Thread 127313437

ITT: /mu/ in 1953

nigga heil hitler

And it's only 12 years until music becomes good.

these threads are beyond gay, somehow.

Communists are taking over our government, Hollywood, our schools, and my breakfast cereal.

Alert to fellow Egyptian astronomers who love Ra: On February 27 of this year there will be a conjunction of the five planets. this marks the rebirth of Osiris, and thus the beginning of the end times. I've prepared this song in accordance with the scriptures. I wish you all well, in the name of the pharaoh! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbpumxvpqRY

PS: Its those fucking Hebrews. Every time, I swear!

fuck bush

HOW MUCH IS THAT DOGGY...

>>127313566
you mean Kush? Yes the Kushiites have long served as a menace to the kingdom of Egypt. Praise Ra!

SEE ME RIDE OUT OF THE SUNSET
ON YOUR COLOR TV SCREEN
OUT FOR ALL THAT I CAN GET
IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN
WOMEN TO THE LEFT OF ME
AND WOMEN TO THE RIGHT

I don't like Negroes.

adlai stevenson should've been president

>>127313608
The other day I gave my son a whupping for tuning into the Negro music station. That stuff isn't even music it's just noise.

NOW HE'S THINKIN' 'BOUT ME EVERY NIGHT, OH
IS THAT SWEET, I GUESS SO
SAY YOU CAN'T SLEEP BABY, I KNOW
THAT'S THAT ME, ESPRESSO

>>127313672
>>127313596
>>127313480
Enjoy your ill-earned fame while you can, people, for a young fellow driving a truck down in Memphis will soon astonish you all.

>>127313672
Wait a minute, that song isn't...

I MUST TAKE A TRIP TO CALIFORNIA
AND LEAVE MY POOR SWEETHEART ALONE

>>127313631
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcZGWSEItS8
I mean really, what is this nonsense?

>>127313629
t. Adlai Stevenson

>You must wait 120 seconds to post

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03pdhlPOZSk
Please save us from this soon, Fats and Elvis. We may not hold out much longer.

...

>>127313924
If only his son could have been taken instead...but alas.

Hi.

Rosemary Clooney and Teresa Brewer are the waifu b8 of the industry! Don't be fooled, /mu/.

>>127313978
i'm too busy listening to jazz instead because I'm not a 12 year old girl and have you heard that Chet Baker fellow perchance? he's quite a cat.

CAN I PROMISE MORE?
I TOLD YOU SO OFTEN
THE WAY THAT I CARE
WHY DON'T YOU BELIEVE ME

>>127313908
She only had this one hit this year though.

>>127313969
Wish you didn't, Mitchell, I really really wish you didn't.

CAN I PROMISE MORE?
I TOLD YOU SO OFTEN
THE WAY THAT I CARE
WHY DON'T YOU BELIEVE ME

Sinatrabros, we are so fucking back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2WJWpHvako

>>127314139
>After leaving CBS, Sinatra signed with Capitol on April 10, 1953 and recorded "I've Got The World On A String" shortly afterward. The label picked him up at a discount rate as he was not exactly a hot commodity in 1953.[3]

>>127314139
And free from Uncle Mitch's tyrannical plantation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqnb_nU7RBE

An evil awakens!

>>127314169
Also some of Christgau's old enemies (though I don't blame him here).

Big breakout year for Atlantic Records
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaNQG1yVYDg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPJ7N5_o-u8

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

I think I mentioned this the other day but a lot of her songs were weird meta jokes about how she used to work in a candy factory.

>>127314191
Young Ray when he was much more rock-and-roll and not as R&B as his late 50s-early 60s heyday.

>>127314192
that one at least stays within the bounds of good taste

>>127314206
Compared to what's coming later on, yes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEuUeb6X96s
Thanks, Kay.

>>127313460
*gets beaten senseless by a dozen Battle of the Bulge vets*

>>127314139
Of course he wasn't back on the Billboard until Young at Heart over a year later.

uggh, people smoke everywhere, women are ugly, and cars will kill or mutilate you in a 15 mph accident

Yay, the Yankees won the World Series I totally never expected that.

my wife

>>127314497
that's a little later on from '56 but...meh

>>127313672
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZkTC0YmfVY

Oh yes, had one of her big big hits this year which Elvis shamefully admitted to performing at his high school talent show. You might have noticed it's partially a rip of "Sentimental Journey."

>>127314504
what?! are you on about???

>>127314497
She was too busy with Bing Crosby flicks around this time and happened to not have any major hits in '53.

>>127314534
And not for lack of trying I should add, she recorded plenty of stuff this year but nothing charted, possibly because too distracted with movies to be able to promote records.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4Z3jXLYPc4
Damn Mitch Miller. This is one of the consummate bad examples of 1953 pop. Chintzy novelty songs like this and Doggy in The Window were really hot this year in fact it may have been the peak year for them.

>>127314337
This was #14 on the charts, bitch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax-_sw_D_g0
But there was also this one if you want a serious grown up person ballad.

>>127314595
Reference I was using lists nothing that charted between "Castle Rock" in September '51 and "Young At Heart" February '54. Though I'm not sure what chart was being used since Billboard had several of them back then for radio play, jukebox play, record sales, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-AeAQOQ4yU

Early 5 Royales before they were good or had Lowman Pauling's guitar.

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

Also early Flamingos who hadn't gotten good yet either.

>>127313437 (OP)
Now that the dust has settled, was it music?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLQJMb9U0ME
Go away Eddie, nobody likes you.

>>127314497
This bird is stacked like the library of Congress.

>>127313924
I have a feeling this young feller named George Jones is gonna mog him. Trust me.

>>127314838
In fact that was not long after her second son was born and she was a bit milked up. She was not naturally that stacked, looks to only be a B cup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DectA0LeKM
A big hit from early Tony.

>>127314860
Still would

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE_daBjZFgI
This gal was oldskool white trash but rarely not fun.

Some may recall this being the first real concept LP ever made.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVfdcejnDd0

Jaye breaks out this year. For a white pop record they were ahead of the curve with the doo-wop backing vocals on here.

>>127313596
but color TV is just new in 1953 and you must be rich if you own one

>>127313672
if a Pug or a Yorkshire Terrier became human it would be her right down to the voice

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

Eydie's debut record from 53 which is just a ripoff of The Tennessee Waltz (albeit a little more tasteful than the original) and she hasn't developed her trademark "blast the roof off the building" singing yet.

is that some kind of proto-selfie?

>>127317380
>James was born as Giovanna Carmella Babba in Chicago in 1930, one of six children of an Italian couple. Her father died when she was a child and the family was poor. Giovanna took up ballet and then joined a dance troupe after graduating high school in 1949. Her dancing career was derailed by an emergency appendectomy and she switched to singing after adopting her shorter, more pronounceable stage name Joni James. She was picked up by MGM in 1952 after appearing in a TV commercial and her breakout and biggest hit "Why Don't You Believe Me?" came out that fall.[9]

>>127317838
>Her dancing career was derailed by an emergency appendectomy and
Read "abortion." Appendectomies were a popular cover story for that back then.

>>127317380
screw off zoomer

>>127313437 (OP)
dont sign up for any secret government program!!

Lots of orchestral fluff novelty songs all over the charts and only jazz and R&B are doing anything interesting.

NOW THE HACIENDA'S DARK, THE TOWN IS SLEEPING
NOW THE TIME HAS COME TO PART, THE TIME FOR WEEPING

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eabrd0vExVE

Miss Sugary Baked Dessert's only other hit (at least in terms of radio play). Contrary to what he says in the comments it's not surprising she wasn't more of a success; there were so many pop girls on the charts back then that she couldn't possibly do anything to stand out from the crowd.

>>127318881
right. what Day, Page, Brewer, Stafford etc had was a sound which she did not. you can't be a success when you're totally generic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG-n7Gr1WCk

Johnnie!

>>127317380
Joni was quite a star during the 50s but quickly vanished from the radar afterward, in part because she largely quit music to care for her sickly husband. Also she didn't have a memetic hit like "Que Sera Sera" or "Oh Mein Papa."

>mom gets born
Music for this feel?