Thread 127452910

ITT: /mu/ in 1951

this guy has such a promising career

Fuck, it's the boring part of the 50s. Wake me in four years.

THOSE SHRIMP BOATS ARE A COMIN COMING

>>127452937
ok fine Patti you win, three years ago I bet you would disappear from the charts as fast as Evelyn Knight. but now here we are.

my little brother came home from Korea in a box

>>127453022
This is a much loathed song but makes more sense when you realize it's actually a metaphor about troop ships because it was in the middle of the Korean War and it's really about waiting for their loved ones to come home from the war.

the early days of tape recording so records are sounding a lot better by 51 and 78 era fuzz is disappearing

Hi.

Grrr, I hate commies so much.

Ready, steady, go!

>>127453382
early Teresa, only 20 years old and still on London. hasn't made the move to Coral yet which is where most of the eventual evils associated with her will be hatched. as for now she has only one Billboard hit this year which is this harmless and charming little ballad.

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

I WAS DANCIN' WITH MY DARLIN' TO THE...

Insert song for the movie “MASH”
https://youtu.be/nC_jf6FUh-U?si=qqOSShlIYp3fJjiN

>>127453458
Biggest fucking record of the decade, six million copies sold and many naifs think that honor went to Elvis or something.

Y'all here about these Monroe bros.?

>>127453535
Bluegrass they call it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOkVX5i8qKw

Young Tony when he was a teen idol.

>>127453458
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBMH2VN5EqQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoJMghXZqx8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8exIWdc0En8

try a gaggle of cover versions

>>127453688
That was the Fontane Sisters only chart hit prior to 1955 if you discount their cameos on Perry Como records.

>>127453512
and it wasn't even supposed to be a hit

>>127453716
their version is really slow but it's probably the most charming of all of them

>>127453688
Page's was a cover too, remember it was originally recorded by Cowboy Copas in 1947.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbfnh1oVTk0
don't forget the record that birthed R&R was this year

>>127453902
There's at least 20 different records that have been claimed as the Genesis moment of rock and roll.

>>127453189
It's funny listening to compilations and having that one track from the pre-tape era that they had to rip from a 78rpm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPeTtg3fTB8

BB's first record to chart on the (R&B) charts.

>almost singlehandedly makes the early 50s bearable
Have you thanked him yet?

>>127453963
Lost the master disc evidently. I know Petula Clark's early pre-tape records had their master discs thrown out in the early 70s because the record label never imagined needing them again so any copies of them online or on comps are ripped from a 78 disc.

>>127454001
Nobody in America knew about Petula yet but she had her own Tennessee Waltz and Music Music Music cover versions.

>>127453988
someone had to take over that particular niche because Sinatra completely fell off and is a total joke at this point

>>127454034
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3-QN0GSAqQ
way more mannered and classical-influenced than any of the other versions of this song

Rosemary is put on the map with this song which she hated having to record since you'd never expect any collaboration of Mitch Miller and the creator of Alvin and the Chipmunks to lead anywhere good.

>>127454081
>The song was based on an Armenian folk tune that Bagdasarian and his wife wrote a decade earlier. Clooney sang it in an Italian accent because she had no idea what an Armenian accent sounded like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3-QN0GSAqQ
Dinah!

>>127454162
can't overlook the Billie Holiday imitation there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEwpKTCnijk
April Stevens aka the 50s queen of sex voices. While this was also a hit for Patti Page, hers is as sterile, square, and sexless as you'd expect.

https://archive.org/details/78_when-you-return_mindy-carson-benjamin-weiss-andrew-ackers_gbia0079530a
was not on Youtube

>>127454001
A lot of times the stories of lost/damaged masters were just covering for the fact that many of those recordings were bound up in shitty decades old contracts written by imperious Morris Levy types who were either impossible to negotiate with or completely AWOL. Eventually that era passed and many previously "lost" records got reissued.

>>127454001
The original master for White Christmas got cut so many times that it literally broke and Bing had to rerecord it from scratch.

>>127454252
That's broken because they got copyright striked. That song is not online anywhere that I can tell you would have to actually get a record off Ebay. I had noticed a lot of Mindy Carson's RCA era records aren't online anywhere. Take this one though and be reminded that this little lady is apparently still with us in 2025.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_S5lEkc3Mg

Also Universal set fire to and destroyed a warehouse full of 50s master tapes in 2008 during a major royalties lawsuit and claimed it was an accident. If so that would have been the most convenient accident to ever happen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPXewKDWomM
during the brief period when Guy Mitchell was a going concern and Mitch Miller was trying to push him as the next Sinatra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEu0mOmNMjs
And Johnnie Ray displaced him before he even got started.

>>127452976
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfHbAsbxr9s

>>127453257
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bahJFEKZbjU

A big hit for her and also done by Patti Page. This was the last year of Doris being a major Billboard presence because she was devoting most of her time to movies afterwards and only averaged 1-2 chart hits a year instead of 5-6.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL3b7gIeLP4

Some of the founding fathers of doo-wop.

>>127454521
Nat gets no respect like most black singers deemed by critics to be insufficiently R&B enough.

>>127453437
That photo is probably from 1950, she still has a long 40s haircut there and >>127453382 in this '51 photo has shorter hair.

>>127454081
Also still looking very 40s there whenever that pic was taken and hasn't yet adopted a short 50s cut.

>>127452993
/thread

Nothing interesting going on here. Wake me up in 55.

A transitional year as the charts are moving to a new crop of young pop singers who sound punchier and not as sodden as 40s crooning.

Dank unserer sowjetischen Brüder und der weisen Lehren des Genossen Stalin konnte die Erholung vom faschistischen Krieg rasch erfolgen. Der Kapitalismus befindet sich in seinen letzten Tagen und wird bald zusammenbrechen. Wir stehen solidarisch an der Seite des koreanischen Volkes in seinem Kampf gegen die amerikanischen Imperialisten! Frieden, Brot und Sozialismus!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHvn1VH7q0E
Ever wondered where Elvis copped his singing style from? Now you know.

>>127454336
1950-51 were her biggest years as a recording artist yet a lot of those are not even online.

>>127453437
>as for now she has only one Billboard hit this year which is
That said the Billboard only had 30 positions until 1958 so it's possible some songs got airplay and it wasn't recorded.

>>127454081
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h70_XG45Q9Y
Kay Starr covered this as well and it was the only Billboard hit she had this year.

>>127452937
Well fug.

Perry Como = Pierino Ronald Como
Vic Damone = Vito Rocco Farinola
Bobby Darin = Walden Robert Cassotto
Connie Francis = Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero
Frankie Laine = Frank Paul LoVecchio
Dean Martin = Dino Crocetti
Bobby Rydell = Robert Ridarelli
Jerry Vale = Genaro Louis Vitaliano
Frankie Valli = Francis Stephen Castelluccio
Johnny Rivers = John Ramistella
Morgana King = Maria Grazia Messina
Buddy Greco = Armando Greco
Fabian = Fabian Forte
Dion = Dion DiMucci
Tony Bennett = Anthony Dominick Benedetto
Lou Christie = Luigi Alfredo Giovanni Sacco

Quite a list. Missed anyone?

>>127454081
in fact Beautiful Brown Eyes was her first charting record a few months earlier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vk04h3MuWg

another early Fats when no white listeners had as yet heard of him

Wanna buy my records? It's been half a decade since I had any hits. Please?

>>127458463
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCm2Nw2PL_w
a nice little ballad

>>127458718
Wow that had a dark twist to it.

>>127458760
>>127458718
it's a country standard and there were different variations of the lyrics depending on the version. some of it was to avoid paying songwriting royalties.

>>127454081
If I were around in the 50s she would probably be my waifu

>>127458771
she was a huge smoker though she probably smelled like an ashtray

>>127458563
She didn't have any chart success until 54 because there were so many pop girls on the charts then that she couldn't stand out from the pack.

>>127458855
man that one drags. also...

>whistling
always hate that on a song

>>127452910 (OP)
blues and jazz all over the place!! I'm so happy!!!!

>>127458909
but still, fuck all that housewife pop bullshit

AFAIK Peggy Lee left Capitol for Decca this year due to salary disputes, she didn't put out any new material.

DON'T WANT TO LEAVE HER NOW
YOU KNOW I BELIEVE IN HOW

>>127459367
you're 18 years too early for that brah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b86HBaH8F5Y
Georgia covers le meme confectionary-theme song but at drunk tempos and it doesn't improve on the original. This made #15 on the Billboard anyway.

>>127459439
the band sounds a bit sloshed anyway

>>127459463
According to what Gibbs claimed, it got airplay but the disc didn't actually sell anything.

it's only 38 years until Taylor Swift is born. enjoy it while it lasts.

>>127454453
the horns are a bit abrasive for my tastes

>>127458798
Smoking is fucking gross.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7Oo3nNWpEI
Frank at his absolute nadir. The only charting hit he had between 1949 and '54.

>>127460559
it's not a bad tune really despite somewhat forced singing but his marketability was at an all time nadir in '51.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p8Wzy327E4

almost rock and roll. this era was lacking in fast jumpy tunes.

>>127458433
someone call PETA this is unacceptaburu

>>127458433
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ycfr92RBeM

Rosemary Clooney's cover which is rather surprisingly rock and roll.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXfJj8R3q20
Another of the 30 different records that get claimed as the first rock and roll record, although it's really too slow to be proper rock and roll.

>>127461074
ha ha imagine Taylor Swift trying to do this twee orchestral shit

>>127461138
what's that supposed to prove?

>>127461154
nta but I guess that Swift can't do anything that flowery and delicate

this board honestly hates Swift for no reason like wtf did she ever do to you?

>>127461176
>for no reason

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0OSRuaKKig
Prefer Doris's original to this cover.

>>127461216
A shade more bombastic than the original. It's also a bt

>>127461255
Bit unusual in that Patti didn't project her voice that often and it's a divergence from her usually laconic singing (sorry I mangled the post).

Suprised at no overt racism ITT. yet.

Damn, attend one communist gathering at college 16 years ago and end up on a government watchlist.