Thursday, 19 September 2019

Your Hit Parade - Snooky Lanson, Eileen Wilson, July 10, 1950

   July 10, 1950
  Your Hit Parade, the popular radio show that since 1935 has featured the popular hits of the day, moves to television. Premieres on NBC (later CBS) TV [Cast: Snooky Lanson, Eileen Wilson, Bob Fosse and Mary Ann Niles (as Fosse & Niles)]. The show started in NBC’s brand new Studio 6A which was converted May 29, 1950.
  Lucky Strike’s Your Hit Parade leaves CBS radio and leaps to NBC TV, with Raymond Scott retained as conductor. His protege singer Dorothy Collins is hired as one of the show’s featured vocalists. Program regularly features Scott’s original cigarette jingle, “Be Happy Go Lucky” (often sung by Dorothy). YHP pioneers the TV use of prerecorded accompaniment with live vocal performances.

  en.wikipedia.org Your Hit Parade  en.wikipedia.org Bob Fosse
  en.wikipedia.org Snooky Lanson  en.wikipedia.org Eileen Wilson

Your Hit Parade

Snooky Lanson & Eileen Wilson, Your Hit Parade, summer of 1950

1951 TV magazine: Dorothy Collins, Snooky Lanson, and Eileen Wilson



Snooky Lanson
12/1949
The Old Master Painter - 12 US


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Edith Piaf - La Vie En Rose, 1950

   1950 - French chanteuse Edith Piaf, signature song 'La Vie En Rose',  written in 1945, popularized in 1946, and released as a single in 1947. The song became very popular in the US in 1950 with no fewer than seven different versions reaching the Billboard charts. These were by Tony Martin, Paul Weston, Bing Crosby (recorded June 22, 1950), Ralph Flanagan, Victor Young, Dean Martin, and Louis Armstrong.

  en.wikipedia.org Edith Piaf  en.wikipedia.org La Vie en rose  discogs.com Edith Piaf


Paris Match Archive April 01, 1949

   December 26, 1949 In a radio broadcasting studio in New York, the French singer Edith Piaf assisted by the director of the French programs in the United States, Pierre Cremese, is singing for a radio recording that one can listen to for the first time simultaneously on the American continent and in Europe.

January 20, 1951 In a Parisian television studio on the 'set' XYZ, Edith Piaf (center) is singing a recital between her two friends, the American Eddie Constantine and young Charles Aznavour who was then her "handyman" ( : secretary, driver and confidant). First television of Edith Piaf and Charles Aznavour.



Dick Haymes
05/1950
Roses - 28 US

 Victor Young and His Singing Strings
06/1950
La Vie en rose - 27 US

 Paul Weston and His Orchestra
06/1950
La Vie en rose - 12 US

 Tony Martin
07/1950                 
La Vie en rose - 9 US

 Bing Crosby
08/1950
La Vie en rose - 13 US

 Ralph Flanagan and His Orchestra
09/1950
La Vie en rose - 27 US

 Louis Armstrong
10/1950
La Vie en rose - 28 US

 Edith Piaf
10/1950
La Vie en rose - 23 US


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Quincy Jones, 1950

   1950
  Quincy Jones graduates from Seattle’s Garfield High School.




Quincy Jones, Garfield High School Arrow yearbook, Seattle, 1948-1949




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Hank Williams - Lovesick Blues, May 1949

   May 1949
Country singer Hank Williams records “Lovesick Blues,” his first million-selling single.



June 1949, Hank Williams show for Western Auto Associates Store E. L. Jackson in Minden, Louisiana

August 30, 1949 - Hank Williams went into Herzog Studio in Cincinnati to record 'I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry'. Hank Williams with wife Audrey Sheppard.

November 1949 Hank Williams European Tour Rhein-Main AFB’s Gateway Theatre, Frankfurt, Germany


1949
Lost Highway - 12 country
Mind Your Own Business - 5 country
My Bucket's Got A Hole In It - 2 country
Never Again (Will I Knock On Your Door) - 6 country
Wedding Bells - 2 country
You're Gonna Change (Or I'm Gonna Leave) - 4 country
05/1949
Lovesick Blues - 24 US, 1 country  as Hank Williams and His Drifting Cowboys
1950
I Just Don't Like This Kind Of Living - 5 country
Long Gone Lonesome Blues - 1 country
Moanin' The Blues - 1 country
My Son Calls Another Man Daddy - 9 country
Nobody's Lonesome For Me - 9 country
They'll Never Take Her Love From Me - 5 country
Why Don't You Love Me - 1 country
Why Should We Try Anymore - 9 country


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Wednesday, 18 September 2019

Goree Carter - Rock Awhile, May 1949

   May 1949
  Goree Carter’s “Rock Awhile” introduces a guitar style that Chuck Berry would take to the top of the charts in the mid-’50s.

  en.wikipedia.org Goree Carter  en.wikipedia.org Rock Awhile








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Ruth Brown - Teardrops From My Eyes, Oct. 1950

   Oct. 1950
  Atlantic Records scores its first #1 record in the decade it would come to define musically with Ruth Brown's "Teardrops From My Eyes", the biggest R&B hit for a female artist for the next 40 years.







1950
10/1950
Teardrops from My Eyes - 1 R&B

1951
03/1951
I'll Wait for You - 3 R&B
07/1951
I Know - 7 R&B


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Arkie Shibley - Hot Rod Race, rockabilly, 1950

   1950
  Arkie Shibley & His Mountain Dew Boys record "Hot Rod Race" sets the stage for white country music to meet rhythm & blues in a term to be known as rockabilly in the future.








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Tuesday, 17 September 2019

The R&B ballad huge smashes, 1950

   1950
  The R&B ballad takes shape with huge smashes in that style by Ivory Joe Hunter, Percy Mayfield and Laurie Tate which bring about a much needed versatility in the emerging music.


Ivory Joe Hunter



Percy Mayfield


Joe Morris And His Orchestra featuring Laurie Tate

Laurie Tate



1950
I Almost Lost My Mind - 1 R&B
I Need You So - 1 R&B
I Quit My Pretty Mama - 4 R&B
It's a Sin - 10 R&B
S.P. Blues - 9 R&B

1950
Please Send Me Someone To Love - 1 R&B

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Johnny Otis Rhythm & Blues Caravan R&B show, 1950

   1950
The Johnny Otis Rhythm & Blues Caravan takes the R&B show on the road scoring ten Top Ten hits that year, three of them chart toppers, with such vocalists as 14 year old Little Esther, Mel Walker and the Robins.


Johnny Otis Orchestra

Redd Foxx comic, Johnny Otis and Little Esther, Feb. 1950

Mel Walker in Billboard 07/22/1950

The Robins

   After negotiating a deal with Savoy Records in 1950, Otis produced three of the year's top records: "Cupid's Boogie by Little Esther," "Mistrustin' Blues" by the Robins, and his own "Double Crossing Blues," which also featured the Robins and Little Esther.





1950
Cry Baby - 6 R&B
Cupid Boogie - 1 R&B, with Little Esther and Mel Walker
Double Crossing Blues - 1 R&B, Johnny Otis Quintette, the Robins and Little Esther
Far Away Blues (Xmas Blues) - 6 R&B, Johnny Otis Orchestra with Little Esther and Mel Walker
Rockin' Blues - 2 R&B, Johnny Otis Orchestra with Mel Walker
Wedding Boogie - 6 R&B, Johnny Otis' Congregation: Little Esther, Mel Walker, Lee Graves

1950
Deceivin' Blues - 4 R&B, Little Esther with Mel Walker and the Johnny Otis Orchestra
Misery - 9 R&B, Little Esther with the the Johnny Otis Orchestra
Mistrustin' Blues - 1 R&B, Little Esther with Mel Walker and the Johnny Otis Orchestra

1950
Dreamin' Blues - 8 R&B, with Johnny Otis Orchestra



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Fats Domino's first record, January 1950

   January 1950
Fats Domino's first record "The Fat Man" ushers in the full-fledged rock sound.
en.wikipedia.org Fats Domino

Fats Domino, 1947

Fats Domino at J&M Studio - January 1950



Fats Domino
1950
02/1950
The Fat Man - 2 R&B
11/1950
Every Night About This Time - 5 R&B
1951
12/1951
Rockin' Chair - 9 R&B



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Louis Jordan, Jimmy Preston-Rock The Joint, 1949

   1949
  Louis Jordan's massive hit "Saturday Night Fish Fry" marks the end of the jump blues dominance of the 40's, while Jimmy Preston's raucous "Rock The Joint" points towards a new horizon of rock 'n' roll for the 50's.



Louis Jordan & Ella Fitzgerald (1949)




1949
Beans and Corn Bread - 1 R&B
Cole Slaw (Sorghum Switch) - 7 R&B
Every Man to His Own Profession - 10 R&B
Roamin' Blues - 10 R&B
You Broke Your Promise - 3 R&B
10/1949 
Saturday Night Fish Fry (Pts. 1 & 2) - 21 US, 1 R&B

Louis Jordan and Ella Fitzgerald
1949                 
Baby, It's Cold Outside - 9 US, 6 R&B

1949
Hucklebuck Daddy - 4 R&B
Rock the Joint - 6 R&B
1950
Oh Babe! - 5 R&B


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RCA Victor introduces the 45 RPM Record, March 31, 1949

   March 31, 1949 RCA Victor introduces the 45 RPM Record which is easier to produce, smaller and cheaper than the delicate 78's, which makes it more practical for younger audiences who will soon become music's primary customer. RCA Victor also offered a small inexpensive record player for $12.95 to play the new size and speed.

   RCA Victor develops the 45-rpm single and presses the very first one in April 1949. The first pressed single is “Gaite Parisienne” by the Boston Pops Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler, conductor, record no. 49-0100. The first pop 45 is also pressed in April 1949 by RCA Victor: “The Waltz You Saved For Me” by Wayne King and His Orchestra, record no. 47-2715.







12/1930
The Waltz You Saved for Me - 4 US
1934
The Waltz You Saved for Me - 18 US


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