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Title: The 50s
Post by: sugarandspice on January 29, 2006, 05:16:23 PM
the good the bad & the from 50s... which tunes you love, which ones you could do with out.........

xoxo
suga


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: Jeff Mason on January 29, 2006, 05:26:26 PM
I don't know this period well and I truthfully can't give you a "do without".  BUT these are my essentials of the period
 
-- anything on Sun Records it seems like.  ESPECIALLY Elvis.  But Johnny Cash is seriously growing on me, and Carl Perkins is awesome

-- Buddy Holly -- That'll Be The Day; Every Day; heck, did Buddy DO a bad song?

-- Chuck Berry

-- Bo Diddley

-- Jailhouse Rock is the BEST rock performance ever.  Deal with it.  It floored me as a child and still does every time.  I don't know if I could live without this one.

-- For Elvis and RCA, you also need the Hound Dog session songs (Ian, is that still coming out -- the session tapes I mean?  I would pay FTD full price for that) and the last sessions once he was in the Army.

-- To Know Him is to Love Him.  Early Spector may still be the best.

-- Don't know much doo wop but I like what I hear.


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: sugarandspice on January 29, 2006, 05:28:25 PM
onward with the chuck berry,  I cannont  get enough  buddy holly or  spector

heres a question

the crystals, or the ronnetts?

xox suga


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: Jeff Mason on January 29, 2006, 05:30:51 PM
Gotta go with Ronnie, but neither was a 50's act though...


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: Matinee Idyll on January 29, 2006, 05:34:02 PM
Nat King Cole
(http://www.dr.dk/musik/jazz/ugensprofil/billeder/nat_king_cole_1.jpg)

Johnny O'Keefe
(http://www.abc.net.au/southwestwa/stories/Johnny_OKe_m924318.jpg)

That's where it's at.


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: sugarandspice on January 29, 2006, 05:40:33 PM
I know that they were 60s but sheeoyt, I was thinking about spector, and that is where my train of thought ended up

xoxo
suga


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: I. Spaceman on January 29, 2006, 05:43:08 PM
Let's put it this way.
Milner was right in American Graffiti. "Rock and roll's been going downhill since Buddy Holly died".
And even if it's not downhill, you can only go sideways from perfection.


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: sugarandspice on January 29, 2006, 06:09:15 PM
hahah... I can  dig it, but I mean sh*t what would have happend had they not crashed in the plane.. would the new geration have been able to be ushered in? kinda like a torch pass if you will... ( sad tho really sad)

xo suga


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: Jeff Mason on January 29, 2006, 06:14:30 PM
I think that Buddy would have moved more and more toward orchestrated pop, maybe even being a peer to Brian Wilson.  And I think that maybe the British Invasion might not have been necessary since there would have still been a powerful voice speaking for rock.


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: Jeff Mason on January 29, 2006, 06:15:44 PM
Let's put it this way.
Milner was right in American Graffiti. "Rock and roll's been going downhill since Buddy Holly died".
And even if it's not downhill, you can only go sideways from perfection.

No comments on your favs?  I figured that much of your favorite music would be encompassed in this period.

I would love to hear your review of Jailhouse Rock.  This topic made me break it out and play it for my girl.  It got her up and dancing in seconds.


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: sugarandspice on January 29, 2006, 06:16:04 PM
 I can dig it

xo suga


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: Sheriff John Stone on January 29, 2006, 06:30:27 PM
I agree with all of the rock & roll choices posted above. But a couple of my non-rock favorites are:

- Frank Sinatra
- Perry Como
- Nat "King" Cole
- Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald duets


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: sugarandspice on January 29, 2006, 06:32:27 PM
Kinda off toipic

but  Billie Holiday ppl?

xoxo
suga


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: Jeff Mason on January 29, 2006, 06:36:23 PM
Why is that off topic?  She was 50's.  Don't know her well but all I have heard is startling.  I probably need to know more.


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: I. Spaceman on January 29, 2006, 06:38:31 PM
Let's put it this way.
Milner was right in American Graffiti. "Rock and roll's been going downhill since Buddy Holly died".
And even if it's not downhill, you can only go sideways from perfection.

No comments on your favs?  I figured that much of your favorite music would be encompassed in this period.

I would love to hear your review of Jailhouse Rock.  This topic made me break it out and play it for my girl.  It got her up and dancing in seconds.

I'm metally exhausted from writing that Big Star review, but maybe tomorrow I'll get more detailed.


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: Matinee Idyll on January 29, 2006, 06:39:43 PM
Why is that off topic?  She was 50's.  Don't know her well but all I have heard is startling.  I probably need to know more.

Strange Fruit.

Get it right now Jeff, the song... it's the scariest song I've ever heard.  Stunning.


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: sugarandspice on January 29, 2006, 06:43:39 PM
Southern Trees bear a strange fruit....

She is my chick

xoxo
suga


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: I. Spaceman on January 29, 2006, 06:46:49 PM
Get as much Holiday as you can carry, beginning with the 30's/40's Columbia sides, then the mid-period vVrve work, ending with the heartbreakingly wracked Lady In Satin, her valedictory wasted finale.


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: sugarandspice on January 29, 2006, 06:48:35 PM
Nice

anybody seen, Lady Sings the Blues?  I think that is the name of the flick where Dianna Ross played her  (exsuse me Miss Ross :P)

xox
suga


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: Sheriff John Stone on January 29, 2006, 06:49:54 PM
In more ways than one - drug abuse, tarnished voice, early death, somewhat underappreciated - Billie Holiday fits in quite nicely on the Smiley Smile message board...


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: sugarandspice on January 29, 2006, 06:53:21 PM
Billie fits anywere you put her she is freakin awesome...

xox
suga


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: Chance on January 29, 2006, 07:14:58 PM
Quote from: The Cap'n
I'm metally exhausted from writing that Big Star review

"Metally Exhausted: The Best Of Alter X" ;D

Let me add Ray Charles, Nina Simone and Frankie Lyman to the honor roll.


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: sugarandspice on January 29, 2006, 07:15:56 PM
Nina Simone  rocks my fuckin world...

xo
suga


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: Chance on January 29, 2006, 07:42:16 PM
Me too, big time.


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: monkee knutz on January 29, 2006, 08:01:48 PM
Milner was right in American Graffiti. "Rock and roll's been going downhill since Buddy Holly died".
Milner? Nah... you've been listening to too much Don McClean!  ;D


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: Boxer Monkey on January 29, 2006, 08:42:41 PM
My fave '50s stuff? Mostly jazz, blues. "Twisted" by Annie Ross, "King Pleasure Sings" (the same album, actually). Otis Rush's Cobra recordings. "Brilliant Corners" by Monk. Everything by Buddy Holly. Anything on Sun. "Kind of Blue." "Mingus Dynasty." Esquivel.

Everybody should read the now-spent Ian's fantabulous essay on "Radio City," btw, over on the other board. It's brilliant!


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: I. Spaceman on January 29, 2006, 09:28:28 PM
Aww, dude, thanks. Your Third is gonna blow it out the foda water.


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: Jeff Mason on January 30, 2006, 04:18:39 AM
If we are adding jazz, and I agree obviously immensely with Kind of Blue, we should also add Time Out to the list.


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: richardsnow on January 30, 2006, 10:21:39 AM
I like Harry Belafonte.  Especially the Single Island In The Sun/Coconut Woman
A great double sider.

Also I love LONNIE DONEGAN.  Almost all his stuff is excellent.

Bad thing about the 50's was that around 1954-1956 , novelty songs became very popular.   Some of them are painful and yet some of them now seem quite cute when you place them in the context of the time frame.

Where will the baby's dimple be- Rosemary Clooney
Twenty Tiny Fingers- The Coronets
Play Mates- Jimmy Boyd
How Much Is that Doggie in the window etc

You know all those tunes....

Oh, i just thought of another great 50's single, Mr Sandman by whoever that was, The Chordettes?
I forget, I think a dozen people did versions


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: NC on January 30, 2006, 10:30:25 AM
All the 50's Platters' sides. Also Little Richard, Fats Domino and most definitely Miss Connie Francis - an absolutely brilliant female vocalist.



Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: onkster on January 30, 2006, 11:14:35 AM
SORRY FOR THE ALL CAPS--I'M RENDERING ON AFTEREFFECTS RIGHT NOW.

BUT, SOME ESSENTIALS:

BUDDY HOLLY - TRUE LOVE WAYS, THAT MAKES IT TOUGH
SANTO AND JOHNNY - SLEEP WALK (OR WAS THIS THE 60'S?)
JAGUARS - WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT
LES PAUL AND MARY FORD - THE WORLD IS WAITING FOR THE SUNRISE
PATIENCE AND PRUDENCE - TONIGHT YOU BELONG TO ME
SKIP AND FLIP - IT WAS I
ELVIS - BLUE MOON (STILL SO FANTASTICALLY SPOOKY)


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: I. Spaceman on January 30, 2006, 11:16:47 AM
Quote
ELVIS - BLUE MOON (STILL SO FANTASTICALLY SPOOKY)

YEAH, BABY!


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: al on January 30, 2006, 11:55:33 AM
Quote
ELVIS - BLUE MOON (STILL SO FANTASTICALLY SPOOKY)

YEAH, BABY!

Still stunning 51(?) years on.

Lets also hear it for RUMBLE!!!! The late great (well, not that great actually Post Rumble....) Link Wray.

As well as 'Red Cadillac and a Black Moustache' by Warren Smith - and was Endless Sleep a 50's track? Think so... there were so many though, but I'm still glad I missed it (just, born '59 - growing up in the 60's was much better!)


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: I. Spaceman on January 30, 2006, 11:57:16 AM
Quote
not that great actually Post Rumble....) Link Wray

WHAT THE HECK???!!!
All his best was after that! Jack The Ripper, Ace Of Spades, Run Chicken Run, etc. etc.


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: Jason on January 30, 2006, 12:01:17 PM
Shoutouts for Elvis' Sun sessions, most of Chuck Berry's work (no My Ding-A-Lings here), all of Buddy Holly, and ALL of Little Richard.


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: I. Spaceman on January 30, 2006, 12:01:58 PM
Wanda Jackson, baby.


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: Jason on January 30, 2006, 12:02:35 PM
Dude, you should shoot me for forgetting her.


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: al on January 30, 2006, 12:08:56 PM
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not that great actually Post Rumble....) Link Wray

WHAT THE HECK???!!!
All his best was after that! Jack The Ripper, Ace Of Spades, Run Chicken Run, etc. etc.

It was still downhill for him personally though - got an LP of his from the 70's or 80's and one with Robert Gordonand though they are OK they aren't 'Great' in the same way Rumble (and OK, the others you mention too!) are. Mind you I don't suppose even Rumble was good for him as it was banned on the radio at the time! Poor sod.


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: I. Spaceman on January 30, 2006, 12:10:15 PM
(http://www.biwa.ne.jp/~presley/celeb/WandaJackson-2.jpg)

(http://www.epinions.com/images/opti/30/0e/386983-music-resized200.JPG)

(http://www.zoilus.com/documents/Wanda-Jackson2.jpg)

I've been to Nagasaki, Hiroshima too!
The things I did to them baby, I can do to you!

'Cause I'm a Fujiyama Mama and I'm just about to blow my top!
Fujiyama-yama, Fujiyama!
And when I start you up, there aint nobody gonna make me stop!

I drank a quart of sake, smoked on a pipe!
I chased it with tobbacy and then shoot out the lights!

'Cause I'm a Fujiyama Mama and I'm just about to blow my top!
Fujiyama-yama, Fujiyama!
And when I start you up, there aint nobody gonna make me stop!

Well you can talk about me, say that I'm mean!
I'll blow your head off baby with nitroglycerine!

'Cause I'm a Fujiyama Mama and I'm just about to blow my top!
Fujiyama-yama, Fujiyama!
And when I start you up, there aint nobody gonna make me stop!

Well you can say I'm crazy, so deaf and dumb!
But I can cause destruction just like the atom bomb!

'Cause I'm a Fujiyama Mama and I'm just about to blow my top!
Fujiyama-yama, Fujiyama!
And when I start you up, there aint nobody gonna make me stop!

I drank a quart of sake, smoked on a pipe!
I chased it with tobbacy and then shoot out the lights!

'Cause I'm a Fujiyama Mama and I'm just about to blow my top!
Fujiyama-yama, Fujiyama!
And when I start you up, there aint nobody gonna make me stop!





Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: I. Spaceman on January 30, 2006, 12:11:00 PM
Quote
not that great actually Post Rumble....) Link Wray

WHAT THE HECK???!!!
All his best was after that! Jack The Ripper, Ace Of Spades, Run Chicken Run, etc. etc.

It was still downhill for him personally though - got an LP of his from the 70's or 80's and one with Robert Gordonand though they are OK they aren't 'Great' in the same way Rumble (and OK, the others you mention too!) are. Mind you I don't suppose even Rumble was good for him as it was banned on the radio at the time! Poor sod.

Ahh, I see. That stuff does have it's defenders, but I'm a Swan-era man, myself.


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: Jason on January 30, 2006, 12:12:38 PM
He's not a 50s artist, but all you Link Wray fans need to check out Davie Allan and the Arrows.


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: I. Spaceman on January 30, 2006, 12:17:19 PM
HELL yes.
Devil's Rumble double-disc will work, but Sundazed just put out expanded reissues of his 60's albums, and all of them are musts. Especially Cycle-Delic Sounds Of.
Here's the cover:
(http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/a/allan_davie_cycledeli_101b.jpg)
Any other reasons you would need to buy it? More fuzz than a peach orchard.


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: Jason on January 30, 2006, 12:20:12 PM
Davie Allan was the REAL guitar revolution, in my opinion. I know I might offend a few Hendrix fans, but I don't care.


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: Mark A. Moore on January 30, 2006, 12:21:13 PM
Bill Haley & the Comets — (incredible guitar and drums on "Rock Around the Clock")

Buddy Holly — (incredible guitar)

Elvis Presley — (Scotty Moore, incredible guitar)

Chuck Berry — (incredible guitar)

Little Richard — (Whoooo ... incredible voice)

Jan & Arnie / Jan & Dean — (two Top 10 records in the late '50s)

(http://www.jananddean-janberry.com/images/jan-arnie-to-joe.jpg)

M.



Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: I. Spaceman on January 30, 2006, 12:22:08 PM
Jason, add Eddie Phillips to your list. Jeff Beck was the most influential, I believe.

Mark, add great drums to Buddy Holly. Great list.


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: Jason on January 30, 2006, 12:24:20 PM
YES! Another Eddie Phillips fan! Boo-yah skeedaddy!

Agree about Beck.


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: Mark A. Moore on January 30, 2006, 12:27:48 PM

Mark, add great drums to Buddy Holly. Great list.

Yeah, Jerry Allison was solid . . . even when slamming the cardboard boxes ("Not Fade Away") or slapping his thighs ("Everyday").

Geez, it's scary to think how young Buddy Holly was . . . and how influential and monumental his presence was . . . and still is.

M.



Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: donald on January 30, 2006, 12:31:39 PM
This is one really broad topic.

I'll go with Doo Wop and I'll nominate the Cadets 1956 hit Stranded in the Jungle.

Prior to 56, the core of the group was know as the Jacks.  That old style  R&B sound that evolved along side rock and roll in the 50's and disappeared by the early 60's is to me what 50's music was really all about.


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: I. Spaceman on January 30, 2006, 12:33:49 PM

Mark, add great drums to Buddy Holly. Great list.

Yeah, Jerry Allison was solid . . . even when slamming the cardboard boxes ("Not Fade Away") or slapping his thighs ("Everyday").

Geez, it's scary to think how young Buddy Holly was . . . and how influential and monumental his presence was . . . and still is.

M.



Absolutely, and when you extend the Texas-influential-visionary trip to include Buddy's musical progeny Bobby Fuller and Roky Erickson, you find more tragedy...and great music.


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: Lester Byrd on January 31, 2006, 12:58:31 PM

Mark, add great drums to Buddy Holly. Great list.

Yeah, Jerry Allison was solid . . . even when slamming the cardboard boxes ("Not Fade Away") or slapping his thighs ("Everyday").

Geez, it's scary to think how young Buddy Holly was . . . and how influential and monumental his presence was . . . and still is.

M.



Absolutely, and when you extend the Texas-influential-visionary trip to include Buddy's musical progeny Bobby Fuller and Roky Erickson, you find more tragedy...and great music.

And one more thought:

No Buddy... No Beatles.

Not bad for a career that lasted a year and a half.


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: Chance on January 31, 2006, 08:49:17 PM
Bringing some Chess blues onboard: Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson, Little Walter...


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: cabinessence on January 31, 2006, 11:43:27 PM
Quote
That old style  R&B sound that evolved along side rock and roll in the 50's and disappeared by the early 60's is to me what 50's music was really all about.

You've got my strongest endorsement, Donald! Whatever that kind of almost-rock-and-roll is called is my very favorite kind of fifities music.

Listen to the Dominoes, Chuck Berry,  Bo Diddley. Last named's Mona is all fifties musical genres melted into one and transcended in a way that shocks and thrills me every time I hear it. Like Allison, Buddy etc., Bo was (is) a Tex-Mexican-Native-American... in addition to being Black and Rhythm and Blues, all of the above, and we get some of each here in a magic combination that the best of the Sixties only occasionally matched (Like a Rolling Stone(s)). Listen to the western whip-cracking beat (a much more sensual variation than usual of  Bo's  dime-and-a-haircut one) nipping at his butt on every line forcing him to exclaim and testify, just hear the way he sings "Hey...hey! Hey!! Moanahhh!", and the masterful way his horny lamenting desire fits in the spaces between sympathetic rhythm guitar drumbeats, a perfect, stripped down 'me to you' performance. This is the template of Plastic Ono Lennon (among other things)  I believe


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: RangeRoverA1 on May 31, 2019, 05:17:16 AM
"Peppermint Twist" is great song. Wish it got garage treatment. But, it didn't.
Cool jazz.
Can anybody legitimately say they enjoy 50s? It seems many listen to its music fleetingly, then move & stay with advanced decades' music.


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: Steven on June 01, 2019, 06:33:29 AM
"Peppermint Twist" is great song. Wish it got garage treatment. But, it didn't.
Cool jazz.
Can anybody legitimately say they enjoy 50s? It seems many listen to its music fleetingly, then move & stay with advanced decades' music.

 Damn straight I can legitimately say I enjoy the flipping 50s. Why and How? Because I love rock & roll.

 Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly & the Crickets, The Everly Brothers, Bill Haley & His Comets, Carl Perkins, Bo Diddley, The Drifters, The Coasters, The Platters, Dion & the Belmonts, Ricky Nelson, Eddie Cochran, Richie Valenz, The Five Satins, The Dell Vikings, Laverne Baker, etc


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: JK on June 01, 2019, 10:42:48 AM
Listen to the Dominoes, Chuck Berry,  Bo Diddley. Last named's Mona is all fifties musical genres melted into one and transcended in a way that shocks and thrills me every time I hear it. Like Allison, Buddy etc., Bo was (is) a Tex-Mexican-Native-American... in addition to being Black and Rhythm and Blues, all of the above, and we get some of each here in a magic combination that the best of the Sixties only occasionally matched (Like a Rolling Stone(s)). Listen to the western whip-cracking beat (a much more sensual variation than usual of  Bo's  dime-and-a-haircut one) nipping at his butt on every line forcing him to exclaim and testify, just hear the way he sings "Hey...hey! Hey!! Moanahhh!", and the masterful way his horny lamenting desire fits in the spaces between sympathetic rhythm guitar drumbeats, a perfect, stripped down 'me to you' performance. This is the template of Plastic Ono Lennon (among other things)  I believe

Lovely description of Bo's masterpiece there, sir. Let's spin it, for Pete's sake:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=678JyXiRCXM

My two biggies from the fifties are both from late in the decade...

Duane Eddy's "Peter Gunn": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=296wS9ome4M

and The Flamingoes' "I Only Have Eyes For You": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvzNeh4Mq1o


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: RangeRoverA1 on June 01, 2019, 11:25:03 AM
Laverne Baker
Is it possible to link her signature songs? I didn't hear about this girl.


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: Rocker on June 02, 2019, 01:32:36 AM
Laverne Baker
Is it possible to link her signature songs? I didn't hear about this girl.


Really?! You're in for a treat. She's a R'n'B legend. Here are just a couple of songs.


Tweedle Dee:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ExHOoHeXRg


I Cried a Tear:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRjnV0DcAwE


Jim Dandy:

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


Saved:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjCqeJ4C9sU


Hey Memphis (this was the answer song to Presley's "Little sister", which itself mentioned "Jim Dandy" in it's lyrics):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dRYpiYQpaM


See See Rider:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMRs6-xvapU





On another note: Didn't see this thread before. Have to check out what you guys posted.


 


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: NOLA BB Fan on June 02, 2019, 07:19:51 AM
Yes this is a really old thread . RR1 revived it.

So many favorites. Buddy Holly, Carl Perkins, pre-army Elvis, Ricky Nelson.
Fats Domino, Little Richard
All those doowop groups.
Les Paul and Mary Ford. Louis Prima.
Johnny Mathis. Rosemary Clooney.
Dave Brubeck Quartet.


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: JK on June 02, 2019, 02:16:57 PM
All those doowop groups.

Yes indeed. The Elegants' "Little Star" (1958) is another great favourite of mine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8F4vdF-bJc


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: JK on June 08, 2019, 12:45:26 PM
There's this game I play at Hoffman called "The Beginning of the End". To play, you have to take the last word of the previous song title posted and make it the first word of your new one. Sometimes it's obvious but at others it's tricky--say when the last word is something like "Disgrace"!--and then it requires a little research.

I often listen to my chosen song, whether I know it or not. A few days ago it was "Race With The Devil"  by Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps. I believe Vincent wasn't a particularly nice person but he and his band cut some of the finest, purest rock and roll tracks ever recorded. He was very lucky to have Cliff Gallup as his lead guitarist!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3gxQ1tetAQ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Gallup


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: Rocker on June 09, 2019, 04:22:11 AM


Also I love LONNIE DONEGAN.  Almost all his stuff is excellent.





Great that here is (or was? still around, Richard?) someone else who loves Lonnie's work. Greatest thing ever to come out of Britain, musically speaking


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: JK on June 09, 2019, 04:34:20 AM
Great that here is (or was? still around, Richard?) someone else who loves Lonnie's work. Greatest thing ever to come out of Britain, musically speaking

Aww. No love for The Sound of (Billy) Fury...?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlSBHCIe1qM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_of_Fury_(album) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_of_Fury_(album))


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: Rocker on June 09, 2019, 05:04:24 AM
Great that here is (or was? still around, Richard?) someone else who loves Lonnie's work. Greatest thing ever to come out of Britain, musically speaking

Aww. No love for The Sound of (Billy) Fury...?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlSBHCIe1qM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_of_Fury_(album) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_of_Fury_(album))



Don't want to put him down, but Lonnie Donegan was just incredible. He had soul like he was born in Mississippi.


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: JK on March 30, 2022, 05:50:16 AM

Listen to the Dominoes, Chuck Berry,  Bo Diddley. Last named's Mona is all fifties musical genres melted into one and transcended in a way that shocks and thrills me every time I hear it. Like Allison, Buddy etc., Bo was (is) a Tex-Mexican-Native-American... in addition to being Black and Rhythm and Blues, all of the above, and we get some of each here in a magic combination that the best of the Sixties only occasionally matched (Like a Rolling Stone(s)). Listen to the western whip-cracking beat (a much more sensual variation than usual of  Bo's  dime-and-a-haircut one) nipping at his butt on every line forcing him to exclaim and testify, just hear the way he sings "Hey...hey! Hey!! Moanahhh!", and the masterful way his horny lamenting desire fits in the spaces between sympathetic rhythm guitar drumbeats, a perfect, stripped down 'me to you' performance. This is the template of Plastic Ono Lennon (among other things)  I believe

I like that last sentence! And a wonderful description all round.

Here, 16 years later, is Bo's "Mona" -- in mono:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=678JyXiRCXM


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: JK on June 18, 2022, 06:08:21 AM
Earlier in the week I found myself revisiting this obscure rockabilly gem but I have absolutely no idea how I got there! Sonny Burgess's "Red Headed Woman" dates from 1956:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Burgess


Title: Re: The 50s
Post by: Rocker on June 18, 2022, 07:21:10 AM
Earlier in the week I found myself revisiting this obscure rockabilly gem but I have absolutely no idea how I got there! Sonny Burgess's "Red Headed Woman" dates from 1956:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Burgess



Good ol' Sonny Burgess!
There's a very nice cover of this song by Wayne Worley:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiJW5X5-ZJQ