Music from the 50s and 60s

[DonnaT]

I don't recall hearing music during the 50's. I was born in '55. But do like a number of groups from the era.

The Platters -Only You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtjCc1vjO7Y" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs - Stay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1Z_hskvz1M" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Monotones - Book of Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIfuNPbBaaA" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

One I used to sing a lot, when I first fell in love in the 60's, but from the 50's
Everly Brothers - All I Have To Do Is Dream
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24uUzJgfwQ" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Anita]

So I had some time to go back through earlier posts. “Earth Angel” I’ve heard a lot since the 50s, but I don’t remember hearing it back then. “Donna” I kinda remember. My sisters listened to the radio, and I tended to like the sappy love songs, like “Put Your Head on My Shoulder,” (Paul Anka). Instrumentals and novelty songs stuck with me, too. I can still sing whole lines of “Please Mr. Custer, I Don’t Wanna go.”

I had a guitar-playing friend who was born in ’44, and he used to sing, “Dream Lover” all the time. I thought it was the Everly Brothers. Really liked that Bobby Darin movie with Kevin Spacey using his own voice to sing Darin’s songs.

Brian Hyland—I’d forgotten all about him. Like I said, I remember novelty songs, and “Itsy Bitsy…Bikini” was a big one. I liked “the Joker Went Wild,” too, although it wasn’t a hit.

Ah, Anya, “You Really Got Me” was what grabbed me about the British.
The early Beatles and the early Stones didn’t really do it for me, but the Kinks and the Who did.

"All I have to do is Dream" is probably one of the ultimate romantic songs.

[Anthony Simon]

The Runaway Train by Michael Holliday

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7_IMEvr9ek" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I must have been about 6 when I got this. I demanded my parents buy me a copy, a 78, which I promptly broke (in the back of the car if my memory's right). I've still got the 45 they replaced it with.

[Latanya]

chuck berry
roll over Beethoven
http://youtu.be/gsp4VCbVvn4
and meybelline
http://youtu.be/JUHaubTv_Rs

[Anita]

Runaway train! If I could have heard this, I would have demanded a 45, too. We never played 78s in the 50s that I remember, although my parents had them. One I found in storage was "Top hits of 1933," five or six records, and it had "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes."

I had a 45 of "The William Tell Overture," the Lone Ranger theme, which I played until the grooves wore down. I also had a 45 of "The Warsaw Concerto," which I also loved. That was written for a movie called Dangerous Moonlight, about a WW II pilot who was also a concert pianist.

It is odd that I cannot remember hearing any Chuck Berry tunes during the 50s or early 60s. I might have been in a parallel universe, for all I know--one where "Tubby the Tuba" was a big hit.

[Anthony Simon]

Anita wrote:

I had a 45 of "The William Tell Overture," the Lone Ranger theme, which I played until the grooves wore down.

Didn't have a record of it but it wore a groove in my mind anyway - along with the theme to the Brit TV series "Robin Hood". This was so important to me that I recently bought a DVD box to get that theme (probably available elsewhere but I wanted to see what the programmes were actually like). This Robin Hood theme has persisted in my mind so much that I periodically sing it with *very* silly invented lyrics. I also used to hum the (somewhat later) James Bond theme in a related kind of spirit.

[Anna]

Hi Anita,

"All I have to do is Dream" is probably one of the ultimate romantic songs.

I agree with you...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m24uUzJgfwQ

Don't forget "Cryin in the Rain"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz0Sscke9z4

[Anna]

Anita wrote:

When you throw the 50s and the 60s together, Anna, you're talking about three different periods. I remember the early 50s--the last of the big bands, Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, and all of that. Then rock and roll started and went to about '63. The Beach Boys were sort of the last link between do-wop and what was to come.

Anita, I agree with you. What I should have used as a thread title probably, was "Music from the 50's and Early 60's". I was aiming for the Do-Wop style, but some great other tracks are turning up too!

[Melinda Welsh]

Popular in the 50's and 60's . here is the original from1947

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pfVvqLM_e4" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Anna]

Hi Mel, thanks for that, and I DO remember it!

You're up late hun! A day off tomorrow?

Anna x

[Latanya]

the lion sleeps tonite
http://youtu.be/G_Rddi_K9lE

[Anna]

Hi Anya. That was one of my favourites. Aparently the original of this song was recorded by Solomon Linda in 1939...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrrQT4WkbNE

[Latanya]

i thinkl sha na na did a good job with it

[Anna]

Its reckoned that the best video was done by Tight Fit in 1982...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cD9cBEaNBc

[Ginny Jones]

Good Thread! Yay!

Aretha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtBbyglq ... re=related" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Dionne warwick

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO073fekFfA" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Dusty Springfield

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6KhuI_4 ... re=related" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hthiLHVAMho" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Hugs Ginny x