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Best 50's/60's music
I've recently discovered a love of music from the 50's & 60's and was wondering what everyone's favourite stuff from that era was?
Curently loving All I Have To Do Is Dream by the Everly Brothers
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I love the music from both those decades (I like the seventies and early eighties too, but not as much; as for music since the mid-eighties - forget it!), but there are far too many tracks to list.
For some of my favourite music from the sixties please see my many contributions to both the the 1960's Appreciation Thread and the Rare 60's Classics Thread - if you can find the time! Off the top of my head, my favourite tracks from the fifties are:- Lawdy Miss Clawdy - Elvis Presley Shake Rattle And Roll - Big Joe Turner Trying To Get To You - Elvis Presley (and much else by Elvis) Tutti Frutti - Little Richard (and much else by Little Richard) Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry (and much else by Chuck) High School Confidential - Jerry Lee Lewis (and much else by Jerry Lee) Rocket 88 - Jackie Brenston (usually cited as the first ever rock 'n' roll record) Little Bitty Pretty One - Thurston Harris and the Sharps (and a lot of other tracks also from the Doo-Wop genre) Summertime Blues - Eddie Cochran Love Is Strange - Mickey and Sylvia The Night Time Is The Right Time - Ray Charles Sixty Minute Man - The Dominoes Chicken Shack Boogie - Amos Milburn Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins Cry Me A River - Julie London Every Time We Say Goodbye - Ella Fitzgerald Suzie Q - Dale Hawkins Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley Willie And The Hand Jive - The Johnny Otis Show Rock Island Line - Lonnie Donegan and loads of others. |
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I see the moon - Stargazers
I win. Best song of the 50s. ---- In truth Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - The platters ----- and you have no Buddy Holly |
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Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - The platters
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and you have no Buddy Holly I like Buddy Holly a lot, but if I were to list every act and every song I like from the fifties then I'd be clogging up this thread in the same way that the threads started by a certain FM (whose username includes a famous American racehorse) have recently been clogging up the music forum. |
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From the 1950's most of what's in Vabosity's post, plus Fats Domino's "Blueberry Hill", Etta James's "The Wallflower" and Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers' "Why Do Fools Fall In Love".
Gemma-the-husky's favourite "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" is also a favourite of mine. The Platters were fantastic. From the 1960's I like almost everything - even the crap from that decade is a 1000 times better than anything in the charts today! (IMO, of course ) .
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I see the moon - Stargazers
I win. Best song of the 50s. |
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Brook Benton, Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Dean Martin from the 1950s.
Beach Boys, Mama and the Papas, Dusty Springfield, Supremes, Beatles and Aretha Franklin from the 1960s |
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Wow nobody else mentioned the Everly Brothers! Also loving The Shirelles and The Ronettes
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Wow nobody else mentioned the Everly Brothers! Also loving The Shirelles and The Ronettes
The Shirelles and the Ronettes are great too. Another sixties girl group worth checking out are the Shangri-Las. |
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Wow nobody else mentioned the Everly Brothers! Also loving The Shirelles and The Ronettes
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1950s - Elvis, Everly Brothers, Jerry Lee Lewis, David Whitfield.
1960s - Beatles, Supremes, Hollies, Animals, Chris Farlowe, Dusty, Sandie, Petula, Francoise Hardy, Del Shannon, Adam Faith, Gene Pitney, Joe Dolan. |
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I like quite a bit of 60s music and often list examples on 60s threads. I do not know 50s songs well enough to name any specific faves from then though.
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Try these, Multimedia:
'Here Comes Summer'-Jerry Keller 'Great Balls Of Fire'-Jerry Lee Lewis 'What Do You Want?'-Adam Faith 'Dream Lover'-Bobby Darin 'It's Only Make Believe'-Conway Twitty 'Answer Me'-David Whitfield |
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I like quite a bit of 60s music and often list examples on 60s threads. I do not know 50s songs well enough to name any specific faves from then though.
Fifties music is certainly worth discovering. It's all there on Youtube, of course, and there are some good compilation albums available. I recently bought a three-cd album of fifties R'n'B and Doo-Wop in Tesco for the princely sum of three quid. |
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