd...
>>128955889too bad about the sound it's as if it was recorded at the bottom of a missile silo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzw4hIVF7ak
>>128955971not music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szz27BuDgeU
One of the strangest and completely unintended 2 hit wonders ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttgQg8XTF9w
AND THE WAYWARD WIINNNDDDDDWAS A RESTLESS WIIIINNNNDDD
>>128956249We love ya, Fats. But not like this, though. Not like this.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVuI_cVNW4Yhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJlvIxtU25Q
>>128955545https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58iHG5jllXUHe redid this one in the 70s as well. Kinda charming to hear his kid voice on these early recordings.
>>128954157Elvis had incredible year, maybe one of the best ever.
>>128955862Didn't have any identity as a singer.
>>128956515accurate. Mindy had some good records here and there but it was obvious why she never succeeded like a number of her peers.
>>128956063Basically,>Los Angeles music arranger finds his 11 and 14 yo daughters practicing singing one evening>he decides they're pretty decent so he arranges to get them to record two discs for yucks one of which is the old Teresa Brewer hit "Gonna Get Along Without Ya Now" as he's friends with the guy who wrote it>somehow they end up going up the charts and being unexpected top 20 hits>"oh shit shit shit I never meant this to happen" and pulls the plug on this in a hurry>the girls reunited briefly to record a surf rock novelty disc in '64 when they were 18 and 21
>>128956063pedo bait
Rockabilly's banner yearhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxnf32X4emI
>>128954278>behind the green doorwow this is awful
Come on guys, buy my records. You know you want to. Please? Anyone?
>>128956645Possibly and unlike Brenda Lee they didn't have power vocals in middle schools, they just sounded like little kids so only pedos could possibly listen to their records.
>>128956681We already have Joni James. Why did MGM sign you anyway? As a backup in case Joni is in a plane crash?
>>128956744yeah that chick's not going anywhere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR7z9SBZwr4I sure hope this one doesn't get a watered-down pop cover
And so it begins. Or almost didn't since this went wood and Mitch Miller immediately showed them the door.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_Mou6SKur4More of that good ol' CBS super stupidity, this time from a short-lived (but extremely hot) Italian girl who became a trophy wife for a MLB player.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZwCkyTL9E8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=929-lf6RYpI
>>128956847Nice gams, just okay face though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJIXe6f5ABQ
>>128956890IMO the hottest trophy wife of the 50's was Hank Williams' second wife, who later married Johnny HortonWoman had one cursed pussy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sAHiR0rkJgThis one needs no introduction I guess.
>>128956953That Lymon boy has a bright future ahead of him, mark my words!
>>128956953Lymon attended Jamaica High, one of Cuckgau's classmates actually. Yeah he didn't last too long, that was...unfortunate what happened to him.
>>128956953one of my earliest Youtube experiences was in the late 00s when i saw a video of this song and someone in the comment section was like "now that's real talent you think anyone's gonna remember fucking 50 Cent in 50 years?"
Fats is so cute, I just want to pinch his cheekshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pqs_WZdUdM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ-nH_tEvwsIt's mostly a rip of "Tweedle Dee" and we met her in the /mu/ in 1978 thread the other day of course.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ28VM3zO3IOk the "Ko Ko Mo" cover last year was kind of cute but this is not cute.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIcAyzkXWxwImmortalized through Dirty Dancing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj1yV0K4q1gAnd this other R&B duo, except they actually became a husband and wife couple instead of just professionals pretending to be like Mickey & Sylvia.
>>128957167I love Dave Bartholomew's arrangements, but Shirley's voice is hard to jive with
>>128957090My grandma is a lifelong connoisseur of italian american crooners and Perry Como is the bane of her existence lmao.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7kdK_L_YtsHilarious because you can tell just how much she did not want to be doing this song. Yet it was one of her biggest ever hits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHiW7AUUO-Iha ha how can you forget one of this era's biggest groups?
>>128960428right. the great '56 trilogy of EFSTCPSB, Ella and Louis, and EFSTR&HSB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5poP0Jyp-Ac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cQUVtbztEsMajor hit and schlock classic from a chick that sold used cars before being discovered and it was later covered by some pretty big names.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWVQ3DplgtcJazz instrumental that made #15.
