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Posted: December 01 2011 at 21:36
moshkito wrote:
Hi,
(Good thing you didn't ask about literature or art ... because I would plaster this place in cubistic colors and words!)
This was too hard to get to .. since there really was not something for me to latch on to as you request. 1950 was not the age of music as you and I have come to know it, and all the more reason to make sure you see the Tom Dowd DVD when you get the chance.
So I went on a rampage at Wikipoop and the record stuff that I have only to find what I already knew ... I sure have listened to a heck of a lot of music in my life! ... and I never really thought any of it was bad ... but I will say this about a lot of the folks that have birthdays in 1950 ... WE HAVE A BIG MOUTH AND LOVE TO SING! ... sorry PA, but it's true! (and this is supposed to be done Peter Hammill style, of course, or it doesn't get across "pregressively" at all! )
So here goes: ... 1950 ... the year of the singer and the movies!
The year 1950 stunk for pop progressive music that the PA can discuss.
It's even worse in that the majority of the music that can be found shows EXACTLY what the Tom Dowd story on the DVD shows and explains ... that the movie studios took over the record business and that the only things that could make it to radio and get "famous" were the stars ... and I still say, just like Tom, that this was the beginning of the movie insdustry control of the arts in America ... the only music you heard and got to know ... was not all that jazz out there, but the movie stars and both Hollywood and Broadway shows.
So with that said, there is a lot of "classical" music listed because at that time, there still was some creedence and value given to that stuff, where today the volume of music sold in pop music genre's is so massively insane, that it is rendering almost all classical music a total waste of time and money.
With that said, some hit records on that year that I doubt you have ever heard ... but some are very well known and you could have heard it ... I doubt Metalica fans would hear any of this, btw ... hehehe!
Are You Lonesome Tonite - Al Jolson Bewiotched - Doris Day Boo Hoo - Guy Lombardo Dream a Little Dream of Me - Frankie Lane L'Hymne a L'amour - Edith Piaf (one of the first things that gave me the music kiss! --- BTW, the other was "I can't stop Loving You" by Ray Charles but the son of a gun never told me that was not about a woman, but music! That turkey!) Mona Lisa - Nat King Cole Peter Cottontail - Gene Autry
Major Albums released which show you what the movie studios were really after:
Auld Lang Syne - Bing Crosby Blue of the Night - Bing Crosby Christmas Greetings - Bing Crosby Cole Porter Songs - Bing Crosby Drifting and Dreaming - Bing Crosby Historical America in Song - Burl Ives Sing and Dance with Frank Sinatra Songs by Gershwin - Bing Crosby Tea for Two - Doris Day Young Man with a Horn - Doris Day Country Feeling - Dinah Shore
And then: Bird and Diz - Charlie and Dizzy Charlie Parker with Strings Ella Sings Gershwin - Ella Fitzgerald The Fat Man - Fats Domino Benny Goodman - Live at Carnegie Hall
Classical Music:
Dmitri Shostakovich -- Op. 87: Twenty-Four Preludes and Fugues (1950-1951)
Dmitri Shostakovich -- Op. 85: Music to the film Belinsky for orchestra and chorus (1950)
Dmitri Shostakovich -- Op. 84: Two Romances on Verses by Lermontov for male voice and piano (1950)
Dmitri Shostakovich -- Op. 85a: Four Choruses from the Music to Byelinsky for s.a.t.b. chorus a cappella (1950)
Pierre Boulez -- Polyphonie X
John Cage -- String Quartet in Four Parts
Arnold Schoenberg -- Pslam 130 "De Profundis" Op 50b
Arnold Schoenberg -- Modern Psalm Op 50 (Unfinished)
Karlheinz Stockhausen -- Choral
Karlheinz Stockhausen -- Chore fur Doris
Karlheinz Stockhausen -- Drei Lieder
Gian-Carlo Menotti -- The Consul (Opera)
Musicals:
Carousel (Rodgers and Hammerstein) opens in London
Guys and Dolls (Frank Loesser) opens in New York
Peter Pan (Leonard Bernstein) opens in New York
Some birthdays and the most telling thing about 1950! Natalie Cole - Singer Steve Hackett - Guitar Peter Gabriel - Singer Walter Becker - Steely Dan Karen Carpenter - Singer Roger Hodgson - Supertramp Teddy Pendergrass - Singer Tony Banks - Genesis Peter Frampton - Singer Lou Gramm - Foreigner Mary Hopkin - Singer Billy Squier - Singer Stevie Wonder - Singer Bernie Taupin - Lyricist Suzi Quatro - Singer Laurie Anderson - Singer Ann Wilson - Heart Paul Kossoff -- Free Fee Waybill -- The Tubes Mike Rutherford - Genesis Tom Petty - Singer Steven Van Zandt -- E Street Band Tina Weymouth - Talking Heads Joan Armatrading - Singer Danny Kirwin (ex-Fleetwood Mac)
This was fun and sorry to jingle the thread but this was too good to pass up and a great idea!
My favorite musician, the former singer/guitar player for Triumvirat the late Helmut Koellen, was born in 1950 Also another fave musician of mine born that year, the former guitarist of Birth Control, Dirk Steffens
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Posted: December 01 2011 at 19:20
rushfan4 wrote:
The Doctor wrote:
This thread is making me feel old. People born the same year as Automatic for the People came out, or August and Everything After? I still think of that as "new" music.
But you are old. I can say that because you are almost a year older than me.
No one has to force me to feel old, I feel old because I am. I revel in it except for some of those aches and pains that come along with being almost older than dirt.
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted: December 01 2011 at 16:24
The Doctor wrote:
This thread is making me feel old. People born the same year as Automatic for the People came out, or August and Everything After? I still think of that as "new" music.
But you are old. I can say that because you are almost a year older than me.
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zappaholic wrote:
(and this is supposed to be done Peter Hammill style, of course, or it doesn't get across "pregressively" at all! 
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Also another fave musician of mine born that year, the former guitarist of Birth Control, Dirk Steffens
I can say that because you are almost a year older than me.
