ITT: /mu/ in 1959
>TFW waiting for music to be invented.
Hey Betty Sue, wanna go down to the ice cream shop? They have the new Bobby Darin record in the jukebox.
>>130446057Eisenhower took away my house and bulldozed it to build a highway. Nuts to that, I'm voting Democrat next year.
>>130446057https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDqULFUg6CY
>>130446123only one more year until he puts out Sketches of Spain and causes Christgay to boycott jazz for three years. can't wait.
Being #1 sure feels good, innit?
>>130446123>modal instead of melodic improvWhat the hell is this shit
>>130446197ouch
>>130446147I paid your dad the $100 I bet him at the horse track three years ago that you'd never make it. Sheesh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngZh6ZSRoYgwhat eventually happens to the chick is very sad. RIP Janet, you deserved better.
>>130446258>comment section is more robot generated "Upboat if you were born in the rong generashun" and "My wife of 50 years died of cancer this was her favorite song RIP" posts
Hi, Steve. I see you escaped Bob Thiele's tyrannical plantation and are now back to pretending you're Sinatra instead of Buddy Knox or whatever the hell you were doing on Coral. Still, screw you.
because, why go for cheap bootleg versions of Frank when you can have the real thing?
>>130446057Does anyone else think this negro music is starting to sound all the same?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_ySb91bX8QRock-and-roll is kaput, folk is in.
>>130446481>Rock-and-roll is kaputgood that that damn hoodlum noise is gone. hoping it never comes back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXRPTI_Q62U>This 45 was initially issued simply under the title “Class Cutter,” but purportedly out of concern that it might encourage teens to cut class, it was changed to the modified title. For a second I read that as it would encourage teens to practice self-harm.
"Uh...yeah so I didn't know she was 14, officer, honest."
>>130446197They didn't fly so good!
It's a bit of a slow-the-pace-down year, the economy is kind of bleh and everyone needed a break from high energy music for a while.
OUT IN THE WEST TEXAS TOWN OF EL PASO
>>130446197the autopsy reports for these guys were not pretty. don't read without a barf bag. plane crashes do some not very nice things to human bodies.
>>130446656I fell in love with a Mexican girl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MpnXe4PeDYChuck's last big one before the troubles begin.
>>130446147Connie is really hot in '59 and nearly without competition--Brenda Lee doesn't break out until next year and she has the pop girl market just about to herself for the time being.
>>130446651https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxrH_Xuxng8Proving Tezza can sing tastefully when she wants to. Well it was an LP and LPs in the 50s are "serious" music for adults with florid, pretty singing and arrangements. Tis album is also feeling like a meta commentary about her hitmaking days being pretty much at an end. I mean, she's served her purpose. We have Connie Francis now.
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>>130446915Drugs are bad, mmmkay?
I knew that was how rock-and-roll happened. It was the Payola. DJs only played that garbage because record companies were paying them off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bntbR8Aibc0Welcome back, Kitty? Well ok we didn't miss you _that_ much while you were away.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuomHDGXzDISo many short-lived doo-wop acts in this time who had 1-2 hits and vanished.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljeGmc2q3sUFour years since "Ko Ko Mo" and they're still making the exact same song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHRy-a8aLP4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E6QIMzC2CsJaye's back after three years but too bad this is a slow one and she kind of stinks at those.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR9Sgx24yN0A big year for Johnny with six hits, but I hate songs that use "divine" as a couplet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZrGeFx__nE
only 30 years until Taylor Swift is born. enjoy it while it lasts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvzNeh4Mq1oThis one of course needs no introduction.
>>130447456Dartmouth is Satanic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evv62FOSDHU
She's got four big ones this year.
some new teenybopper act? meh these kids are a dime a dozen, she'll disappear by next year like they all do.
>>130447648this version of her was a lot cooler than the bland AC she did in the late 60s-early 70s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD3CqdKo35s"The Tijuana Jail" was way better than this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiBESHDCu4w
>>130447104This turned out to be his biggest selling album for some reason. It’s not even one of his best swing albums.
>>130448030>This turned out to be his biggest selling album for some reason. It’s not even one of his best swing albumsIn fact A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra was his biggest selling album of all time, it went platinum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJN1ZxrOf0A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNDLO04jYLMJoni has been usurped by her younger doppleganger on MGM and her career is starting to wind down. That said, I personally prefer Joni's voice to her younger doppleganger's.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0-Bw-xKg3g
Eight of them on the Billboard this year. I love sweet, sweet Payola because not like anyone's gonna play my records without a substantial bribe first.
>>130448253https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFhQl5r8qpUWhy did he sound 50 when he was 25?
>>130446651https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLul68rxMAETeresa's singles this year are also a little low energy and lack her normal cheese whiz factor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pgbJaKemicWho said R&R is dead?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oANJ5Hd4XRw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmZdBNaXI5kThey're kind of running out of energy and slowing things too.
>>130447003>hey, do you guys want to see a dead body?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSu9Kj7Q_Vg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW0a3sR0Usw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNTD_3IqWrk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLniymUjy5IClassic that needs no introduction.
Too much bad wine and calamari got you, buddy. RIP.
a great year for jazz and rock.
>>130448770The vibe this year was definitely laid-back as the last several years of high energy music had gotten played out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWHYp1Z5RpQA last big hit for this fatuous Mitch Miller project from the early part of the decade who never quite became the hoped-for next Sinatra.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIiaPlzlkBIAnother of Como's takes on rock-and-roll. I'd have rather he didn't bother.
How many 50s schizos are there? Two?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIiaPlzlkBInobody hates Nat
Steal this album title - The Go-Go's (well actually Belinda Carlisle is in diapers at the moment, but eventually)
>>130448942that's a live album actually, her studio LP for this year was I Like Men
>>130448754My Italian grandma must've been devastated
>>130448754>Lanza died in Rome on October 7, 1959 at age 38 of heart failure brought on by repeated bouts of overeating and fasting.[2]
>>130448754https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc9qK6uc8igoh well, we still have Al Martino
>>130448960I know.
>>130448942https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x2JM4cTRwMPeggy rides off last year's momentum to have another two pretty big singles in '59.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk9Ma6PBbuA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjfdsQV1ZWI
>>130449107this slaps. people only kind of forget the Everlys this year because they didn't have a top 10 hit like in the two surrounding years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPI4fA5chzw
>>130449137https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpuCOTxTiFIyoung George when he was still half-rock and roll
>>130449194https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk_grbqzwbwAs with all of James's albums prior to around 1967, this is just a collection of the hit single+filler.
>>130449280this was 1960 according to Discogs p. sure Love Is A Season was her '59 LP
>>130449315I suppose it is. Still, I only ever thought Shelley Fabares had a good version of this over-recorded standard.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXE5orzTIng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXqHFm9G1UsDion!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgzrU_bfmcUJill trying to sound adult is not nearly as fun as "My Baby Loves Me" was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFxXwEkT_Sc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mA1k-b9UNw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VN_wkmpy-AYes she had R&B hits other than the one Georgia Gibbs absconded with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE5PcKFHw-M
No, Steve, no.
Yo, wanna go downtown and catch Art Blakey, my happenin' hep cats?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u_Ka5Kgx4AI guess this one also needs no introduction.
Brenda's first LP and her singles run won't start until next year. Like most 50s LPs it's a bunch of standards for the adult audience, but a pretty good one overall.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkf-DhihdrcFrom Seattle comes a closet fag in a sailor suit and two Stacys who find him completely non-threatening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b__fI0xeTyIMore nautical themes? At least this actually rocks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcXkZz8-VaoThat's not problematic at all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoVEYvXkHasThings are winding down for Patti at last. This was her highest charting single of '59 and made only #43 on the Billboard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRL6ebkVwr4
>>130448872>How many 50s schizos are there? Two?qrd
Geez that's a terrible cover.
>>130449892CBS really struggled during the later years of the Mitch Miller era.
holy shit
>>130446481These dudes were huge for several years, even their albums were big sellers when pop was mostly singles based.
Her single for this year was "Broken Hearted Melody" which she considered a pretty cheesy and detestable song.
>>130450082https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9I_clmG8Eoyeah it's typical of 50s singles in that way while LPs had all the "serious" material
>>130450082ugly cover art
>>130446147Ah, Connie, why did I let you get away from me back four years ago? What was I thinking?
>>130454123tl;dr?
>>130454202That Francis initially demo-ed for CBS in '55 and Miller rejected her. I assume because he already had Jill Corey and thought he didn't need another Italian girl singer. Of course the guy was so atrocious at developing talent that he probably would have ruined her anyway.
>>130446666satanic
>>130446197>The fourth man on the tour, Dion DiMucci was invited by Holly to accompany the group but decided that he would not spend $36 ($400.98 in 2026) for the flight, as he considered 36 an unlucky number ($36 was the exact same monthly rent his parents paid for his childhood apartment) and he could not justify the indulgence. The plane crashed, killing all on board: Holly, Valens, Richardson and the pilot Roger Peterson.
>>130447456that's his dad and grandfather with him btw
>>130454605The Platters were huge for a number years (n fact the biggest-selling vocal group of the decade) although black, marketed as pop rather than R&B and they specialized in covering standards.
>>130454679>type "enchanted" on Youtube>first suggestion is a Taylor Shit songFuck off, Youtube.
>>130454605Johnny Mathis totally didn't rip off Tony Williams's voice, not at all.
>>130454515also Waylon Jennings barely escaped death that day
>>130450082it's still not entirely been determined if Sarah and Dinah are actually the same person going by two different names since they were never seen in the same room together.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rd_ImCckH5EYoutube also filtered the group's name apparently because they think it's a porn search term. Dudes are kind of annoying anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbtkL5_f6-4A lot of snob folkies hated the Kingston Trio as commercial slop/sellouts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFSBUO-D7X8Jerruh.
>>130446147SIIIIIXTEEEEEN REASONS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-QQI6lb_HgI guess Chuck Berry meets his Waterloo this December.
>>130447397>folklore won’t be released for over 60 yearsIt’s over.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOYO37e4SREIt's a femcel, guys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDAlcS5BMWwThe end of the road for these fuckers. Thank God.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VK28DPCUI8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1q0LNb8irA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXfuQqkwa5IA man destined for many long years of great music ahead I bet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=7XuTrQJ8Ks4
>>130448268on most of The45Prof's videos of Pat Boone songs he puts a subtle swipe at him in the intro. not that i'd blame him.
>>130446057rock and roll is dead. long live teen idols and folkslop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4hv5dJwc6Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnUJOivgw4IRecorded late '57 but not released until early '59.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnLyypuGG6oThe Shirelles initially put this out in July '59, it attracted no attention until being reissued 18 months later and making the top 10. My guess is the arrangement was a little ahead of the time and radio wasn't ready for them yet.
>>130446481Of their four '59 hits this is definitely the most dated one, in particular the production on the vocals.
>>130455815Turns out Rollins didn't have anything out this year.
