ITT: /mu/ in 1955

>>126825394 (OP)
My favorite song is the one with the bass line that goes YINGA DINGA DINGA DINGA DINGA DINGA and the lyrics that go "OH I DRIVE MY CHEVY ALL OVER TOWN ON ROUTE 66 IS WHERE I GET AROOOOUND!"

>>126825394 (OP)
https://youtu.be/wcW8SvbnJYE?feature=shared

The song of the future

Would you suck his cock or not really?

>>126825394 (OP)
I sure ain't fond of those colored boys

I just wanted to give you all a heads-up. There's this guy Elvis who listens to nigger music, dresses like a nigger, and acts like a nigger onstage. Please don't listen to his music.

You fellas heard about them Jewish executives stealing music rights from them colored folks? Not right what they’re doing to ‘em

If I see that Teresa brewer fag post here, POW right in the kisser

>>126825394 (OP)
Anybody here like doo-wop? Those negro boys sure can sing.

HEAAAARRTS MADE OF STOOOOONNNNEEEE
WILL CAUSE YOU PAIIIINNNNN

>ready willing, and able

Wait isn't this the timeline when the Four Lads or something are in the top 10? Oh dear...

>>126825449
>>126825450
GO AWAY!!!

>>126825449
>>126825455
I don't know how this filth gets past the censors.

WELL THEY OFTEN CALL ME SPEEDO
BUT MY FRIENDS CALL ME MISTER EARL
BUM BAM BUM

>>126825394 (OP)
/mu/ didn't exist in 1955, dumb shit.

>>126825461
EAT SHIT AND DIE

>>126825450
Only one charting song this year but it made #2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTuDn7IE-4Q

>>126825482
FUCK OFF

Me and the boys are going down to Greenwich Village to smoke pot and do some Obetrol (if you know you know)

>>126825472
And?

Right.

>>126825510
FUCK OFF!!! I HATE YOU SO FUCKING MUCH

TWO, FOUR, SIX, EIGHT, ROCK
NINE, TEN, ELEVEN, TWELVE O'CLOCK ROCK

Shame The Dankworth Seven split isn't it?

My uncle can't find work in Hollywood now thanks to that bastard McCarthy.

>>126825537
ah he was probably a commie anyway

>>126825449
well tbqh she's a bit walled maybe back in the Les Brown days i'd hit it

>>126825545
EAT SHIT MCCARTHY! I WILL REIGN HELLFIRE ON YOUR ASS

Faff, finally made it after a decade and all it took was a purloined R&B cover or three.

>>126825575
KILL YOURSELF

>>126825575
they had quite a few good records going back to the beginning in '46 but never had a hit with any of them for one reason or another until Randy Wood bailed them out

Grrr, I hate commies so much.

Stop fucking stealing my songs, you honkeys!

>>126825608
Oh golly gosh jee wizz *AWOOGA AWOOGA* she sure gets my fire started yessir!

>>126825496
I hope the cops bust your dope-smoking commie asses good.

>>126825608
Rude.

>>126825626
FUCK YOU

>>126825510
Off year, she had just 2 songs chart in '55.

>>126825626
That woman is a Jew, just so you know.

>>126825653
A very rare instance of a jazz number making the top 10.

>>126825394 (OP)
I’m gay. I like big black cock in my ass

>Baker learned that US copyright law did not cover song arrangments and unsuccessfully lobbied Congress to get the laws changed. She then sent Gibbs a note reading "I'm going on tour. Here's my insurance information in case the plane crashes. My life is insured for $25,000. I figured you might need the money since you won't have any more songs to rip off if I'm gone."

>>126825394 (OP)
What the hell does it mean to "rock around the clock", this generation is doomed with all their degenerate words and dances.

Hey if any of you fellas are in Brooklyn there's this little wiseass 13 year old punk named Bob Christgau. If you see him be sure to knock his lights out.

>>126825653
Based

SINCERELY
OHHHH YEAAHHHH SINCERELEEEEYYYYYYY
YOU KNOW HOW I FEEEEELLLLLLLLL

>>126825804
Unless it's dedicated house Negro Nat King Cole.

MISTER SANDMAN
BRING ME A DREAM

>>126825815
DIE

>>126825787
Hmmm, sounds like a literal cuck

>>126825833
I guess no one remembers that was a cover of a Four Aces song but the original was crap and is forgotten for a reason.

>>126825833
Ladies, um, Liberace isn't gonna return your calls. How do I explain this...

>>126825815
oh my another whitewashed R&B cover as if nobody else this year thought of doing that

>>126825878
SHUT THE FUCK UP

>>126825854
well for one the Chordettes were a lot better at doing sex voices

>>126825878
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xGqfmvNVuk

I mean they weren't gonna play the Moonglows original on white radio.

It begins.

>>126825815
The Chordettes also have better cleavage, these chicks are too Christfag for that.

>>126825653
She got banned from Perry Como's TV show for wearing a low cut dress. He said it was a family show so fuck off with that.

Ah, it feels good to be back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWszWEQyuy0

>>126826013
The Fontanes' cover version of this one is pretty good it's faster and more flowing but the original's still the best.

DAVY CROCKETT
KING OF THE WILD FRONTIEEEERRRRRR

>>126826106
>>126826066
Folksy Americana shit was a fad this year.

>>126825916
Plus he was literally descended from Daniel Boone lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4GwQPX53DQ

That was a very short-lived music career, huh? Oh well, she deserved it for being a bored housewife who decided she could sing one day because her husband had a band.

>>126826153
how did you expect her to compete with all these people?

Tony, my man!

Ufff.

MAYBELLENE WHY CAN'T YOU BE TRUE
OH, MAYBELLENE WHY CAN'T YOU BE TRUE

Let me tell you the tale of Joan Weber *blows on harmonica*

>once there was a little lady from New Jersey
>who married the leader of a big ol' band
>and decided one day that she wanted to sing
>her demo reached Mitch Miller
>who had the in-house Columbia songwriters rework a country tune about alcoholism
>it got played on Studio One
>the record went to #1 overnight and sold a million copies
>but turns out that Weber had little singing experience and was also pregnant so she couldn't even tour or promote her record
>her child was born a few months later
>and then every big name in '50s pop and their dog went and covered "Let Me Go, Lover"
>Weber was forgotten and left the building when her contract ran out
>her husband divorced her and she lived out her life quietly in the Philly area until dying in the early '80s penniless and insane

>>126825815
this was their only #1 hit but as is the case with a lot of people the biggest hit wasn't their best one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhndEr_25aU

Ha ha that slide whistle.

>>126826375
Jaye P. Morgan was extremely hot but also a little nuts.

>>126826375
That was one of 2 versions of this song on the charts in '55 the other was Gisele MacKenzie's (not as lively) one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lif7ig4856U

Another big Doris soundtrack hit but compared to the atrocity of Secret Love surprisingly pleasant and tasteful.

why so little country in these threads, /mu/? i swear almost every other genre of music is more represented in them.

>>126826564
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dip6XmmjKMw

Here you go George Jones's breakout hit from '55.

>>126826534
That's an EP with a couple of song covers but I only know "Rock Love", which is an effective enough if a bit bombastic cover. I can't imagine she did a worse "Tweedle Dee" than Georgia Gibbs.

This has a quite funny Chordettes cover of Hearts of Stone and the only place I could find it online was here.

http://artworkbymanicmark.blogspot.com/2021/01/8-top-hits-chordates-archie-bleyer.html

>>126825417
I beg your pardon?

>>126825804
that negro shit is a fad and won't last another 5 years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFDraWR1Imc

Young BB was a lot smoother and hadn't learned how to roar yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eggh0eESHkw

55 was a transitional year between the pre-rock era and the R&R explosion the following year. a lot of R&B covers, R&R hits coming out but the old guard were still dominating and Elvis had yet to take over the planet.

>>126825626
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4sVwnTB-qE

Well she accomplished her mission of getting a #1 and turning this into workout music for suburban housewives.

>>126826534
>>126826618
Every version of Rock Love I've heard did something unique with it while Gibbs got in trouble for copypasting the Tweedle Dee arrangement from Baker's original record, even though it wasn't her fault and singers didn't usually decide arrangements in that time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OgN_YdhnCQ

>>126826618
>That's an EP with a couple of song covers but I only know "Rock Love", which is an effective enough if a bit bombastic cover

Teresa was quite a little firecracker in the 50s but any covers she did post-50s are pretty fucking bad.

do people really listen to negro music?

>>126828726
not me

>>126825394 (OP)
None, music didn't exist until the Beatles invented it in 1961.

>>126829112
"before Elvis, there was nothing" - John Lennon

>>126825890
>sex voices
what do you mean?

>>126826123
>Daniel Boone
that is not a real person, that guy was a folk story creation

>>126829172
I remember spending my whole 11th birthday watching Daniel Boone all day in Sept 2006, barely knew any music back then, wish I had gotten into MCR sooner.

>>126829212
https://youtu.be/e7PIsHh8MXs?si=kzgQOVx_Zzqq2zmm Nostalgic, between that and Tex, I was fascinated with the Wild West.

>>126826534
DIE IN A FIRE

>>126829115
Well not in Bongland anyway except maybe Petula Clark.

>>126829413
This purportedly got a US release via Media Records but I doubt it sold more than 3 copies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc0LfGn9TM4

>>126829172
of course he was a real guy, dumbass

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Boone

>>126829565
p. good rip of Capitol-era Sinatra even if i'll never love this stuff as much as rock/R&B material

>>126829619
The crooner/showtune audience was a heavily urban one and it appealed strongly to Jews/Italians/Irish all ethnicities with a strong singing tradition yet it is often overlooked that country was the mainstain for millions of other Americans back then.

>>126826534
>>126825815
>>126825449
The State of Ohio has some explaining to do for their crimes against taste and music.

>>126829426
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s7KRYNAGsE

Cute song but it would have done nothing at all to stand out on the US charts where similar songs were a dime a dozen in the 50s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi2jnZo1uuU

>>126829873
Jaye like Brewer/the McGuire Sisters/Gibbs was an energy singer and her slow songs are underwhelming and don't distinguish themselves in any unusual way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pejfmfRWBWs

>>126825510
Page was totally a singles artist, her LPs in this period anyway are just Greatest Hits comps of her hits.

>>126826586
>I'll love my baby until the day I die despite of her being a cheating hussy who...
That's pretty cucked, George.

Recorded music is gay. Only British isles traditional music is real.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLOqTIRMEmM

Fuck you, Mitch Miller. Just...just fuck you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8Fuesi8VcI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_90xvFzzZM

YA LIFT SIXTEEN TONS
AND WHADDYA GET

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUD3XwIoysk

>>126830980
Eddy Arnold was really pop country so his songs are more like mainstream 50s pop than Kitty Wells or George Jones.

>>126825394 (OP)
That nigger jive crap they call rock and roll ain’t real music. Give me some good ol jazz any day.

>>126830811
Mindy Carson is well forgotten today but Mitch seems to have foisted some songs on her that were horrifying even by his standards. This isn't quite "Sugaree" but it gets 70% of the way there.

PRETENDING THAT I'M DOING WELLLLLLL
MY NEED IS SUCH THAT I PRETEND TOO MUCH
I'M LONELY BUT NO ONE CAN TELLLLLLLL

And here we go. But it'll be a while before anyone notices.

>>126833637
Disclaimer: Some of her early non-charting singles aren't on Youtube for some reason but they can be found on Russian MP3 sites. I suspect they didn't chart because they didn't have any hooks on them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed-O1ipoHGU
While this cover has better musical quality than the Boyd Bennett original it doesn't make as much sense without a guy singing it.

>>126833744
The Fontane Sisters had an ace '55 run with the great trilogy of Hearts of Stone/Rock Love/Seventeen but they quickly fell off after that. But those were fun singles that are now almost totally forgotten and undeservedly so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3jXMEhV7fE
A forgotten but extremely fun OHW backed by a Dixieland jazz arrangement (not wholly surprising as the arranger, O.B. Masingill, was from the South). Even more entertaining for being a salvaged McGuire Sisters B-side, specifically the B-side of their '54 hit Goodnight Sweetheart, Goodnight.

>>126833805
Singing sister groups were a fad in 54-55 with these gals and the much bigger McGuire Sisters, plus the Fontane Sisters and the exotica Latina De Castro Sisters. The Chordettes were not siblings but might somewhat be included in there.

>>126825394 (OP)
Shit man it was a pretty rough year for music, it hadn't been invented yet

Anons...I have sort of uh a confession to make. The other night when I was driving, coming home from work I saw what I thought was a car or truck parked in an empty lot by the side of the road. When I got closer I realised it was a kind of large circular shaped craft parked on the ground I noticed a group of humanoid creatures wearing some kind of metallic suit with masks on them and carrying these strange handgun like devices. One of them waved me over saying "Take it easy pal, we're friends". Without really knowing what I was doing, I walked up a ramp on board this craft and it came to life and within minutes we were in outer space orbiting a plan they identified as Mercury. Then one of them who reassmbled a young 18/19ish adult female, large breasted and white skinned and she said she needed to take sperm samples from me. She then proceeded to make love to me several times over as the craft made it's way to Pluto and back. The Space Brothers told me many things, some I can't remember. They said I am now the Trans Plutonian Confederation's representative on Earth and that they would be revealing themselves to mankind as a whole in the near future, probably. They gave me an important message to humanity about atomic weapons which I don't remember unfortunately, I wasn't really listening. Something about getting rid of the atomic bombs or getting more of them idk one of the two. Anyway I just wanted to get that off my chest.

I liked Chet Baker Sings but that was from last year I haven't really been impressed with anything this year

I am a fortune teller
In 36 years there will be a band called "Nirvana", do not under any circumstances listen to them or buy any of their albums. Thanks

SO DROP ON THE DECK AND FLOP LIKE A FISH

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_Q4CXGTadU

>>126834651
this song promotes a bad moral to the listener

>my past doesn't matter so I fucked and sucked 25 other dudes before we met we're none of us perfect XD
>written by (((Bennie Benjamin))) and (((George Weiss)))
of course

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD1y_odKDVs

More Mindy Carson and I guess Mitch Miller was out of town that day because this is actually tasteful and has none of his usual hallmarks on it.

>>126833805
me and my girls danced all night long to this at the drugstore at the sock hop ball

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXjJp9lPric
hit it, Etta!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5aCjmMBJBc
Another day, another generic and pretty obnoxious male vocal group that had a couple hits and vanished.

>>126835091
Epic was originally Columbia's subsidiary for their more weirdo acts that didn't fit the main label's image.

Ws haven't heard much from The Duke lately. I hear he's playing Newport next year; maybe I'll go.

>>126835301
He had three LPs out in '55, The Duke Plays Ellington - Part 2, Ellington '55, and Ellington Showcase.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWc4QtkiyfY
This was a remake of a tune he'd recorded in 1931 but the album is clearly trying to make a connection to the emerging R&R scene. Just in case you think this thread has been short on jazz and you heard enough ranting about shitty housewife pop.

>>126830811
spot on analysis

>>126835866
>Ko Ko Mo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XK1-8Vfa14
Then feel kinda embarrassed that Perry Como had the most rocking version of this tune.

>>126835866
Mindy Carson actually only ever had three songs make the Billboard, >>126834741 and two in 1950 when she was with RCA, depending on if you count the ""Cause I Love You, That's a Why" duet with Guy Mitchell. It seems that Mitch Miller signed her with the intent of being a newer, younger girl singer than Doris Day or Jo Stafford in the same way he'd meant Guy Mitchell to replace Sinatra but she never really took off and she left the music industry entirely by 1960.

As for "The Fish" that record apparently sold some but it didn't get on the radio at all.

'55 was the best year of the decade next to '58 for muzic releases