Your favorite music from 1949?

Can be a single track, a 78 with multiple tracks, early albums (as in literal albums of 78s bound together), 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).




(I'm going to eventually be doing one of these for every year from 1920 to 1963 (we already have threads for every year from 1964), and then for wider periods prior (decades, etc.) Of course, anyone else is free to start the others before I get to them, but just let me know if you do so we can avoid duplicates.)

 

Paul Hindemith - Concerto for Woodwinds, Harp and Orchestra

 

Slim Gaillard and his Sextet - Organ-Oreenie, recorded September 1949.

 

The fat man (by Fats Domino)

 

`MULE TRAIN` originally a hit for Frankie Vaughan..........
But you really can`t beat (no pun intended), the wonderful Bob Blackman.

 

Did Blue Note Records release anything by Thelonious Monk in 1949?
I don't think so, but in case it did, that's my favorite.

 

Spoiler: NSFW lyrics

Hold back the dawn, stop all the clocks
I just got the news that my baby wants to rock
All she wants to do is rock
All she wants to do is rock
All she wants to do is rock
Rock and roll all night long.

My baby don't go for fancy clothes
High class dinners and picture shows
All she wants to do is stay at home
And hucklebuck with Daddy all night long
All she wants to do is rock...

She doesn't like to ride on airplane
Never had a trip on a streamlined train
When it comes to lovin' she knows what it's all about
And the way she hucklebucks knocks me out
All she wants to do is rock...

Rock a-bye baby
Rock my baby
She wants to rock with the clock
But she don't know when to stop

She gets her kicks everyday
Yes, rockin' will find some way
She rocks in the basement and she rocks upstairs
I can't take it no more, gonna find a rockin' chair...
All she wants to do is rock...

 

I think you mean Frankie Laine, but the earliest version appears to been by Buz Butler

 

1949 was a big year for Hank Williams. Both "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" and "Lovesick Blues" were released in 1949. I'm a fan of Hank Williams.

 

Sweet Georgia Brown - Brother Bones

 

pretty much ALL from 40's

the 40's are my second favorite period! love those beautiful harmonies...

 

'Drinkin' Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee'

 

Muddy Waters - "Screamin' and Cryin' / "Where's My Woman Been"

 

"Misterioso" was recorded with Milt Jackson in 1948, but according to the RYM discography it was released w/ "Humph" on a single (BN 560) in 1949.



Also released that year:

"I Mean You" on a split single with Tadd Dameron's "Symphonette"
"I Should Care"/"All The Things You Are" feat. Kenny "Poncho" Hagood on vocal
"Who Knows"/"Monk's Mood"

 

Julia Lee & her Boyfriends

 

Miles Davis, "Israel"

 

Miles Davis, "Boplicity"

The other side of the "Israel" single on Capitol (57-60011) released in September 1949.

 

'Hadacol Boogie'

 

'My Bucket's Got a Hole in it' by T. Texas Tyler (released one week before Hank Williams' version)

 

George Shearing - East of the Sun

 

Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelli - Daphne

 

I would have been in Mom's womb but I'm I'm pretty sure I listened to a lot of Glenn Miller.

 

I'm goin' with Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer - Gene Autry. Heck, I still listen to it every year without fail!

 

'Roomin' House Boogie' - Amos Milburn

 

'Come Back Baby' - Lowell Fulson