I’m hoping Mack The Knife takes it all, it’s a great tune that even the youngest of the youngers get a kick out of.
That said, I am very familiar with and enjoy music from many eras, the 50’s were that in-between time of leaving fabulous Big Band and Crooners behind, and coming into the experimental, very-beginnings of the greatest mass-produced music of all time - Rock and Roll of the 60’s and 70’s.
1950’s music was mostly terrifically corny, nauseatingly saccharine, or just-plain-fun.
Mack, Tequila, Rock Around the Clock.
People call corny what is just decent and clean. Why is it bad to be nice and decent and not edgy? Why is talking sexual and other immorality “artistic”?
Sorry, that is a huge pet peeve of mine!
Further it seems until the horrid hippie SanFran movement, most “rockers” were more conservative. Then it went mostly liberal America-hating.
Off my soapbox!
I'll take any song from the fifties over what was performed at the Super Bowl half time show earlier today.