ITT: /mu/ in 1958
>>129601342NO ANON! YOU'LL ATTRACT THE MITCH MILLER POSTER!!!
>>129601342Only 4 more years until Fast Freddy & The Crooners release their first single "Get Around In My '66 Coupe"
>>129601480Square Steve mogs
WELL YOU CAN GROOVE IT YOU CAN SHAKE IT YOU CAN REALLY START TO MOVE IT AT THE HOP
Damn rock-and-roll noise, you kids need to put on some real music like Percy Faith records.
WELL SUGAR IN THE MORNING SUGAR IN THE EVENING SUGAR AT SUPPERTIME
So now that Jerry Lee Lewis is officially cancelled...
Hey if any of you are ever in Queens there's this 16 year old shithead named Bob Christgau. If you see him be sure to kick his ass. Especially after he's done talking about how Elvis promotes toxic masculinity.
>"Sweet Little Sixteen" was about an 11 year old girl Berry saw at a rock-and-roll revue who was trying to get as many performers' autographs as she could.[2]And he had to change it to 16 to be semi-sellable when the girl he's singing about was actually...fuck this shit, I'm outta here.
No, Steve, no.
>>129601892this was back when they were still marketing him as a rock-and-roll teen idol. needless to say he wasn't any better at that than he was as an adult "crooner."
>>129601564Not music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpGydedfR54Sam!
>>129601911Actually that should be used in reference to >>129601923
This Buddy Holly fella sure is swell. I bet he'll have a long career!
You guys never thought it would happen, but I finally proved you all wrong. Now apologize.
>>129602043Fine, Connie you win. You're actually Important. Sheesh, take the $50 I bet you in that Patterson lunch counter last summer that you and the Billboard would never meet already.
This country chick Patsy Cline - you think she's got staying power? Maybe.
>After over two years of frustration without any of her records charting, Francis finally scored her breakout hit with "Who's Sorry Now?", a pop standard dating from the 1920s that her father liked. The song reached #4 on the Billboard in early 1958 and put her on the map as one of the biggest pop acts in America for the next seven years.
>>129602165Basically, if you look into it WSN was a new kind of laid-back pop sound that connected when the US economy had slipped into recession starting in late 57 and the general feeling then was slow the pace down a little. High energy pop of the kind that acts like the McGuire Sisters did was going out of style. You will no doubt notice that Sam Cooke also reflected this new, more chill vibe.
That string of early '58 hits like "At The Hop", "Sweet Little Sixteen", and "Sugartime" were the last wave of energy music before the rock-and-roll era ended and slower stuff came back into style.
>>129602203"Dream Dream Dream"?
>>129602312Yes that of course. Also only in the 50s could you get away with saying "Gee whiz" in a song. In any later era it would be...corny and only done ironically.
>>129602173>>129602043Ah I could have had them. Why did I let them get away from me? Probably because I'm an idiot who thinks signing Beverly Ross was a good idea instead.
>>129602344>On March 8, 1958, Mitch Miller addressed the First Disc Jockey Convention in Kansas City. Miller said that DJs across America had made the mistake of spinning content aimed exclusively at 8-14 year olds, a demographic whose purchasing power "once you eliminate ponytail ribbons, popsicles, and peanut butter brittle, is nearly nil. On much of today's radio we're lucky to get a grown up hour anywhere before midnight. Adults all over the land are yearning for a pause in the day's cacophany. I too believe youth must be served, but how about some music for the rest of us?" His remarks were widely reprinted in the national press.
>>129601342These guitar groups are on the way outGet those accordion stocks rolling it'll be the next big thing
>>129602374man he hated that fucking album cover, said it looked like an airline advertisement
>>129602368That's nice, Mitch. If only your idea of "adult" music wasn't this shit.>get it? every song has the word "baby" in the title so funneh XD
SPLISH SPLASH I WAS TAKIN' A BATH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhJV3a3xIq0Joni tries to adapt to the times by imitating her younger label mate.
>>129602538https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35UphVxrWF8This was the last in the string of top 10 hits she had going back to 1950, the only year where she failed to get one had been '55. She still has one more top 10 hit left in her but that's not until a good seven years from now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35UphVxrWF8OHW group from Baawston. I actually hate this song mainly because of the accents. Regional accents were still a lot more of a thing in the 50s than today.
>>129602590the media starting in the 50s began pushing the Midwestern accent hard because it was seen as the most "neutral" sounding one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQW0p3Urps0This has a very strange story, Dick Clark contestants all started saying the phrase "Op" so the show's producers got a local bar band in Philly or something to record a song with it. Kind of like the fake Dylan/Jagger/Beatles supergroup record from '69.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3Gdo_XlbNwDoris's final top 10 appearance. She had had a top 10 most years since 1945 and iirc only missed two of them. Seems pretty obviously a rip of "Fever."
>>129602711>>129602590It was possible to get away with this corn before drugs were a thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnRV7G7-xd0This dude was more of a crooner but he does attempt rock-and-roll here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brxOLJrao5YToday a teen idol tomorrow a third rate country singer.
Just what everyone needed, a 40 year old Jewish womanchild singing an advertisement for a plastic children's toy.
>>129602711Spring-summer '58 had a resurgence for several of the old guard as Peggy Lee, Perry Como, and Doris Day all had top 10s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5ewkoL29IMOne that will go onto bigger fame later of course.
>>129602902sounding like Elvis like every male country singer back then
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqWCKb_SDhwRecycled "Love is Strange" but more lethargic. Meh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2pXO21RH8E
WAY UP IN THE WOODS AMONG THE EVERGREENSIN A COUNTRY LOG CABIN MADE OF EARTH AND WOOD
>>129601923You aren't gonna argue with a guy who has nine charting hits this year, right? Actually I will argue with him.
>>129602312Played this and Youtube tried to auto-direct me to "Cathy's Clown." Thanks but that's for another day when we do /mu/ in 1960.
>>129602863Even worse what if there's a cover version?
>>129603066This material to be fair does suit her perfectly, but I'll take Georgia's, thank you. The singing for one but also because she has absolutely none of Georgia's sense of rhythm.
>>129602173They crawled so Roy Orbison could run
That cover is a bit out there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7dqohT_jT0>There's Only One of YouAnd there should be none of you guys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVff7TJzc-Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD5gVhI69c0
HE USED TO CARRY HIS GUITAR IN A GUNNY SACKGO SIT BENEATH THE TREE BY THE RAILROAD TRACK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWAlQIILfQQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ7GltNmDbgSmokey's debut.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1suBO-fuWY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qas7NJElbs
TAKE OUT THE PAPERS AND THE TRASHOR YOU DON'T GET NO SPENDING CASH
>>129601686>>129601923>>129602043>>129602344FUCK YOU TO HELL
Nominated at the First Grammys for Best Female Vocal Performance. What, did you think they were going to give it to Wanda Jackson instead?
>>129604101Why are you obsessed with 50s housewife music? Like am I missing something here?
>>129604113Eydie wasn't really housewife music, too uptown and posh for that. That was more the noveau rich supper club crowd.
>>129604120Okay, but that doesn't answer my question.
>>129604133We've posted all different genres in this thread--rock-and-roll, country, R&B, jazz yet you oddly choose to narrow focus on 1-2 bad white bread pop songs like "Sugartime."
>>129604151>We've posted all different genres in this thread--rock-and-roll, country, R&B, jazz yet you oddly choose to narrow focus on 1-2 bad white bread pop songs like "Sugartime."Alright fine, fair enough I guess you're right. Sheesh.
>>129604151Sorry I don't see the worth in discussing Connie Francis or Doris Day every time someone mentions the 50s
boomer threads are always a nice time https://youtu.be/7qE0YEeeRjA?si=7LwJGY53Ag38uTVo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jDOMeWuS3Y
>>129604289This particular cut is from a '59 LP of hers. For '58 you want this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AGGdZ8rEB8Ok this is a bit problematic.
SUNGLASSES AFTER DARKhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIdu5e37ChU
Nigger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubsb25Ckkbg
>>129604417why does the thumbnail look like she's holding a cigarette but then she actually isn't?
>>129604168To be entirely fair is like a 90s thread and not mentioning Mariah Carey. Sure you'd probably not willingly bump her music any time soon but she was still a quite inextricable part of the pop culture/music of that era and would be difficult to ignore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7lk_jFo1LwLOL orgasm jokes.
>>129604564this is a pretty explicit song for this era.
>>129604101https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zQYHX8ZTfgFair enough. Want some Wanda?
man i love gommunism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTo7tygDdIoNat!
>>129604572the Poni-Tails were one of the many short lived groups formed by high schoolers in this era who had a hit or two and then quit to live normal boring wagecuck lives
>>129603720That came out in 59. She had a different LP this year Eydie Vamps The Roaring Twenties.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4BJmSaC_lwProblematic title much?
>>129604730dude it's a cautionary tale against falling in love too young
>>129604715>She had a different LP this year Eydie Vamps The Roaring Twenties>including "Who's Sorry Now?"That totally was just put on there out of the blue and they didn't get the idea from somewhere else...no, of course not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5UDiQC3RDsThanks, Rick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5UDiQC3RDsA big summer '58 hit, making #4 on the Billboard.
CALL MY BABY LOLLIPOPTELL YOU WHYHIS KISS IS SWEETER THAN AN APPLE PIEAND WHEN HE DOES HIS SHAKEY ROCKEY DANCEMAN I HAVEN'T GOT A CHANCE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy6UCUJBJh8
>>129604921>I'm a poor broke loser dressed in rags who sleeps on a mattress on the floor>but I'm a great guy with so much else other than material possessions to offer, right, ladies?Song's a bit wishful thinking there, George. No one who said this ever got a date.
>>129604907This song which gave the Chordettes their second biggest hit after Mister Sandman has a rather funny story to it.>written originally by Beverly Ross and her black songwriting partner who recorded it but as it was 1958 and they were a mixed race team they couldn't tour or do any public appearances, or even have the label (RCA) put out PR photos of them>the Chordettes decide to cover it after Janet Ertel asks her daughter (the future wife of Phil Everly) if her and her friends approved of the song>she indicated that she did, so they recorded it and it became a huge winter '58 hit
>>129604967https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muV5_M6cBGE [Embed]Similar title totally different song. I actually like this one even though it's just stolen "Little Things Mean a Lot" which was the same wishful thinking "women totally value you for your personality instead of your bank account, yeah sure" kind of song. Suspect that this inspired the George Jones song or vice versa, since I'm not sure which one was out first.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOs8pwKDJnAA young James when he was a doo-wop balladeer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngm4lXRqdS4
>>129605170classic. King seldom had a bad record back then.
>>129605170Which will go onto bigger fame from the Shirelles, who had their first minor hit in '58.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo5vhU5j5Jo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IUV-QxwlRMBuddy!
>>129603066This was definitely one of her stranger ever experiments.
>>129603680Near death and sounding like it.
>>129602344>>129605077Miller signed Ross to CBS, she folded in about 5 seconds because she had a nonexistent melodic sense and was a super abrasive butthead who pissed off people very quickly. Some have speculated that his well-known hostility to rock-and-roll was him being surly that his attempt to break into the format didn't go too far.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcvjXAtzaMUOf course you all know this one. Another funny artifact of back when regional accents were a lot more of a thing.
>>129605361the Royal Teens were one of those one year phenomenons and faded out once 58 was over. no clue who the chicks doing the backing vocals are probably their girlfriends lol.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60kuMIdmuYQCuckgau hates Della Reese btw.
>>129605424he hates all black chicks who weren't R&B enough and leaned too much into standards with the exception of Ella/Billie since he has plebian as fuck tastes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdzHF5QZB8Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ6akiGRcL8No introduction needed here of course.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JPLRJtKp6AKitty Wells also attempts ICSLY. Don't forget that this was back when she was one of the giants of country and really at her peak.
>>129605520Apparently she re-recorded this in the 70s but that was long after her prime when nobody cared about her anymore. Loretta Lynn basically replaced her on the CW& charts by the mid to late 60s.
I lost my job do to the Eisenhower Recession after blowing all my money on a new Ford Edsel. I was told this decade would be based and prosperous...
The Billboard Hot 100 was created in August '58 by combining the various Billboard charts and bumping it to 100 spots from the original 30.
FEVER WHEN YOU TOUCH ME, FEVER WHEN YOU HOLD ME TIGHT
>>129605686That was actually '57 lol. He had a couple minor hits after "Suzy-Q" that nobody remembers.
>>129605666Pretty funny because Peggy had her biggest and most iconic song ever all from doing the same old white R&B cover thing tons of other people did.
>>129605789idk man a lot of people hate this guy but to me he's just kind of there and doesn't elicit any reaction in particular. musical wallpaper pretty much.
This also won a Grammy. God, why?
recommend me some more '50s housewife bops like "Sugartime"
>>129601342oh boy i can't wait for music to die next year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A-VecpnlaYy'all niggas know about this?
Not enough jazz posted in here tbqh.
>>12960790558 wasn't that interesting of a year 59 doe
>>129604113who is "you"?
The record sold but Jerry was pretty much banned from the radio during 58 so it got little or no airplay.
as someone else said, the economy began a recession and it contributed to a big shift in the culture. the new pop sound which Connie Francis and the Everly Brothers epitomized was slower, laid back, and spacey. the overall vibe was slow the pace down a little. the last big burst of rock-and-roll was in the winter months of 58 and by summer the chart hits are definitely getting slower and relaxed.
>During the hearings over the Smathers Bill, Frank Sinatra issued a statement to the effect that he hoped to see media companies and record labels divested from one another (his own Capitol was notable for not being a subsidiary of a media company). The Voice also renewed his old feud with Mitch Miller by accusing him of "taking substantial sums from songwriters whose songs he recorded." Miller said that Sinatra took certain remarks of his out of context.>Appearing at an Entertainment Press Conference, a weekly feature of NYC's WABD, Miller was attacked by three critics, who, perplexingly, blamed rock-and-roll on him. Later in the year when he was on WMCA's "The Barry Gray Show", Miller was forced to take the side of R&R, or at least deny it contributed to juvenile delinquency. He argued that children were the product of their upbringing, not their music, and suggested they listened to R&R because it offended their elders.
>A week later, Miller appeared on an interview show with three other A&R men. He and Sammy Davis Jr. hosted and both were openly anti-R&R with Miller calling it "the comic books of pop." Arnold Maxin of MGM said it was because kids had more spending money nowadays. He added they didn't have trained ears and could hear nothing but a beat and noise. Maxin continued that he doubted R&R was going away any time soon. Davis replied "I might just kill myself.">Asked about Eddie Fisher's sudden collapse in popularity over the past year, Hugo Winterhalter of RCA said the past year had been a "nightmare" to him and many established stars and arrangers. Only Milt Gabler of Decca was positive towards R&R. He credited it to Louis Jordan and said "Bill Haley is one of my children, but Louis was the one who started it. If I could go back with him and start over again things would be diferent.">The establishment took every stat they could find to boost their spirits. Pulse and Nielsen surveys showed that adult women, not kids, were the majority of Top 40 listeners, a number of station managers announced that a counter trend to top 40 was shaping up.
>Billboard's annual disc jockey survey for '58 showed a clear discrepancy between DJs' preferences and the records they were spinning. Frank Sinatra once again won the poll for favorite male vocalist, with Perry Como and Nat King Cole coming in behind him. Of the entire group of eleven names, only Pat Boone and Elvis himself had begun their recording careers since the emergence of rock-and-roll four years ago. Favorite female vocalist was Doris Day, followed by Patti Page and Peggy Lee. The female list was absent of anyone whose recording career had begun since rock-and-roll broke. Favorite Singing Group was The Four Freshmen followed by the Ames Brothers and Four Lads. Of the ten picks, only the Platters were identified with rock-and-roll, and their specialty was updated versions of pop standards. All the listed acts aside from Boone and the Mills Brothers were signed to one of the establishment ASCAP labels.
>Eminent musicologist Sigmund Spaeth wrote in an Encyclopedia Yearbook "The incubus of rock 'n roll continued to weigh down on the popular music of the year, with a majority of the music representing some form of the illiterate, savage noise. The violence of this juvenile concentration on aboriginal rhythms actually led to several cities eventually barring rock 'n roll from public performance." Dr. Spaeth, who broadcast as "The Tune Detective", a show where he uncovered the origins and sources of contemporary songs, revealed something of his bias when he wrote "One of the biggest sensations of the Hit Parade was a definitely Negro exaltation, He's Got The Whole World In His Hands.">Reflecting the older generation's desire to pray the new music out of existence, he concluded "The recent history of popular music in America may be summed up in a series of comparatively meaningless titles such as Tequila, Lollipop, Sugartime, Diana, Kewpie Doll, At the Hop, Honeycomb, Chances Are, Short Shorts, The Stroll, Get a Job, Raunchy, and Silhouettes."
>>129608707In all fairness Mr. Spaeth was an old old fart in his 70s at the time, he was born back in the previous century.
>>129608699Here, I will show you the Billboard survey.
And the female one. These are 100% totally predictable.
The singing group list, also highly predictable.
>>129608699>Of the entire group of eleven names, only Pat Boone and Elvis himself had begun their recording careers since the emergence of rock-and-roll four years ago.Actually not quite true since the list also included Johnny Mathis who started recording only in 57. Not that he ever had anything to do with rock, but just saying is all.
>>129608776It's clear from these lists that these guys liked the safest and least offensive singers. Even Teresa Brewer and Kay Starr are absent probably because their singing was a little too spicy.
>The Catholic Youth Center of Minneapolis called on the nation's DJs to not play what it termed degenerate songs. This included Elvis's "Wear My Ring Around Your Neck" and Jimmie Rodgers's "Secretly" for encouraging teens to sneak around and fool around behind their parents' backs. George Hamilton IV's "Why Don't They Understand?" was listed for encouraging youngsters to disrespect their elders' authority. Sinatra's "All the Way" and "Witchcraft" were listed as having suggestive lyrics.>The CYC's newspaper Contacts said "Smash the records you possess which promote a pagan culture and pagan way of life. Check beforehand the records which will be played at a house party or a school record dance. Phone or write a disc jockey who is playing a lousy record. Switch your radio dial when you hear a suggestive song. Some songwriters need a good swift kick. So do some singers. So do some disc jockeys." Along the records Contacts considered "acceptable" included "Witch Doctor", "Purple People Eater", "Kewpie Doll", and bizarrely, "Rumble."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l63LZRe0OKgJill Corey's last record to chart. She was hot but clearly a born in the rong generashun kind of singer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1mhPktmjW8As you might guess, this is an early Burt Bacharach tune. You might also guess with a high degree of accuracy that the Association's "Windy" was stolen from this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbBCbe8SLrcYoutube censors the song title since it apparently thinks "daddy" is a porn search term.
So I saw this band called the Quarrymen yesterday in Merseyside. Fun lads.
>>129609470>The Neil Sedaka-penned "Stupid Cupid" was, according to Francis, the first original rock-and-roll song a girl singer had a hit with. "There were others who had rock-and-roll hits before me, but they were cover versions," she recalled.[3]
>>129609529That handsome young fellow in the back must be the star of the group, can't wait to see him play
>>129609529the British music scene in the 50s was very different from the US one, for one thing skiffle was the hot sound and few of them had ever heard of doo-wop. the over 35 crowd liked the usual jazz/standards bullshit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmh7lyaLZoEPretty sure the Beach Boys' Carl & The Passions "So Tough" is a reference to this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daYJHIJy9pcThe last charting hit from this faker/eventual homicide statistic. It's alright rock and roll I guess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RizFmQJYusJohnny Mathis has never been accused by anyone of being rock and roll, but he was a really hot commodity at this time and hard to ignore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_Ku2KKW5EgLots of short-lived groups in this period who had a hit or two and vanished. The Mello-Kings are one such example. Four hits in a nine month stretch in 57-58 and that was it for them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m3qCLcJ_EcThis was the only Billboard appearance for the Kirby Stone Four, a couple of nearly middle aged Jewish dudes from Brooklyn whose comedy singing act had a certain following in the 50s-early 60s. They sold quite a few albums but with this solitary exception were never heard on the radio.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-2wZqksudU
>>129609529It's a shame they were born in a shit hole. They would have a future otherwise.
>>129609826Regional labels exploded in this period, although often they depended on the big labels like RCA to actually press discs for them since a pressing plant was a huge and very expensive investment only the big guys could afford.
>>129601355We should've listened...
>>129610311Cuckgau hates Carmen McRae, incidentally.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSwoW0bZTH8It's the return of Latinx McGuire Sisters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO4OQRL-wI4Yes, the sausage guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOr9UaHai6k
>>129610581Thanks, John, but like the George Jones tune early this is wishful thinking and no female IRL would do as the song suggests.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7fihig4u0Y
>>129610653Whoa, slow down, kiddo. Are you auditioning for Lohengrin there? Someone get this boy a Buddy Knox record or two before he gets the wrong idea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm_Vnsd9cjU
>>129610751At least he's got the right idea.
>>129602641i like this one
>>129605111She later became a Broadway performer, I think pop music was just a vehicle to get her foot in the door.
>>129602460That song reminds me of when I lost some valued possessions of mine in a basement flood.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0D8MHXNWHQThe Moonglows' final chart appearance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaiuRZIIHJoA huge spring 58 hit was this British teen doing a spiritual.
>>129604550For every classic, every "Guess Things Happen That Way" or "Op" or "At The Hop" there was a Paul Anka or Steve Lawrence record that one would just as soon not remember the existence of.
>>129611151This is a comp not a real LP per se. I think it's a bunch of her singles that had a traveling theme to them.
>>129611171That Route 66 cover was recorded in '55, didn't look into the rest. It's an ok version of the song but not as good as the Crosby/Andrews Sisters one from the '40s.
The 1950s will go down in history as one of the worst decades in music. Nothing but generic pop songs written for adolescent youths (or "teens" as we're calling them now). Whatever happened to REAL music? Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Walter Piston, Al Jolson, etc. now what's in style? Teeny bopper shlock about drinking soda pop and eating hamburgers and going on dates to the movies? And at most the songs will be between 1-2 minutes max, because these little boomer kids have the attention spans of a Labrador. I would like to if I may, compare the modern state of music to a can of chicken soup. A once healthy meal cooked by your mother or grandmother with love and care, using fresh ingredients from the local farmers market and a healthy chicken from the local butcher, now sold in a toxic metal can full of preservatives and other kind of ungodly Ingrid you wouldn't feed to your worst enemy. And that's what modern music is, just quick, disposable, worthless garbage that won't even be remembered 3 years from now. Music is doomed.
>>129611217Also I believe this is a comp and not new material.
>>129610386He hates any black singer who doesn't sing in ebonics
>>129609278Same man who gave us the wilhelm scream btw
>>129611293His black singer enemies list included Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McRae, Sammy Davis Jr., Lou Rawls, Della Reese, Billy Eckstine, Nancy Wilson, Roberta Flack, and Donny Hathaway.
>>129611315tl;dr anything too showtune or standards-coded bad unless it's Ella or Billie
>>129611292This was her "new" 58 LP release pretty sure. The opener has a faint nod to the changing times.
>>129611379Poor June never had an album outside Something Cool that ever sold anything.
>>129611477https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z4EJkzb06QI guess she appealed to the 50s version of LOLsoquirky girls. Now you only need wonder why Sinatra never recorded this one back then instead of the 80s when he was old as shit. Or why Mike Love ever tried recording it at all.
>>129611477Think this album was where she first used the baby voice that not everyone will always take to. I know the first one from '57 she used a "normal" voice.
Blossom was busy back then. This was her other '58 LP as well as the second one she ever did.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkbsnDQNazs
In the battle of the jazz blondes, Peggy is also very busy in this time with two 58 LPs as well as her most iconic single ever.
>>129611681No Doris, you're not invited. You may be blonde but you're not jazz. Back in the Les Brown days maybe, but nowadays you just make schlock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc6N_S4lzC0One hit wonder from the Aloha State (that was not a state yet). It was about his little sister. That's not creepy at all.
OH CAROLDON'T LET HIM STEAL YOUR HEART AWAYI'M GONNA LEARN TO DANCE IF IT TAKES ME ALL NIGHT AND DAY
Gone too soon.
Their last ever record to chart.
>>129604564>>129604572Not necessarily a sexual thinghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_minutes_in_heaven
>>129604456>chuddies think they deserve a medal for saying slurs
What is this I don't even.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L9h3abzo48
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku8HG5TGOrQI guess you can't type "dong" into Youtube either because it thinks it's a porn search term and...whoa, that intro is loud.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9JCVw8uQ40
>>129613155this is a McGuire Sisters song alright
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IePTH1PWzAs
>>129614097Alright so the Shirelles proved to have more accessible, Top 40-friendly vocals and what about it? Cuckgau liked them, but definitely not for everyone.
>>129605691The album came out in 58. Some bangers IMO.
>>129601342In my mind I think of years in certain seasonsFor me the Spring of '58 sounded like a very good timehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmtr3HNerdM
>>129614287IMO the winter of 58 was better as it had the last big burst of rock-and-roll hits before stuff started winding down.
>>129614287the spring of 58 saw an odd burst of religious songs make the charts, and a bunch of the old guard of pop like Como and Day return to the top 10
>>129601480How was Fast Freddy singing about a '66 Coupe in '62?
