ITT: /mu/ in 1950
>>129836206Dang, we're at war again and there's no good music for a few more years. See you in '55.
Let the games begin.
Hey, y'all. You liked "All My Love?" Well we got something even better lined up for you at year's end. Just wait and see.
>>129836462>Hey, y'all. You liked "All My Love?"Not really, I'll pass, Clara. Also that swimsuit just shows the heifer farm girl you are, so let's not kid ourselves here.
>>129836206I’m sick of all these communist songs. “This land is your land, this land is our land”? What’s next? When does it end?
>>129836497So soon as we ban the Weavers and Seeger from the radio. That'll learn them reds.
>>129836398Ah fuck, no. My career is about to go from bad to worse.
IF I KNEW YOU WERE COMIN' ID'A BAKED A CAKE
>>129836526Frank, your ex-duet partner escaped her cage. >>129836554. Put her back in.
>>129836554https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1wEVPqFFCgA bad sign. When they have to ramp up the cheesecake pics because your actual musical talent doesn't quite carry you.
GOODNIGHT, IRENE, GOODNIGHTI'LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS
>>129836660get out, commies
>>129836398I hate you and hope you die
Trigger warning: Race musichttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIz1cPfTRW4
>>129836682Yes we all wish Uncle Mitch would do exactly that.
>>129836780t. Frank
>>129836691I'm gonna whup my son's hiney with a belt if I catch him listening to negro radio again.
>>129836780I mean you. Specifically you
my little brother came home from Korea in a box
It is 39 years until Taylor Swift is born. Enjoy it while it lasts.
There's a snot-nosed 8 year little brat in Queens named Bob Christgau who rated his mom's casserole dish a C plus.
>>129836892Who?
Is he gonna be bigger than Hank?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvrOl6JbjKM
>>129836933Mom's Casserole Dish [Queens, 1950] The plus is because Dad likes it. This can also be said of her pot roast. Beware the forthcoming hype--this is ersatz shit. C+
>>129836959mebbe
>>129836959Poor man's Hank
Walk on the wild side.
Howdy, boys.
>>129837015No.
>>129837022Didn't know until recently they'd been around since the mid 30's
>>129836660The sheer volume of covers that were released and charted almost simultaneously was staggering. I don't think a single other song has ever so totally dominated the zeitgeist at one time.
The Queen of Country before Kitty Wells (song is from '51 but whatever)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-sQtO5gZww
>>129836915That's the stuff. Sure beats the fucking Ames Brothers anyway.
The five minutes when I was a somebody.
>>129837073Great music for spying on your neighbors
>>129837102especially if they're suspected commies
>>129837015so she's naked out of the frame, right?
The last gasp on the charts for Bing and the Andrews Sisters, it's a new decade and we have some new, quote un quote, stars. >>129836462
>>129837073https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxzsfskbnGwboy this new tape recording stuff is great. sounds so clear and crisp compared to how records used to be.
>>129837303If so only her husband and the executives of London Records had the full uncropped photo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EeTWyV_jfI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn7CtVgrX8MAn early Rosemary Clooney--she doesn't have an actual chart hit until next year. This says 1950 but it's still a very 40s-sounding record and was probably cut in '49 and not released for some months. Quite pleasant little song though.
https://archive.org/details/78_the-canasta-song_rosemary-clooney-mc-coy-parman-krum-dowell-percy-faith_gbia0032693a/The+Canasta+Song+-+Rosemary+Clooney+-+Mc+Coy.flac(this wasn't on Youtube, sorry)And then Mitch Miller arrives this year and....this is the result. Poor girl.
>>129837509why does she sound like a 10 year old boy on that record?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul1_X6osfMQAnother big hit that clearly sounds like the 50s. A new decade is here, alright.
>>129836206YAKKITY YAKDONT TALK BACK
I'D DO ANYTHING YOU WANT, ANYTHING YOU'D WANT ME TOALL I WANT IS KISSING YOU AND MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC
>>129837687Eight years too early for that one, frog -kun. This is the uncool part of the 50s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs3UkZo1c7AJo's first hit of the decade, also a definitely 50s, not 40s-sounding song.
>>129837689Some radio stations banned this song because they thought this lyric was too suggestive.
>>129836526https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UPMG_7MFyMYes, yes, it will, Frank.
>>129837793ouch that's painful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5cOcH_m2D8
golly gee, if I had a penny for every time I've ejaculated to those breasts I tell you what.
>>129837863She's still only an actress in 1950 and won't become a singer for a few years yet.
>>129837015How fortunate that pop's young new sensation will only have one #1 ever. Actually even one was too many.
Long live eternal Romanian-Soviet friendship. May we prosper under wise teaching of Comrade Stalin!(fuck this shit btw)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XqrM8tKFL0Seems like ragtime or polka tunes are hot this year.
>>129836206I just beat the fuck out of my opiate-addicted wife lmao
>>129837689https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q5WV_L_rg4Well anything, the queen of fatuous had her breakout and only #1 hit with this spring 1950 hit, which she recorded multiple other times for different labels but all of the remakes are pretty bad (remakes usually are).
>We could be talking about all the amazing blues and country records released this year>Instead we're posting the lamest shit imaginable
>>129838204the winter and spring of '50 had a lot of bouncy hits like that but later in the year once we were at war again things turned sodden, like "Mona Lisa", "Goodnight Irene", and >>129838216
>>129838246>>129836915>>129836959>>129837022>>129836691We have blues and country stuff in here if you were paying attention.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPUxUxSu6rMAnd since you asked, here's an early Kitty Wells.
>>129836206WHO PUT THE BOMP THE BOMP SHOE BOMP
>>129837487Rosemary in what looks like a radio duet with CBS's latest signing.
>>129838381>>129837687why can't froggy get year right? there was no rockabilly yet in 1950.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QBdTdzin7UOne of the rare chart hits for everyone's favorite journeywoman pop girl, here doing a Dinah Shore impersonation.
>>129838496a lot of her RCA material isn't on Youtube although that was actually her busiest years of recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bGICw1wDoEAnd her other '50 hit, which is just a Jo Stafford impersonation. Being a mimic with no sound of your own tends to be bad for your long term reputation.>>129837015I mean, no matter what you think of this gal she definitely couldn't be mistaken for anyone else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NpaeU6xycc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0aTP2z6GDY
>>129838636sweet. i love me some LH
Hi, I'm back. Missed me while I was away the past 2 years?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC9uUAOn5NY
>>129838736Acsually, Frieda, I...ah, forget it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqlfo0mZdXwDinah Shore's last hit for CBS. She did not care for Mitch Miller's new creative direction, told him to eat shit, and left the label a few months later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmF7NvDBdu0Sarah!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGvAkHiwm3cUnsurprisingly, it's yet another polka-flavored hit--they really loved this silly fad this year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy691wYWJxkYep yep yep.
>>129839066this was also covered by Dean Martin in one of his first ever hits and (kek) Kitty Kallen
>>129837571The hits this year clearly sound 50s and not 40s although the 50s as we properly think of it didn't exist yet. Cars didn't have tail fins and most of the big names in music were 30s and 40s veterans. The space race is also years away; the Air Force has just started testing V-2 rockets at the newly opened test range in Cape Canaveral.
>>129839087https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fuNMZFvNH0Here's Kitty's cover of "Choo 'n Gum." It's cute enough, this is probably the last time she sounded young and not a momslop singer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjtl0sJ0c24Since Youtube rec-ed me the B-side, ok fine. This is cute too. She should have never turned 30.
How Much is that Doggie in the Window is boppin
>>129836691These damn coon niggers think i care bout their music i dont
>>129839209Angine De Potrine could never do this.
>>129839222that's 3 years away, buddy
>>129839231I don't think Quebec even had running water or electricity in 1950, they were a backward shithole in those days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS2Jv-_Lu-AGee, Peggy, how did we forget you?
>>129839225Tsundere af
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IZiJRxkzQoDitto.
>>129839311rerecord from 1960. this is the original version from '50.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVU3Wn2yxqM
>>129836206only 15 more years until music is invented
>>129839293Jap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu0SE3n6RZA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1L-sG5ZJEI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2fSBpfj4k8
Some more new faces for the new decade.
>>129839926early 'Dettes on CBS were an acapella group who mostly sang standards and folk songs, they didn't become the pop/rock-and-roll cover queens we all know until Cadence was launched.
>>129836206I am an american. I didn't finish high school. I hate communists and blacks and homosexuals and women. I'm getting fucked in the ass by rich people and I thank them for the opportunity, while blaming minorities for my woes. Cities are unwalkable, car-infested cesspits. A shitty actor-cum-sociopath cult leader is in charge of the nukes.
I enlisted with the assumption they'd send me to Japan and I'd get to screw girls in Tokyo, I didn't intend to actually fight a war. Get me the hell outta here.
>>129839926They have a really funny rendition of "Ballin' The Jack" on here.
A transitional period with pop dominated by a lot of the old familiar faces from the big band era, some new ones, and shifting from crooner drudge trudge to peppy novelty songs. Although rock-and-roll is a few years away, the trend toward more energetic music is already apparent and the event of tape recording and vinyl discs allows new sonic possibilities.
>>129836526cheer up. you'll pull out of your slump in a few more years.
>>129836206The fact that so many books still list behtoven as the best or most significant or most successful classical artist just shows how far music still has to becoming a serious artform.
>>129838385I think he didn't actually put any records out until next year.
There's a 15 year old in Mississippi who will eventually astonish you all.
>>129838736Judging from her haircut this is probably a photo taken later on in the 50s and is not from 1950, which was the last year when long 40s hair was in style.
>>129844736reissue from 2 years ago. this is a new one from '50.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsErOXptF3g
>>129844914She's all of 24 here and looks closer to 40.
>>129844954she only lived to 65, not so great genetics i guess
>>129845065More like she was a serious alcoholic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3FNLnFg6Ck
Time to beat my son up good for putting on that Negro music station.
>>129836398Nuts to you, Mitch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckjZ6wyg_28
>>129846926damn this is like some kind of proto-horrorcore
>>129837487Nice song, IDK why everyone's sense of taste instantly disappeared on January 1, 1950.
>>129837940https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqZRXR93G6gCute little pop country tune here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OthTeTiMeioThe Fontane Sisters try a ballad, prove that they're not especially great balladeers and novelty tunes are really their strength. That's ok, though, Georgia Gibbs was never that good at ballads compared to uptempo tunes either.
>>129843810https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfqJO9k6mnYThe Chordettes were always half a comedy act.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PYZXZvJsXc1950 was Connie Haines's last big recording year, and while this is a cute song it's still pretty 40s and it seems she couldn't or didn't want to make the transition into 50s sounds and mostly gave up on music to do TV and other venues.
>>129838204>Well anything>well anythingESL much?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTusM7v8udcDon Cornell, a competent journeyman crooner who hasn't put the previous decade behind him yet. Of course his idea of adapting to the 50s ends up with him signing with Coral and embarrassing himself horribly, so....
>>129838736https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b86HBaH8F5YGeorgia's comeback is a cover of le meme dessert song, but at drunk tempos. Also isn't that the same backing guys who were on those early Teresa Brewer hits?
These bebop niggers take it too far. What happened to simple swing fellas?
>>129848015i remember she said in an interview that this got airplay but the disc didn't really sell anything
>>129848033i know, right? jazz died with Glenn Miller, it's all been downhill from there. this bop stuff is just noise and i'm going to write another angry letter to Downbeat next week.
>>129844664>white boy co-opting negro music>ever becoming popularlol, lmao even
>>129840214Anon, it's 1950. You can literally move to Detroit and buy a house with an auto plant job.
>>129839293Get back to building your house Takeshi before we bomb it again oh wait you can't because it's irradiated LMAO
>>129840214I predict that 76 years later, nothing will have changed.
>>129837286this was the one that was originally Stag Party until Starr and her manager complained so they changed the title and the original LP is a rare collector's item
>>129837303she must have been...interesting in bed
>>129838736Georgia was on Majestic Records for a short period; that label folded at the end of '47 and she was away from recording until coming back on Coral this year. In between she did nightclub performances. One reviewer said her performances were lively but over-reliant on gimmicks. None of her Coral stuff was a big seller and she only found success when she joined Mercury in '52.
>>129838385how did Tony look 45 when he was in his 20s?
