Your Favourite Song From 1955

PeterG · Feb 8, 2016

Vote for as many as you like. You can change your votes as well.

skatingfan5 · Feb 8, 2016

I protest! Unfair (and a crying shame) to have Fats Domino's Ain't That a Shame linked to Pat Boone's in any way -- even as a poll choice! :lynch:

Tinami Amori · Feb 8, 2016

other choice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zE1-48AAYc

Ernie Ford - 16 tons.

skatesindreams · Feb 8, 2016

No contest for me; "Unchained Melody"!

Some background; and many more examples
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrquswYcwV0

Spun Silver · Feb 8, 2016

The only one I know is Unchained Melody, but that's OK, because it's my favorite popular song -- in the version of the late great Jimmy Scott.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OyeaeTJqg3Q

I had the honor of seeing him live in an intimate jazz club setting toward what had to be the end of his singing life. I sent a huge bouquet of flowers backstage with a request to sing Unchained Melody. He did, and was making eyes at me the whole time. I was so inept that I couldn't flirt back and just sat there like a rock. Oh well. I'm sure he understood I was a huge fan, just shy. R.I.P., Mr. Scott, but not so much that you can't mix it up with the heavenly choirs.

ETA: Some quotes about Jimmy Scott (1925-2014) by fellow musicians:

Ray Charles: “This man is all about feeling. He defined what ‘soul’ is all about in singing long before anyone was using that word!”

Lou Reed: “I first met Jimmy Scott through the remarkable songwriter Doc Pomus. I’d heard about him for many years. At the gathering after Doc’s passing Jimmy sang. He has the voice of an angel and can break your heart. He did that day and many others.I’ve heard and even sung with Jimmy many times since then. Here is the singer’s singer if labels mean any thing. Listening to Jimmy is like having a performing heart. The experience of life and the art of CPA prep expression sing through Jimmy and make us partners in his incredible passion. I love him and I never want to say goodbye. When the song stops with Jimmy’s last note we’re back in the world as it was. Not quite so pretty, not quite so passionate. And we can only wait for Jimmy to sing again and take us that little bit higher.”

emason · Feb 8, 2016

The great Julie London. No contest.

Kasey · Feb 9, 2016

^^^absolutely, and my choice as well. Just gorgeous

PeterG · Feb 9, 2016

Forgot to give a shout-out to Wikipedia for helping me come up with my list:

1955 in music

Tinami Amori · Feb 9, 2016

PeterG said:
Forgot to give a shout-out to Wikipedia for helping me come up with my list:

1955 in music

oh, since we have more choices (this one is not in wiki) my all time favorite
Naughty Lady of Shady Lane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HxB7lxbTnI
What ever Lola wants https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0jwfZr2V5s
Coimbra Divina: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ0JhLAWaoo
Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggSDeyPu_e4

Vash01 · Feb 9, 2016

I knew only 3 of these songs, so I picked those.

Rock around the clock (I know this because of G&P's FD)
Cry me a river (I thought this was a recent song)
Unchained melody (I knew only the Elvis version but I picked it anyway)

Cachoo · Feb 9, 2016

My mom's favorite song of her youth is "Sincerely" so I had to go with that. 1955 was the year she met and married by father.

Simone411 · Feb 9, 2016

Thanks, @PeterG Loved Bill Haley and Chuck Berry. Glad you also added Tweedle Dee (LaVern Baker) and Silver Threads and Golden Needles by Wanda Jackson. Love Linda Ronstadt's version of that, too!

Buzz · Feb 9, 2016

Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ford.

My mom's fave song from that year is The Great Pretender by The Platters

PeterG · Feb 9, 2016

I was surprised that there were no big hits from Elvis Presley in 1955. I thought that That's Alright Mama came out in 1954 and he had big hits after that. I was half right! That song did come out in 1954, but it didn't hit any music chart. But...it does have a gold-selling status! Guess everybody discovered it and bought it long after it had been released to radio. His second single also did not make an impression on any music chart, it went gold as well: Good Rocking Tonight.

It took Elvis eight more single releases until he had a hit. And what a hit, all the way up to #1 with Heartbreak Hotel. He did have three top 10 country songs with those early singles, however (Baby Let's Play House, I'm Left You're Right She's Gone and I Forgot To Remember To Forget).

skatingfan5 said:
I protest! Unfair (and a crying shame) to have Fats Domino's Ain't That a Shame linked to Pat Boone's in any way -- even as a poll choice!

Two interesting things about music in the 50's...fairly often more than one artist had a hit at the same time with the exact same song. Unchained Melody is a great example of that. The other thing of note was the times that a black artist recorded a song, which became a moderate hit...and then a white artist recorded the same song and had a bigger hit with it. I think Pat Boone (and Elvis?) were two examples of that...umm...phenomenon...

Tinami Amori said:
other choice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zE1-48AAYc

Ernie Ford - 16 tons.

I was going to mention this one, but I tried to picks songs people in 2016 would be most aware of. Since this one has been mentioned twice in this thread, I guess it's still more well-known than I realized. It really is a great song! :biggrinbo

Buzz · Feb 9, 2016

I know the song because someone skated to it but can't remember who. :shuffle:

Johnny_Fever · Feb 9, 2016

PeterG said:
I was surprised that there were no big hits from Elvis Presley in 1955. I thought that That's Alright Mama came out in 1954 and he had big hits after that.

Presley's That's Alright would get my vote, but that's 54, not 55.

PeterG said:
Two interesting things about music in the 50's...fairly often more than one artist had a hit at the same time with the exact same song. Unchained Melody is a great example of that. The other thing of note was the times that a black artist recorded a song, which became a moderate hit...and then a white artist recorded the same song and had a bigger hit with it. I think Pat Boone (and Elvis?) were two examples of that...umm...phenomenon...

Part of Dreamgirls is devoted to that. The white, Pat Boone-type singer turn's Eddie Murphy's song to mush.

Tinami Amori · Feb 9, 2016

PeterG said:
I was going to mention this one (16 tons), but I tried to picks songs people in 2016 would be most aware of. Since this one has been mentioned twice in this thread, I guess it's still more well-known than I realized. It really is a great song!

actually "16 tons" lyrics come up often in economics classes when you get to the subject of "Cliometrics".... :biggrinbo

AxelAnnie · Feb 9, 2016

Obviously, the best song was "Something's Gotta Give" from the movie Daddy Long Legs! The song was written by Johnny Mercer (who also wrote the Chatsworth High School fight song), a personal friend of Fred Astaire. Fred asked him to write the song, feeling that the movie needed a popular song (and it was nominated for an Academy Award).

TOADS · Feb 10, 2016

Ballard of Davy Crockett
Autumn Leaves

Tinami Amori · Feb 10, 2016

I love "Autumn Leaves"! my favorite is by Fausto Papetti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRDl-3N2q84
(had no idea it's from 1955, thought it's from the early 1960's)

And! we forgot Tino Puente's "Carioca"!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFwIBUyH-7k

Seerek · Feb 10, 2016

Yes, same here.
Another vote for Autumn Leaves (Roger Williams instrumental version).

skatesindreams · Feb 10, 2016

Seerek said:
Another vote for Autumn Leaves (Roger Williams instrumental version).

I love this version, by Nat King Cole:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdFhuz54FJI

Your Favourite Song From 1955

Your Favourite Song From 1955

Tutti Frutti (Little Richard)

Sincerely (McGuire Sisters)

Ain't That A Shame (Fats Domino and/or Pat Boone)

Let Me Go Lover (Joan Weber)

Rock Around The Clock (Bill Haley and His Comets)

Only You (The Platters)

Cry Me a River (Julie London)

Maybellene (Chuck Berry)

Unchained Melody (Les Baxter, Roy Hamilton, Al Hibbler or Jimmy Young)

I Hear You Knocking (Gale Storm)

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