Deadsplinter Up! All Night: Nifty Fifties

5/11/21 CestLaVie 16

It’s Friday night, so let’s rock around the clock tonight.

Thanks for being such cool cats, Deadsplinter.

avataravataravataravataravataravataravataravataravataravatar
About CestLaVie 74 Articles
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 📍BackTalkVillage

16 Comments

  1. Smiley Lewis from 1953 – Big Mamou

    I have no idea why there is a guitar on the album cover.  Smiley played piano.

  2. This recording actually came out in 1960 I believe but you can bet this was being worked on from the 50’s.  The greatest guitar duo of the 50’s and 2 of the most influential guitarists ever, Jimmy Bryant & Speedy West.  This song being this long was unheard of at this time, most songs were under 3:00.

     

  3. I’m going rogue for this DUAN because, no matter what, I promised myself I’d shout out this band today.

    Here is Nation of Language, whose debut album was my top album of 2020.

    They did a Live on KEXP session recently: 

    …and their sophomore effort dropped today.

    Nation of Language, A Way Forward 

    https://nationoflanguage.bandcamp.com/album/a-way-forward

    https://open.spotify.com/embed/album/2hPnsq6HZHcgkFlLclKrvv

    • I didn’t know Frank was so tiny!

      • When we were watching On The Town as kids, a friend told me that Frank had to wear padding around his buttocks to better fill out his sailor uniform.

         

        http://americanfilmindustry.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu/2013/10/29/on-the-town/

        Frank Sinatra, who was very thin, had to wear prosthetic padding to fill out the seat of his uniform. In a TCM interview, Ann Miller said that Sinatra was extremely sensitive about his padding and did not appreciate the usual movie set horseplay involving his lower half.

      • Here’s Ol’ Blue Eyes in 1950. Can you guess how old he is? 16? 18? 34 or 35; he was born in 1915.

  6. Love this tune from 1959

    Bobby Darin – Mack The Knife

     

    • My mother had that song as a 45. I wish I still had it.

    • Every time Miles is my first thought you beat me to it!

  8. i guess ill go with little richard

    i coulda gone with les paul & mary for mocking bird hill

    but i feel like roots syndicate made the original…40 years later

  11. On behalf of my mom, I have to go with Everly Brothers:

Leave a Reply