[78-L] Pop Music thgru 1955(ish)

[Bill Knowlton]

Mr Barr sayeth: "

 

That assumes, then, that you actually LIKED hits like "This Old House," "Oh  Mein Papa" and
 the rest of the (dubiously) "music" that was what one HAD to hear on radio in that era! I grew
up with that...I didn't like it then, and I doubt if I would even these days."

 

Well that's perfectly fine, Steve. One's taste in music is similar to taste in tooth paste.  You can't argue about it.

 

It would be nice if you put the ole "IMHO" in your post; just because you don't like the music of the early 'fifties doesn't make it dogma that it's no good.

 

I turned 12 in 1950 and loved "This Old House" (Stuart Hamblin who also wrote "It Is No Secret")...maybe not Oh My Papa...but YES, I LOVED Tennessee Waltz.

 

IMHO (note) it was a fun era. And the songs (IMHO again) by Frankie Lane, Joanie James, Rosemary Clooney, Eddie Fisher (sans "Papa"), Kay Starr, and Guy Mitchell appealed to me quite strongly.

 

Then I discovered that Hey Joe, Jambalaya, Cold Cold Heart, and others were pop covers of COUNTRY songs.

 

That made me an immediate convert to Country Music (until--IMHO--it went down the tubes starting with Young Love and Gone.)..

 

Sh-Boom????? Is that really better than Doggie In the Window? 

 

Have you ever heard the hilarious excerpt of the Jack Benny Show when his Sportsman Quartet sang it? Jack's reaction was --IMHO-- perfectly hilarious and dead-on accurate.

 

Tennessee Waltz was made a State Song. What State has given that honor to ShBoom?

 

All in fun....


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