Author Topic: Hist Buff's Ghost Lane  (Read 1891 times)

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Hist Buff's Ghost Lane
« on: August 19, 2023, 05:18:22 AM »
Doris Day, Shanghai!

                                                                   


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Re: Hist Buff's Ghost Lane
« Reply #1 on: August 19, 2023, 05:23:21 AM »
Gogi Grant, an adorable singer from back when "movie" was almost synonymous with "western".
Wayward Wind


                                                               


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Re: Hist Buff's Ghost Lane
« Reply #2 on: August 19, 2023, 05:36:05 AM »
Goodnight Irene by the Weavers. Probably one of the most moving songs I ever heard while driving late at night. It was somewhere in the countryside, a long time ago. I was in love with a raven-haired girl and wishing I was with her.




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« Reply #3 on: August 19, 2023, 05:40:19 AM »
Here's a silver window on 1952. The Four Freshmen, live, singing Poinciana...


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« Reply #4 on: August 19, 2023, 05:47:58 AM »
Next one is pure dynamite for me, and supreme candy for my eyes. Betty Clooney is really, really my type. I'm bugging her ghost and trying to convince her to appear again in my stories. She portrayed Betty in "Monks In Heaven".

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« Reply #5 on: August 19, 2023, 06:27:22 AM »
For a wonderful Saturday night where you're sipping a glass of wine in the living room and just enjoy the moment. That gal didn't redecorate her living room in the last few years, but I'll still enjoy the evening with her. I'd like this very much actually.

So Rare by Jimmy Dorsey & Orchestra
   
   
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« Reply #6 on: August 19, 2023, 06:43:21 AM »
Here's the B-side of that record, the very last of Jimmy Dorsey, who sadly passed away that same year (1957).
This is actress Elizabeth Sellars enjoying life in her living room. She loved cats.



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« Reply #7 on: August 19, 2023, 06:51:32 AM »
Caterina speaks several language. This song was a huge hit in France and French Canada in 1956... And you get to see how incredibly rape-adorable she is.


That song was big hit in Germany the year after. You get to see how good it would feel to spend a German-girl time with her...


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« Reply #8 on: August 19, 2023, 07:03:35 AM »
The early 1950's in America were teeming with incredible talent, and the atmosphere they set in such songs is nothing short of perfect harmony between voice and brass.


This is Ruth Brown live!

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« Reply #9 on: August 19, 2023, 07:07:16 AM »
Earl Bostic was talented. Biggest euphemism of the (20th) century.
Harlem Nocturne
(The picture features Betty from The Sad And Happy Masks https://ravishu.com/forums/index.php?topic=50468.0.)




Lizabeth Scott is rape-able. Write me if you'd like to see her gang-raped in a seedy boxing gym by a gang of blacks.
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« Reply #10 on: August 20, 2023, 05:39:16 PM »

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« Reply #11 on: August 20, 2023, 05:47:25 PM »
When I was 18-20, I myself dressed like that when going on a date. The girl usually found me strange and out of place, if not outdated, until I met the right girl for me. This is Sincerely by the McGuire Sisters.



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« Reply #12 on: August 20, 2023, 05:58:40 PM »
Hearing vocal harmony by three singers or more was nothing unusual back in 1959. The McGuire sisters had the same audience that used to be teens and youths in the early fifties.


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« Reply #13 on: August 20, 2023, 06:08:02 PM »
Here are two songs by the same vocal group that illustrate how doo-wop evolved from the a-capella singing typical in the early fifties to the more instrumental harmonies that were on the air in the middle and late 1950s.

My Memories Of You, by the Harptones in 1954. That sound is very close to the gospel roots.


Same title, with jazzier instruments in the background, 1956

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« Reply #14 on: August 20, 2023, 06:16:22 PM »
Tonight Tonight by the Mello Kings. You can't get more 1956 than that. Rock'n'Roll was still in its quieter phase. These young singers played in the shadows of Elvis, but they nonetheless had a public.

I kissed and made out listening to that song when I did meet the right girl for me. She basically looked like a teenage vamp who always dressed in black. Stripping her naked and kissing her everywhere is my fondest memory from when I was a very young man.