OT: How Retro Can You Go!

[jimazee]

Introduced by Dick Clark in Miami...

 

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[Scud49]

I remember this one playing on my Mom's radio:

 

[Aluminny69]

Doesn't get any more Retro than this! (1952)

 

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[stormsurge]

you all can just end the thread right c'here

 

[Scud49]

All this "retro" thinking made this one pop into mind:

 

[Scud49]

Great cruising retro tune:

 

[meyers7]

1958. Queen of Rockabilly

Hard Headed Woman - Wanda Jackson

 

[ctfjr]

It's my understanding they recorded this in New Haven. Band eventually became the 5 Satins. I rode with one of the members, Don Simpson, tho I think he joined the band later.

 

[Scud49]

Probably '59 or '60- I remember walking back to my house on a cold, snowy night, this song was on replay in my 10 year old brain:

 

[bantamlaker]

It's my understanding they recorded this in New Haven. Band eventually became the 5 Satins. I rode with one of the members, Don Simpson, tho I think he joined the band later.

It’s a part of New Haven’s history. In the Still of the Night was recorded in the basement of St. Bernadette Church in New Haven in 1956.
Fred Parris & his Satins return to St. Bernadette’s in New Haven for PBS filming

 

[JordyG]

It’s a part of New Haven’s history. In the Still of the Night was recorded in the basement of St. Bernadette Church in New Haven in 1956.
Fred Parris & his Satins return to St. Bernadette’s in New Haven for PBS filming

Didn't know that. I guess all of these early vocalists weren't born and or recorded in NYC huh?

 

[Bigboote]

To me, retro carries a little bit of dated connotation. I have many favorites that fit that description. Someone has already mentioned the Moody Blues; Donovan is another that comes immediately to mind:

 

[Bigboote]

I heard a spot on NPR recently saying that progressive rock died around 1980. I never got the memo, nor did many fans of Marillion, After Forever, Ayreon, etc. But since it's offiially dead, here's one from Camel, featuring the retro Tolkien references:

 

[Bigboote]

One more, archetypal psychedelic rock with the video to go with it. I think this is a spectacular bit of songwriting, very little repetition, yet such a pop song.

 

[Scud49]

There were many a good instrumental back in the late 50's & early 60's:

 

[wire chief]

Back in the day, while crooners were putting out traditional songs, behind the curtain, there'd be a doo wop group too. This one was put out by Les Paul & Mary Ford, Gene Autry, and later Anne Murray.
Here's the Drifters with the same, first of several

 

[Carnac]

And of course, the great Tony Williams.

Mr. Tony Williams.....one of the smoothest voices of all time. I love this song.

 

[Carnac]

Long before the Jackson 5, it was Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers. Their doowop style of music was just as popular as the Jackson's music of their day.

 

[Carnac]

Wow.........Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I haven't heard some of these songs in over 50 years. I can happily report that I'm not suffering from Alzheimer's because I remember most these songs and the words. Those songs remind me of happy days when life was less complicated, and gasoline was 15 cents a gallon, and ALL service stations were "full service" gas stations.

I remember when these songs were on the top 40 play list on our local radio stations here in So. Cal. No doubt cities across the country had their own local radio stations that played top 40 music. No matter where you grew up, you heard most of these songs when they were new, and not "oldies". Surprised no one has mentioned "The Doors". I loved Jim Morrison. He was a very special talent. So was Brenda Lee. Most of us have seen Brenda through the years, but not like this. She started singing and entertaining very early .

I particularly love and remembered the doo wop era music. A genre all it's own. I remember seeing Elvis make his debut on The Ed Sullivan Show in Sept of 1956. Not to mention the local dance shows on TV geared towards teenagers. We had those too. Everyone remembers American Bandstand with the ageless Dick Clark.

Bandstand at first was a regional show from Philadelphia in 1952. But it soon became the highest rated local daytime TV show in the nation, and that got the attention of network executives in New York. By August 1957, now called American Bandstand, ABC began broadcasting the show nationwide at 3 p.m. for an hour-and-a-half. If you were a musician (solo or a group), you wanted to appear on "Bandstand" or the Ed Sullivan Show, especially after Bandstand went nationwide AB was the the "cookie cutter " teen dance show that all others that followed in years to come tried to emulate. If you were a teen during this time, you watched AB!!!

And we all remember this guy....................... If he doesn't make you laugh, better check your pulse, you may be dead.

 

[JordyG]

If James Brown was the godfather of soul, this guy was the father. It all started with this guy.