Your favorite music from 1947

Can be a single track, a 78 with multiple tracks, early albums, a classical piece, a later compilation focusing on the year . . . whatever.

Doesn't have to be a list, though of course you can post a list if you want. You can also just post one title at a time as you think of it/run across it (which is what I do in these threads).

 

1947??

Well, at least Miles Davis became a band leader.

 

Duke Ellington - The Carnegie Hall Concerts, December 1947

 

I dunno, Donna Lee?

 

For me, it has to be the 1947 re-recording of "White Christmas" performed by Bing Crosby:

 

Amos Milburn - Down the Road Apiece. So grateful for the Bear Family Blowing the Fuse comps that have these great 40's -50's R&B songs on them.

 

1947....

 

One of the biggest hits in the history of the Billboard pop charts was this one, also the first big pop hit recorded in Nashville (for the then-new Bullet label). The all-but-forgotten pianist and bandleader Francis Craig hit #1 for 12 weeks on the sales chart, 13 weeks on the jukebox chart, and an astounding 17 weeks on the disc-jockey chart with "Near You":



The 17 weeks at #1 was a record that lasted for 72 years.

Craig was a two-hit wonder; a later single, "Beg Your Pardon," peaked at #3 in 1948.

 

It's certainly a prime exhibit for why rock & roll needed to happen I'm almost afraid to ask, but what 2019 future classic topped that record?

 

Roy Brown-"Good Rockin' Tonight"...the original of one of the great early rock n roll songs.

 

"Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus.

 

"Thanks" I watched the video on YouTube. I'm really starting to understand how my Dad must have felt when I played him "Dead Babies" in 1972

 

I'll Look Around / Baby, I Don't cry Over You⸻Billie Holiday With Billy Kyle and his Trio

I'm Yours / My old Flame⸻Billie Holiday and Eddie Heywood and his Orchestra

There is no Greater Love / Solitude⸻Billie Holiday

Gloomy Sunday ❨The Famous Hungarian Suicide Song❩ / Night and Day⸻Billie Holiday

Easy Living / Deep Song⸻Billie Holiday

Black and Blue / Don't Explain⸻Louis Armstrong / Billie Holiday

Do you Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans / Who's Sorry Now⸻Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday / Benny Goodman and his Orchestra

Them There Eyes / What is This Thing Called Love?⸻Billie Holiday

Chasing the Bird / Little Willie Leaps⸻Miles Davis All Stars, Charlie Parker

Goin to Mintons / Half-Nelson⸻
❨a❩ Fats Navarro/ Leo Parker
❨b❩ Miles Davis /Charlie Parker

Buzzy/Donna Lee⸻Charlie Parker with Miles Davis




. . that ought to do for a start !

 

Methinks that's it. But if you be into bluegrass, it's "Blue Moon of Kentucky." (the latter being re-recorded by more people than a mathematician could count...)

 

Peg O' My Heart - The Harmonicats

 

Nat King Cole Trio - What'll I Do

One of my all-time favorite Nat tunes.

 

Peggy Lee - I Only Have Eyes For You

 

Merle Travis, So Round So Firm So Fully Packed, a song made mostly from then current advertising slogans, and yes times have changed.

 

Peggy Lee with Frank Devol and his Orchestra - There'll Be Some Changes Made

I nice swingin' standard that sounds much later than 1947. Great tune!

 

At least two all-time classic Christmas songs made their debut in 1947.

Inspired by children he overheard at the Hollywood Christmas parade a year earlier, Gene Autry co-wrote "Here Comes Santa Claus (Down Santa Claus Lane)" and took it into the top 10 during the holiday season of 1947: