Top songs of 1958 (Pure nostalgia for the old timers)

YouTube ^ | 1958 | Various Artists

[SmokingJoe]

My own favorite from that year was from The Everly Brothers, “All I Have To Do Is Dream”

[the OlLine Rebel]

Did you ever think the man may have converted those thing to CD 15 years ago?

And BTW, no hurry regardless. Every single system gets outdated.

If the commies don’t fully take over, memory sticks will be passé in a few more years. It really doesn’t matter as long as one has a means to listen to them.

[the OlLine Rebel]

BTW I’d like to invite everyone to a ‘50s tournament if I get to it. Give me a FReepMail and I’ll add you to the ping list for when the time comes.

[Gay State Conservative]

Yikes! I just realized that my first post has resulted in a debate. I have several hundred CDs,most are CD-Rs but some are commercial. The CD-Rs contain individual songs obtained thanks to the library consortium to which I've had access for years. As I said in another post the music I enjoy is important enough to me that I want it in CD format...CDs being the source of the highest quality sound.

I know that's old fashioned...CDs are dying,as are DVDs and blurays. Younger kids would rather use Netflix and music streaming services.

But I'll never apologize for being old fashioned! ;-)

[faucetman]

One of my all time favorite songs by The Everly Brothers is “Let it Be Me”. Just beautiful!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaIpXdo4KvE

I bless the day I found you
I want to stay around you
And so I beg you
Let it be me
Don’t take this Heaven from one
If you must cling to someone
Now and forever
Let it be me
Each time we meet, love
I find complete love
Without your sweet love
What would life be?
So never leave me lonely
Tell me you love me only
And that you’ll always
Let it be me
Each time we meet love
I find complete love
Without your sweet love
What would life be?
So never leave me lonely
Tell me you love me only
And that you’ll always
Let it be me

Let It Be Me ~~ Everly Brothers, Melbourne, 1989 (live)
THIRTY + years later and they still sounded GREAT!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeRPr-zKNwI

More songs from Melbourne, including “All I Have To Do IS Dream”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8DcdqCBadU

“”Let It Be Me” is a popular song originally published in French in 1955 as “Je t’appartiens” interpreted by Gilbert Bécaud. It became popular worldwide with an English version by the Everly Brothers and later with the duet by Betty Everett and Jerry Butler.”

Betty Everett and Jerry Butler.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i22xbY4u2iI

[kaktuskid]

Yet 1958 was the year of the Asian Flu epidemic and a deep recession.

[dinodino]

I think you should consider migrating away from CDR. Those degrade over time and become unreadable.

[Fiji Hill]

Yet 1958 was the year of the Asian Flu epidemic and a deep recession.

And while all this was going on, satellites were flying into space and I was watching Around the World in 80 Days at the Carthay Circle Theater in Los Angeles.

Satellite Fever & the Asiatic Flu--Paul Perryman (1958)

[Fiji Hill]

Jobs were hard to find in 1958, but some job seekers were able to buck the recession.

Get a Job--The Silhouettes

Got a Job--The Miracles

I Found a Job--The Heartbeats

[mjp]

Tom Dooley

Kingston Trio

"Tom Dooley" is a North Carolina folk song based on the 1866 murder of a woman named Laura Foster in Wilkes County, North Carolina, allegedly by Tom Dula.

[TexasGator]

“CDs being the source of the highest quality sound.”

Wait till you hear higher quality!

CD’s are 44khz and 16 bit. 96 kHz 24 bit will knock your socks off with the right recording and equipment.

There are hd audio downloads sites that give free samples.

I am streaming Amazon HD.

[Night Hides Not]

I like the Newbomb Turk version.

LOL! Hollywood Knights is a great movie, and was a career starter for several stars: Fran Drescher, Robert Wuhl, and Michelle Pfeiffer, to name 3.

O/T, another great, but under the radar movie, is Still Crazy. If you like 70s rock, you'll love Still Crazy. Great cast and soundtrack.

[Fiji Hill]

I like the version by Noel X & the Unbleached Muslims from 1963. Here are a few of the verses that I can remember:

Hang down your head, Tom Dewey,
Hang down your head and shave.
Hang down your head, Tom Dewey,
You tried to dig our grave.

Came from Owasa,
Got to be DA.
Hadn’t have been for Lepke,
Might be there today.

Hang down your head, Tom Dewey,
Come off of that conceit.
Murder, Incorporated
Put you in the driver’s seat.

When you sprung Lucky,
Thought you had it made,
You’re the two-time loser, Tom,
Not that renegade.

‘52 Convention,
Reckon what you’ve done,
Bound it to a general
When Ike didn’t want to run

Come 1960,
Again, you had the votes,
So you took Dick Nixon,’
Rammed him down our throats

Hang down your head, Tom Dewey,
‘Spite of your ballyhoo,
Tricky Dick Nixon’s
A loser just like you.

Out in Cow Palace,
We’re going to raise a fuss.
Rocky makes you happy,
Ain’t no use to us.

Hang down your head Tom Dewey.
Hang down your head and shave.
Hang down your head, Tom Dewey,
We’re going to dig your grave.

[Fiji Hill]

Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel were two teenagers who scored a hit when they mimicked the Everly Brothers' sound when they recorded as Tom & Jerry.

Hey, School Girl--Tom & Jerry (1957)

[Gay State Conservative]

I don't stream and never will. Yes,I know that there are higher quality audio formats.I have about 50 4K videos,most of which have audio tracks of higher quality than CD.

I also have a few SACD and DVD-Audio discs. The problem with all that from *my* standpoint is 1) I live in a condo building (thin walls) and 2) I have moderate hearing loss.

As a result I use headphones when watching movies and when listening to music...except in the car of course.

[TexasGator]

‘Today is 2021—not, “back in the day.” CD-RWs have a very short lifespan, to boot. Copying all to a bulk storage medium would allow both instantaneous access to the entire library, and the ability to make a backup.”

Short lifetime! ROTFLMAO! My CD’S from Almost 40 years ago are fine. Besides some people do not desire instantaneous access so let them be.

[TexasGator]

“However, I need to find a good method to digitize thousands of cassettes, 78’s, 45’s and 33’s in my collection”

I picked up a record player to digitize my brothers albums. A cassette player can be input to the computer.

I gave all my old media away, copied my CD’S to disk and subscribed to Amazon HD.

[TexasGator]

“Today is 2021—not, “back in the day.””

Well, serves him right for not waiting!

[TexasGator]

“I think you should consider migrating away from CDR. Those degrade over time and become unreadable.”

Only if he wants to leave his collection to his grandkids.

[dinodino]

I highly doubt that you have forty year-old CDRs. CDs, sure—not CDRs. If you have the latter and you can still access the data, you are very lucky.

[TexasGator]

“If you have the latter and you can still access the data, you are very lucky.”

My wife had a bunch of CD-R’s we converted when they were about 20 years old. Still played great.

The original CD-R recording from 1991 still plays fine.

Don’t scare the guy.