ITT: /mu/ in 1960
>>130501347This economy bites and Eisenhower knocked down my house to build a highway. I'm voting Democrat this fall.
Thank God rock n roll is finally dead.
>>130501372long live folkslop and teen idols.
>>130501372Let's get back to real music. Pass the Percy Faith album this way.
Sup.
>>130501510Uh...hello, ladies. Sheesh. Oh well, at least you killed off all of Mitch Miller and Bob Thiele's hand puppets. Could be worse, I guess.
>>130501510I'm Sorry is a cool song though, anyway.
SHE WORE AN ITSY WITSY TEENY WEENY
>>130501347Ha ha time for the worst instrumental of all time to hit #1.
For about a year he sounds back to his old self before sinking into the schlock/movie soundtrack tar pit.
>>130501774only one lp this year
Ha ha there's no way the Russians get a guy in space before us, not those cavemen.
>>130501817Economy measure I think, it was a recession year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1618sKyDNGcJaye's last Billboard appearance is this comically schlocky cover. At least the originator of the song got paid for it.
>>130501854No arranger mentioned. How odd.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbxxkwBQk_oAnd here we go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo9e4M155ywAh shaddup, Steve (to be fair the arrangement here is worse than him).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RLHVdgu8MAJoni covers this one about five years late to the party.
>>130502035Duplicated the last one, sorry.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsvojgWdNBk
>>130501430>Pass the Percy Faith album this wayA good buddy of Mitch Miller's. I mean, why wouldn't he be?
I just bashed my wife and she is still talking back, what next? oh yeah and who the fuck is this david gilmour. Also we should all buy real estate and sell it in the 2020's for 30x what the property is worth
That would have been true 6 years ago, Tezza, but not in 1960. It's a new decade and we have Brenda Lee now.
>>130502153Forgot pic.
Ain't electing no stinking Pope hugger to the White House. Nixon's my guy.
>>130502163also "I'm Sorry" is a slightly better song than anything dreamt of in her philosophy
>>130502139>I just bashed my wife and she is still talking backMaking the wrong flavor of Jell-O Salad for dinner has its consequences.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_fb0yqT0i8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrXEnrT97okOne of Doris's last charting hits and a very typical period Kolumbia piece.
>>130502163Also, you should get a laugh at the completely self-indulgent photos of herself and her crummy kids in the gatefold of this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0FaRW4uGxg
>>130502447Can't say I asked for middle aged Jewesses doing bad Yiddish theater slop.
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>>130502462at least when Georgia Gibbs did it it was fun
>>130502477Gone too soon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_tcBVXnCU4Ray!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWgyum5fjJc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE-AcC53OYY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6qDAvsfyvg
Ella marks 25 years as a recording artist this year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUwBfwtvssw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqU148VhZvI
'CAUSE EVERYBODY'S SOMEBODY'S FOOOLLLL
HELLO MUSIC FANS. I HAVE FOUND A VERY GROOVY RECORD BY THIS CAT BOB DYLAN. I WOULD LIKE TO LISTEN TO IT WITH YOU MUSIC FANS BUT I AM NOT SURE HOW TO DO IT HERE. I AM NEW TO INTERNET AND NOT VERY GOOD HAHA. PEACE AND LOVE BROTHERS AND SISTERS
>>130501541https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQy_OW76vUoWe're not rid of Randy Wood's hand puppet, unfortunately, as he has another seven charting hits this year.
>>130502874The first Dylan album is still two years away. Little premature there.
>>130502901Crap. I thought it was 1960s. Not 1960. Idk. Pretend he made some demo or something in 1960
>>130502891Poor Pat. He wanted so badly to be a crooner but was born 10-15 years too late for that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVCMOihUtFoGay sailor boy and two Stacys who find him completely non-threatening enter their second year, and their last as a going concern.
>>130503067I don't like this album. Miles totally sold out and is just making lame cocktail lounge slop now.
>>130503081Don't you have an exam to be studying for now, Christgau?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiEwmGULJ3cThe Platters enter their fifth year of recording and unsurprisingly, it's more standards covers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IQQdKAtOQ8Some blues snobs don't like Jimmy Reeves for having too many hits on (black) radio but who cares about them, right?
>>130503067i love this one for how it filtered Cuckgau from listening to jazz for three years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrIVziHbNPEHit it, Roy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI7_TTR6b1Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEpqU1794eYMeta songs rarely get this blatant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7DbjNg5wyI
good year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDMGMztg16gThe Trio enters their second year of being the biggest music group in America.
>>130503430I think '60 to have been better than the two surrounding years, better, more interesting crop of hits than '59 and '61.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOOFjjoLCZk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu0SdGF8orE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URAkOto0OIEAnita!This is a cute song btw. I'm not gonna scroll down and read the comment section though, that would be a horrible idea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuuOAA9ekbg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGoGHe4aDvo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twa3WQk2fgk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw63qKej7dwThen again, Tezza, I wouldn't say it was ever love to begin with and the fact that things aren't what they used to be is a good thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9Ib8sC_wX8
>>130503667Kino
>>130503667https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqku63PK-x4ha ha Joni Mitchell totally won't rip her entire sound from this eight years from now, right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gATwzVx1lCs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAGOwTqqgYU
"Well, Senator, I'm sure if you knew the president you would understand that that was probably just a facetious remark."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaMq4YaGsVw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QboYbde_7k0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD5C1HxeRqAAdam Wade was a two year fad. Most listeners probably thought he was white.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iDXWf2EMSoJackie already in her fourth year of recording, in this period a less commercial Brenda Lee.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhisv3i6KP8
>>130504081Despite this fellow's name (lol) they were clever enough to not actually say which side the soldier fought on so it can appeal to everyone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reZL2WF1ulsThanks, Sam (who gets a major label contract this year and surely has many more years of great music ahead of him)
>lemme try and get in my last implication of sexiness before I turn 30 next yearFour kids, too late. By that point any bitch's nether regions are like the Grand Canyon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4A6uFzh7x0Thanks, BB.
>>130504196He didn't have any charting singles last year for some reason but he's back on (black) radio in '60 with four of them.
>>130504187all girls too. golly no wonder her husband fucked off and left her in the late 60s. if you have four girls all reaching puberty at once it's an absolute nightmare. poor SOB probably couldn't stand it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB4XsvmywdA
there’s too much negro music on the radio nowadays
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGkAbrNKEv4Mercury hasn't given up on their old reliable ATM machine even though she's only having low tier hits now (here, only #52 on the Billboard, her highest '60 single got to #32).
>>130504301>her highest '60 single got to #32)*or, #31. sorry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07WesNG_hlYThe mellower side of Rick.
>>130504187at least they had 'em back then unlike modern childless pop roasties
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW2drrw-LAoNat's only got two singles this year. Like with Sinatra, one suspects Capitol were practicing some austerity measures due to the economic recession.
>>130501948Steve-O may have been scanty on singles/airplay in 1960 but the fucker had no lack of LPs, five of them including two wifey duet ones, one LP some leftover Coral stuff. Wifey herself was too busy giving birth to their elder son this year so was taking time off and didn't put out anything (the duet albums were probably recorded in '59). This dude was some kind of tumor that the entire '60s and most of the '50s were cursed with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORE1v8tNdLEAt least Lawrence was only a thing in two decades. This chucklefuck, try five of them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PggaPUzp7fAAnyway, Roy's breakout hit at the start of the year. More rock-and-roll compared to "Blue Angel", he still has remnants of his Sun rockabilly sound here and hasn't become a balladeer yet.
>>130502477Sometimes I think he was secretly the best guitarist of all the 50's rockers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjR4LrmVFP0That other Sun guy.
>>130504321Connie Francis never had any kids. Neither did Patti Page.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCaGCrczgpo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sMb7QP78Vw
Three Sassy LPs this year.
I've said it before and I'll say it again--nobody has ever proven that her and Sarah Vaughan aren't actually the same person with two different identities as neither have ever been seen in the same room together.
>>130504716i have the strange feeling that she will die soon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPuPfrker7oThey were really only a one year thing anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EydCpxPquYQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ7Omjn9p7gAND SHE'S BUIILLDDING A STAIRWAAAAAYYYOh wait, this isn't what you thought.
>>130504885Sedaka is so tacky it hurts.
>>130504961He tried to come back in the 70s as an "adult" singer, although with his voice maturity wasn't really possible.
>>130501510They ruled the charts almost unchallenged for a while because there was a drought of female pop talent in the early 60s compared to the abundance of 50s talent. The only competition were short-lived teen idols like Connie Stevens and Shelley Fabares.
>>130501541the new pop sound is chill and spacey, the tacky 50s styles like Teresa Brewer et al did are out.
>>130503430The hits in '60 are slow and kind of droopy as it's a recession year and things are a bit bleh.
For some reason Wikipedia doesn't list their LPs, but unsurprisingly it's yet more standards, here with a plant/fruit theme. The title tune is a Zola Taylor vocal, which is cute enough but doesn't touch Jaye P. Morgan's version.
It's fortunate that unlike that other husband/wife singing duo from Hell, this lady and her husband never recorded an album together. Actually they're not together anymore in 1960 as he's busy plowing Elizabeth Taylor. This album also has "Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries" on it, featuring her total non-singing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR9duVVZJmMActually, Debbie, yes, he has moved on and is plowing Elizabeth Taylor now. Let it go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1YD_Ejb450
>>130507728No amount of Latina pussy is worth dying over, Marty.
>>130507742hey cool song anyway
>>130507682>recorded for Dot and CoralOf course she did. Who else would have her?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRwwCsoGffAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB3xMdfkV7wOf this standard, nah, Jo Stafford's was way better. Sorry, guys.
SHE WAS AFRAID TO COME OUT OF THE LOCKERSHE WAS AS NERVOUS AS SHE COULD BE
>>130507965this song had the world's creepiest promotional video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWsToWFw5gQOne black singer that made Cuckgau's enemies list.
>>130508712not R&B enough, i guess?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWVgYDvQx5M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0D3b4c2lI8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yT5YBcidtI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czjap6UrcJg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO_H1q_APII
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB8aLzc1gNcKitty is the ultimate journeywoman, I swear.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFiITwlO5CkWhat's this? The Coasters doing Kallen's old wartime hit? And it still gets points knocked off for using "divine" as a couplet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpbEhjEYMJEThis group was a OHW but their one hit will go on to bigger fame when other parties cover it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1hIX3Klm1UWhat is this Croatian man (not Guy Mitchell) doing on American radio?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BuZGe4aXD0Ah how can we forget this one?
>>130509447https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMQlqRrW1ns>This was Dearie's first album recorded with full orchestral arrangements.It's a testimony to her skill that she isn't ruined by this album, because that phrase doesn't usually portend anything good.
>>130509717Her trademark "tip-toeing" rhythm was very unique and she's pretty much gotten her sound down pat by this point whereas if you compare the first album from '57 she didn't do that yet.
It's your typical LP of the period, meaning the hit single and a bunch of filler/standards covers.
>>130510680albums were usually for the adult audience back then so that's why they were padded out with standards and orchestra goo
>>130510680None of the cuts on here are bad and all are functional but none have the effort or craft of her singles.
>>130502749The Duke...36 years.
Because what's a country LP without Your Cheatin' Heart recording #75994944?
>>130510952https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjiqErAQvdcThink I'm going to cede this one permanently to the McGuire Sisters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qijElhXZEtk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax-6U-KaBAY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDTpUAFYMfg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA70ofvX_0A
>>130512188Bobby was a Philly legend, unfairly slimed by an industry that chose to market him as a teen idol when he was much more than that, and then the Beatles killed his chances at radio play forever.
>>130512367so was Bobby Vee, he was also a talent that the early 60s music industry being what it was basically squandered
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVoJgF8BnHM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2lJvR-5La8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqATf72jLtUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO4Gam2gcGMThis woman is still around, but why? Also this seems to have been 1956 recordings they left in the can and dug out four years late. Rock and roll number on one side and Kitty Kallen impersonation ballad on the other side.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rmtwwckr8EISue Thompson puts this one-off CBS disc out under a pseudoname. Right before her years of bad luck are about to turn around.
