50's (music) is dead how long before the 60's go??

[Wildcat 10]

Louis Jordon was one of the greats of the 40-60s - Saturday Night Fish Fry

 

Ella Fitzgerald - It Don't Mean a Thing

 

Miles Davis - So What

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x42u0_miles-davis-so-what-1959_music

 

Dinah Washington - September In The Rain

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xTcOP2CZmpM

 

Ruth Brown - Mama He Treats Your Daughter Mean

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=HnmbJruEkKw

 

Lavern Baker - voodoo, voodoo

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vn1Adf4cfyE

 

Carl Perkins - Matchbox

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIzvmqAAsNc

 

Johnny Burnette - Drinking Wine, Spo-Dee, Drinking Wine

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5UvIaXUYL8k

[matsalleh 10]

Some great music listed on here.I was a teenager through the 50's and it certainly was a great time for music.I had never heard anything like it until I discovered radio Luxenburg,having been brought up on a diet of Doris Day etc.Then along came Elvis,Blackboard Jungle and of course the good old Dansette and best of all our parents hated it,and the world did not end.

[Scozzie 10]

"50s" music will NEVER die as long as theres a thriving Rockabilly, Psychobilly, Horror punk scene

 

specially abroad psychobilly, horrorpunk seems to be on the rise

 

damn straight it is!! wooo hooooo

 

rockabilly bands are popping up everywhere.... but so are new big bands.

Melbourne in Australia has a huge rock and roll scene. Clubs, pubs, clothes shops even dance lessons and the like.

 

Quiffs abounds.

 

long Live Johnny O'Keefe - the original Wild One

[EdnaKrabappe 14]

Thanks for the songs:). Keep them coming.

 

I do have quite a bit of Doris Day but i think of her as 60s even though clearly she did a lot of fifties stuff. Plus I've got Miles Davis, Billie Holliday and I've got Buddy Holly stuff, really enjoyed the Miles Davis clip. (I'm sort of starting to play brass myself at the moment so it's inspired me!) I think I sort of don't think of jazz as fifties but it's own little group.

 

Some of the stuff I knew already, mainly from rerecordings, (Rocking good way but this version is ace) some of the stuff was first time listen and I really liked, some of it wasn't going anywhere and I found boring but none of it was unlistenable.

[Namklim 10]

Wow a lot of response I reserve my right to have my opinion changed and perhaps the 50's are not dead, Would it therefore be right in saying that all music is timeless?? Perhaps that is the beauty of music.

[Wildcat 10]

Wow a lot of response I reserve my right to have my opinion changed and perhaps the 50's are not dead, Would it therefore be right in saying that all music is timeless?? Perhaps that is the beauty of music.

 

Great music is indeed timeless.

 

It is cheesy but I love stuff like Dean Martin as well: That's Amore

 

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rtmsIq0-T54

 

Or Frank Sinatra - Come fly with me:

 

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=HmQq6yLe2ww

[melthebell 863]

thinking about it, i also hear the fifties in our very own Richard Hawleys stuff

(frank sinatra, crooning, rockabilly etc)

[Alien 10]

All music has had its day the second it leaves the charts, thats the nature of 'POP' music.

If we are talking about what is easily forgotten, then realistically about 40% of every decade can be wiped out, as for the 50's, well..............

 

Ever heard of a guy called Elvis Presley? radio still play his early stuff on a daily basis as they do so many artists from the same decade, Eddie Chocran, chuck berry, Jerry lee lewis etc.

 

whilever there is music, there will be 50's music within it.

 

And that's the truth of the matter.

[Crayfish 10]

But that music won't be 50s music.

 

If influences count in that way, then all music is the first two rocks ever rhythmically banged together by an ape.

[melthebell 863]

But that music won't be 50s music.

 

If influences count in that way, then all music is the first two rocks ever rhythmically banged together by an ape.

i dont think thats an influence, thats an origin.

with somebody like hawley "new" people hear his stuff and might go and listen to some 50s music (stuff thats influenced his music)

 

same witht he white stripes, i wouldnt say theyre blues but theres definite blues influences there...and in turn it helps keep the blues going

[melthebell 863]

another point.

 

in front of me ive got two cds that were free on the front of a music magazine (mojo magazine)

i know mojo is an "adult" music magazine, it aint no nme BUT.....

 

they feature stuff like

Bo Diddley - crackin up (1959)

Tex Williams - smoke smoke smoke (that cigerette) (1960 but im sure it wasnt his first song)

Amos Milburn - one scotch, one bourbon, one beer (1953)

Laurel Aitken - drinkin' whisky (1959)

Dinah Washington - smoke gets in your eyes (1956)

 

so magazines are allowing newer generations to hear the old music from ALL generations, not just read about it.

great in my book

[Crayfish 10]

i dont think thats an influence, thats an origin.

with somebody like hawley "new" people hear his stuff and might go and listen to some 50s music (stuff thats influenced his music)

 

same witht he white stripes, i wouldnt say theyre blues but theres definite blues influences there...and in turn it helps keep the blues going

 

No, but everyone gets their influences from somewhere. Pretty much all modern rock/pop bands owe at least something to the blues, but the blues came from traditional African music, which ultimately, indirectly evolved from that first bashing of some stones in the distant murky past, doubtless through countless iterations.