ITT: /mu/ in 1956
Name my doo wop record brah
>>131645081Crooked Cillian
FUCK ELVIS
this tune is happening
Me not having any hits last year? Nah, that was just a sabbatical and to prove it, I'm back with a new top 10 disc.
>>131645204that was from like 51, dude. try this instead.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WqiNERMTBw
And so...
>>131645081Swoopdeedoo and the Honking Negroids
This "rock and roll" fad is awful. Children have no taste in music and need to be given better listening material than this noise.
>>131645295Oh really? This is your idea of music for sophisticated adults, Mitch. Now get out of here.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJkeSKdfzIg
>>131645347this is horrible
WELL YOU AIN'T NOTHIN' BUT A...
>>131645223https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfmRzrqnxgQAs if your Swiss bank account wasn't already ample enough. Sheesh.
>>131645284>>131645444now there's some real music not those rock and roll punk hoodlums, kids
>>131645347i'm sure standing there watching them is the closest these guys ever got to getting laid. if any of them actually tried to talk to women they'd probably get slapped, pepper-sprayed, etc.
Hadn't met his oneitus yet at this early stage so had to pose with some random model/hooker hired from the Bowery for the photo. In any case, this dipshit just signed with Decca and got put on their garbage scow of a sub-label, exactly where he belongs. Also he didn't actually put out any singles this year, just this album.
SOMEONE HELP THERE ARE RUSSIAN TANKS OUTSIDE
>>131645537be quiet, Miklos
>>131645528https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5M6hX8IvEEKnock it off, Steve, you're not the Chairman of the Board.
They just weren't the same after Bruce Tate left..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2eiDOrr8mothat's the stuff. i imagine in 65 years someone will declare this song problematic. but until then...
GOTTA ROCKIN' PNEUMONIA, NEED A SHOT OF RHYTHM AND BLUES
I don't want you going to those Alan Freed shows, Bobby. He plays degenerate POC records and you'll become a drug addict or even worse one of those homo-sexual people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qlbcn75fLr8Hello, it's our favorite ex-confectionary pusher back for another round. Not as tasteless as it could have been despite appropriating the "Sh-Boom" hook.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGwRMyGEVWQNat!
>OMIGOD THAT ELVIS IS SO CUTE!!!Shut the fuck up, already.
>Presley had an astonishing 15 Billboard hits in '56 and all by himself accounted for 60% of RCA's entire revenues from record sales for the year.[9]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAYV6kb5P9QHow do you do fellow kids? I'm going to vote for a no on this one.
>>131645599Thanks, Chuck.
A year into this and still coming up empty. Come on, guys, buy my records already.
OOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAA SMOKE STACK LIGHTNIN SHININ JUST LIKE GOLD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7kdK_L_YtsOne of Kay's two #1 hits and a pretty bad song she hated herself as her awkward delivery shows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1s8VTiBy2cSome poetic injustice that this failed to chart at all while the much inferior single after it broke them on the charts.
>>131645839Aren't you just a spare MGM signed in case Joni James dies in a plane crash or something?
>>131645793this is the music when they go to the bowling alley in Uncle Buck
Ed Sullivan appearance #72...go!
>>131645924It's the music Mormon or Christian fundie parents gave their kids because Elvis was like of Lucifer or something.
>>131645812that Sarah Vaughn is pretty as a picture and she sings like a bird
WELL I SAW UNCLE JOHN WITH BALD HEAD SALLY HE SAW AUNT MARY COMING ANDHEDUCKEDBACKINTHEALLEY
>>131645946This is the last year where she's still really big on the charts. That's a good thing btw.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cQUVtbztEsThe little ex-car salesman lady who was momentarily hot with this schlock classic, which Neil Young will someday cover.
>>131645946https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJlvIxtU25QSigh. Alright, let's do this and get this, um, "cover" of Fats over with.
Sup.
>>131646082go away
This is her first album that's actually an album as opposed to a greatest hits collection.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV_DFsMm9QAThis is the worst "how do you do fellow kids?" hit yet.
>>131646298yeah another record they'd probably play at Al's Bowling Alley in Cincinnati
I DON'T LIKE THE DRUGS, THE DRUGS, THE DRUGSBUT THE DRUGS LIKE ME
Rock and roll music is a fad. It'll never catch on. Big band jazz, now that's music.
>>131646407t. Dave Dexter
>>131646129Gonna argue with a guy who has six hits this year?
WHEN I WAS JUST A LITTLE GIRL, I ASKED MY MOTHER...
>>131646508Contrary to the song lyrics, you only have one children and he will be a future drug addict.
>>131645586rockin'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut34Q_tM0JMAnd that's where it all began.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p5jJIUs22gPeggy doesn't have an LP this year just a couple of singles and this was the most successful one at #14 on the Billboard.
>>131645657couldn't nobody really fuck with Cole. one of the premier voices of the 20th century.
>>131645859this is a fucking train wreck
>>131645295https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGUw1qelsakYour little pet is cute, Mitchell, but she's not exactly burning up the charts. Wonder if you'll regret passing up Connie Francis someday?
>>131645961my man
>>131646626Yes, yes, it is. It's kind of regrettable that Kay's two biggest hits this and Wheel of Fortune are also among her worst songs.
>>131646629She will next year, but it will take resurrecting a 30 year old song to do it. Can't wait.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajWI1g7dNAkHere we go.
>>131646598Admittedly his 60s stuff was kind of going downhill like what happened to most of his contemporaries, unfortunately.
>>131646298jesus fucking christ
I'M ALL SHOOK UP YEAH YEAH
>>131646680Don Cornell was a C-tier crooner who used to be in the Sammy Kaye Orchestra and had a couple of shitty hits on Koral including a Teresa Brewer duet that could be one of the decade's most ghastly hits of all.
>>131646528>>131646508hey, man, lay off I dig it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSl4GoqJYHAConnie's early hits were nice enough but none of them were catchy enough for the radio and she didn't have a sound yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P78ufaUuZVIThe Everlys' first single, on Columbia lol. It didn't chart, the resident braintrust showed them the door.
>>131645878LiS came out November 56 but it really charted in 57 so won't be included for the purposes of this thread.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW-MyKSqHEUThis little lady's first single, when she wasn't even rock-and-roll yet but country.
The Memphis Press-Scimitar [Wed, Dec 5, 1956]I never had a better time than yesterday afternoon when I dropped in at Sam Phillips' Sun Record bedlam on Union at Marshall. It was what you might old call a barrel-house of fun. Carl Perkins was in a recording session . . . and he has one that's going to hit as hard as "Blue Suede Shoes." We're trying to arrange an advance audition for you Memphis fans before the song is released in January. Johnny Cash dropped in. Jerry Lee Lewis was there, too, and then Elvis stopped by. Elvis headed for the piano and started to Fats Domino it on "Blueberry Hill." The joint was really rocking before they got thru. Elvis is high on Jerry Lee Lewis. "That boy can go," he said. "I think he has a great future ahead of him. He has a the different style, and the way he plays piano just gets inside me." Elvis debunked the newest rumor: "No, I haven't bought 200 acres at Collierville," he said. "How do those stories get started?" He talked earnestly about the Toledo incident "I talked to that fellow for at least 15 minutes, trying to be nice to him and keep him from starting anything, but finally it just got out of hand." I never saw the boy more likeable than he was just fooling around with these other fellows who have the same interests he does. If Sam Phillips had been on his toes, he'd have turned the recorder on when that very unrehearsed but talented bunch got to cutting up on "Blueberry Hill" and a lot of other songs. That quartet could sell a million.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB9kQclZDms
>>131646810https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS4P1F6Svsgyep yep yep
Just wanted to let you guys know. There's this little 14 year old shithead in Queens named Bob Christgau. If any of you see him, be sure to kick his ass.
only one fucking doo wop song ITT?we need to fix that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTZFPgCMLRw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npiZLiCrU7M
>>131646861Well no, this was also posted.>>131646197
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xFIq7pFVQ0Also this early version of the Four Seasons.
>>131646861https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAtH90f1RhM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkXQqB8a6II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMb1MqcZR7MAfter this Kitty's career renaissance gets derailed for a time by mental illness/severe stage fright.
That is a terrible album cover.
>>131646913https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFZRXJiaBtk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo8Ls37ES1E
the great part about the 50s is that there's absolutely no rap
>>131646913https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g58SfSs4iQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppBaPgLevbEYoung Eydie when she was marketed kind of as a teenybopper singer was actually kind of charming. Of course it was all downhill after her wedding.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQh1tJSP3is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0KFr3a07PQBB does doo-wop? Yes that happened and it was a top 5 R&B hit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzuSp3_kmNsdigging her post-pregnancy mommy milkers?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K934fIlFAsISince of course you would rather hear him actually play blues/blues guitar...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE0UMnrQBD0
>>131647115He doesn't actually put out his first single until next year of course.
>>131645946https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMmM4SFJiNkNot even gonna root for your hometown team the Indians, huh? They weren't that bad in this era and...oh wait, I forgot. You fucked off out of Ohio in your teens and live in New York since.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkOMmjLoz-MThe novelty hit that produced a great big lawsuit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFFgbc5VcbwNo i'm not posting Pat Boone's covers. Yeah fuck that shit.
>>131647002>>131645528
>>131647314Young Johnny's mind being blown by American music since his own country had nothing to listen to back then except Vera Lynn.
>>131647314nobody cares about 60s Nick Carter watching 50s Nick Carter (aka Elvis) on TV and wanting to be him someday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcHBRMg2JN4
>>131647376that's the 70s remake. this is the original ofc.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YhYhPaHpr0
>>131646913Reminder that Lymon was already a pimp at this point
>>131647400yeah and Little Richard sold his body to a gay record producer and that's actually what Tutti Frutti is about lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3ih0bhN8Yc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQy2j58uqHcYou ladies...seriously, you ladies...uck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GL4Hz4B1P4
>>131647417https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7c_6ieoTDMThis cover version resurrected the Chordettes after a year of failing to follow up on Mr. Sandman. Compared with the original it's less teen angst and more middle-aged bar skank.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnLRlvlaIdIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a244lsSw39s
Young George Jones did some rockabilly sides in addition to his country stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_dljGbYcCw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLYXU6G62LYOne of Shore's last hits to chart and she basically just copies Doris Day's voice lol.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0jTBurW7poWondering now why Dinah fucked off from CBS in 1950? Probably because she knew she just might end up singing this shit if she didn't.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf8EHzMA9swWanda! This is a funny song with the fast rockabilly and slow country sections. Reached #15 on the Billboard country chart.
>>131647811Fujiyama Mama was a bit racist, but that's next year.
SIX FOOT SEVEN FOOT EIGHT FOOT BUNCH!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KMMhlCYADE
>>131647849that came out i think late in the year and really charted in 57 not 56
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNm2SvZVceYOk use this instead. The other link cuts off the song towards the end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbhSimJwHzUThe Fontane Sisters had more hits in 56 than 55 but they ran out of gas fast and all of their 56 hits seem tired and they're not really trying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HCPMzH-vwwI think Pat Boone would be better served covering this than Little Richard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Qet8AjWYw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM9yYL6BD-4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7Wnely3AagThe first and biggest hit for this Broadway-bound lady and her innate classiness manages to defeat the Mitch -core backing vocals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ-nH_tEvwsHa ha Jaye how could we forget about you when you were a pretty big deal this year?
>>131648103>1:56that is a short song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGgsI4vzDhoA star is born--kind of. This was recorded live at her family's church and she later remade it in the 70s on the Amazing Grace LP. Still, it is really her first appearance on record.
>>131648112It is. That disc has a lot of empty space on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzW7lgyMVfUCompleting her hit trilogy: one slow, one medium, one fast song. Her version of Pepper Hot Baby (not in this thread as it was last year) was not comparable to Jaye P. Morgan's though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lETG3uLUV9I
>>131646171Clooney was pregnant during the recording of this and had to record some of her vocals in Los Angeles as a result. Also because she didn't get along with Mitch Miller (do you blame her though?)
>>131647002"Too Close For Comfort" and "Mama Teach Me To Dance" were her first singles to chart.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5kP6HB6a0cAlso had this remarkably well-put together doo-wop piece that sounds like "Eddie My Love." It didn't chart and is also missing from the Wikipedia page list of her singles for some reason.
>>131648204https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uQAugONhvgTeresa Brewer tries this at a later date but we don't talk about that one. Not Rosie's most vigorous performance but if she was pregnant I don't blame her for sounding a bit low energy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJIXe6f5ABQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4xMq0as0u0A rare US chart appearance of this Scottish skiffle star.
>>131648327https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9b6KM5XxBwit was hard to sell British singers in America back then. this is better known for Don Cherry's version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0AZM_BWq38Speaking of Euro...Edith tries going English this year. Of course it doesn't sound very good and she can't emote that well compared to her French recordings, but points for trying anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdRsOK9pCGA
>>131645072My grandmother will be born in 4 years
>>131648796mine is in her mid-30s in 1956
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYYxfmw4TSA
>>131646945No one has ever conclusively proven that her and Sarah Vaughan aren't the same person under two different names.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnyFm_oC7a4Patsy enters her second year of recording. However she fails to have a hit until next year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X83qqz-I3Io
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMiv_Y7Yf6Y
>>131651481Buddy Johnson (and his sister/singer) was a veteran black big band leader. This does have a little bit of a "how do you do fellow kids?" vibe to it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvpulVTnlHwGeorgia always proved surprisingly good at R&R numbers.
>>131651668>>131651501>>131646298come on now, most of those big band cats were only in their 30s at this point, it's not like they were ancientfags with gray hair who couldn't pull off contemporary sounds. they were like boomer rockers in the 70s.
>>131651732that is to say no worse than the Stones doing disco
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2syWCduUq8Thanks for the Kitty Kallen impersonation, Eileen, you permanent also-ran, you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KTqOr4fxN0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQpA0wu4fZQaw, I love 33 year old women pretending to be 16
>>131651939Gale Storm was an actress who decided to try singing. Sounds cool, worked for Julie London, right? Well, no because this is Dot which means utter slop. She was a one year phenomenon and faded out quickly.
As for Julie herself...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGFkiAgTRrcAnother round of Tony versus Mitchslop.
>>131647552Bob Wills is still the king
>>131647731supposedly this single went gold+ but people didn't want to report the sales because it was such a taboo sound at that time. Screamin' Jay was the man
That cover is a little bit of oversell here. And you thought Eileen Barton was bad.
>>131652317it was supposed to be a ballad. he and the band were completely sloshed when it was recorded which is how it came out the way it did.
>>131652401This is a concept album with a track themed for every month of the year plus a bonus thirteenth month. Since it's September we'll link this one. Very elegant album here despite the tacky cover art.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2inOH5hvHtg
>>131652476>the very best of Julie LondonIt looks like her left tit is hanging out of that dress just outside the frame and it probably was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eLBNNbW8H4As he explains here, this song was recorded late summer '54 and sat in the can for two years before Mercury released it.
>>131652500there was one early Teresa Brewer publicity photo where she...but i digress
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU1XQdgNmqI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KufRQAj79g This will get more famous from a later version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUzr0AOwIhkMore Dot slop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwqWIMk4W_sGuy Mitchell is back after three years without any hits. Come on, Guy, you weren't missed all that much.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=021FFUKADgM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuBhivwe9zU>featuring Lawrence WelkThat doesn't bode well. Ok, it's not the most tasteless thing they've ever done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMlzMUGwSRkThe Dells were a long-running group who lasted into the soul era, although they went a lot of years with no success in the early 60s. They remade this '56 hit in 1969.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSAPfXMSfggRCA picked up the De Castro Sisters from Abbott Records in 56, but they produced just one disappointing minor hit before being dropped.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTyvaA6zFvg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrpby_BIGxk3:27 is a long song for this time.
>Day's third LP on the 12" disc format was Day By Day, released December 17 and orchestrated by Paul Weston. It was a strong seller and peaked at #11 on the Billboard Albums chart.[9]
>>131652425yeah, I heard that too. supposedly on tour, Jay would load up the trunk with liquor and pull over to make another drink when he ran out. he made a couple pretty good records as recently as the 90s (not really recently but he was an old man by then) including a great one about meeting Sherlyn Fenn (Twin Peaks' Audrey Horne) on the set of Two Moon Junction.
>>131654527more like Doris GAY
>>131654527Album buyers in the 50s were mostly adults while kids bought singles.
>>131652106He didn't have an LP out in 56.
>>131654625even rock and roll acts would put out albums for the adult audience that had standards and ballads on them
>>131653633had Dr. No come out yet? it was later than this tune, right? that's a really obvious bite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-eCZWfqLb0You suck, Eddie, you really really suck...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbL-vpA2UmkHere this doofus tries his hand at MOR rock-and-roll.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma4suAGmOHIAnother obscure doo-wop act making an "Earth Angel" rip.
>>131655044your daughter will be super hot, though.
>>131655044Elvis quickly ended him.
Roll Over Beethoven was just stolen from Chick Webb/Ella Fitzgerald's "Rock It For Me" anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDhqdFb1becThese ancient pros (well ok, they're really only as old as Como and Sinatra) celebrate 25 years of recording this year. It's a typical example of old -heads trying to sound kind of modern.
>>131655200Hopefully in the future it won’t become associated with some family movie about a massive dog who destroys his owner’s house.
Satchmo and Ellington are the real old -heads of course as survivors of the 1920s Jazz Age.
>>131655200Berry was quite open about his songs all being ripped from something else though.
Mister Guitar!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnCVrt0sY24https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJtD1qpoS58https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp2nuKOwhr0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XysECJYtQwColumbia's other teen heartthrob is also about to be thrashed by Elvis.
>>131655303https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDJo0T_7aLMArmstrong had one hit single in 56.
>>131655454During this time he was being mocked in the jazz press as a dinosaur which he hotly challenged.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY2nvwUlsuo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnXFCp1yLF0
>>131655044even worse he manages to reproduce this year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0uKQsM14ak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyi918Fq-B8
>>131655725That doesn't look very promising.
>>131648037a bizarre accidental 2HW from a record suit who had his daughters record purely as a lark and was upset when the records actually became hits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oVDH-pflvAFreddie King's first single, on El-Bee.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j4qwG69I3kOf course it wouldn't be Mindy without a dumb confectonary mention in the lyrics and...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsxyIql13W8That is one bizarre-ass B-side.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZanuxAw2KgClooney's final chart singles were in 56.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47vZDu-FAPM
I never liked "Earth Angel" much but it was a massively influential song and lots of doo-wop groups around this time were trying to copy its sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB5AykCvh9kMore Atlantic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ri7TcukAJ8Of course how could we forget this. I'm also positive "Suzie Q" stole the guitar hook.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4FJbWt2n-I
Ha ha how could we forget this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrbK1dMAJ80
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j911ZyketGISimilar fast-slow gimmick to the Wanda Jackson song earlier and no, Tezza, I won't give you a Scooby Snack. Screw off.
Guess what? Herbie Mann not only really sucked, but he had more than just that Discotheque album Christgau reviewed, in fact a lot more and his extremely unnecessary recording career extends back into the mid-50s.
>>131656578despite the cover i doubt any of his fans ever got laid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hr00qD8KUcRobbins and Guy Mitchell had back-to-back versions of this hit, one a country the other a pop hit (Robbins's was #1 on the Billboard country chart and #17 on the pop chart). It was also his first appearance on the pop charts.
>>131656374surprised they got away with that without getting sued
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfY6bxPQ2W4
>>131660881teen idol eventually turned C-tier country singer
>>131645528he had singles out in 56, they're not on his Wikipedia page because it's an incomplete listhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tiOs0mPNLw
>>131661948Also Lawrence actually moved to Decca in 55 not 56. Next year they'll try making him do ersatz rock-and-roll covers.
>>131661948>>131661918>>131662021And this proves it. Steve-O was the ultimate professional entertainer who had the emotional depth of a pan of water, had a long and very boring life (aside from his one son's untimely passing at 23) and there was nothing inside him, when you contrast the real creative geniuses of this time like Sinatra, Berry, and Elvis who all had fairly chaotic lives with a lot of ups and downs.
>>131662099God, why couldn't you have taken their other son (the one who did the High School Musical soundtrack) at 23 instead?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0N-c90piSQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XzW6qPi3rA
Goodnight sweet prince.
>>131645640there's always something a bit calculated about her songs, which is bad pop music because self-awareness ruins the entire effect
>>131645295Miller was spectacularly retarded. Sure, most of the major label suits were stuffy middle-aged guys who didn't like rock, but none of them were as retarded about it as him. He dragged CBS down from being the biggest record label in the US at the start of the decade to a total joke by the early 60s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK3KYUahz4M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ekn9dAYfz0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEsLjsm5s9U
Featured Richie Powell and Clifford Brown, who would both die in a car accident three months later.
And the only recording of Rollins and Coltrane together. Two Titans of Tenor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4NEqPUVg_U
