50s Rock n' Roll
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Little Richard followed by Bill Haley and the Comets just because I like their music;-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVIttmFAzek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-qjc17KEsc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVIttmFAzek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-qjc17KEsc
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj0Rz-uP4Mk
Buddy Holly.........err, before he died......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04E24MKU3yU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW34W67ZYG0
Chuck Berry, (After his cousin Marvin called him)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d1mZJsZGXg
I know this music is sixty years old but it still sounds fantastic!
Big Joe Turner - Shake Rattle and Roll
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9wTQsAgktg
Jerry Lee Lewis - High School Confidential
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNzEM-XwuiE
Elvis Presley - Trying To Get To You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SRRRhdtzY8
Frankie Ford - Roberta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAb00qcirIE
Johnny Otis - Willie and the Hand Jive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kIswurDJt4
As Long As I Have You
Wonderfully romantic too
Carl Perkins
Gene Vincent.
Conway Twitty.
The Coasters
Bobby Freeman
Brenda Lee
Del Shannon
Neil Sedaka
Paul Anka
Carol King (at the Brill Building)
"Nil points" to anyone who names any British "copyists," 'cept Joe Brown of course.
Nil points to me then.
Most British rock 'n' roll records of the fifties were very poor imitations of the American original, but the following three were not - they're quite excellent.
Cliff from 1958:-
Cliff Richard - Move It
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyHXaVWRKvQ
Famously covered by the Clash, but this version from 1959 is better:-
Vince Taylor - Brand New Cadillac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2j7sLUDkDM&list=RDW2j7sLUDkDM
A classic from 1960 (okay, not the fifties but near enough):-
Johnny Kidd and the Pirates - Shaking All Over
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n327ncoU_ZU
Each to their own.
I never had any time for Cliff Richard.
In my late teens, my future wife and I were walking down Old Compton Street one evening. It was around 9.00pm and we were on our way to the launderette, we had a flat in Soho and never went out to clubs etc., that early in the evening.
As we passed the 2iis coffee bar (a place we never would be seen dead in), someone we knew was coming out. He told us he'd come out as they had a rubbish singer in there that week, but it'd be better next week as they were getting Joe Brown. He was of course talking about Cliff Richard.
So I wasn't on my own.
After the (moderate) success of "Move It" Cliff soon changed his style to something that had much broader appeal, albeit something that is now considered naff by many. However, I do think "Move It" is a very rare example of good 1950's British rock 'n' roll.
Joe Brown's career never took off until the early sixties.
This is true, but he was well liked by "we locals."
I had quite a broad taste in music even at that age, pop, Motown and modern jazz, my future wife and I joined Ronny Scott's first club when it opened. I saw an advert for it in the Melody Maker and it cost us 7/6d each to join and it was free mid-week. Now it'd cost you about three hundred quid to become a member.
7/6d is the equivalent of 37.5p, so a fair bit of inflation over the last 55-plus years then!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13zVpJcmUmM
I never particularly liked this kind of music and it was well before my time - but now I'm
older I like to hear it (I also like Sinatra now).
I was really amazed to see some of the audiences in my first post sitting down - I
would have had to be up and dancing!
Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers - I'm Not A Juvenile Delinquent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r2HF5uHtNE
Dion & The Belmonts - I Wonder Why
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAPEfdjvTqE
Danny & The Juniors - Rock & Roll Is Here To Stay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXq8oQ5DNbQ
that's a new name and song to me but I liked it.........very blues, very hypnotic !
Great track.
Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers were a sort of fifties version of the Jackson Five, only 100 times better (imo).
I like Dion and the Belmonts, the best white doo-wop group by a mile.
As we're celebrating this style of music in this thread almost sixty years after it was made that Danny and the Juniors track turned out to have quite a prophetic title.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0Ujb6lJ_mM
Having an enjoyable time listening to all this music:):)
Little Anthony and the Imperials.......Tears on My Pillow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we2kmO24rgE
The Five Satins......In The Still Of the Night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBT3oDMCWpI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfx4N_-k0m4
Ritchie Valens and La Bamba - not sure rock n' roll
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKX5neksd9A
(have put Los Lobos film version on to compare it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLAWPrCUQQ0
Together with Buddy Holly they were both killed in an aircrash in bad weather in the late 50s U.S.
not to leave him out here is Buddy Holly and 'Peggie Sue' -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEl3UUl1Fmw
Bo Diddley - 'Who Do You Love'
Wanda Jackson - . 'Hard Headed Woman'
That reminds me of Wade Walker..........Johnny Depps character in Cry Baby. If you haven't seem it the film is a marvellous affectionate homage to the 1950s with wonderful 50s style music......here's a few samples.....
King Cry Baby........https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6YakT1zZ0o
Please Mr Jailer.......https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtpkqslTudg
Doin' Time for being Young.......https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMrWXjOuv0g
and finally the very wonderful 'doo wop' song Teardrops Are Falling........https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZt8dti-r14
If we're gonna include "Doo-Wop."
Here's a few I've in one of my vinyl jukeboxes.
The Orioles "It's Too Soon To Know." (I'm cheating, this is 1948).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1q7xXXVoCY
The Chimes "Once in a While." (This is 1961, but they were formed in the mid fifties)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-ZGFyBJ1k8
The Skyliners "Since I Don't Have You."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngZh6ZSRoYg
The Duprees "You Belong to Me." (cheating again, 1962).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=817ulh5EmWk
The Platters "The Great Pretender."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s08AOiRmy3w
The Penguins Earth Angel."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecaOppjsOIE
The Mills Brothers. "Till Then."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8iIplONQ-s
Back to pop. Again from one of my jukeboxes.
Bobby Vee "Take Good Care of My Baby." (just outside, 1960, but worth including).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LunT2kP3JL4
Bobby Helms "My Special Angel."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFgQ0cIZiDw
The Fleetwoods "Mr Blue."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgNnEkzWwt8
The Elegants "Little Star." (How you can make a hit from a nursery rhyme, I think the harmonies a great, still one of my favourites).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww181bzE7Fg
Ricky Nelson "Poor Little Fool."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__l4DbiY3Zk
The Teddy Bears "To Know Him is to Love Him." (2 million hits on this one recording)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCnUsInBQws
The Pony Tails "Born Too Late."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxJ2gSCVZIg
Don Gibson "Sea of Heartbreak."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4bo4ByFhLM
There's a comment on one of the YouTube threads above from a poster which reads,
"This era was and is still number 1."
I don't think he was far wrong.