ITT: /mu/ in 1955
>>130649238Only ten years until the Beatles invent music. Can't wait.
>>130649238>CHARLIE PARKER DEAD AT 34 Nigger had it coming.
>>130649238Only ten years until music for us fellas who like other fellas is invented!
TWO FOUR FIVE O' CLOCK ROCKSIX SEVEN EIGHT O' CLOCK ROCK
Me and my girlfiend (14) are going to see this guy called Elvis Presley tonight. I heard he's good.
>>130649261it's also 14 until the Stonewall riots so for now stay in the closet where you belong
IT'S JUST ONE OF THOSE DAYS WHEN YOU DON'T WANNA WAKE UPEVERYTHING'S FUCKED, EVERYBODY SUCKS
Right.
>>130649283Disclaimer. You're 25.
time to come home to my lovely prefab house with asbestos siding in my tin can deathtrap Oldsmobile to my lovely wife who is on pills and fucking the mailman as she serves my favorite Jell-O Salad
YOU DON'T REALLY KNOW WHY, BUT YOU WANT TO JUSTIFY RIPPIN' SOMEONE'S HEAD OFFNO HUMAN CONTACT
>>130649334Before or after you punch her in the face because DV isn't recognized as a thing yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm04zz4f0qcHit it, Nat.
AND IF YOU INTERACT, YOUR LIFE IS ON CONTRACTYOUR BEST BET IS TO STAY AWAY, MOTHERFUCKER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lif7ig4856UThe second of Doris's mid-50s "trilogy" (Secret Love, I'll Never Stop Loving You, and Que Sera Sera) and easily the most tasteful of the three.
>>130649238ha ha what if Cuckgau et al someday overrate the fuck out of harmonizing black guys with a corny saxophone solo?
IT'S ALL ABOUT THE HE SAYS, SHE SAYS BULLSHITI THINK YOU BETTER QUIT LETTIN' SHIT SLIPOR YOU'LL BE LEAVIN' WITH A FAT LIP
>>130649575Poor Emmett Till. Such Southern barbarism, no different from what our forbearers fought on the battlefield nearly a century ago.
Nixon is a crook and a liar I tell ya. There was a time when government had men of honor and integrity.
>>130649274This Bill Haley fellow is surely a communist agent sent to corrupt the youth.
FIRST ONE TO COMPLAIN LEAVES WITH A BLOOD STAINDAMN RIGHT I'M A MANIAC
MISTER SANDMAN, BRING ME A DREAM
>>130649283>>130649311Kek
>>130649690Uh, ladies, I don't think Liberace is going to return your calls. How do I explain this...
It feels good to be back. No thanks to that goatee guy. Up yours, asshole.
And here we go.
>>130649584wait wasn't his pa executed during the war for rape or something?
I PACK A CHAINSAWI'LL SKIN YOUR ASS RAWAND IF MY DAY KEEPS GOIN' THIS WAYI MIGHT JUST BREAK YOUR FUCKIN' FACE TONIGHT
>>130649739Poop.
>>130649260Yeah, just like Emmett Till.
>>130649909that was a child who got beaten to death, /pol/
Some new songbird from MGM. Bleh, this ain't no good. Looks like another Joan Weber deal here.
judging by the article, I'd say he's probably butthurt about rock and roll or something
I'll say he's a busy man, Steve. So busy he wasn't paying attention and accidentally allowed your soul to escape Hell for raping kids in a past life and be reborn in New York 20 years ago.
>>130649238I can't wait for them to invent good music
>>130649238RIP James Dean.
Together at last.
>>130649726You da man, Frank. And to think you could still be at CBS and recording this classic instead.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLOqTIRMEmM
>>130649782Sometimes like Teresa Brewer you're just innocently clueless/absent of any self-awareness and your music is like a preschool art teacher helping their kids make their art project.>>130649782>>130649994>>130649294And with these guys they're actively malicious and know exactly what they're doing.
>>130650030goody the candy girl. how she's managed to last almost a decade don't ask me. surely has nothing to do with her husband owning a music publishing outfit, no, not at all.
WELL NOW THEY OFTEN CALL ME SPEEDO BUT MY REAL NAME IS MISTER EARL
hey my happenin' hep cats, wanna head downtown to the Royale with me and catch Chet Baker?
If any of you fellas are ever in Queens, there's this little 13 year old shithead named Bob Christgau and if you see him, kick his ass.
>>130650019it's actually a movie soundtrack but w/e
>>130649739I really hope this guy doesn’t get interrupted by a howling banshee more than a decade from now.
>>130650258or better still that he doesn't get ass raped in a prison shower
Looks like another one's baking in the oven. Catholics, I swear.
EARTH ANGEL, EARTH ANGEL WON'T YOU BE MINE
Wow. After a decade we're finally not Como's backing chicks, we're so, so much more.
>>130650352whoa whoa let's not get carried away here, ladies
The weirdest and perhaps most tragic OHW ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkcgm-7s_WYLaunching Randy Wood's butt boy with this winter '55 hit. God have mercy on our souls, for he will have none.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJcGi4-n_YwI never super loved this one and it's very overplayed but it's impossible to ignore. The picture is a '56 reissue after Mercury picked up their contract, but the record was originally on Dootone,
Patti takes a little break this year--after covering >>130650542, which went to #8 in December '54, she has no major hits again until "Allegheny Moon" in spring '56. Perhaps Mercury wanted to prevent her from getting overexposed.
>>130650743>not the cowboy hat photo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZWsCrlVPKg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6JZW7zMDfYSure not when Pat Boone covers...well, I won't.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4432Oq5jaE8Both the original and Bobby Vinton's cover seven years later have their charms.
>>130650292what this photo shows is how plain/raggedy most women look without their makeup
SOME PEOPLE SAY A MAN IS MADE OUT OF MUDA POOR MAN'S MADE OUT OF MUSCLE AND BLOODMUSCLE AND BLOOD AND SKIN AND BONESA MIND THAT'S WEAK AND A BACK THAT'S STRONG
>>130650897"Sixteen Tons" is the eternal wagecuck's lament. Stuff like this one otoh are dated period pieces no one listens to anymore.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqKEIbUp5kA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-T1EuDObpwNice Bermuda shorts, BB.
there wouldn't be 37 active kpop general threads at all times at least.
>>130651002I mean why would there be? South Korea in '55 is an impoverished shithole still recovering from the war.
Whitened R&B covers are a very hot thing in '55 and Dot and Coral specialize in it, sometimes with winsome results, others just plain gruesome.
>>130651062The many faces of "Rock Love." All have their charm, though the Nita, Rita, and Ruby one has hilariously wooden singing saved only by some ace Chet Atkins guitar.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gavVbrsPeMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWszWEQyuy0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQkjJ5-XfEEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZomJJdH2-Ihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls5Af3dZ9zE
it's only 44 years until Sabrina Carpenter is born. enjoy it while it lasts.
>>130649599fuck off Herb Block
>>130651136The Elaine Gay one is a bit amateurish. Teresa Brewer's version is the tackiest of these but it wouldn't be her if it wasn't. The Fontane Sisters one is the least likely to wear on you after repeat listenings.
>>130650106https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD1y_odKDVsMindy doesn't have many hits but did have this one in '55. It's a pretty drab ballad and not "The Fish" by any stretch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rL6ozXjGO0After making one of the year's hot cover items, the Charms have this other R&B hit that indulges in a little bit of racial stereotyping--Buddy Knox will cover it years later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUXOIP6zcjcI know you're going to go "aggh, another Cokelumbia record" but...yeah. This Texan baritone turned eventual pro golfer had his first hit in four years and first for this label. As he notes, it also marks Ray Conniff's debut as an arranger and he revived a couple of Cokelumbia male singers who had been selling poorly as of late.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDQhhWHW5JILieber-Stoller buddies who mainly did demos of their songs.
>>130651450Don Cherry was something of a character, a once-big band vocalist who gave up music in the late 50s for golf, was a buddy of Willie Nelson and played on some of his albums, and lost his son on 9/11.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBkXbHEWRukThe first hit for these guys who'll eventually remake themselves for the soul era and have hits into the 70s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3jXMEhV7fEHarmonizing girl groups are a fad this year and that includes these Italian sister OHWs from Pennsylvania and this bombastic hit on Columbia's Epic subsidiary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed-O1ipoHGUAnother of the Fontane Sisters' four big '55 hits was this Boyd Bennett cover.
So, Boyd Bennett and the Rockets were a relatively short-lived mid-50s fad. One reason that they were a couple of pretty fugly 30 year old Southern dudes who also dressed like a bunch of plantation overseers ready to whip slaves for not working fast enough and they would quickly be knocked from the charts by a younger, sexier fellow from the Southern music scene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhy3GijUUPUIn what would prove Rosemary's last top 10 appearance, another unfortunate ethnic-flavored hit of the kind Mitch Miller had a strange fixation with feeding her.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NicnI8dY1KQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWlK2XEqL0MAn R&B classic that not even Perry Como could ruin (yes his cover is actually not as bad as it could have been).
>>130651655yuck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4sVwnTB-qEthe little record that almost caused a great big lawsuit
>>130653893qrd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBEEAdyKZ2Q
>>130650956i feel that songs with operatic singing like >>130654012 somehow always aged worse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I21pgBku1y4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsLqVU74csc
>>130650352A one year phenom and their hit string was somehow the only not-shitty records Dot put out.
>>130649238Louis Armstrong is the bees knees folksI’m sick of you Miles Davis fellas going off about that city slicker who can’t hold a candle
>>130654504Satchmo is a boomer, man. That old cat had the jam back in '28 but he belongs in the Smithsonian now. I'm going to write a letter to the editor rant to Downbeat about how he needs to retire.
>>130654528that's true btw, the young jazz -heads in the '50s totally did consider Armstrong a corny wack boomer who needed to hang it up and he feuded with some of them and insisted he still had "it"
I swear I'm not of gommie. Please don't beat me up, FBI!
>>130649994Wifey before she was wifey. This single didn't chart.
>>130654702Early Eydie was marketed as more of a teenybopper act.
>>130654797that is true though "Sincerely Yours" is a mannered ballad and not at all a malt shop hop tune although she did have songs like those in the early days
Hallelujah, baby!
Mama, why is there no food except beet root? i'm so hungry.CIA sabotaged five year plan so agriculture quota fell far short, Yuri. Long live Lenin!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wsbrd_3WjINever trust Canadians as far as you can throw them.
>>130655070https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0l_zOTWRikAs proof.
>>130655198this is Gisele MacKenzie, leaf transplant+50s TV host and sometimes Your Hit Parade feature. she had three hits in 55-57, this song, "Pepper Hot Baby", and "The Star You Wished Upon Last Night." a slow, a fast, and a medium tempo song. perfect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p2k55F-uagThe Platters' breakout hit from summer '55, but '56 was when they really took off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4GwQPX53DQJoan Weber didn't last too long, she was pregnant and couldn't tour or promote her hit and she wasn't much of a singer, in fact you'll probably notice she just rips off Kitty Kallen. After her 5 seconds of fame ended Mitch Miller and her husband simultaneously dumped her and left her to raise her daughter by herself. She spent the rest of her days working quietly as a librarian in Philadelphia and performing in nightclubs and died in a New Jersey mental institution in 1981 at only 45. One also might note that Dean Martin, Patti Page, Teresa Brewer, and Peggy Lee all covered "Let Me Go Lover" and effectively stole it right out from under her since she had no chance to compete with all these big names.
you know what the great thing about the 50s was? there was absolutely no rap anywhere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2WAS1JjVncThese old journeymen, now in their 24th year of recording, put this snoozy ballad out.
>>130655597https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuhZ1B0_8T4Another old fart from earlier days records this song. As he points out, Gogi Grant had the most popular version (she was a fresh face? no shit)
>>130655650That one needs no introduction, but I will point out that there also exists this Jill Corey cover version. Needless to say it's not nearly as tasteful as the original.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMF-NGgYPlQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XK1-8Vfa14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPAyYkeatHUThe song that kicked off the folk boom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9czwNhFudvE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pejfmfRWBWsClassic that launched Etta's career.
>>130656762Cool song, mind if I abscond with it?
>>130656874lol but jokes aside like most pop singers she didn't get to choose songs, the record label did
>>130651221this is nice>>130654504i thought he grew up on the farm
>>130656874https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziNSlzS8gjIShe also did her second remake of "Ballin' The Jack" this year. Yet still the original recording of the song she did in 1947 was the best one and proves Perry Como was right when he didn't want to remake old songs since he said you can only do something once.
>>130656908not everyone takes until age 36 to reach the top 10, but such as it was
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO-FlPPu-ZE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERA1G8jlGiI
Eileen Barton is also back to make a cheap shit copypaste cover of "Cry Me a River." Damn, at least Jill Corey's had its own sound.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv9_OEgeG8Q
>>130657231And it was Julie London's only chart single ever while she was normally only heard on albums.
>>130657332>And it was Julie London's only chart single ever while she was normally only heard on albumswhy you guys never post enough jazz albums in 50s threads? you all only ever seem to want to post sloppa chart pop hits.
HEEEAAARTS MADE OF STONEWILL NEVER BREAK
>>130657415https://artworkbymanicmark.blogspot.com/2021/01/8-top-hits-chordates-archie-bleyer.htmlThis is the Chordettes' quite funny cover of that song. Linked here as it's not on Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6enJYluQv0The Jewels' version which came out late in '54 and was a winter '55 R&B hit. It was also a cover since the original, from the Charms, came out the previous summer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm66TadVYCoI'm not sure when this came out but must have been at least late '54 and probably close to when the Fontane Sisters' recording was released. Yes, country nepobabbies run amock. This one was the first white cover of HoS and is notable for being the only one to preserve the original "I thought your daddy knew" lyric which other covers changed to "I thought you knew" to apparently sound less black/jive.
>>130657526And yeah she was like 15 and a pretty amateurish singer who still sounds like a kid. Especially when you consider how much more polished Brenda Lee was at the same age.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3EVC5_98iAStep aside, Big Mama is here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ7w4iCr0TUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_eMWuu06OIThink Christgau was right about European music? Yeah, probably. Como and Brewer really don't seem so bad compared to this funerary wailing that belongs in another century altogether.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X06lt_3Adls
>>130657780Ray was so good back then.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmUEvM2dgDc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6vWuiwoW-ILillian the dyke queen of rock and roll.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yIsbi_-ugUJust Teresa doin' Teresa things. You were warned.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDlNvl3cWqs
>>130654234This song really presents a bad moral message if you pay attention to the lyrics.
>>130658023she was from my home town
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tVg5zqAIBQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojXEvqB3HX8Don Cornell aka B-tier wannabe crooner. This isn't the surreal postmodern horror his "duet" with one of his label mates three years ago was, mostly it's just dull and of negligible musical interest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTuDn7IE-4QSurprisingly not as awful as it could have been. Was Uncle Mitch out of town when this was cut?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KENbMhiMTWcKitty was briefly riding high again after her nearly decade-long fast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlrGp2aUJso
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWdryYC1XtIThis was a big '55 hit for Vaughan which Dinah Shore covered a few months later and got her first charting hit in a few years.
>>130651015Teresa does not have a real LP yet in '55, just a couple of greatest hits comps. The first actual album she put out was For Teenagers In Love two years later.
>>130656907>this is niceDinah went far too soon, unfortunately.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xe6TrWp0kcMitch puts this Civil War tune on the top 10, also helping inaugurate the folk boom.
>>130649301This year is when the 12" LP is introduced and replaces the early 10" version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhndEr_25aUJaye with this typically high speed '55 hit (energy songs were in vogue).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cs5VD8LqiwIt sounds like Earth Angel? You're probably right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoN96KL5w9wGisele MacKenzie covered it a few months later. It's not as good as the original for sure, or as fast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58NVzNlN-Os'Nuff said on Georgia's tidied up version of this one. It works for what it's trying to do, but the Etta James original it isn't.
>>130659131>The arrangement on Gibbs's cover of "Tweedle Dee" was lifted straight from the Lavern Baker original, and Mercury were allowed to do this as US copyright law did not cover song arrangements. Baker unsuccessfully tried to lobby Congress to get the laws changed; afterward she sent Gibbs a note reading "I'm going on tour. Here's my insurance information in case the plane crashes. I figured you might need it."[3]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIk94AxEQTQJaye's slow songs are never as good as her fast ones even with this pretty good Hugo Winterhalter arrangement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi2jnZo1uuUMore. I know these kind of songs drag compared to "Pepper Hot Baby" but they were huge on the idea back then that you had to do ballads to be a "serious" singer.
>>130659370https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idu0FaFZnnoshe was a hot piece of ass, too bad she waited until she was a boomer to release the twins
>>130659412Morgan was born in 1931, she's not a boomer, retard.
>>130659473Meme boomers, not literal boomers.
>>130651015https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWNSiNrGyqkTeresa's tenth or fifteenth or so appearance on Ed Sullivan with many more to come. She was first on the show way the fuck back in 1949 when she had just signed with London Records and was a teenage nobody who hadn't had any hits yet, but there doesn't seem to be any known footage of the entire show around.
A downtime for Tony, he had no charting hits this year.
>>130659552Forgot pic.
>>130659542is she pregnant there? i know she had a couple of kids.
>>130659659I dunno. Maybe. BTW, that particular song is one that she apparently never did a recorded version of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcHLZCQMEYs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWiB4g31fGw
>>130660079kino
>>130649238Holy shit how did he do it?
>>130659542lol it's funny how TESS ran for how many years and had so many musical guests yet is only remembered for the Beatles and Elvis's appearances
>>130659542She was a retard who never had to struggle, overcome any sort of diversity and is perpetually stuck in the 4th grade singing kiddie sing-alongs like you'd do in music class. Is it any wonder everything she ever put out is complete slop?
>>130664108Clooney had two charting '55 hits, one of these was "Pet Me Poppa" which came out in May. The other was "Hey Mambo Italiano" which was released November '54 but for all practical purposes it was a '55 song since the Billboard counts a calendar year as running from October to September, hence (to use an example) "1999" was really October 1998 to September '99. One must remember that a song would usually take a while to climb up the charts which is why something released in October-November would probably not peak until after New Year's.
>>130655650i assume she copied her vocal style from Mary Ford
>>130665097Nah it's just a SoCal accent because both of them grew up there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv5Hyh_vgIEThis is the first single released by Eileen Rodgers, a short-lived Columbia girl with a bullfrog voice (well, maybe not "girl" as she was already 25 here) who recorded for a few years before departing for a Broadway career. The video has some nice photos.
>>130665219quite some lung capacity, i can see why she went Broadway afterwards
>ctrl+f Ellington>0 resultsyou're all idiots
>>130665392fine. btw he had three LPs this year.
>>130665501Better quality image.>track 1Yeah it was 1955 alright lol.
>>130665562lol but that's actually a remake of a tune he recorded in 1931. i can see why Capitol would ask for the remake though, to fit in with current trends even though actually it's just a typical big band piece and not rock at all.
MOTOR COOLED DOWN, HEAT WENT DOWNAND THAT'S WHEN I CALLED MAYBELLINE AT THE TOP OF THE HILL
