ITT: /mu/ in 1948
oh goody, the era when there was nothing but very very slow crooner ballads
>>129269980Have you heard this kid from the Louisiana Hayride? I'm binging on his stuff lately.
>>129269980The second recording ban of the decade this year, the first being in 1942.
Doris Day is hot.
Hi ya'll. I look forward to many years of infesting your radio.
>>129270243how do them boys at Mercury do that gimmick anyway? they made it sound like she's in the room but with 5 of her?
I GO TO WORK MANANA, BUT I GOTTA SLEEP TONIGHT
>>129270315This was one of two #1 hits she got in her career and it's also one of her worst songs.
>>129270162Hank almost single-handedly saves this era of music from being a complete skip over
>>129270168qrd?
>>129270384the musicians union went on strike, consequently any records released this year were recorded in 1947 and nothing was actually recorded in 48. Sinatra had one of his busiest years of recording in 47 in anticipation of this.
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>>129270542probably the only success Mitch Miller ever had was turning him from a generic crooner into a pop country star
>Page's breakout hit "Confess" reached #15 on the Billboard in 1948. The song made an innovative use of self-harmonies because the arrangement was meant for a backing chorus, but Mercury refused to pay for one as she had not achieved a charting record yet. Instead a recording engineer came up with the trick of using synchronized master discs to double up Page's voice; as this was pre-tape recording, it was a tricky stunt to pull off. Nonetheless, "Confess" put her on the map and self-harmonies would become a hallmark of her sound, used on many of her hits.[3]
>>129270681https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O04VcM_RY8gThe vocal doubler probably helped sell this one but it's a nice little tune overall, has a good melody and the light jazz arrangements are an improvement over big band or string goo.
I hate niggers
>>129270763Even Nat King Cole?
>>129270763Strom, plz. You will never be president.
>>129270723Plus it has a great B-side.
Sinatra's only top 10 record this year, sung a capella because of the musicians strike. This was also the first year since 1942 that he failed to top the fan vote for best male singer in Downbeat. You're slipping, Frank!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhc6ASHCHzc
>>129270834he would go on to blame Mitch Miller for his collapse in the early 50s when it was mostly him
>>129270723https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRp1LZOk05oWhereas if you compare this unfortunate pile of orchestral goo. Cuckgau would hate this song so much.
IN SILKS AND SATINS AND BUTTONS AND BOWWWWWSSSS
Glam Jazz fucking sucks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Uv_FypO4IcThis little instrumental was a big 48 hit. In fact an early 20th century nostalgia piece of sorts.
>>129270973jazz peaked about '29 I reckon it was all downhill from there.
>>129271034Go to bed Uncle Mel.
>>129270906All of these songs sound like a joke
radio performances were a big deal in this era and singers often did songs they never put on record
This Columbia "Long Play Microgroove" shit is gonna flop isn't it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUzDem-XbUU
Golly gosh gee wizz that Peggy Lee she sure lights my fire *awooga awooga*
Please remove Teresa Brewer's smug face from here, thank you. Besides in 48 she hasn't even recorded anything yet and is a teenager gigging in Manhattan nightclubs.
>>129270243>>129270542The first big new pop stars to emerge in the postwar era even if Laine is in fact well into his 30s and not exactly a kid.
Truman is finally gonna be voted out of office
Both Boston Baseball teams might play each other in the World Series!
>>129271195after 16 years it's about time to put a Republican back in the White House
I like this Here Comes Santa Claus song. Finally something original
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC1ytOzIttQEventually to become a dumping ground for the worst Mitch Miller slop but that's a few years away.
>>129271195>>129271213Laughs in Bob Feller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIxkW_ZLHGEOnly two chart hits in 48 compared to the...fifteen he has next year. Uggh...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78Zr8nLdX-E
Do any of you guys watch The 78rpm Channel on YouTube? He just released his first video in like a year
>>129271302Ella Mae Morse called this her favorite Peggy Lee tune and I can understand why because she was a huge smoker but I find it too melodramatic for my taste.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe9RwAFVn9U>>129271285>>129270966The era of housewife pop hasn't arrived yet but music is leading into it since there's an increase in songs about settling down with one's loved one during this era.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0I9_CJ0K08
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CakqPuwFAIcAlso Muddy puts out his first records this year.
>>129271085p. sure he's in jail this year
>>129271355as for EMM herself, she had 2 records out this year. listeners had a hard time telling if she was white or black.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r47ahtilJbchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odfklZyEPEk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIdpIthcMigIt seems like most of Connie's Signature recordings aren't online, though they do include the racist one.
>>129271642>It seems like most of Connie's Signature recordings aren't online, though they do include the racist one.she was from the South
There's a very annoying little 6 year old shithead in Queens named Bob Christgau who rated his mom's casserole a C plus.
only 50 years until Chappell Roan is born. enjoy it while it lasts.
>>129269980https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SllhnR7D8LAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Uv_FypO4Ichttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH-woOy8KME (I own a copy of this record)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wb7faEqRbY (I L-O-V-E the Pied Pipers )https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wkQsrU3pBshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9UbJ1Oh8fY (Guitar Boogie Woogie)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUow0JN6VS4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TK-iwH7-Ww
>>129269980Why don't you yanks listen to skiffle?Also can I have some more money to rebuild my bombed out house?
Saw a coon riding a bicycle, musical number for this feel?
>>129272135It’s 1946 you fucking bigot. We say negro now.
>>129272253he's from Alabama i guess
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7zn1r_bvaUMargaret Whiting was another big band singer who went solo and was pretty hot for a while in the late 40s but unlike a bunch of her peers she couldn't make the transition to the 50s and fizzled out after 1950.
>>129272425i feel she didn't have a distinct enough voice, though in the late 40s she was good enough at doing sleepytime ballads since that was the big hitmaking format then. as the 50s began she was crowded out by Page, Brewer, and Clooney all with more stand-out vocals and songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHeEvEr5yd8
>>129271642Connie Haines also kind of gave up when the 50s began and only recorded occasionally after that, and some of it was also gospel shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14DMApyBzIQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePwI5KEd8D0Like Sixteen Tons this one will go on to greater fame later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXIYbB9UMMMGuy Mitchell before he was Guy Mitchell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY6GNmUuH58Also soon to be famous.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0yS4j4PYgg
>>129272776i bet 1992 seemed like a long way off back then. she also missed out on seeing that year by some decades.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imSM4j6C7oAThis was also peak era of Louis Jordan who was one of Chuck Berry's heroes.
>>129269980I HATE NEGROES
Georgia Gibbs momentarily hiding in a nightclub somewhere since Majestic Records went belly up, be a little while before we hear from her again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnK3fWszXe8Sarah Vaughan covers "It's Magic" which gives her her first Billboard appearance, though mostly an unimaginative copypaste of Doris Day's vocals.
joined the Army hoping to be sent to Japan and maybe pick up some girls there but instead they post me in this Corea mudhole i've never even heard of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da6eZNpf9lY
>>129270966it's saying women want bling and lots of it, dammit
>>129273243When did that channel start uploading heaps of random ai slop music?
pop music in the first few years after WW2 is mostly A-side ballad+B-side novelty song and everyone is just doing Sinatra impersonations. in fact he fell off because his sadboy ballad style had gotten so normalized that he lost his uniqueness.
>>129273492known as the 32 bar song and it was the standard in this era, verse-chorus-verse like "Get Your Kicks on Route 66" was sometimes seen but not super common. pop songwriters saw themselves as making product rather than art and you had to write showtunes for cred purposes. the target audience was a generic late teen or 20 something individual.no risks taken either, no sex, religion, patriotic themes, or politics allowed anywhere.
>>129270542>>129270623https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrjlONQNkhoLaine is still doing croonerslop in 48, the pop country switch isn't until next year.
I did not care for Bing Crosby
i don't think i have ever heard a song from this year
Regardless of the administration's newfound "concern" for Negro rights, we shall never allow them into our schools, places of business, and our daughters.
>>129274623I don't think there were a whole lot of songs from 48 that stood the test of time (unless maybe a Christmas tune or something), this era gets a bad reputation for a reason.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0Bzdv0jM7IDoris Day+Buddy Clark rushed out their own cover of "Confess" which completely loses the plot and has none of that hypnotic, dreamy quality of the original. Sounds generic as all git, really.
>>129277353Buddy Clark (early life section check, I know, I know, no need to point that out) was another ex-big band singer who went solo after the war and was a rising star in the late 40s, but fell victim in '49 to that unfortunate thing known as a small plane that has claimed too many music talents before their time.So what Clark would have done in the 50s may not be known, maybe he too would have made bad R&B covers for suburban white women.
>>129276700>and our daughters.mutt's law
what a dull, pointless year of music
>They dont make them like they used to dohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTISF4u9oa4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKixyp_XLJM
