Oldies
A playlist of representative of, but perhaps forgotten, music from the era, different renditions, and some things you never knew.
1950
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Gonna Get Along Without Ya Now — Skeeter DavisThe original was a hit for Teresa Brewer (Music, Music, Music) in 1951. But, this 1964 Skeeter Davis version is probably the version you remember. (I had totally forgotten this song until I heard it in a recent Korean drama, Lie to Me!)
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1951
Destination Moon — Dinah Washington
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1954
The Regency TR-1It's 1954 and portable music is born! The first transistor radio, the Regency TR-1, will fit in your pocket! (Well, it would have to be a BIG pocket.) No longer do you need a piece of furniture with radio tubes. The TR-1 was the "it" Christmas gift of 1954 and they still work today.
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1955
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Devil or Angel — The CloversReached number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100. Bobby Vee got a hit out of it in 1960.
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1956
Love Is Strange — Mickey & SylviaFrom the Lipstick on Your Collar TV series, Ewan McGregor and Louise Germaine lipsync to this Bo Diddley hit. You can fantasize an entire lifetime in a split second. This was the lone gem in a very bad TV show set in the Suez Canal Crisis that marked the beginning of the cold war.
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Why Do Fools Fall in Love — Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers
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Written by Frankie Lymon when he was just 13 years old.
Fools made Rolling Stones magazine's list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. Success comes so fast for so many. They never learn how to grow up. Frankie died at age 25 of a heroin overdose. |
Jefferson High, Class of 1968, Alexandria, Minnesota