ITT: /mu/ in 1964
gay ass niggas talm bout sum hold ur hand hoe im tryna fuck
>>130898598damn man, at least my generation openly ridiculed N*Sync/Backstreet Boys back in the day. guess we were smarter than the boomers who thought the 60s version of them actually changed the world forever.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAA MAKE IT FUCKING STOP
Black people have rights now. Thoughts?
>>130898638women are the niggas of the world
>>130898598Hooray for the Beatles! my friend and i (he just passed gas) are both a friend of dorothy and will be seeing them in concert.
Beatles, huh? These limeys think they come over from their rainy shithole island and steal our (totally of legal age) fan girls? We'll show them a thing or two.
>>130898628Care to elaborate?
>>130898657>>130898631>>130898628>>130898620this thread is getting off to a bad start
Beatle haters are getting more and more obnoxious
it do be like that doh
>>130898620damn racket. take me back to the '40s when we had good music with actual singers and songs.
>>130898598
>>130898701Way to rip off Louie Louie, ya lousy limeys
Boybandfaggot is off his psych meds.
>>130898716Fuck off
>>130898714Too bad the one album of hers anyone cares about is half a decade away.
Now that the spiritual phase is out of the way
>>130898740some crappy Beatle wannabees and they just have covers not even original songs. i guess every third-rate British act is trying to ride their coattails.
>>130898716This is the first year of her recording career that she failed to have any charting singles. As it turns out we haven't heard the last of her and she has one more ace up her sleeve next year.
>SHE LOVES YOU YEAH YEAHShut up shut up shut up!
>>130898761No one gives a fuck about your facts of housewife pop slop
I'm back. Ah, freedom feels so good now that I no longer have to sell my ass to a prison gang for protection.
>>130898803wasn't even the first time, Chuck. weren't you also locked up back when you were a kid for stealing a car or something?
>>130898803They didn't have prison gangs yet in this time that came later.
>>130898686each time she gives Gordy head buys one more top 10 hit
McDonald's was born
Poor Kennedy.
>>130898598I sure wish it was 1965 right now. I got a feeling the whole music thing is about to take off.
>>130898917Albini was born in 62 not 64 lol.
>>130898936Inside job btw
The end is coming soon for you, buddy.
>>130898964No one cares about Mitch Miller you autistic freak
>>130898964good riddance
WELP, that happened! see you boys in 'Nam, we'll send those gooks back to the stone age fighting alongside our greatest ally, ISRAEL!
>>130898598Any other Beatles fans interested in meeting in the toilets? (Men only, i'm a man too btw lol)
>>130899042Can you retard at least come with new material? You're beating this dead wife worse than John did.
There might be a communist spy in here, careful guys.
>>130899080My daughter might be a communist
What it means is that they are trying to tell you 'Don't even hope to change things'.
>>130899080Red baiting John Birch tards were already a mainstream laughing stock in 1964.
Black people now have equal rights.
>>130899094Meant for >>130898936
>>130899093The rerecordings album last year was a sign of things to come, but this was Frank's proper first album under the new Warners-Reprise regime that pressured him into following the Andy Williams formula.
>>130898988Tony enjoys a major career resurgence in 63-64.
>>130898988>>130899124Why do you want us to know this?
>>130899103this may trigger /pol/
Replacing the Shirelles as Sceptre's flagship act.
Goldwater is a maniac who will start World War II, abolish Social Security, and cause blacks to be lynched. Don't vote for him, America.
>>130899160*World War III, sorry
>>130899115and oh hey nice rack
the songs are insanely honest, not meanin t twist any heads an written only for the reason that i myself me alone wanted and needed t write them
>>130899094I'm not a fan of these folk folk. All a bunch of damn commies.
>>130899151she'd never top this one and the rest of her career was very average, especially when she didn't have David and Bacharach
Blows the Beatles out of the water
>>130899238this made him the oldest person to ever make the Billboard top 10, but it was still a bigger UK than US hit
Kitty retires after releasing this cute bossa nova album on 20th Century Fox. It's not a bad way to go out and makes up for her abysmal Columbia run.
Back and all grown up for one disc.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT4WLaDbzyI
>>130898964Hopefully that goateed idiot gets fired soon. We're putting out discs and the label doesn't even promote them because of him.
>>130899348ah yes the Raiders and their perpetual revolving door lineup. Mark can't even remember himself what guys they had on "Louie Louie."
>>130898777then again, also no one gives a fuck about facts of 60s Hanson
BA BA BA BARBARA ANN
I reckon we may have some competition for a change and I won't be able to hog half the top 20 spots on the Billboard anymore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOCyxRzI0yc
>>130899452Hey, Mitch Miller poster, fuck off already. I've had enough of you. Beat it
>>130899467that was rude and historically off-base. the housewife pop era was 1950-58, Connie, Orbison, etc were from the era after those singers.
>>130899479I said FUCK OFF
>>130899452since your dad cruelly drove you into recording nonstop with a bullwhip anyway, it may be for the best. seriously he was a piece of shit.
>>130899170I saw it on a TV commercial so it must be true
What is this? Are you kidding me? I've heard of industry exploitation, but this is ridiculous.
>>130899501can't believe it. they got the kid like a fuckin' marionette singing his dad's (that he never knew because he died when he was 3) songs. hopefully this is the last we hear of him and he goes off and becomes a high school football coach somewhere.
>>130899501zesty kid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xH0-bTCaYAThe Pips come back after a year's hiatus due to childbirth and all that jazz.
OMIGOD PAUL MCCARTNEY IS SO CUUTTEEEE!!!goddammit, shut up already
>>130899985just so you know that's a later remake NOT the original '64 versionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ms9oOruq9E
What a swell, handsome fella. Paul did him dirty.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToLZewcgIK8
The end of James's early 60s malaise era before he begins a major career revival.
>fired from Capitol within three weeks of the Beatles on Ed Sullivan despite having virtually carried the label all by themselves for the last few yearslol
>>130900084Forgot pic.
DON'T SAY I CAN'T GO WITH OTHER...
>>130900084It's really overstating things to say the Beatles killed their career. Their records were still selling respectably but Kingstonmania was completely dead as early as 1961, and it was diminishing returns after that.
>>130900131it was after they replaced David Guard with fag boy's uncle. after that their songs got a lot lamer, they stopped doing cheeky tunes like "Tijuana Jail" and just became boring AC.
>>130900109Somehow this silly teen angst song got reimagined to be a feminist anthem.
Gone too soon.
>>130899452You may be right, Connie. I feel things ain't gonna be what they've been.
>>130900176Poor guy never could quite find an opening and only had sporadic success without ever getting a big hit.
>>130899439he was clearly never going to top Oh Pretty Woman and it would all be down from here
Waylon's first LP, for whatever use a country LP is.
Fortunately he won't have any more singles/AM play after this year, which is at least a small improvement. Still, fuck this guy.
>>130900294Forgot pic.
ha ha whoops
Oh no, not again.
Album #2 and this has original material not covers, except the Beatles wrote them for them and they'll seethe about it forever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4KN6TFhy2IClassic OHW.
Ella keeps plugging along but the end for all of the pre-rock crowd and jazz as a dominant format is approaching.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrCuMPeSu9sIf only Jan then didn't actually try to do what he sang about. Moron.
>>130900378Country has an occasional problem with nepobabies...but actually the title song is really cute. It'll be her only hit but it's a good one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UsF9uJDTBsOne of their last charting hits. Really cool song though.
The Beach Boys and Chuck Berry probably ask themselves that question a lot.
>>130900378But wait, there's more.
>>130899452>>130900199Their laid-back cool was "in" during the turn-of-decade recession but now energy music is back in style.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE32hLLLtbMThe Shirelles are still hanging in there but their time is also coming to an end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyEnHtNdWq0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q9D-54zwHcThanks Marv.
Call it an Indian summer before singers of his generation are pushed from the charts forever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4SmeeOwFrsThe original four member LaBelle. She can really sing too, and that's a problem. Someone get this girl a gig at the nearest Verdi festival.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75AderwXMkYMore Jimmy Gilmer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50EKUTBudbEOne of the first hits for this nuisance. Yeah his audience is mostly women and what else is new?
>>130900831It's a bunch of fatuous covers as the name implies. The Supremes cover is pretty phoned in and bad, you can tell she didn't care for that song and probably only did it because her kids liked it. The Dern Ya cover is at least as silly as it's meant to be.
Bing replaces Peter Lawford. Frank is not happy over the botched Kennedy visit.
>>130901003Goldsboro's early stuff was a lot more minimalist and tasteful compared to the superschlock he degenerates to by 1968.
Oh dear, it's country goes Bellini. One of the single worst things put to vinyl this year, only relieved by the small consolation that Cash, Eddy Arnold, etc. at least got paid for these abominations.
>>130901069Forgot pic.
the newest thing is BAD and a sign of communist influenceold things from before immigrants and women and black people were GOOD
>>130901076Surprisingly she actually holds back for the Brenda Lee cover so it's not the worst thing there, although the "mistakes are part of being young" line coming from a 36 year old mom doesn't exactly sound believable. "I Walk The Line" though, that's straight out of the bowels of Hell.
>>130901076this is a typical Columbia LP of the period (think the Doris Day Christmas album) with that super-crystalline sound so you think you have the Metropolitan in your living room. i mean, LPs back then were to a large extent tech demos to showcase stereo equipment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dKQdXq0BZUAlso from Columbia in the sunset days of the Mitch Miller era, it's the last charting hit by our favorite chudette. Kek. No I won't read the comment section, that would be a mistake.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFQZqgPy2EE
Fuck off already.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2LH6JBbryk
>>130898834on those early records she tried to sound like Brenda Lee, whom she also sometimes wrote songs for, but after moving to Imperial gradually quit doing that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hzGiPoy6cU
Album #2. Sassy rolls on.
>>130901193You first. Your gimmick is getting tired
Anyone wanna join my cover band?
>>130901407Cuckgau denounced her.>>130901193Fortunately he's fading and hasn't had a major hit in two years.
this is her first LP although she's been putting out singles since 59
>>130903969country really isn't an "album" format in 64 or long afterward for that matter
>>130904162Her last record with any crossover hits
>>130903823>Cuckgau denounced herwhy doh?
>>130904176Not R&B enough lol.
>>130904162Any of her 60s records are worthwhile, really.
>>130901076https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnWbDtJKNY0Steve and Eydie had their last run of pop hits in 64, after which the change to the Clive Davis management at CBS next year relegated them to just albums. As was typically the case, these were more aimed at kids (hence the pseudo-girl group sound here) than the adult audience their albums were marketed to.
>>130901017Her other 64 LP, a ballad/standards album this one for cred purposes.
161 posts to finally get to it?
Willie as usual working out his standards fixation with a song written in 1929.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MskGjP0pEJcThanks, Smokey.
>>130904674>"Am I Blue?" is a 1929 song composed by Harry Akst (music) and Grant Clarke (lyrics),[1] and published by M. Witmark & Sons. It was featured in four films that year, most notably with Ethel Waters in the movie On With the Show.[citation needed][a] It has become a standard covered by numerous artists. As a work from 1929 with its copyright renewed, it entered the public domain on January 1, 2025.That cannot have been the case as it predated the 1976 copyright act, so it would have been public domain in 1985 if it was renewed in the 50s, because back then it was 28+28 years.
She's back. Was worried for a second.
Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead are still just local folk bands in the Bay Area in 64 and haven't started playing rock yet.
>>130904641and, oh hey, nice boots. also that's her natural hair color, the orange hair on the other album was a dye job.
>>130898834Imperial pushed her in a more AC direction, which was unfortunate.
>>130904808And LSD isn’t normified yet
>>130904653Billy Joel played drums on here at age 15, it was the first record he was on.
Rosie's divorce album (as well as the last album she'll put out for a long time to come). This is some dark stuff. She was absolutely mentally broken.
>>130898620>>130898631those who get filtered by the Beatles don't appreciate what pop music in US was like at the time or why they sounded mind-blowing
Columbia-era Aretha wasn't quite there yet despite her youthful enthusiasm on here. It was an example of what happens when a major label run by ASCAP people tries to do R&B, which means they don't entirely grasp the format and it seems they were pushing her more as a new, young Dinah Washington.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH3k6eEMi1w
>>130906020Jazz and torch song material is kind of nearing the end of the road by the 60s with Sinatra, Fitzgerald, Julie London, etc being fed increasingly poor quality material.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RhVpRig7IIAnother showtune/supper club guy appealing to the Jack Jones and Steve & Eydie audience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_dz51_mzDsAlbert's brief stay at Coun-Tree in '64--he cut two discs, they didn't sell, and he was quickly sent packing. The other King guy is temporarily between labels and did not issue any new material this year.
>>130906365he didn't do so well prior to the Stax era; he'd had only one single chart up to 1966
>>130906020An Irish/Native American mutt like Kay Starr.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx0C3FUkbwwI feel that he will die soon. Just a feeling I have.
>>130906478even if death didn't intervene, he was becoming a dinosaur like all his peers and his 60s material was cheesier and below the standards of his 40s-50s output
>>130898989Streisand in the early 60s was something of a hype because as anon said pre-rock music styles were coming to an end and she was the only major under-30 singer still doing that material, but in the end Clive Davis in time pushed her into contemporary material.
>>130905256it's oddly only normalized after being put on the Federal controlled substances list in 66
RIP Sam.
>>130907048>>130906153>>130906020glad to see we acknowledged country and jazz for once in these threads. you guys never seem to care about anything but pop and rock.
do remember that pop music is still singles based in 1964 and LPs won't exceed singles sales for a couple years yet
>>130908730She had surprise hit last year with "I'm A Woman"
>>130908847Peggy was not really a regular presence on the pop charts and only made occasional appearances from time to time.
This motherfucker, man. Just won't shut up, will you?
no introduction needed here lol
>>130908982Pat still churning out the product but like most 50s giants he's old news now and has also reached the big three oh this summer.
This also needs no introduction. Despite being one of his most well-known songs it was not a major US hit although it did become one in Europe--from an American POV Elvis was also old news by now and not cool anymore.
>>130909559oh look it's the song that will birth "Hot For Teacher" in 20 more years lol
>>130909663This is old shit recorded sometime in the late 50s-early 60s that Kent put out after King moved to ABC. He did release six new singles this year.
>>130908982How about you shut up? Stop posting already. It's the same shit every time.
>>130908982>This motherfucker, man. Just won't shut up, will you?that's an Eminem lyric, you retard. it was from his diss of Benzino.
>>130908982we get it, miller schizo.
Oh dear...honey, if your name was Nancy Smith you would be working at a school cafeteria.
>>130908982oh well at least his airplay is just about done and you had to actually buy these albums to hear them
>>130909829if you saw her promotional pictures they sure weren't hawking her voice
I'm groovin with the hep cats daddy o
>>130909168Culture moved fast back then and there was a general consensus that anything associated with the 50s was comical and outdated by 64, just as much as disco was the subject of mockery in the 80s.
>>130909712>>130909737oh boy, Pat's grandson is posting ITT and he is mad as fuck
>>130898930I always knew Herbie was a more talented bandleader than that edgy negro Miles Davis
>>130909914No more Mr. nice guy pal
>>130909186The fact that the Colonel and RCA chose to release full soundtrack albums for the instantly forgettable Kissin’ Cousins and Roustabout but not the far more successful and iconic Viva Las Vegas just speaks to how badly they were managing his career by that point. Incidentally around the same time RCA began releasing some of his old album cuts as singles to compensate for the lack of decent new material he was recording. One such release of Ain’t That Loving You Baby, a 1950s outtake from his last pre-army session, ended up outselling all of his other records in 1964 just by actually being listenable.
>>130910157if you will see how next year RCA dug "Crying in the Chapel" an unused recording from 1960 out of the can and released it. It got to #1 but it sounded old-fashioned by 65 given how quickly music was evolving back then.
those Elvis movies were just background noise for jocks to fuck their high school cheerleader girlfriend to at the drive-in theater
Cuckgau didn't agree with Jerry Wexler's claim that Burke was the greatest soul singer ever and rather took the guy to be a consummate journeyman.
>>130910306Cute but he was always really an AC singer and seems to have been mainly intended as a younger Johnny Mathis for the new decade. Epic was Columbia's long-time label for what they considered "weirdo" acts that didn't fit on the main label, until being sold to Sony in the late 80s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cat2AvXkaUOh boy here's a piece of bad news. This Mexican dipshit and his obnoxious pop folk that occupied the charts for about six years.
holy crap, over 200 posts and nobody has yet posted it?
>>130899063I kek’d, but Yoko (unfortunately) isn’t dead.
>>130910413the original Sound of Silence is better than the remake next year
>>130910289https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMWjUGpqREwFor a supposed soul man he wasn't much of a vocal presence and leaned too much into MOR.
>>130898598>ITT: /mu/ in 1964Indiana Governor Matthew E. Welsh declares the song "Louie Louie" by The Kingsmen pornographic. He requests that the Indiana Broadcasters Association ban the record. Governor Welsh claimed that hearing the song made his "ears tingle". Publisher Max Firetag offers $1,000 to anyone that can find anything "suggestive" in the song's lyrics.
>>130904641>>130904641i think they had the same hairstylist
>>130910621Whoops, meant to link >>130904162. There's probably a name for that cut too if anyone researches '60s hairstyles.
>>130898598Keith Moon joins The Who.
>>130898620>black people seething that their rock and roll was improved by whites immediatelyBased Brits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0YwiZb5xm4The Raiders are in their third year with CBS, none of their singles have charted or charted very low because Mitch Miller won't promote them. Nothing is going to change until he's shown the door next year.
>>130910289>>130910499>Concert promoters in Mississippi, South Carolina, and Alabama, who were unaware that Burke was an African American, accidentally booked him to sing at Ku Klux Klan picnics and rallies, with up to 30,000 hooded Klansmen in attendance. Burke recalled: "Way down in the South somewhere, I showed up and the promoter said to me, "Is Solomon Burke here yet?" I said, "Yeah, I'm right here." His eyes grow wide and he walks away. The guy comes back with the sheriff and he says, "Boy, don't play games. Show me some I.D." So he looks at it and pulls the promoter aside and says, "You got a problem. You can't let him go out there." So they called the doctor and had him cover my face in bandages and made it look like I had an accident. That's how I performed that night."
>>130910691i don't think he actually signed them anyway it was probably John Hammond or somebody else. we all know he didn't think much of Dylan and that Hammond signed him while Miller was out of town for the weekend.
>>130910691Terry Melcher was put in charge of rock releases at the label since 62 and PRATR became his pets. They were based at CBS's West Coast studio in Los Angeles not the East Coast studio in NYC that Miller mostly controlled. However, yes, he did continue to block them from being promoted and they had to wait until late in 65 to have charting hits. Other than that their rock roster at this point was limited to a couple of novelty surf and hot rod acts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glbOA2fWAII [Embed]Etta laying down the realness. This is also the end of her Argo run and it's three years without any hits on (black) radio until she re-emerges on Cadet. She'll never have Aretha's crossover appeal to whites though.
Boy can you believe there's some people out there who think Liberace is a queer? Just because a man is well dressed and has a little flair...the nerve! Why he is just fantastic isn't he darlings?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_euwE_Ou1SUHe got kind of a bad rap and was lumped in as an early 60s teen idol which is unfair, he started as a rock guy and was friends with Dylan--he only went pop to make money.
>>130898686Gordy knew exactly what he had which was his dream crossover girl group and that Ross had the ideal pop voice.
