So many music posts, very few dealing with the 50s music scene

Bretrick

Bretrick

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The 50s saw the birth of rock and roll.
All that followed was profoundly influenced by the sounds of the 50s.
The Beatles had many cover songs from the 50s in their first few albums including Buddy Holly's -That'll be the day (as the Quarrymen), Little Richard's - Lucille, Carl Perkin's - Glad All Over, Chuck Berry's - Roll Over Beethoven
Some of my friend's parents had 50s cassette tapes which I enjoyed. Personally I had a few 50s tapes I bought in the 70s, not that I remember the names of.
My local radio station, 7QT played a lot of 50s music.
Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On - Jerry Lee Lewis 1957 (Big Maybelle cover)
 

I love 50s (and 60s) music. I got into it when my first car had only an AM radio, and the only station that actually played music was an oldies station. I've been in love with that era ever since, even though I wasn't born 'til 1968. I brought my three kids up on all sorts of music; songs from the 50s and 60s were a big part of their education.
 
Regarding 1950s rock-n-roll...

Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis are overrated. In the 60s, cover versions far outclassed the originals. Black vocal groups usually had the most memorable hits. The death of the 50s best, Buddy Holly, put a stop to his output.
The better 50s songs do get posted.
 

Electronically much more amplified, vastly more electronically instrument processed music during the Classic Rock period after 1965, has on average significant enough differences it is considered a rock sub-genre. During the Classic Rock era, R&B, Soul, and Pop tended to continue the earlier Rock & Roll genre that was before and during mainly broadcast via AM radio, but in most of the USA was greatly overwhelmed by the massive cultural switch to Album Oriented Rock broadcast on FM stations.
 
One of the first things I bought with my babysitting money. A four album set, Motowns greatest hits, wish I still had it!!

We have/had one station for the oldies, KLUV 98.7. I only listen to the radio when I am out in the car which maybe is 10 minutes a week.
 
It was the emergence of a culture that took on a life of it's own. It wasn't just about the birth of rock n' roll, but also classic cars that have stood the test of time, hot rods, cruising, drive-in movies, soda shops, diners, burger joints with servers on roller skates, hair styles, 50's fashion, sock hops and new dance crazes, juke boxes and 45's, Wolf Man Jack, and a few others I may have left off.

It was a time of teenagers expressing themselves in so many ways, and having a blast. It's really a shame that today's generation wasn't there to enjoy it.
 
bobcat said:
It was the emergence of a culture that took on a life of it's own. It wasn't just about the birth of rock n' roll, but also classic cars that have stood the test of time, hot rods, cruising, drive-in movies, soda shops, diners, burger joints with servers on roller skates, hair styles, 50's fashion, sock hops and new dance crazes, juke boxes and 45's, Wolf Man Jack, and a few others I may have left off.

It was a time of teenagers expressing themselves in so many ways, and having a blast. It's really a shame that today's generation wasn't there to enjoy it.
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George Lucas produced his auto biographical American Graffiti. The movie captured the car culture, drive ins (Mel's with roller skating car hops), and relatively innocent teens. The sound track is all the 50's hits.
 
Silhouettes on the Shade?

Venus in Blue jeans?

Those groups of 4?

Were these later in the 50's?
 

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