Any 50's/60's music lovers here?

10-10-2017 | Me

[Kevin in California]

Just trying to forgot about all the sad events in the world today with the mass killings, fires, hurricanes, etc. so I've turned to music for an outlet. I know this is weird as I'm 55y/o but I love 50's and 60's music. They just don't make music like this anymore. Here are two of my favorites.

Four Preps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXd8c1BLpRQ

Bachelors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4opYhQAAao

What are your favs from these eras?

[Lazamataz]

Any 50's/60's music lovers here?

No.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Everlys back then were one of the few acts ever to do well both at “ballads” (slow songs) AND upbeat tunes.

Usually I find acts only do well at one or the other!

[the OlLine Rebel]

My mother LOVES the Ames Brothers.

I bought her an old album when I was in college (had the used LP stores there) which apparently did not have all the songs as ORIGINALLY recorded, but they were in the ‘50s and the “Sentimental Me” version was so big-band fantastic!

I ended up warping that record beautifully. Left it for a long time in our little stereo which was in the sun room. Finally got to it and the record completely waved all around some 3 inches each way! Too bad, loved the sound.

[Fiji Hill]

My top 10 for the '60s

1. Six Days on the Road--Dave Dudley (1963)

2. Presumida (smug)--Luis Bravo (1961)
   a singer from Cuba

3. Leave Me Alone--Baby Washington (1963)

4. So ist uns Einmal das Leben (thus is life to us)--Freddy Quinn (1961)

5. The Minutemen Are Turning in their Graves--Stonewall Jackson (1966)

6. Aldilà (beyond)--Emilio Pericoli (1962)

7. Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien (no, I regret nothing)--Edith Piaf (1961)

8. Don't Treat Me Like a Child--Helen Shapiro (1961)

9. Find Another Fool--Glenda Collins (1961)

10. Ame Câline (soul coaxing)--Raymond Lefèvre (1968)

[pookie18]

Thanks...probably my favorites, but I’m sure that I’ve left out some...

[Fiji Hill]

You may want to add some Los Angeles groups to your list.

• You're Heavenly--The Saigons (1955)

• Don't Take Your Love from Me--The Calvanes (1955)

• Watts--The Chanters (1955)

• The Man from Utopia--Donald Woods & the Vel-Aires (1955)

• Blue Mood--Julie Stevens & the Premiers (1956)

• Tell Me--The Gassers (1956)

[tubebender]

Don't forget this old Classic that has almost 7 million views on youtube. It is one of Rush's favorites...

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

[pookie18]

Wasn’t doing a geographical list, but as it turns out I don’t know any of those groups/songs...tx. Actually, I know a Chanters groups (No, No, No), but they’re from Queens, NY

[jazusamo]

Ah yes, had forgotten about that one and Jeanne Black. :)

[wardaddy]

I’m sorry

This song right here in my honest opinion started it all

Although it had company to be sure

March 3 , 1951

Ike Turner and his Kings of Rhythm.......who recorded under a pseudonym

From Clarksdale Mississippi

A man much maligned in later years but truly this was it

The first real rock and roll song

It was inevitable with so much pushing sound that way from the time electricity became common and most of that influence centered within 150 miles of where Ike recorded 88

A lot of stuff is called rock and roll that ain’t rock and roll

Since its early days

[wardaddy]

I’m sesenta años in a few weeks

The 60s for me were indochina newsreels and older guys in my neighborhood successively headed off to fight and the draft lotttery

Some came back wounded

We thought them heroes ....they didn’t so much themselves

I know now we could never understand

The music was for me earliest memory

Mom listening to Elvis and Buddy Holly

Dad was WSM all the way......

I myself was inundated by top 40 and some album rock and roll till January 1968 when our first progressive FM ROCK station WJDX 102.9 Jax Miss started

http://www.mrkland.com/Q/ZZQ.htm

Beatles Stones Beach Boys Kinks Animals singles every month

A lot of junk top 40 which was silly and poorly crafted but fun

Motown and Chess and Stax...back when black music was good

Not much country to be honest till early 70s but it was influential on all rock and roll bands especially Sirs Mick and Keith thanks to Gram and Bobby

The Dead...even then

When FM rock took off singles faded and rock and roll morphed to rock

The time from 1966 to 1974 was without question the best it ever was

I’m glad I was there

My kids all just seek it out now without any help from me unless they ask

Every teen boy likes Led Zepplin

I’m relistening Tom Petty now.....my wife’s era more than mine

If I could pick only one 1960s album

It’s easy

Beggars Banquet

Music from Big Pink second

And yes I also liked Grass Roots and Paul Revere and Gary Puckett and the Monkees too

I was a kid

[Wuli]

Any music from any era when the singers can actually carry a tune & enunciate the words well, you can understand the lyrics, and neither the instruments nor the vocalists are screaming, when the instrumental section is so good on its own that it is memorable, then it is usually music I like.

Sadly, more and more popular music lacks too many of those things.

[Songcraft]

Well, I can't claim those extra points for having ever seen South Philly's own "Cook E. Jarr And His Krums", but I looked around, and found this clip, which tells me he could be a useful voice in the war against the traitors in the NFL:

        

"Proud To Be An American" (part of song) - Cook E. Jarr

[Jimmy Valentine]

Believe it or not Dale is still touring. Still sounds great.

[mass55th]

Sad about what happened to the LP. The Ames brothers were excellent. Ed Ames played the role of “Mango” with Fess Parker in the TV series “Daniel Boone.” Ed Ames is still alive. Born in Malden, Mass. in 1927. As for other singers, I enjoyed Tennessee Ernie Ford, and Jimmy Rodgers too.

[the OlLine Rebel]

I love so much music from then. Actually love so much all around. There’s hardly anything I dislike, and even then the genre usually has one tune worthwhile!

[Fiji Hill]

I’m familiar with the Chanters from Queens. The group of the same name on the Combo label is from Watts, a neighborhood in southeast Los Angeles, as are Donald Woods & the Vel-Aires. “The Man from Utopia” is said to have been inspired by Utopia Cleaners, a dry cleaning service on East 98th. Street in Watts. Last time I drove by there, the business was gone but the building was still standing.

“Tell Me” by the Gassers was recorded at Dolphin’s of Hollywood, a record store at Vernon and Central in LA. There was a studio in the back and a radio station in the front. You could record a song in the back, bring it out front to be played over the air, and if the listeners liked it, you’d have an instant hit.

[pookie18]

Thanks for the stories, Fiji Hill

[Fiji Hill]

This tale of a revolutionary turned restaurateur was a hit in Southern California.

The Ballad of Pancho López--Lalo Guerrero (1955)

[patriot08]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id_UYLPSn6U
(gives me goose bumps)

They don’t make ‘em like this anymore.
Listen to the Lyrics....

Today’s lyrics:
whooo oooo yeah oooh yeah baby oooo (????)
What does that EVEN MEAN?