ITT: /mu/ in 1956

Well boy howdy i sure do like elvis golly gee

this thread was fun the first few times but it's lost its charm

OH GOD, ELVIS SUCKS

I GOTTA CRAZY PARTNER, YOU OUGHTA SEE HER REEL AND ROCK

Hey, my local radio station is having a "Burn an Elvis record" day next Saturday. C'mon on down, it'll be great.

a nigger in the front of the bus???

>>126902215
They shall not force the Negro into our schools, places of business, and our daughters.

GOOD GOLLY MISS MOOOLLLLYYYYY

OH LITTLE GIRL OF MINE
YOU SURE LOOK FINE

>>126902264
>>126902253
>>126902198
listen to real music

The old folks hate Elvis, I hate him too but for another reason. He's making rock and roll radio friendly pop music.
Perhaps he'll be like Frank Sinatra or Bing Crosby in a few years.

You don't want to listen to those rock and roll hoodlums over real music made by actually talented people, do you? Do you?

>>126902367
Begone from my radio, evil spectres!

>>126902400
With 19 combined Billboard hits between them this year it seems not.

>>126902423
add us in for another five

Still waiting for recorded music to get good

>>126902472
No! Return to the nether realm from whence you came!

man, gommunism is sure great. i spend 5 hours at store buying shoe (note shoe not shoes) and my old childhood friend was arrested for anti-state agitation the other day for telling joke about Zápotocký's haircut at work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzW7lgyMVfU

Frank and Nelson do it again!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z5PJU8WjU8

I don't get why "Please Mr. Disc Jockey" didn't chart instead because that's a better song than this one.

PLEASE EDDIE, DON'T MAKE ME WAIT TOOOOO LOOOONNNNGGG

>>126902643
The great trilogy of the Teen Queens original of this song, the Chordettes, and the Fontane Sisters cover. I don't super-love the original because it's too maudlin and sounds like they're dying shit's depressing. the Chordettes brightened it up a little.

YES IT'S ME AND I'M IN LOVE AGAIN
HAD NO LOVIN' SINCE YOU KNOW WHEN

>>126902679
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T1UhxQhpn0

#5 on the Billboard R&B chart but only #35 on the Billboard so it's not remembered as one of Fats's "big" hits.

>>126902720
you want I link Teresa Brewer's cover version of this? :^)

>>126902791
That's a voice not even a mother could love. And no let's not. Poor Fats has had enough of his songs being mangled by bad cover versions; he doesn't deserve this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ-nH_tEvws

Granted, like Christgau said, once you've heard one Little Richard song you've heard them all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amy9DNsJPBw
Rosie's last Billboard appearance and only made #70, in the year of Elvismania mannered showtune renditions weren't really top 15 material.

>>126902367
This is a big year for The Four Fails who have six charting hits.

>>126902143 (OP)
This so called "rock 'n' roll" craze will not last. Big band jazz will make a big comeback in the next few years.

>>126902902
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJkeSKdfzIg

The lyrics are truthful though; watching women go by and imagining what could be was probably as far as these guys ever got with the opposite sex.

WHEN I WAS JUST A LITTLE GIRL
I ASKED MY MOTHER

>>126902143 (OP)
I’m gay. I like big black cock in my ass

>>126902931
these dudes were literally the most Canadian group of all time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qlbcn75fLr8
CBS's C-stringer pop girl in...yawn, a Doris Day rip. And you were hoping for "The Fish" 2.0 but not here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SwMB9v1pQ4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBR7TO_CjXw

>>126903042
I tend to think he peaked in the mid to late 60s and I think his 50s output wasn't quite there yet.

C'mon, DJs, play me already. You know you want to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P78ufaUuZVI

who are these bums? nobody's gonna buy this malarkey.

HOOOLLLLLYYY SHIIIITTTTTTTT

>>126903111
how did it take her almost 3 years to figure out that you need songs with hooks to get a hit single?

Attention: Do not play Negro records on jukeboxes or in your place of business if you do not want to attract the wrong crowd. These records are animalistic noises that lead our young people astray and into a life of fiendish debauchery. - The Birmingham Citizens Council

>>126902472
Me too.

>>126903111
Connie is hot.

>>126903291
You begone as well, wraith!

>>126902143 (OP)
got a bicth pregnant her parents are forcing me to marry her

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHiW7AUUO-I

This piece by Karlheinz Stockhausen recorded this year is what the average song will song like in the year 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RMGGVlMuwo

>>126903399
Ok you're kind of harmless...meh...

>>126903381
Oh boy yeah the Platters were big big big in '56, the biggest selling vocal group of the decade and they weren't exactly short on competition in that format.

It's mind-bending to think that Elvis had seventeen (!) charting hits in 1956, several of which were million+ sellers, and he all by himself accounted for 60% of RCA's total revenues from record sales.

>>126903399
After an off '55 she comes back this year with a new top 10 hit in "Allegheny Moon."

>>126902661
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSDqblagICQ

Their take on the song is more "middle aged bar skank" than the original's teen anguish fronted by Janet Ertel's MILFcore vocals.

F

RIP Tommy, gone too soon.

>>126903111
Sue Thompson may have a hit too someday. Someday...

>>126903399
I WANNA SEE PATTI'S PAGE

>>126902807
>>126902472
Next to CBS, Coral was the biggest schlock mill of the 50s and Bob Thiele was almost as tasteless as Mitch Miller, but not nearly as famous.

"Candide" just didn't come together. I wonder if Bernstein's career as a composer is over.

>>126903691
And nobody knew back then that Mantle was not le based wholesomarino all-American baseball man but actually a violent alcoholic piece of shit who beat his wife and kids and neglected them, but was self-aware enough on his deathbed to say "Here's a role model. Don't be like me."

>>126903470
>>126903480
Yet not even Elvis or Pat Boone had a single that sold as much as "The Tennessee Waltz."

Another now-forgotten piece of crap white bread vocal group that was a big deal in 1956 with six songs making the Billboard. They also did "Mister Sandman" first, nobody remembers that version and for good reason.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW52i3iHQzg
Possibly the strangest OHW ever.

>Jewish chick from Philly
>who sounds an awful lot like that other singing Jewish chick from Philly
>who moved to LA as a teenager and spent some years working at a used car lot
>eventually got a recording contract and this top ten 1956 hit
>ok well she had a few other minor hits nobody remembers

>>126903906
it seems like the songwriting trope used here was already a thing well before it got spammed to death in the 60s-70s

>>126903822
ha ha oh boy this didn't age well and wait how'd she get a songwriting credit on there? she never wrote anything.

>>126903927
What trope was that?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0zPsfqzIdQ

Oh fuck you, Pat. Just...just fuck you.

>71 replies
We beat the 1975 thread.

>>126903946
Suggested one minor change to a lyric? IDK.

doowop mogs rockabilly and jazz

>>126903981
Not enough jazz getting posted here for being the peak era of the stuff.

>>126902661
The Fontane Sisters had more '56 hits than '55 hits actually but none as good as their great '55 run, once they "made it" they mentally checked out amazingly fast.

>>126903480
"Allegheny Moon" made #2 it was Page's first top 10 hit since her cover of "Let Me Go, Lover" and yes, 1955 was not a propitious year for her with a string of non-charting singles although one song made #11.

>>126903001
I don't think Mitch Miller was involved with this record it doesn't sound like his usual style.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5kP6HB6a0c
You didn't think Eydie could do doo-wop and an actually pretty good one at that that unfortunately didn't chart.

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

Instead this more predictable showtune number did chart probably because ABC promoted it and not the other song (guess it fit more with the image of her they wanted to market).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxMDKzOgVVo
Alright, hit it Chuck!

>>126903997
absolutely soulless. why do whites love to ruin negro's music so much?

>>126903997
Tutti Frutti is the most famously awful cover he did and the fact that of course he had no idea what the song was actually about made it even more facepalm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMb1MqcZR7M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOjVjc5vJ6I
A completely bizarre two hit wonder when an LA songwriter's 11 and 14 yo daughters accidentally became temporary stars. He just had them record this for yucks and didn't expect it to go that far. They did get to appear on Perry Como's TV show once though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4gQ6xwISRs
The other hit was this tune which Teresa Brewer popularized several years earlier. Anyway their dad quickly pulled the plug on their unplanned music career after this (they did as adults record a surf rock single in 1964)

WELL, ALL MY FRIENDS ARE BOPPIN' THE BLUES...

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

WELL, I SAW MY BABY WALKIN'
WITH ANOTHER MAN TODAY

AH PUT A SPELL ON YOU...

>>126903822
>but was self-aware enough on his deathbed
...of complications from liver failure

this kid is insane hopefully he doesnt start shooting heroin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qITN5xsSlTU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKLik9unMU8
Cute.

who did it better?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF_taPrx2nM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml3svhTpkGQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PprtwMbm8Kc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJcJIK5olDo
This was a famous meme song it gave Kay one of her two #1 hits but she clearly didn't feel the material as her stilted delivery shows.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coV0Ws4Nwtk

Reminder that calypso is the next big thing, "rock and roll" is old hat

>>126905187
I like neither.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKPkaAq0bDo

>>126905255
that was already linked earlier in the thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p5jJIUs22g

Peggy Lee was never a common Billboard presence but she had two this year with Mr. Wonderful and Joey.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aajSxr8nghE

>>126902367
If you needed proof of just how meaningless the Four Lads were, the best-of shown here is the one and only comp ever made of them and it was from 1961.

>>126902472
They had several hits this year but all lower charting and unmemorable songs. Were always really a covers group and didn't do original material with any unusual inspiration.

>>126902143 (OP)
>1956
>1952
>1959
>1947
>1938
what's the fucking difference, music still hadn't been invented yet

>>126905513
When do you think music was invented then?

>>126906402
Not him but if you ask me, written music has been good since the 1600s, but we didn't get any good recorded songs until the late 50s, and no good albums until the mid 60s.

>>126907686
Thanks, /r/music.

WE HAD A QUARREL
A TEENAGE QUARREL
NOW I'M AS BLUE AS I KNOW HOW TO BE

>>126908478
George Hamilton IV aka some kind of 50s Nick Carter, later a middling country singer. This was a huge '56 hit and the record was a million seller afaik.

>>126908168
What's your opinion then?

>>126909101
what is he asking? anon made a blanket statement

>but we didn't get any good recorded songs until the late 50s, and no good albums until the mid 60s.
with nothing to back it up

>>126909218
Back it up? This is music, I don't need to justify anything to you it's a completely subjective medium.

>>126905293
i can't say this was one of her better songs, but mostly because of the arrangement

>The times were changing rapidly; while the Billboard pop chart was 30% rock and R&B songs in 1955, the 1956 charts were 60% rock and R&B.[9]

Why do we so rarely do the 80s in these /mu/ in X year threads?

I have a crazy thought. What if it was 69 years from now, and people were still talking about music that came out this year? Woudn't that be weird?

>>126909543
we had a thread about 1983 not long ago but it didn't get that many replies idk why though

Poor Nat.

>becomes the first black TV host
>no ads because no sponsors are willing to run them and lose Southern viewers so his show lasts 1 season
>gets beaten up by KKK guys or something during a concert in Birmingham

>>126902143 (OP)
I'm going surfing!

>>126904121
Its the peak year for vocal jazz.

I still like Ike