I love the music, but as a father of a teenage girl I do get concerned when I realize that Chuck Berry was 31 years old when he recorded "Sweet Little Sixteen" in 1958, Jerry Lee Lewis was 26 when he recorded "Sweet Little Sixteen" in 1962, Johnny Burnette was 26 when he recorded "You're Sixteen" in 1960, and Ringo Starr was 33 when he recorded "You're Sixteen" in 1973; those girls may have come out of a dream, peaches and cream, had lips like strawberry wine -- but they shouldn't have been walking into the arms of these older guys!
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Jimmie Rodgers, sometimes classified as a rock and roll singer, but with a style more typical of folk/rock or traditional pop music recorded his first hit single, “Honeycomb” on the Roulette label in 1957, it remained #1 for four weeks. The following year, he had a number of other hits that reached the top ten on the charts: "Kisses Sweeter than Wine", "Oh-Oh, I'm Falling in Love Again", "Secretly", and "Are You Really Mine".AlexBrowne said:
In the mid-1960s, he re-recorded (with altered tunes and words referring to the products) two of his best-known songs, for use in TV commercials:
·"Honeycomb" was adapted for a Post Cereals product called "Honeycomb".
·"Oh-Oh, I'm Falling in Love Again" was adapted for one of Franco-American's pasta products: "Oh-Oh, SpaghettiO's!"
Record producer/composer Mike Post was the orchestra leader for NBC-TV variety shows hosted by two of pop music's biggest stars of the '60s and '70s, The Andy Williams Show (1969-71) and The Mac Davis Show (1974-76), but we know his music best from the TV theme songs he recorded and charted with: "The Rockford Files" in 1975, "The Theme From Hill Street Blues" in 1981, and "Theme From Magnum P.I." in 1982.
The original version of “From A Jack To A King” was recorded by Ned Miller. Released in 1957, Ned's version was unsuccessful, until he persuaded his label to re-release it five years later. Upon re-release, the song became a crossover hit, charting in the Top 10 on the Billboard country, pop, and adult contemporary charts. The song was later covered by country music artist Ricky Van Shelton in late 1988, becoming Shelton's fourth #1 single on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart.AlexBrowne said:
I share your angst Alex, I also had a teen daughter, but when my young teen queen was a mere sixteen I was more concerned with the 17 and 18 year old high school boys than with the rock artists on the radio. Perhaps the memories of my high school escapades with the female gender had something to do with my anxiety. Que no?AlexBrowne said:
Jack Jones, one of the top singers of the 1960s, is the son of actor/singer Allan Jones (who played the leading man in the Marx Brothers' classics A Night at the Opera and A Day at the Races) and actress Irene Hervey; his biggest hits, "Wives And Lovers" (in 1963), "The Race Is On" (1965, #1 on the adult contemporary chart), and "Dear Heart" (1964), were quite popular on radio -- and he also performed the theme song for the popular TV series The Love Boat.
“One Night”, written by Bartholomew, King & Steiman, was recorded by Fats Domino at Cosimo’s studio in New Orleans on 6/20/61 and was released on the Imperial Label (IM-5980) in 1963. It was backed with “I Can’t Go On This Way”, and did not chart.AlexBrowne said:
But I liked it.
A lot.
One night with you
Is what I'm now praying for
The things that we two could plan
Would make my dreams come true
Just call my name
And Ill be right by your side
I want your sweet helping hand
My loves' too strong to hide
Always lived, very quiet life
I aint never did no wrong
Now I know that life without you
Has been too lonely too long
“One Night” was later covered successfully by Elvis.
"One Night, One Night" was the B Side of the evergreen "Since I Don't Have You" With that famous Pittsburgh sound of the Skyliners. Lead Jimmy Beaumont still makes the rounds. The 1959 classic, with it's 13 "you"s at the end of the song was on local Calico label. I won a lot of Jamesons' Irish with that trivia.
I was a teenage girl in the 1950's, and "16 Candles" came out the same month that I turned 16. Johnny Maestro was only 19 when he recorded that song with The Crests, so his age was just perfect. The song remains my favorite birthday song to this day, and Johnny Maestro is my favorite singer. He just turned 69 (where does the time fly?) and his voice is better than ever.AlexBrowne said:
Welcome to the thread Topaz, you have good taste in music.Topaz said:
“Sixteen Candles” dates to 1958 (Coed 505), and was but one of the many “sixteen”-themed tunes recorded during those years. I was seventeen at the time but my girlfriend was sixteen. One which wasn’t mentioned was “Only Sixteen” b/w “Let’s Go Steady Again”, Sam Cooke, Keen 2022, in 1959.
Ah, yes, the Moonglows – absolutely in my Top Ten list of doowop groups, especially both A and B sides of “Over And Over Again”/”I Knew From The Start” (Chess 1646, 1956); and individually, “Sincerely”, (Chess 1581, 1954), and “See Saw” (Chess 1629, 1956).
Off game comment: Tomorrow is Memorial Day, a day to remember all the fallen warriors of these United States, in wars past and present. Please reserve a moment in your day to thank them for their sacrifice.
Off game comment: Tomorrow is Memorial Day, a day to remember all the fallen warriors of these United States, in wars past and present. Please reserve a moment in your day to thank them for their sacrifice.
"Balad Of The Green Beret" by SSgt. Barry Saddler was a memorial to those serving in Viet Nam.
Hey everyone, I guarantee, despite that it was number #1 for 5 weeks, it won't get played. "It didn't test well" I venture. I'd like to test these kids telling me what I'm supposed to like with a six month vacation to Da Nang.
Hey everyone, I guarantee, despite that it was number #1 for 5 weeks, it won't get played. "It didn't test well" I venture. I'd like to test these kids telling me what I'm supposed to like with a six month vacation to Da Nang.
The Ventures, was an instrumental rock band formed in 1958, by Don Wilson and Bob Bogle, two Tacoma, Washington masonry workers. Initially calling themselves "The Versatones", Bogle and Wilson played small clubs and beer bars in the Northwest. In 1959 they met and recruited Nokie Edwards as bass player, and recorded "Walk Don't Run" with Bogle on lead, Wilson on rhythm, Edwards on bass, and Skip Moore on drums. They started their own record company, "Blue Horizon Records", self-produced the 45 rpm single of "Walk Don't Run" and promoted it themselves. "Walk Don't Run" climbed to #2 on the Billboard Top 100 in September 1960.amfmsw said:
You’re correct, The Versatones had a single, “Tight Skirt And Sweater” on the A side with “Bila” on the B, released on All Star 501 in 1958, Fenway 7001 in 1960, and Atlantic 2211 in 1963. They also recorded on the RCA label in 1957.amfmsw said:
A sweater is the key element in Dickey Lee's eerie 1965 song "Laurie (Strange Things Happen)": Dickey loans his sweater to Laurie, "an angel of a girl" who he meets at the dance, because she is suddenly "very, very cold," but when he goes to her home to retrieve the sweater Laurie's dad is devastated because his daughter "died a year ago today"; then, a "strange force" draws Dickey to the graveyard where he finds the sweater lying on Laurie's grave -- and the deep message of the story (and the last line of the song) is "strange things happen in this world."
Mark Dinning came from a musical family, three of his sisters formed The Dinning Sisters singing group that had a Top Ten hit in the late 1940s. (i.e., the million seller "Buttons and Bows", from the Bob Hope and Jane Russell movie "Paleface".) His recording efforts met with limited success until 1959, when he recorded a single called "Teen Angel" b/w “Bye Now Baby” (MGM 12845). The A-side lyrics told of the death of a teenage love that radio stations in the United Kingdom deemed too morbid to be aired, but it went to #1 on the Billboard Charts in the United States in February 1960. I’m told Sha-Na-Na played this at Woodstock in 1969.AlexBrowne said:
So did the great Bob Hope ever have a hit single?; yes, to be specific, three duets: one in the 1930s ("Two Sleepy People" with Shirley Ross in 1939 -- the B-side is Bob's theme song "Thanks For The Memory"), one in the 1940s ("The Road To Morocco" with Bing Crosby, the title song to the movie, in 1945), and one in the 1950s ("Blind Date" with Margaret Whiting in 1950).
Margaret Whiting, wow. When I was a "yon teen", I got this fabulous GE Musaphonic hi-fi from my grandfather. 6 bands, including both FM's, Armstrongs and Sarnoff's. Huge amplifier, seperate tuner/pre-amp, twin 10" speakers w/turntable. In it were a bunch of 78's.
One was called "I've Been To Hollywood" by a female doing a hick-style impression...great record with a walking bassline in the middle eight. Also Tony Bennett on Columbia with "Cold, Cold Heart" b/w , damn I can't remember. And another by Whiting called "There's A Tree In The Meadow". Can anyone help me with the artist on the first, and does anyone have the audio to it or Whiting's "Meadow"? Late 40's/early 50's. I haven't heard those songs in 40 years, but they left an impression...hard to understand with a kid into Phil Ochs and Big Brother & The Holding Co at the time.
Talk about Kinetic Anchoring! Take that Dave
Isn't that what "oldies" are supposed to do, trigger memories? You can't test memories in an auditorium. Thanks in advance.
One was called "I've Been To Hollywood" by a female doing a hick-style impression...great record with a walking bassline in the middle eight. Also Tony Bennett on Columbia with "Cold, Cold Heart" b/w , damn I can't remember. And another by Whiting called "There's A Tree In The Meadow". Can anyone help me with the artist on the first, and does anyone have the audio to it or Whiting's "Meadow"? Late 40's/early 50's. I haven't heard those songs in 40 years, but they left an impression...hard to understand with a kid into Phil Ochs and Big Brother & The Holding Co at the time.
Talk about Kinetic Anchoring! Take that Dave
Isn't that what "oldies" are supposed to do, trigger memories? You can't test memories in an auditorium. Thanks in advance.- Status