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    Posted: November 29 2009 at 03:55
I need your help people
My father want's me to be in charge of music for Christmas Day which is fine by me.
Then he says do you have any 1940's or 1950's  popular music.
I says to him I don't have any 40's or 50's music.
I have 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's and today popular music.
He says I want you to find out anything you can about 40's or 50's popular music and find out if we need to buy anything.
So far I have searched and found nothing much.
I so desperately need your help
Any help much appreciated
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1940's music

1950's music
There is in fact more earth than sea.

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In the 1940's they liked Swing and Jazz - the Jitterbug, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Frank Sinatra, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, .....Vera Lynn, George Formby....? yes he was the biggest star in the 1940's !
 
In the early 1950's Swing and Beatnik Jazz - cool Daddy- O  was king,  balledeers and crooners,  then the tidal wave of Rock'n'Roll, the Jive, first a trickle, then a stream hit the charts - by mid-fifties Bill Hayley, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly (they all had to have a "y" or "ie" on the end of their name) Tommy Steele, Eddie Cochran, Doris Day.
 
takes me back.. Ermm
 
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Where's Lonnie Donnegan, MF? A rare brit to have hits both sides of the Atlantic in the 50's
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Points: 4252 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 02 2009 at 07:54
oooh yes, remember Lonnie Donegan very well - indeed an unforgiveable omission Embarrassed
 
 and another "....ie"   LOL


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Hank f*cking Williams

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(recorded in '53)




Martin Denny, Esquivel, Nina Simone,
Over land and under ashes
In the sunlight, see - it flashes
Find a fly and eat his eye
But don't believe in me
Don't believe in me
Don't believe in me
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Points: 408 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 03 2009 at 22:54
I assume you need advice specifically about  Xmas music from those decades. Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, or any number of compilations of Xmas music from those decades, like, say, a "Big Band Christmas" or "Swingin' Christmas" or "Crooner's Christmas".
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