People from the 50s who are still around.

>>127084026 (OP)
Didn't John Williams also start in the 50s?

>>127084026 (OP)
Frankie Valli actually died 15 years ago and they've been propping his taxidermined corpse up onstage since them.

the bee gees began in the 50s t00

>>127084176
I think it means actually releasing recorded music.

>>127084026 (OP)
Petula Clark's first records were released in 1949 in fact.

>>127084026 (OP)
>Bernie Toorish
who?

>>127084026 (OP)
Hey it's the mayor of Munchkinland in the bottom row.

>>127084198
op should have specified then

>>127084278
Dude from The Four Lads he's the last surviving member of the group.

>>127084026 (OP)
Just of bunch of boomers and pedophiles

>>127084360
>all the major R&R guys have died by now
>many still living MOR/housewife pop people

berry gordy

>>127084370
Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats all lived to 80+ they certainly didn't die before their time.

>>127084026 (OP)
Johnny Mathis retired this spring he could still sing well but he said he just couldn't stand on stage anymore.

>>127084026 (OP)
I thought Bobby Rydell was...but he died in 2022.

>>127084198
ah ok

>>127084026 (OP)
people i don't know

>Carson
>Toorish
>Fleetwoods
>Morgan
>Fabian
>Connie Stevens
>John Perkins
>Bruce Bellend

>>127084026 (OP)
there's probably some country people as well

>>127084684
you reaLly gonna diss my boi Fabian like that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mjcN36MQUs

>>127084684
Bruce Belland was from the Four Preps I think the last surviving member.

>>127084748
he was discovered and groomed/ass raped by Frankie Avalon's manager who also groomed/ass raped Frankie Avalon

>>127084684
>Fleetwoods
It was a gay guy and two Stacys from Washington who made smooth soft pop hits for a couple years.

>>127084684
Mindy Carson was like the forgotten CBS pop girl from the 50s who only had 3 chart hits two not with CBS (four if you count the one duet with Guy Mitchell)

>>127084026 (OP)
>tom lehrer is 97
he's next

>>127085098
she was born in 1927 and is apparently still alive

>>127085114
which would make her 2 years older than Lehrer. but then again Vera Lynn lived to 103 and Mitch Miller hisself lived to 99 so anything's possible.

>>127085098
didn't have an identity of her own i guess. many of her records she just emulates Doris Day's voice and was pretty much a vessel for whatever songs RCA and Columbia gave her. she was married and had 2 kids so she probably couldn't get too far into a music career anyway.

>>127084026 (OP)
Don't forget Simon and Garfunkel since their first record (as Tom & Jerry) was in 1957.

>>127085233
That kind of singer has always existed. Has no actual identity and is just there to mouth songwriters' tunes. So was Diana Ross. She also had no sound of her own.

>>127085271
Ross was good at giving Berry Gordy head anyway.

>>127085233
Sure you might make fun of Pat Boone or Teresa Brewer and blah blah blah but they did have obvious identities and a recognizable sound/schtick while there were a lot of their contemporaries who were just a meat puppet for the record label or songwriters and had no identity of their own.

>>127085441
i feel Kitty Kallen was the classic 50s example of that. really faceless singer in a lot of ways.

>>127085098
I guess nobody remembers Guy Mitchell anymore either lol.

>>127085675
He was a lot bigger in the UK and even Australia than the US where he was mostly a short-lived early 50s fad.

>>127085098
Some of her songs were weird in-jokes about how she used to work in a candy factory.

>After taking over Columbia's pop records division in 1950, Miller was eager to find new young talent as some of the label's established stars like Frank Sinatra, Jo Stafford, and Dinah Shore were pushing 35 and had lost their youthful luster. Shore quickly left Columbia as she disliked Miller's new creative direction and Sinatra feuded with him and saw his career collapse to almost nil before departing two years later.

>Columbia already had Rosemary Clooney who had signed as a solo singer a year prior to Miller's arrival. He also picked up Al Cernik, decided his real name wouldn't do, and re-dubbed him Guy Mitchell, including his own first name, and was eager to market him as the new Sinatra. Mindy Carson was acquired from RCA in '51. This new group of young singers were more marketable to teenagers and unlike Sinatra and Shore more amenable to Miller's creative vision.

willie nelson got the last laugh.
Fuck niggers

>>127085781
I think Stafford got out of this because she was based in LA and her and her husband self-produced their records.

>>127084684
Jaye P. Morgan was mostly known for flashing her tits on the Gong Show many years later but in the 50s she was a kind of proto white trash -core pop singer. And yes she was born in 1931 and is still alive.

>>127085689
After Guy's chart relevance ended he spent the rest of his life living comfortably off UK tours.

ha ha my uncle said he and his friends once tricked some girls into partying with him by telling them that Frankie Avalon was his cousin and he would soon show up at the party

ok

>>127084026 (OP)
It's fucked up that Pat Boone is the last 50s rock n roller still alive. Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis or Little Richard should've outlived that clown.

>>127088277
Cliff Richards? OP didn't even mention him.

>>127088277
>It's fucked up that Pat Boone is the last 50s rock n roller still alive
Wanda Jackson, ya dummy. she's even in the OP pic.

>>127088277
Pat Boone was as much "rock" as Olivia Rodrigo is.

reading about the '50s everyone comes off as a terminally repressed dork. no wonder everything blew up like a dynamite stick in the following decade.

>>127089014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muV5_M6cBGE

Wait, why does this sound weirdly like "The Logical Song?"

>>127089035
that's Eileen Rodgers, a Catholic girl from Pittsburgh who had a few hits on Columbia before leaving the music business to go into Broadway. died in 2003 iirc.

>>127085781
Columbia in the 50s was very much the kind of label where the mentality was "Sing what we give you or else" and singers really didn't have a lot of say in anything.

>>127089035
I mean it's obviously a rip of Little Things Mean a Lot she even sounds like Kitty Kallen.

Eileen in the recording booth.

>>127089236
she looks exactly like my grandmothers looked back then

>>127091030
they look like they smell of cigarettes and cheap perfume/cologne

>>127091030
I don't know when this photo was taken maybe in 60-61.

>>127084026 (OP)
I like Sedaka. I sing Breaking Up Is Hard To Do a good amount on my own.

>>127084026 (OP)
Patience McIntyre?

I think at least some members of Little Anthony and the Imperials are still around.