ITT: /int/ in 1947

In the beginning...

>>126994418
Why yes, I'm very fond of sand dunes, salty air, and especially quaint little villages. How did you guess?

>>126994364 (OP)
yay, the boring years of nothing but ballads that move along even slower than the boomer with a walker at the Rite Aid. call me back in 8 years when music gets good.

>>126994418
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6BYaKGrxcA

This was her first record in '47. She didn't entirely have her singing style down pat here but very quickly figured things out by record #3 which was her first chart hit..

I’m gay. I like big black cock in my ass

>>126994565
That's all pop in 1947, at least A-sides anyway. Conjurs up the image of sitting in a New England seaside cottage watching the waves crash against the beach with absolutely nothing else happening.

>>126994718
I can feel the comfiness just reading about it.

>>126994718
>>126994579
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hH77m_rZdA

thankfully Louis Jordan was there to lay down the realness

>>126994788
Oh also the anti-pedophilia "That Chick's Too Young To Fry" lol.

isn't this the early days of bebop and sheet?

>>126994816
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT80WNF_Fzo
considering Chuck Berry was the world's biggest LJ fan this one somehow missed him entirely

"Hey, wanna buy our records? Tex plays a mean steel guitar."

A saucer just flew over my house!

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

Just got back from being stationed in Korea. I wanted to be in Japan where it's comfy and the girls are nice, instead they sent me to that mudhole for six months. I didn't even ever hear of this Korea place before being shipped over there.

What does "rockin" mean? Is it some new darkie slang?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SllhnR7D8LA
>fug i forgot this was 1948 not '47

>>126995003
beats me but the Russians took over half of it so I guess it must be important

yay, the year when Taft-Hartley abolishes labor rights in America forever

>>126995027
We don't listen to Negro tunes in this household, Sam. You just get a lot of bad ideas from them.

>>126994364 (OP)
Billie Holiday is my black waifu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9SQNLKZX2o

>>126994958
>Haley left home at age 15 with his guitar and spent the next couple years living in poverty until he joined a group called the Down Homers while they were in Hartford, Connecticut.[3]

if he'd been born in the 90s he'd have to be the nephew of a Goldman-Sachs executive to have any chance of making it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEhg8OUqwBk

>>126994579
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEDyFmZ7P9Y

Peggy Lee had some of the better ones easily, just a nice little song she sings really nicely.

>>126995098
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX7TA3ezjHc

>>126995298
https://youtu.be/xiU-O8arVa8
Lady Day marry me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo5swl7Qe-8
Kay Starr when she was a blues rather than a pop singer.

>>126995703
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP3Ta69Pa4o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F9ONxy3R3U

Doris before she'd fully blandified and gotten eaten by the '50s (and still had her Cincinnati accent instead of sounding generic)

>>126995760
they like to blame that on Mitch Miller but it was really due to her third husband Martin Melcher who pushed her into le super squeaky clean image

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePwI5KEd8D0
the original Tennessee Waltz long before its far more famous cover version

>>126995679
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql_5v7QYMCg

And the B-side of same.

>>126995831
Chappell Roan should cover this one lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk41aYJzimM

Verse-chorus-verse songs weren't so common back then when 32 bar ruled.

Truman's a bum, nobody likes him. No way the Republicans don't get the White House back next year. About time after 16 damn years.

The man that redefined country music forever. The first rock star. Move It On Over and Honky Tonkin solidified his legacy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I15_KUsOzs
Another country song that will be surpassed by its far more famous cover.

>>126996140
Doing Woodie Guthrie far better than Guthrie ever could have.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6x7S9oieV4

the beginning days of Rosemary Clooney when her and her sister were part of the Tony Pastor Orchestra. she was only 19 here and a rather underdeveloped singer at this point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzaEQ6RBMWA

and the B-side which was a cover of the Andrews Sisters hit from a year before and has both Clooney girls on the chorus. as was usual for this era the A-side was a ballad and the B-side was a novelty song.

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

Georgia Gibb's first recording of this one and the best one of the three which was on indie label Majestic, that folded before the year was out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eP1WxcKzbs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5KnAlFY1rg

>>126996639
>dissing dykes
LOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxjhuotq0LA
Frank's only hit this year as his career starts to slide.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovFcSGMA0MA
Christgau's long-running antagonist.

>>126996817
this is 1947, brah. he's a small but no doubt very disagreeable child running around Queens somewhere. hopefully some other child shoves him over into the dirt or puts a worm down his pants.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QxDwE6mddE

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

>no good music yet
>people smoke everywhere
>air pollution is 10x worse than today
>TV is just in its infant stage
>black people, women, LGBT etc have nonexistent rights
this timeline is lame

This communism stuff sure is interesting fellas

>>126996263

>>126997141
i'll say it is

>all farm and private business confiscated by Russians
>all churches closed as institution against working class
>told we should thank eternally wise and sagacious Comrade Stalin for liberating us from the fascists and how my country was integral part of Russia since 5000 BC (wait i don't remember that)
>last patriots killed or banished to Siberia to freeze working in mine or sent to Kazakh steppe to die of thirst

absolutely based timeline this is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h2oaRi0Fj4
early Sarah Vaughan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du0B4nCJNaM
ditto Dinah Washington

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfCXjsT2oQQ

>>126995278
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If82O1e0bow

the A-side to the great It's a Good Day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GjMPVMXeAA
Jo goes cuntray just in case you thought she couldn't do anything but ballads.

>>126997148
they looked like the goofy Kentucky goobers they were

>>126997148
poor ol' Betty dropped at 45 from a stroke. gone too soon.

>>126997112
You were going ok until that last part.

>inflation in 1947 is 14%
holy shit

>>126997141
They're fucking heathens!

>>126997689
It was a while before things settled down and the US economy reverted back to a peacetime footing. There were 2-1/2 years following VJ Day of high inflation, major housing shortages, raw materials shortages, and huge labor strikes. The unsettled economy was possibly a reason for the drabness of pop music in this period, record labels were extremely adverse to taking risks.

I am born.

>>126995703
Kallen didn't have a recording contract at this point and went two years without one and of course she had no chart success again until the mid-50s.

>>126994579
It's like 3-1/2 years of this before the 50s began and the era of obnoxious novelty pop starts.

Fuck modern jazz. My wife and I can't dance to that shit.

I miss hitler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcEQSaX_YKo
Frankie Laine's breakout hit and the second single he cut (but first major label release). He hasn't developed his trademark raucous singing yet and does a generic crooner vocal here.

>>126997887
damn, dude was 34 here. real late bloomer by pop music standards.

>>126997862
A buddy of mine in Third Armored swears he got out and went to South America on a submarine.

>>126996020
>rock star
What the hell is that?

>>126997887
Mitch Miller worked at Mercury in this period before going to CBS in 1950, he and FL were good friends and he convinced the latter to come to CBS a little later.

>>126997900
yeah older than Sinatra by two years. That's My Desire made the R&B charts as some listeners didn't know if Laine was white or black.

>>126997932
in fact Miller was not yet at Mercury in '47 he came there a year later. at this point Laine was a bog-standard crooner doing mainly standards and Miller moved him to a more country direction and developed his shouting vocal style.

>>126997857
take me back to '38 when Goodman was at his peak and the music meant something

Chuck Berry is 21 and currently incarcerated in the Missouri state pen for car theft, lol.

>>126994418
There's a lack of photos of her from the early days but this will do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8WosVzhU2U
Fats Domino sure stole freely from this guy.

>One of the year's strangest stories involved the resurrection of Ted Weems's "Heartaches", a 16 year old record which a North Carolina DJ dug out and began playing. Decca was swamped with requests for the long out of print record and did a new run of it, "Heartaches" was the third best selling disc of 1947.[3]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBlp3GAyWo8
Eddy Howard another now-literally who but he was a big deal in 1947 with three major hits. He died at an early age of a stroke in the '60s. Not anything special as a singer which is likely why he's forgotten now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F30eXk9WRDs

Obviously Dinah Shore was huge in this time and had 5 chart hits this year.

>>126998193
aiyy, before Clear Channel playlists when you could play anything you wanted as long as it didn't have naughty words in it

>70 plus replies
geez, ya'll love geriatric music huh

>>126998460
Do you want another Kendrick thread instead if you prefer that?

>>126998460
Nobody here claimed this era of music was exciting.

>>126997148
Betty looks like she was kind of big and mannish while Rosemary was more petite. And that's considering she was the younger of the two.

>>126998565
yeah she does look like an ox and you would think she was the older one from that photo. maybe that was why she died early, people with odd physiognomies like that often aren't that healthy.

>>126997661
Well, an aneuyrsm technically. A stroke is a blockage of an artery, an aneurysm is when a portion of the artery wall swells up and bursts like a balloon.

that's what almost killed Joe Biden back in the 80s, he had a brain aneurysm

>>126998473
Kendrick would be more boring than Perry Como even.

>>126998531
the exciting stuff was going on in jazz, blues etc not chart pop which in the late 40s was about as dull as it could possibly be

>The Clooney sisters went their separate ways in 1949 when Rosemary began her solo career. Betty did a little recording and live singing over the years but mostly did not pursue a full time music career; like her sister, she married a Latinx husband and had four children she devoted most of her time to raising. A reviewer from 1954 describes Betty's live performance as "warmer and more charismatic" than her more famous sister. She passed away in August 1976 in her Las Vegas home of a brain aneurysm at age only 45. Rosemary later sponsored charities to benefit victims of strokes and aneurysms.

>>126998128
>>126995679
They were both from Oklahoma but Page was from the part of the state with Midwestern accents while Kay was from the part where they sound Southern.

>>126998843
early days of bebop

>Cardinals win NFL championship
>Indian win World Series
Two teams I'm sure that will pick up many more trophies in the years to come.

>>126998982
yeah that. and once again not enough country posted in here.

>>126998460
this is a zoomer

>>127003057
>only a zoomer could hate geriatric music
lol, k

>>126998460
>geez, ya'll love geriatric music huh
what does that mean in this specific context?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfiaY9ynK5w

Uncle P laying down the sleepytime tunes.