Last decade but four. What are your curious recordings from the 1950s?
Posted by Commoner on 18 July 2008 - 11:48am.
As a signatory to Mr Hepworths Decades Theory in Scotties "1980s not rubbish shock" thread (sorry i cant do hyperlinks yet, any tips?). I dipped into my "it happened but we don't actually *listen* to anything from that far back" category. So I did listen, dipped into my hard drive and uncovered this Joseph Locke weepy from 1947 but still current in the 50s. Anyone else for 50's revisited?
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That's the song that the Irish bloke from next door sang in that fantastic episode from the Royal Family where after bring tears to everyone's eyes the mood was shatterd by the guy from Coronation Street who said "I can still smell shit in here".
Great moment...
Martin
yep
Royle Family, beautiful. Christams special was brill. And "Early Doors is even better.
There are few Irish men
over a certain age that will not try to sing this at a family gathering after drink has been taken. I think I have this on a 78 somewhere - my (tenuous) claim to fame in this context is that as a child my great aunt once beat Joseph Locke into second place in a talent contest. Sadly the vocal talents did not cross over from the distaff side.
And not
everybody can say that....
Also from the late 1940s…
… but presaging the following decade by being among the first examples of 'mood music', this is Moon Moods by Harry Revel/Les Baxter. Nothing sounds quite so charmingly antiquated as something from long ago attempting to be futuristic.
Oh go on then
Features Dion who almost got on the plane that ended Buddy Holly's life. They dress like barbers here. I think they might be miming: