ITT: /mu/ in 1953
It's a fine day to have a fine day I reckon.
>>130171945F no. Gone too soon.
>>130171945I can't wait for two years from now when good music is invented.
This 'rock and roll' stuff is interesting, but it feels like a fad.
>>130171990Say what? Music now is better than it's ever been. The latest Doris Day disc is flying off the shelves.
>>130172073Hey hey hey let's not say things we can't take back. There's a reason Frank Sinatra left the building and it just might be you, Mitchell.
>>130171968I'm sure I'd feel that way too if my Swiss bank account was growing by leaps and bounds the way yours is. Errrgh...
It's a new dawn in Frank Town.
>>130172144a soon to be great partnership, but Capitol had to pry him away from Axel Stordahl whom he wanted to still use.
>>130172055who's gonna listen to this noise?
Down in Memphis an 18 year old truck driver with a dream is listening to black radio stations.
Come on, folks. Wanna buy my new disc? No? Ah, who am I kidding? It's been eight years. I'm never getting another hit again. Phooey.
>>130172289https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-DQ0CuZ7yAThis is more meta than is necessary.
VAYA CON DIOS, MY DARLINGMAY GOD BE WITH YOU, MY LOVEWHEREVER YOU MAY BE I'LL BE BESIDE YOU
I remember awhile ago we were doing a billboard top 100 for every year. Why did we stop?
>>130172386I don't honestly recall that one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoHDrzw-RPgSteal this song.
>>130172444https://desuarchive.org/mu/thread/125383900/#q125383900This is the last one I could find, I guess OP stopped at 1953. Too bad, it would’ve been cool to do every year up to the present
>>130171968This is a race to nudge you from the #1 spot, Patti. Who will win?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFUpLAN3gNACripes, poor guy's corpse is still warm and they're already turning his songs into orchestral goo.
>>130172544this is a race that nobody wins
>>130172289there's just too many girl singers out there, Kitty. what can you give us we can't get elsewhere?>>130172604and they keep coming. Joni is the new hot voice everyone's buzzing about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKleTa94dC8
>>130172073You got some 'splainin to do here, Mitch. Just like that guy in that popular television show says.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toKS2MlKEFIthat's some balls-out guitar for 1953
Rosemary Clooney and Teresa Brewer are the waifu b8 of the industry. Don't be fooled, guys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE_daBjZFgIElla was some character, oldskool Southern white trash. Elvis admired her though.>writes a rant in Downbeat about too many singers these days being screamers who can't actually sing
>>130172144Great tune for skipping down the street wearing a cocky grin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ7gwWwZwFE
I bought a red Oldsmobile last month and now I'm on a government watchlist.
>>130172694This and le doggy song, two of the decade's worst hits in the same year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-HnqwUpekk
>>130172748Clooney was too busy with movies; in fact she didn't have any hits this year.
>>130172636https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVfdcejnDd0And we have another new face in the game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2fgwsOH5p8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwwTKER8hQMAny time, any year and this crumb bum is always infesting your Billboard like some weird parasite.
>>130172544cropped nude shot and only her husband and the record suits had the full version, no?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciS5GikZ5Jo
>>130173309Ha ha actually we did that joke before when we did a /mu/ in 1950 thread and no I was just messing with you, this is the full pic. She had four kids so this seems to have been an interval between them, only Rosemary Clooney had her beaten in that regard and she hasn't started up the baby mill yet in 1953. Oldschool Catholics gonna oldschool Catholic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJqW00d7G0kA mixed bag this year. Mainstream pop having a lot of infamous and terrible cheese but the underground showing the way down the road.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywroK_VSVmQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-ZNcOPVWyQCoral's newest signing. Weren't these gals on Arthur Godfrey? They're pretty bad. Hopefully they don't get any hits and get dropped from the label in a year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd5jpg7zPo8Lel meme cake girl's one other minor hit.
>>130173391She had another huge hit this year with a very undisguised ripoff of "Sentimental Journey." Must have momentary sated her oft-complaints that her fans only wanted to hear meme cheese songs instead of ballads (which were of course cred material).
>>130173506Kitty is very very big in cuntree during this era.
>>130173612>>130173537>>130173391goddamn, Coral is an absolute dumpster fire of a label
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYF50OlXHUI
>>130173762not a huge Chet fan but ok
As was mentioned before Rosemary was preoccupied with movies and didn't really have a '53 hit. She even made a Time Magazine cover but that cover is kind of creepy so I won't post it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DectA0LeKMYoung Tony, when he was still a teen idol.
>>130173862He fought a brave battle and was adamant about keeping Mitch Miller out of his business, he did not let him in the room while they were working on a recording. For his efforts Kolumbia snubbed him and often didn't promote his songs at all.
>>130173888https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPM273Aej6UNot this lady though, she was more than happy to just be a mindless vehicle for Mitchtunes in exchange for a paycheck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2fGc8UnY0IRuth's biggest hit on (black) radio and little known to whites.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcNU2Dr5c5M
It beginshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaNQG1yVYDg
>>130174107Ray has been recording for four years at this point nor did he have a charting hit this year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIkTdOtKafkthe Flamingos' first R&B hit
Go away Eddie. Nobody likes you, nobody wants to hear your strangled gopher voice (well, a lot of very stupid 14 year old girls too anyway)
Grrr, I hate commies so much.
>>130172135if you grew up in the Depression in an Oklahoma farmhouse with no running water or electricity you'd probably be forgiven for your money lust
Hank Williams ded :(
There's an 11 year old little shithead in Queens named Bob Christgau who just rated his mom's meatloaf a C minus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtxUrnqX2UA
>>130171945ugh, the worst era of music in the 20th century
The concept album and the femcel album are invented in one stroke.
>>130177907Patti Page always admired Peggy Lee and Ella Fitzgerald and wanted to make concept albums like theirs but she never quite pulled it off or escaped being a singles artist.
>>130178007Ella's great run of LPs doesn't begin until next year however.
>>130172621At least Patti's singing doesn't give you a brain hemorrhage.
>>130178105https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STR5tl5ah64If only because they were putting out 1956's music in 1953. Way ahead of anything the Kolumbia/RCA/Decca gang were doing.
>>130178202>that You, you, you couplet at the end>>130177456>yfw a few months later
>>130178202in other words, Jerry Wexler was right when he said Hollywood, Broadway, and Nashville were all cancer
This perpetual nuisance enters his second year of recording.
>>130178308https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3NCuZgyPsgSeems he was an Eddie Fisher impersonator on these early King discs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuRqaGqIPCgI'd have tuned into black radio too if the alternative was Steve Lawrence.
HOW MUCH IS THAT DOGGY
>>130178308https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XELdsdgyKYAlso wifey (or, future wifey) makes her recording debut at the ripe old age of 25 (which is honestly late for pop music standards) with this obvious "The Tennessee Waltz" ripoff.
>>130172694Aghh, I missed out on the new episode last night. Maybe someday they'll invent a way to record TV programs at home so you can rewatch them later.
>>130172097I somehow find this more obnoxious than The Doggy In The Window, but maybe it's just me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHLX4SqGIj4
>>130173391talk about a pan face
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wkr4iU1OpWA
>>130180046The Hilltoppers were one of the bigger white bread male pop groups and inaugurated the soon-to-be-notorious Dot Records, Billy Vaughn becoming the label's chief arranger. Compared to most of Dot's roster however, these guys were pretty harmless.
>>130177889In such fairness most '53 hits were still reasonably tasteful and restrained, it's what comes after when mainstream labels attempt R&B and rock crossovers that many of the decade's true horrors emerge.
>>130173049https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3S19k0IWBkThe latest one Columbia has kicked up.
>>130180191Was in the Royal in Manhattan the other week, they had this Italian girl Concetta I think her name was? she's from Newark I hear, up there. meh she was alright for only 15 but I was more annoyed that they stopped the drink service during her set because of that. Her pa was a huge blowhard telling everyone she's going to be bigger than Patti Page someday. Good luck with that, buddy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELcF3eVnVdwKay rides on.
>>130172621This. Either way we all lose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jJWmYlgdCYI suppose this will be more famous for the Cleftones' version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a88PjGvodZEThese gals keep on trying despite never having a single hit that Perry Como wasn't on. Maybe things will work out someday, perhaps on another label, perhaps with R&B crossovers, who knows?
>>130173835https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yukX9uCWQGchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiYvtLB6km4She recorded plenty this year, twenty different sides in fact. Just no hits most likely because of all her movie activities meant she was too busy to promote any of her singles. Here, preening ballad and a novelty children's song.
I love living in my cheap-ass prefab suburban home inhaling leaded gas fumes on the way to work and eating cheap, nasty processed, canned food. Also I reported my neighbor for being a suspected commie.
Eddie Fisher sucks. That is all.
>>130181233the big one is coming next year
It all began here. And none of it was good.
>>130181456https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBl029_-Y_wOnly 1:51 huh? That is a short record.
>>130181512the less of Pat Boone the better
>>130173049Jaye's second single, which shows pretty quickly that her slow numbers are not as good as her fast ones.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4lK8v5AakY
>>130173049this old standard which Rudy Vallee had a hit with in 1931. it was a Depression "gallows humor" song and transplanted to the economically prosperous '50s kind of loses its context. also Doris Day recorded this on her unreleased 1966 The Love Album.
music died with Glenn Miller. these new songbirds and cats are a disgrace.
Who remembers
>>130182807i get the feeling Cuckgau would really hate "Why Don't You Believe Me?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvYCtdZpOMg
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>>130184667>>>/pol/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELzQcT14coEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUe0Snpy3XgAt this point Dinah is more of a TV star. The ballad feels rather 40s and a little behind the times while the fast song is typical 50s meme pop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk3GhAHiSw4Another Koral talent is this journeyman crooner.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwyl9AhamlsAnd paired up with the resident mistress of schlock doing what she does best.
>>130184827>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwyl9Ahamlsthis song is excruciating to sit through
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtYvkT5GohQIf Cornell wasn't enough, they have this other C-tier crooner. Yeah he sucked too.
>>130184839Yes, yes it is.
