ITT: /mu/ in 1952

aw man, this is the boring part of the 50s. wake me up in 3 years 'k? going back to sleep.

>>126867032
>aw man, this is the boring part of the 50s
Got that right. Here's what's cooking in the top 10 right now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk22CHRAoPU

>girls screaming over Johnnie Ray and Guy Mitchell
>none of them want my washed up 36 year old ass no more
This is all your fault, Mitch. brb killing myself now.

>>126867078
Poor Frank. Man he's seen better days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNj4KbVPMOQ
hey tune in the dial they're playing that BB King feller. don't let my pop know we have the Negro music station on though or he'll whup my ass.

What is this negrofied nonsense on my wholesome christian country & western station?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNUvVoyzmHQ

>>126867104
lol this was his "Aerosmith 1979-84" phase. yeah it was pretty bad and he literally attempted suicide by sticking his head in an oven when he saw Johnnie Ray on TV with screaming girls yelling for him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEu0mOmNMjs
huge '52 record and this dude was a hot teen heartthrob for a while. note it says Johnnie Ray and the Four Lads. they were originally studio backing singers before the resident braintrust at CBS gave them their own record career.

>>126867023 (OP)
I like Ike and boy I'm tired of Democrats after all these years it's time for a change.

anyone know how i can get out of being shipped over to Korea? i really don't wanna get my ass shot off by chinks over there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLpzfER6w3c

>>126867217
just tell the recruiter you're one of them homosexual folk and he'll immediately let you go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7Rg4IVNaZM

>>126867023 (OP)
>>126867189
>>126867643
God. DAMMIT this is the worst timeline until the 2010s.

>>126867696
That's not totally a wrong assessment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeIce5NsWKk

i get the feeling that Hank Williams will die soon. just a feeling though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei_I_poCNFI
This song might get them cancelled today for promoting rape.

it's only 13 years until music is invented

>>126867823
hopefully the lyrics of that song are not referring to her and Al Jorden lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUEmxU6qQb0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFvnERLOKsM
Sue Thompson took a while to get off the ground to put it mildly and this song might be a reason why. I'm sure if you heard this record back then you'd wonder if it was a 10 year old singing.

>>126867189
oh fuck!

>>126867643
double fuck!

>>126867663
triple fuck!

>>126868021
sweet Jesus of merciful fuck!

tl;dr this timeline is gay i want off the ride

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtqMnPNrMI0
Young Ray when he was really rock-and-roll instead of midtempo pop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr6Djj7MtMQ

>>126868021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXMYqeJuxpU

Contrary to the song title I hope I do manage to do just that and get this off my radio.

>>126868169
Coral was the worst 50s schlock mill next to CBS. If it doesn't say Buddy Holly on the label turn around and walk the other direction.

>>126868199
who's Buddy Holly? i never heard of a singer called that. some local act in your town I guess?

>>126868210
Buddy and Jack you might know them if you live in the Lubbock area. kid's only 16 but he has chops and I tell you he might go places someday.

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

>>126868021
don't buy into this. her and Rosemary Clooney are the waifu b8 of the industry.

>>126868370
LOL this is what /mu/ would say if it was around in 1952.

>>126868370
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai_-8mH8eYg
sounds like she's trying to be Patti Page here

>>126868443
what a stupid song. it's pound for pound stupider than that Sue Thompson record anon linked.

My little brother came home from Korea in a box.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqNQmMQNj9w
Peggy Lee makes a rare Billboard appearance but I don't really like the arrangement much.

>A terrible thing is happening to singers. Everybody's shouting! For a while it even happened to me. Maybe it's because you're putting your whole self into a song that way--which I feel I had done anyway. Much as I liked him personally, I must admit that Johnnie Ray has done something to singers to make them feel that they must knock their brains out to put their point across to people. When I found myself doing this I realized that it made me hoarse the very first night, and I couldn't keep up the pace. I think the same thing has happened to Fran Warren. Fran is a girl who had a fabulous, beautiful voice, and now suddenly she's screaming, and she's going to lose if it she doesn't watch out.

>Similarly, when I first heard the Peggy Lee record of "Lover" I was shocked. I thought she must be kidding; I kept waiting for Mel Blanc to come in and start purring like a cat or quacking like a duck. Of course the record sold; it put her back into the high brackets, which I think is wonderful. I never resent a singer's success, no matter how bad I think their record may be. If it's a hit I say great, I'm very happy for them!

>But I know that Peggy can sing so much better than that. She was singing great way back when she was with Benny Goodman, and later on some of the fine ballads she did with David Barbour. My personal favorite is "Don't Smoke In Bed." But coming back to Johnnie Ray, I must give him credit for one thing; he is bringing back the blues, which is something I have always loved. They're reviving a lot of the old standard blues that everyone thought were too corny to do. Johnnie himself is one of the sweetest guys in the world, and I don't think he deliberately changed the trend. He just came out with something new and everyone took it up.

>But I'll be glad when singers start relaxing and singing the way they feel, instead of trying to force things, it's a shame the way they ruin their voices.

>I have heard some hopeful signs. When I was working in Wildwood, N.J, recently, I worked with a boy named Alan Dean, the boy who's over here from England; and I have never heard a more terrific voice than this boy has. Actually he doesn't have to sing: all he has to do is walk up on the stage and smile at the audience--he's got 'em right then; but he sings with terrible feeling and has a range from A to Z.

>Girls? Ella Fitzgerald has been my idol all my life. This girl just stays the same, regardless of changes in the style of music. I'll be glad when she doesn't make quite so many bop records, because this girl is so great. I wish more people could be swayed by her and less people by the shouting trend. It would be a great thing for everybody.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t8wwWzbMD0
Ditto one of the year's biggest hits. Originally recorded by Joni James who didn't get anywhere with it and then covered by Tony Bennett and Patti Page but Jo's version became the best and definitive one.

>>126867023 (OP)
Anyone else getting tired of Frank Sinatra? I wish they'd play something with a little more... rock or a little more roll

>>126869190
Agreed. I doubt his style will have any staying power.

ok

>>126869190
This is 1952, Sinatra's career has been near-moribund for a while now and he was totally absent from the Billboard this year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY6Zy8aVl8Q
Wait until a few years later when this chucklefuck goes from crooning to pretending to be a rock-and-roller. He's a big deal in '52 with four chart hits not including the earlier linked Teresa Brewer duet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvOO26TkNhw

And it's this fucker in his first Billboard appearance at the tender age of 16.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHtR3PhNVsM
Little Richard before he was good. Contrary to the title he very much did not get rich from this record.

>>126867110
imagine how mind-bending this sounded when you only knew Jo Stafford and Guy Mitchell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmbTLK0yPB8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0sL7a0xv6I

>>126868370
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAwvV53vuiE

Rosemary never stooped to this level.

>>126870634
that's a B-side to a non-charting single (however she did perform it live on TV in this pretty skimpy outfit which you can find on Youtube) and it was a resurrection of an old standard from the 1920s. the original versions were very slow ballads, at least this one is somewhat lively.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhZ928p5UBs
You suck harder than a very large vacuum, Eddie.

Anon, what are you doing listening to that evil jazz music on West German radio? Don't you know state security can arrest you for doing that?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wcnpe-zc-k
While Mindy Carson might be more well known for assorted Mitch Miller schlock records like "The Fish" she was also perfectly capable of doing straitlaced ballads like this record which does already sound old-fashioned for 1952, more like 1947.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GvnnOqZP8A

If the above song put you to sleep here's a peppier novelty one. At this point they're not yet as absurd or tasteless as "The Fish" or "Sugaree." It also seems a lot of Carson's records were in-jokes about how she used to work in a candy factory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEwpKTCnijk
April Stevens aka the queen of sex voices, which in practice meant she didn't get a whole lot of radio play.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XLTRNkwQoA
A more peppy record of April's and she had some very naughty PR photos as well.

>>126871085
that one also sounds outmoded and 40s tbqh

>>126871139
the ballad side of this record sounds more modern

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vsml8-n4tPo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBE2HBX0czA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKMsVhyspM4

The first McGuire Sisters record, released on an indie label in which they do a faux-country drawl and are almost unrecognizable compared to how they would later sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2gVW2Xyeb4
Of course this most famous of all country standards came out in '52.

>>126871298
if you look that up on Youtube it filters the word "honky"

Wow, freaking wow, man. The Yankees won the World Series. I totally didn't see that one coming.

poor Nat, nobody seems to remember or bring him up in these threads

>>126871753
He gets dragged by rock critics for not being blues or R&B enough and dragged by jazz critics for being too mainstream/chart friendly.

>>126871753
Unlike some 50s singers he doesn't have much meme value I guess.

>>126871062
That woman is almost 100 and still alive I hear tell.

>>126867023 (OP)
>A MAN NEEDS A WOMAN, THAT HE CAN LEAN ON...

>>126868021
The black haired shouldn't be considered whites.

>>126867023 (OP)
Anyone else into Les Paul & Mary Ford?
I'm tempted to get one of those electric guitars he has with Gibson but I feel it's probably just a gimmick instrument that no one will remember in 5 years.
I'll spend my money on a vibrophone, I think that's where the future of music is.

>>126872811
she was a natural brunette iirc

>Brewer appeared in "Those Redheads From Seattle", a 1953 Paramount musical starring Rhonda Fleming, Gene Barry, and Agnes Moorehead. It was the first musical to use 3-D effects. She was tapped to appear in the movie after Paramount conducted a fan poll where audiences were invited to select a female singer to make a cameo and Brewer won the poll over several other popular singers of the day. She would later state in a fan Q&A from the late 1950s that her natural hair color was brown and the red hair she had in the movie was a dye job.[32]

>>126876219
I guess Patti Page lacked enough zip nor could I picture her in a movie like that lol. Oh well, the 50s was a dark age of Hollywood anyway and most movies from that time are junk.

>>126871753
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib6ak2Dmq_4

Unfair since one of his biggest hits came out this year.

>>126867023 (OP)
According to Philsphindings there is a part on his cover of "The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise" that kinda sounds like the Sonic 1 song Spring Yard Zone.

>>126867023 (OP)
I’m gay. I like big black cock in my ass

>>126870530
Now imagine listening to this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QDXV_aatKU

>>126871806
Nah, jazz people still respected him