Can be a single, album, 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.)
Crazy that I don't know what precise year anything before the Beatles came out. If I did I'd probably pick something by Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Elvis,Carl Perkins,Dion or Hanks Williams . I may research and come back. Cool thread where I may take in musical suggestions.
MY all time favorite song came out that year; "Susie Darlin'" by Robin Luke. Honorable mentions; "Summertime Blues" by Eddie Cochran, "Topsy Part 2" by Cozy Cole, "Where or When" by Dion/Belmonts.....This was actually the best year of the 50's for Rock, Despite the draft of Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis's scandalous marriage, Little Richard's sudden shame of being a Rocker & Alan Freed's continued persecution, culminating in the payola scandal. The anti-Rock efforts being brought to the table that year were the most hysterically funny garbage. like Mitch Miller's "sold out to the pre-shave crowd" speech to the Disc Jockey convention. Several Rock history books refer to it.
Rock and Roll Trouble - Elvis Presley Rebel Rouser - Duane Eddy Diddy Wah Diddy - Bo Diddley Breathless - Jerry Lee Lewis I'm Gonna Love you too - Buddy Holly Move It - Cliff Richard and the Drifters Bird Dog - Everly Brothers True Fine Mama - Little Richard Sweet Little Sixteen - Chuck Berry It's So Easy - Buddy Holly I'm A Man - Bo Diddley Hard Headed Woman - Elvis Presley Well Alright - Buddy Holly Reelin and a Rockin - Chuck Berry High School Confidential - Jerry Lee Lewis Maybe Baby - Buddy Holly Good Golly Miss Molly - Little Richard Johnny B Goode - Chuck Berry Splish Splash - Bobby Darin King Creole - Elvis Presley Break Up - Jerry Lee Lewis Rave On - Buddy Holly Ooh My soul - Little Richard Carol - Chuck Berry Think It Over - Buddy Holly Tequilla - the Champs Ballads/Love Songs/Mellow Summertime - Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrang Send Me Some Lovin - Little Richard Don't - Elvis Presley Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - The Platters All I Have to do is Dream - Everly Brothers I Still Miss Someone - Johnny Cash Directly From My Heart to you - Little Richard Crawfish - Elvis Presley Long time Gone - Everly Brothers I Walk The Line - Johnny Cash Heartbeat - Buddy Holly Poor Little Fool - Ricky Nelson Don't Ask Me Why - Elvis Presley That Silver Haired Daddy Of Mine - Everly Brothers Jazz Stylings You don't Know What Love Is - Billie Holiday Come Fly With Me - Frank Sinatra Autumn Leaves - Cannonball Adderley It Could Happen to You - Miles Davis Lazy Bird - John Coltrane Straight No Chaser - Miles Davis
john54: Great choice of The Kirby Stone Four. The Columbia Lp of the same name (which I have) was an early stereo album, and it was used by many Hi Fi stores to show off their stereo systems. "Baubles, Bangles and Beads" is just FANTASTIC sounding in stereo.
4 albums: Bernard Herrmann - Vertigo Billie Holiday.- Lady In Satin Julie London - Julie Is Her Name, Volume 2 Frank Sinatra - Only The Lonely
Send Me Some Lovin' and Directly From My Heart To You are both absolute knock outs ... Zappa with Sugarcane Harris do a great cover of the second
Tony Bennett's IN PERSON [with] Count Basie and his Orchestra was *recorded* in November of 1958. Hey, I like the early rock stuff, but it doesn't rise to my "Favorite" categorization level.
Link wray - Rumble Ronnie Self - Bop A Lena Gene Summers and His Rebels - Gotta Lotta That Wayne Williams - Red Hot Mama Carl Perkins - Levi Jacket and a Long Tail Shirt, Glad All Over, Pink Pedal Pushers Easel Hickey - Goin' Down That Road Ronnie Dawson - Action Packed Glen Glenn - Everybody's Movin' Wanda Jackson - Honey Bop, Mean Mean Man Chuck Berry - Sweet Little Sixteen, Johnny B. Goode, Carol, Run Rudolph Run Jerry Lee Lewis- Breathless, High School Confidential Buddy Holly - Maybe Baby, Rave On Muddy Waters - Walkin' Through the Park Eddie Cochran - C'mon Everybody, Jeanie Jeanie Jeanie, Summertime Blues Duane Eddy - Rebel Rouser, Ramrod The Monotones- Book of Love The Crests - 16 Candles Danny and the Juniors - Rock and Roll is Here to Stay The Capris - There's A Moon Out Tonight The Silhouettes - Get A Job The Skyliners - Since I Don't Have You The Platters - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Cannonball Adderley – Somethin' Else Jimmy Reed – I'm Jimmy Reed Miles Davis – Porgy And Bess Miles Davis – Ascenseur Pour L'Échafaud
Had to listen to that. Except for the voice, if I heard it without knowing it was Muddy Waters, I might have taken it for a Jimmy Reed record.
