Your favorite music from 1950

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).

 

Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians -- self-titled, but also known as "The Uncollected 1950" or simply "Guy Lombardo 1950"

This is a comp of 1950 performances (recorded for radio) on the Hindsight label, catalog #HUK 187. The comp was originally released on LP in 1982. The CD has a handful of bonus tracks.

 

The Fat Man

 

The Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite - Chico O'Farrill

 

Harry Revel - Perfume Set to Music

Arrangements by Les Baxter, Theremin by Dr. Samuel Hoffman.

 

Yma Sumac - Voice of the Xtabay

Arrangements by Les Baxter

 

George Shearing - "When Your Lover Has Gone."

 

Moon Mullican - I'll Sail My Ship Alone

 

Tennessee Ernie Ford - The Shot Gun Boogie

 

Dean Martin - I Don't Care if the Sun Don't Shine

 

Billy Ward & The Dominoes - Sixty Minute Man

 

Muddy Waters

 

“Birth of the Cool” - Mikes Davis

 

Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Dream A Little Dream Of Me

 

Nat King Cole - Mona Lisa

 

Lys Assia - Oh Mein Papa

 

Anything by Charlie Parker! Hands down!!!

 

Tennessee Ernie Ford-The Shot Gun Boogie with his hot band featuring Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant.

 

'Double Crossing Blues' - Johnny Otis Quintette with Little Esther & the Robins


recorded on 1st December, 1949; released in 1950

 

'Please Send Me Someone to Love' - Percy Mayfield

 

'Bon Ton Roula' - Clarence Garlow


recorded in 1949; originally released in 1950 on a 78 on the Macy's label

 

Hank