From 1955: "Only You (and You Alone)" by the Platters. The lip-sync is a bit off in this film, but the soundtrack is the original recording (which should never be tampered with!).
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02-26-2019, 12:25 PM #46Astonishing Member
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Oh heck, it's hard to stop after just one tune by the Platters, so here's another: their 1958 #1 hit version of the 1930's standard "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"
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I'm sorry... but I didn't watch the whole video but what possessed them to think including blackface footage in this fan-made video would be good?
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02-26-2019, 06:49 PM #49Extraordinary Member
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I'm sticking to this one.
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The Coasters - "Charlie Brown"
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SHA NA NA!!! The Silhouettes - "Get a Job"
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Wop Bop A Loo Bop A Lop Bam Boom!!! Little Richard (who taught Paul McCartney how to go "Wooo!!!!") with "Tutti Frutti"
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You look like you bin whupped with a ugly stick!
The 1950s antecedent of rap music: "Say Man", by Bo Diddley
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03-05-2019, 09:16 AM #54Astonishing Member
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A big hit from 1958 - "Hand Jive" by Johnny Otis
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A #1 hit for the Platters in 1958: "Twilight Time"
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For what it's worth this song was used in a vulgar offensive Ralph Bakshi cartoon. I saw an interview he said it was right before nostalgia in the 70's kicked in and you were able to buy the rights to 50's era songs really cheap. He joked that he got it for like 50 bucks!
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Splish Splash!
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The Beatles were big fans of Carl Perkins. (George Harrison especially admired his guitar riffs.) Here is Carl Perkins with "Matchbox", which the Beatles covered in 1964.
Last edited by seismic-2; 03-20-2019 at 04:52 PM.
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03-20-2019, 04:45 PM #60Astonishing Member
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And every vocal group in the 1960s owed a huge debt to these guys from the 1950s:
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