Favorite Album From The Year You Were Born?

 

(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!