Your favorite pop singer (not rock) of the 1950s

ChiroDoc

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Of all the great pop vocalists from the later 1940s through the early 1960s, my favorite is Nat King Cole.
It's impossible for me to hear his mellow resonant voice without it catapulting me right back to that 1950s era when he turned out hit after hit.

"Unforgettable", "Autumn Leaves", "Mona Lisa", "For Sentimental Reasons", "When I Fall in Love", and on and on.

If he hadn't tragically died of lung cancer at aged 45 in 1965, he probably could have recorded and performed into the 1990s. There's never been a voice like his before or since.
 

I have over 52,000 mp3 files. even if over half are duplicates, that still leaves a huge number.

I was born in the early 30's, so that tells you pretty much about the content of these files - no rock'n roll garbhage.

I got most of them by downloading from Usenet music groups. Those groups, with the exception of one, have been dead for a looong time. There is one person who still posts to one group yet, but those files are all repeats from postings of decades ago. I got all the ones from there I cared about.

I used to post many mp3's myself on Usenet, but the younger crowd was not interested. I never got a 'thank you' or any sort of affirmation that anyone was downloading my posts, so I quit. I don't even know if I remember how I did it, except I used an old program called Power Post.

I find it relaxing and comforting to listen to music and vocalists who didn't need lasers or endless reams of smoke surrounding them in order to sing a simple song.
The fact that the music of that time was filled with the beautiful sound of violins instead of screeching electrical junk guitars adds enormously to it's quality.

Unfortunately, all this music on my computer will pass with me.

But equally fortunate is that I was born in the Golden Era of Real music.
 
I was only being born... altho' my father tells the story that I would be asleep in my cot...and I would not be disturbed by the radio being on, however as soon as Sixteen Tons was played, I'd get up, hold onto the rails of the cot, and shake my booty
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... then lie back down again when it was finished :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
 
hollydolly said:
I was only being born... altho' my father tells the story that I would be asleep in my cot...and I would not be disturbed by the radio being on, however as soon as Sixteen Tons was played, I'd get up, hold onto the rails of the cot, and shake my booty
excited-cute.gif
... then lie back down again when it was finished :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
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This one: 16 tons and what d'ya get? Another day older and deeper in debt? :unsure::)
 
The Doddering Biker said:
I have over 52,000 mp3 files. even if over half are duplicates, that still leaves a huge number.

I was born in the early 30's, so that tells you pretty much about the content of these files - no rock'n roll garbhage.

I got most of them by downloading from Usenet music groups. Those groups, with the exception of one, have been dead for a looong time. There is one person who still posts to one group yet, but those files are all repeats from postings of decades ago. I got all the ones from there I cared about.

I used to post many mp3's myself on Usenet, but the younger crowd was not interested. I never got a 'thank you' or any sort of affirmation that anyone was downloading my posts, so I quit. I don't even know if I remember how I did it, except I used an old program called Power Post.

I find it relaxing and comforting to listen to music and vocalists who didn't need lasers or endless reams of smoke surrounding them in order to sing a simple song.
The fact that the music of that time was filled with the beautiful sound of violins instead of screeching electrical junk guitars adds enormously to it's quality.

Unfortunately, all this music on my computer will pass with me.

But equally fortunate is that I was born in the Golden Era of Real music.
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Great post, Biker. And what an impressive library you havve of singers and songs, presumably from the American song book!! The great popular singers from the '30s through the '50s sang about lovely subjects-- with class and style.

Perhaps you could load your library to thumb drives, and will them to relatives, or even a senior center.
 
ChiroDoc said:
Great post, Biker. And what an impressive library you havve of singers and songs, presumably from the American song book!! The great popular singers from the '30s through the '50s sang about lovely subjects-- with class and style.

Perhaps you could load your library to thumb drives, and will them to relatives, or even a senior center.
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I'm ninety, so few relatives left. Really never had much contacts with those left.

Anyway, they would have to be on a hard drive of about 2 terabytes. It'd take tons of USB drives to dump all them onto.

I really don't want to get involved with strangers. So they'll stay where they are.

It's the way things go.
 
Eupher said:
Ain't no music like swing:

Mel Torme, the "Velvet Fog".
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I'm glad you mentioned the great Mel Torme. He not only had a great voice which he used perfectly, but he was one of the finest male jazz singers of all time. He didn't have the hits as did Cole, Sinatra, Martin, and the rest, but technically he may have been the best singer.
 
hollydolly said:
I was only being born... altho' my father tells the story that I would be asleep in my cot...and I would not be disturbed by the radio being on, however as soon as Sixteen Tons was played, I'd get up, hold onto the rails of the cot, and shake my booty
excited-cute.gif
... then lie back down again when it was finished :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
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Was that, perhaps, Holly, because you had 16 tons in your nappy? šŸ˜Š
 
ChiroDoc said:
I'm glad you mentioned the great Mel Torme. He not only had a great voice which he used perfectly, but he was one of the finest male jazz singers of all time. He didn't have the hits as did Cole, Sinatra, Martin, and the rest, but technically he may have been the best singer.
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And he was a damn good drummer too. Not nearly on the par with Buddy and the rest of the full-time drummers, but he could damn well hold his own.
 
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