1950's Music Thread

[troggy]

Great stuff Nolamike, love the New Orleans sound.

[Nolamike]

Great stuff Nolamike, love the New Orleans sound.

Thanks ya, Troggy!

Here's another Bartholomew production, Shirley and Lee, on a burner of a ballad. Shirley sings the word "baby" even better than Carla Thomas!

[bhoywonder]

A lot of the time, I live in the 1950s. I like it there best.

[bhoywonder]

Heaven

[fange]

RIP Johnny.

[fange]

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[T. Willy Rye]

[fange]

'Problem Child' by Mercy Dee Walton, one of the finest exponents of honky-tonk blues piano you'll ever wish to hear...

[fange]

I was gonna add my two cents-worth to this discussion during the Jump Blues Smackdown and then clean forgot, so a thread on 50s music seems the right place...

I don't know, really. I mean, a lot of the tracks are fun and great and undeniable on some level. But I don't feel compelled to buy it and I would never choose to put it on to listen to. It just seems like a lousy compromise made from a lot of things I otherwise love, removing the best bits.

More and more, I see it the opposite way. I like a lot of the genres that descended from this stuff, but I find myself drawn to this well more than any other lately. It has all of the nutrients: joy, life, energy, lightness of touch, humor, fun... I don't think the emergence of rock and roll improved it much, and if it DID improve it, only in the early period when this stuff was still a primary influence.

I'm not sure if 'compromise' is the right word to use for Jump Blues, Baron, despite the fact that it was certainly some kind of high-energy blending of swing and blues forms... and i definitely disagree with the word 'lousy'. In the right hands, and at its best, Jump Blues could be as fantastically joyous and celebratory as any music which was made for the express purpose of dancing - Disco also comes to mind as a music in the same vein, a hybrid which then took on a whole life of its own.

And i'm not quite sure about 'lightness of touch' in terms of Jump Blues either, Davey - the energy and humour in it has always seemed much more in your face to me. But that was and is even now kind of core to its appeal i think. The blatant double-entendres, the charging rythms and hollered vocals, they were all part of a letting loose of the spirit and a celebration of life that would feed directly to another hybrid not long after which would be labeled Rock and Roll. It was music in extremis - born during a time of war and constraint and then raised through a period of change and opportunities - and for me that makes it all the more special and beautiful.

[Jumper k]

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[fange]

Some smokin' 50's R&B, from the man who played guitar for Hank Ballard & the Midnighters...



As kath would say - just listen to that fucquin' gweetar!

[fange]

A couple by Louisiana guitarist Leroy Washington I've been rocking today...

[Rayge]

This thread went into abeyance just before I joined...
Here's an adrenaline buzz and some milk-shake and burger pop from The Two Jerries

[take5_d_shorterer]

Joe Gore on The Chords, "Sh-boom"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOtjFZBS0qY

[Muskrat]

[Muskrat]

[fange]

Some great shots there, fellas - the Drifters and the Byrne in particular are personal favourites. I like Luman's original of 'Red Cadillac..', but I've come to love Warren Smith's version more.

Some Billy Lee Riley has been kick starting my morning...

[Rayge]

I'm guessing that this is not when you had in mind when you started the thread, Ange, and to be truthful it's not what I usually listen to either, but my god what a voice this woman had

[ConnyOlivetti]

[fange]

I'm guessing that this is not when you had in mind when you started the thread, Ange, and to be truthful it's not what I usually listen to either, but my god what a voice this woman had

The only thing I had in mind was music you like from the '50s, so go for whatever turns you on!


NP over here at chez fange...