ITT: /mu/ in 1955

Golly I hate those blacks so much. Thank God my kids will never have to go to the same school as them.

Who’s that Elvis youngin’ everyone is talking about?

>>127052295 (OP)
ONE TWO THREE O'CLOCK FOUR O'CLOCK ROCK

>>127052370
Some niggerlover. Goes to niggerchurch. God bless his heart, he’s just confused.

>sinatra does r&b
cursed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSkhZpxDt18

>>127052370
>>127052395
The kid's too black sounding and too redneck to make it big outside the south. He'll never reach Pat Boone's level.

I wanted to do a thread about 1988 but...meh fine you win, OP. Alright, let's do this.

Just wanted to let you guys know. There's this kid named Elvis who listens to nigger music, dresses like a nigger, and acts like a nigger onstage. Please don't listen to his music.

WELL THEY OFTEN CALL ME SPEED BUT MY REAL NAME IS MISTER EARL

>>127052541
>>127052567
>>127052591
>all Columbia/Coral releases

I went down to the dealership to buy a red Oldsmobile last week and now I'm on a government watchlist.

WE'RE GONNA ROCK AROUND THE CL...

>>127052663
Ha ha naturally they were the two worst schlock mills of this era.

>>127052567
That actually came out January '56 they didn't have a charting record in '55.

Fuck you for stealing my songs, honkey.

Anon, what are you doing listening to that evil jazz music on West German radio?

>>127052723
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4sVwnTB-qE

And turning it into workout music for suburban housewifes?

>White R&B covers were an exploding business in 1955 and they inevitably far outstripped the originals in sales and airplay, whether it was "Tweedle Dee", "Dance With Me, Henry", "Ko Ko Mo", "Sincerely", "Hearts of Stone", or "Rock Love." ("Earth Angel"'s original Penguins recording split about 50/50 in sales with the Crew Cuts' cover). This was inevitable. Regional labels couldn't match the majors in pressing capacity, polished, slick arrangements, or recording quality. That also combined with how white pop DJs usually shied away from playing black R&B discs.

MISTER SANDMAN, BRING ME A DREAAMMMM

>>127052875
Ladies, Liberace isn't going to return your calls. How do I explain this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWlK2XEqL0M

>>127052935
isn't it embarrassing that Perry Como's cover rocked harder than the original?

>>127052946
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XK1-8Vfa14
Faster and tighter as well as better recorded than the original.

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

The Fontane Sisters' one year on top but it was a good little run.

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

>>127053064
Rosie's fourth last Billboard chart hit, it seems by '55 she'd gotten her way and had stopped recording Mitch Miller slop and was by now putting out the standards/jazz stuff she preferred.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4432Oq5jaE8

>>127053184
Ah fucking hell no. No no no no with a side order of no.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6JZW7zMDfY

We need to range ban all rockabilly posters

>>127053267
You said it. Damn rat hoodlums and their noise non-music.

I'm quite fond of that Ritchie Valens kid.

>>127053362
>Ritchie's recording career was launched in 1958 when he recorded "Come On, Let's Go" for Bob Keene's Del-Fi Records in LA.[2]
Doit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXw06psc84w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQpA0wu4fZQ

>>127053486
ha ha it's the song Eddie My Love was stolen from, same melody and piano backing

"Teenage Prayer" was an original song but her other '55 hit "I Hear You Knockin" was Yet Another Whitewashed R&B Cover (as well as the origin for the Stones' "Can't You Hear Me Knockin'"?

tl;dr of it was that Gale Storm was an actress who got bored and decided to sing for yucks so Dot obliged her whims

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRUfaDV1B5A

forgot link

>>127053585
actually it was a cover Gloria Mann (Jew from Philadelphia) did the original version

>>127053585
>tl;dr of it was that Gale Storm was an actress who got bored and decided to sing for yucks so Dot obliged her whims
Dot didn't have a solo girl singer at the time so she fulfilled that niche for them.

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

>recycled melody from "You Belong To Me"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlrGp2aUJso

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

Mitch Miller strikes again.

>>127052541
It's an EP and I think these weren't singles? She had one of the more bombastic of the several version of this song. Also the worst version ever was Steve Miller Band's but that's for another thread not about 1955.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls5Af3dZ9zE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWszWEQyuy0
Lula Reed's original version way more laid back than most of the covers.

this faggot at my highschool got up on stage and ruined the high school dance by playing this awful shit on the guitar for like 8 minutes. He said my kids would love it, but if they do I'm going to beat the shit out of them.

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

>>127054280
Jaye was great at fast songs like this but her ballads are uninspired.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieDxe3XKMLw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBewT7BzsHg

>>127052382
what did he mean by that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJQKK3AuAwA

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

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

The strangest story of a OHW ever.

>>127055220
qrd?

>>127055238
>be Joan Weber
>be the fresh-out-of-HS wife of a NYC bandleader
>decide singing would be a lark
>end up getting a shot with Columbia to record a rewrite of a country song about alcoholism that was done for a TV special
>song becomes a mega hit
>unfortunately Weber isn't a very experienced singer and she's also pregnant and can't really tour or promote the record
>all the big name pop singers of the day cover Let Me Go Lover instead
>Weber is dropped from Columbia after a few more sides
>her husband leaves her
>she ends up as a librarian in the Philadelphia area and occasional nightclub performer
>dies in a New Jersey mental hospital in 1981 at age 45
And that as they say is that. (^:

>>127055272
>>127055220
she still sings better there than Taylor Swift ever could

>>127055272
Listening to that record she kind of forces things and has no idea how to sound relaxed.

Hey I just happened in here. Wanna buy my records? Anyone? Hello?

>>127055425
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs1OgvRNBkE

When you figure out hooks, honey. Inevitably you'll get there though.

>>127052295 (OP)
Wow, music is the lowest form of art. It all sounds like complete shit. Every genre sucks. Hope you like either shitty acoustic blues folk sung by a fifty year old black guy who can't afford studio time, jazz pop sung by male and female vocalists who aren't even harmonizing but just singing the same exact vocal line simultaneously, or the most inane rock songs ever written. Worthless medium.

>>127055445
these early Connie records give a clue. while she sings well enough, it was the same brassy showtune kind of pop that was a dime a dozen back then and she does nothing to set herself apart from the crowd on this song, which sounds distinctly like Eydie Gorme. she didn't get airplay until having hooks and an actual sound.

>>127055670
>Every genre sucks. Hope you like either shitty acoustic blues folk sung by a fifty year old black guy who can't afford studio time, jazz pop sung by male and female vocalists who aren't even harmonizing but just singing the same exact vocal line simultaneously, or the most inane rock songs ever written
you forgot wah bah doo dah vocal harmony group and obnoxious novelty song like The Fish

>>127055703
>which sounds distinctly like Eydie Gorme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I-e2cg-A5k

Not the same as the Shirelles song but it's one of her early period experiments with R&B, which she was arguably pretty good at and this was definitely more fun than her tedious showtune material.

>>127055808
>and obnoxious novelty song like The Fish

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

The only charting hit Ms. Carson had with Columbia was this very unremarkable ballad.

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

R&B OHW. A very nice little ballad especially compared to that snoozefest posted above.

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

>>127056023
this song presents a bad moral message

>no it doesn't matter how many dozens of other dudes I fucked and sucked
>all that matters is here and now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1SR-efIYYM

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p2k55F-uag

did we do a thread about 1960? i don't remember one.

>>127052541
I just realized something pretty bad.

https://desuarchive.org/mu/thread/126919665/

We did this 1983 thread a while back and we fucking forgot to mention Cum On Feel The Noize. We fucking forgot to mention Cum On Feel The Noize.

Hey if any of you guys are in Queens, there's this annoying snot-nosed 13 year old punk named Bob Christgau. If you see him kick his ass. 'Preciate it.

>>127054068
>cover of Tweedle Dee featured
I kind of really don't want to listen to that and find out. Georgia's version is bad enough.

YA LIFT SIXTEEN TONS AND WHADDYA GET

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnDtxiNwDS8

>>127056359
But I hate The Four Aces one of the more irritating 50s vocal groups ever and without even the Four Lads' demented quality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5aCjmMBJBc
another lesser known "Four" group. two white dudes and two greasy Greeks from Pennsylvania

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9xtMF59cUw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hodjPurFT-8

Yay for purloined R&B covers.

>>127056486
Oh look it's the song that Allan Freed claimed a bullshit writing credit on.

>>127055272
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYCFXDoFhSY

Teresa Brewer's version is the second rec-ed on on Youtube after the JW original. This is probably because it was actually a charting hit while the Peggy Lee, Dean Martin, etc ones were album-only or didn't chart.

>>127056522
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQl7uJxyMQw
Peggy's cover was a single it wasn't an album cut though it didn't chart. She sings far more tastefully than Teresa (no shit?) but isn't quite in her element when she tries to project her voice instead of sounding deadpan.

>>127052305
Oy vey! Uh... I mean "gee willikers" you need more diversity in your neighborhood! You sound like a pinko commie!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czGjN3ecfoM
Page's version also isn't bad probably the one that the vocals are the most effective on.

Apparently Page did a remake of LMGL from the 80s and that was what I accidentally almost clicked on Youtube before realizing my mistake. No I'd rather not hear her by then old as fuck voice over giant 80s drums.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lakz8WjB4QQ
Last one, Dino's version. He's one of those guys that you'd maybe appreciate more if you were female and got off on his so-sexy baritone.

>>127054380
Those are all the times at which he plays rock and roll music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3jXMEhV7fE

Charming OHW.

>>127056601
She had a bit of an off year in '55 with no major hits.

>>127052397
It would be more weird if you didn't do R&B covers in '55. I'm surprised that Peggy Lee resisted for three more years before finally succumbing.

>>127057654
I'm pretty sure Patti Page didn't do them, at least not that I know of anyway.

the Columbia gang didn't really do R&B covers either guess it wasn't up Uncle Mitch's alley

>>127052295 (OP)
I think I saw 2 McFlys with the same guitar at that Enchantment under the Sea High School Dance and one of them sang a song about pinball.

>>127052370
You mean that country boy? Imagine If he started imitating those negros, that would be hilarious.

>>127053267
I'll go further and ban all Rock n Roll and RnB nonsense

This nigger is worst thing I have ever heard, it's not even music.

>post >>127057697
>go to bed afterward
>go back to /mu/ the next day
>see that four posts were made by a bot reposting from Youtube comments
Oh well.