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

Timewise 60+ said:
My older sister graduated in 64 and I finished in 68. She loved Elvis, not much of anything else while in high school. I was into Rock and Roll, Beatles, Beach Boys, Simon and Garfunkel, etc. etc. Our house was filled with Rock and Roll for 8-10 years. Our parents were very tolerant of all the "noise"...
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Yor post reminds me of my teen years.
My mother had two younger sisters who were trying to save me from the influence of the ‘bad’ Rock music, and especially Elvis... lol

Fast forward to around 1998….. one of those aunts was on her death bed … and she spent her final days listening to her favorite religious album .. it was Elvis.:)
I’ll never forget that!
 
JustBonee said:
Yor post reminds me of my teen years.
My mother had two younger sisters who were trying to save me from the influence of the ‘bad’ Rock music, and especially Elvis... lol

Fast forward to around 1998….. one of those aunts was on her death bed … and she spent her final days listening to her favorite religious album .. it was Elvis.:)
I’ll never forget that!
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Good story, thanks for sharing.
 

BobB said:
1958
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Funny story about Chuck Berry. We played the Atlantic City Pop Festival in 1969, which included lots of the big acts of the day. Chuck Berry was on the bill. Word went out that he needed volunteers for a back up band, since he showed up without a band! Well a couple of guys in our band, along with some others agreed to back him. After all, every band knew his songs.

Then later at a gig in Milwaukee Chuck was again on the bill with us. This time he didn't even show up with a guitar! Our band leader leant him his Stratocaster.

No telling how much money Berry made by not hiring and traveling with a band. Maybe that's how he could afford that amusement park!.....😄
 
Hello ChiroDoc, that is probably an evening, that you will always remember. Thank you for sharing that story.
 
BobB said:
1958 ["Chantilly Lace"]
This song was performed on the Saturday Night Beech-Nut Show hosted by Dick Clark.
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Funny, in my mind I always hear Bopper saying, "Hello Baby. This is the Big Bopper talkin' ". But it's "speaking". And I think he got "You know what I like" from Jerry Lee Lewis.
But hed gotten real popular. It's a crying shame all those guys went down in that plane wreck in 1959..:( (Buddy Holly and Richie Valens)
 
ChiroDoc said:
Great expression, great song. And one of the very best slow dance songs ever. Do people still slow dance? Dance at all? I mean dance together...:rolleyes:
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Hello ChrioDoc, great questions, I wonder too.
 

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