ITT: /mu/ in 1960

>*kills OPs direct ancestors thus preventing him from being born and creating this shit thread 65 years in the future*

>>126858123
Awlright, the album that filtered Christgay from listening to jazz for the next 5 years.

dude acid lmao

SHE WORE AN ITSTY WITSY TEENY WEENIE

>>126858174
No this is the uncool part of the 60s, by some definitions 1960 is actually the last year of the 50s and 1961 the first year of the 60s.

Sup.

HERE HE COMES
THAT'S CATHY'S CLOOOOWNNNNN

And the #1 selling record of the year is the worst instrumental of all time. Fuck.

So as you might surmise this was a fairly drab year with not that much going on, R&R was dead and the US economy was in a recession that made record labels more risk adverse so shit was rather meh.

>>126858366
also many of the more distasteful names in 50s pop are winding down and falling off the Billboard by 1960 (not Pat Boone though, he has seven chart hits this year). this era is Connie and Brenda's time to shine and they're quite harmless and hard to hate. you can sure hate Percy Faith though, that is openly encouraged.

THE TEARS I'VE CRIED FOR YOU COULD FEEL AN OCEAN
BUT YOU DON'T CARE HOW MANY TEARS I'VE CRIED

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1618sKyDNGc
Jaye P. Morgan's last chart hit. This was a hot item to cover for a while and while quite a few covers were questionable Cash got paid royalties so doubt he cared. She was very good at sounding bratty when she wanted to be.

>>126858473
dat's right, Roy.

>>126858250
Timothy Leary started doing acid experiments in 1962

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAF9Y7NVsbY
Yes that was his real name, it wasn't a stage name.

>>126858657
that might get you cancelled today, both his name and the lyrics of that song

>>126858473
He wasn’t wearing sunglasses yet in 1961. Actually he was rarely even wearing glasses at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGLR25EJtfE

>>126858686
the glasses were important to his mystique because he looked like a generic country goofy goober without them

>>126858692
Four big hits this year one of which is the damned Christmas hit. "I'm Sorry" is pretty good though.

Ha ha oh boy that was a very short career.

F

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22LdEWhyHh8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSRlQhJ0H4Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aulTG8V7d2w
This instrumental was their final Billboard appearance.

It's been a year since Holly, Valens, and Richardson died. I wonder if music will recover.

SHE WAS AFRAID TO COME OUT IN THE OPEN
AND SO A BLANKET AROUND HER SHE WORE

>>126858267
Aggh, Connie why did I let you get away from me four years ago? I hear your contract's up for renegotiation this year. Sign with us? Pl0x?

OH BLUE ANGEL
DON'T YOU CRY JUST BECAUSE HE SAID GOODBYE

>>126858967
luckily MGM gave her a platinum plated deal to renew her contract

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI7xxOMR5es

This is the end of Guy Mitchell's chart hits but he'll be able to live comfortably off UK tours for the rest of his life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEpqU1794eY
they really mean this one

>>126859085
took that long to post it?

I'm voting for Nixon this fall, ain't voting for a damn servant of the Pope.

>>126859085
>baby's first jazz album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1dHOGJWDsU

IT'S NOOOOWWWW OR NEEEVVEERRRR

Fuck, I'm in a lot of trouble now.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzVbccLMbKU
Georgia Gibbs's take on this country standard was surprisingly pretty good, but not this one though, not this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpjILh84Lv0

R&R isn't actually dead, didn't you get the memo?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cENNxOOdytM
And so it begins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj1yV0K4q1g

>>126859267
Yes, yes, you are.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLI2_eVpxlw

>>126859546
>>126859307
>>126859072
>>126858967
fuck off, no one cares about your hateboner for this shit

>>126859546
That's a bit optimistic title that would have been more accurate six years ago 'cos she's on the way down by 1960.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9cZlzsJoh4

Only one chart hit this year but one of his more wtf songs. I think it was trying to glom off the folk fad of this era though.

>>126859660
see >>126859591

>>126859546
>pull this up on Discogs
>album sleeve has a spread photo of her with her crummy kids
how self-indulgent can you get?

>>126859085
meme album is meme

>>126859660
Like a lot of singers Como in his early career was forced by RCA to sing buttpop songs he hated and only later on did he get more freedom in picking material to record.

>>126859792
That's him and old friends the Fontane Sisters.

>>126858727
ouch

it's only 38 years until Chappell Roan is born. enjoy it while it lasts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jg__TZjr-s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnT-A5PbCPk

This was the last year of vocal reverb mania which will quickly disappear from most '61 hits.

>>126859934
album cover art as an art form was still in its infancy back then

>tfw I like Nixon and Kennedy

Celtics repeat as NBA Champs....bet they never win again however

>>126860250
fuck off and die, shitstick

The Eagles win the NFL championship, but it will be a while before their next title because Chuck Bednarik hexed the team so they won't win again as long as he's alive.

>>126860250
That's a bit wrong.

>>126860250
I think this was meant as an 1890s nostalgia/retro piece. BTW 1895 was 65 years ago in 1960, same as 1960 is from 2025.

>>126860355
because no one thinks used-up women who've shat out 4 kids should be doing that

Doris Day is my waifu.

>>126860612
she's kinda old and walled these days maybe ten years ago

>>126860612
>>126863741
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrXEnrT97ok

One of Doris's final Billboard hits. According to the info here, #50 on the Billboard, Music Vendor #90, Cash Box #109.

tl;dr it got airplay in some markets but the disc didn't sell much of anything and although it's a cute song I can't imagine too many people actually wanting to pay for the record

>>126859792
>Como was one of 13 siblings. He often praised his father Pietro for instilling a work ethic in him and noted that all 12 of his brothers and sisters became responsible, law-abiding citizens.[3]

his parents needed to get some other hobbies tbqh

>>126859700
It's some similar deal to how Pat Boone was marketed back then. le wholesome chungus 1950s family unlike those degenerate Elvis people.

>>126860294
?

>>126864222
that guy who posts hate rants about 50s pop

>>126859307
Tubb got paid royalties for those covers so I doubt he minded.

>>126863741
>>126863808
Everybody Loves a Lover was two years ago. She's still got it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FOTzC-0xg0&list=RD3FOTzC-0xg0&start_radio=1

Well this rock n roll fad is definitely dead. Good riddance I say.

>>126864414
Freddie Cannon and Jack Scott are still keeping it going tbqh.

>>126858100 (OP)
im so tired of time traveling holy fuck

>>126864402
tbqh two years especially in this era is an eternity in pop cultural terms. stuff was evolving very fast.

>>126863741
like yeah we have Connie Francis now

>>126864479
t. dirty beatnik

Get a job

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBn5aIfZElE

nobody mentioned Sam Cooke despite being one of the biggest stars of this era and he finally goes major label this year

>>126864534
Like Buddy Holly we're spared the mystery of how he would have adapted to the post-1964 music climate.

>>126864887
maybe not. Sam was pushing 30 in 1964 he belonged to the generation before the Beatles. still maybe like Johnnie Taylor he would have made a #1 pop disco hit someday. we'll never know i guess.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKj0UZqvhF4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnkjOHVK-H4

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

Marv Johnson was another guy who like Guy Mitchell and Eddie Cochrane was loved by bongs and Aussies more than Americans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI8OMrO1Y_Q

This instrumental was a pretty hot item in '60.