#1950s music

[twixnmix]

Marlene Dietrich performing at the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas, 1953.

Photos by Loomis Dean for LIFE magazine

#marlene dietrich #1953 #cabaret #1950s #glamour #1950s music #old hollywood

[popculturebaby]

Marilyn Monroe and Lauren Bacall at the premiere of How To Marry A Millionaire, 1953 ✨

#marilyn monroe #lauren bacall #how to marry a millionaire #1953 #celebrities #iconic #pop culture #hollywood #fashion #movies #1950s #1950s aesthetic #1950s history #1950s movies #1950s music #1950s vintage #1950s style #1950s fashion #50s hollywood #50s aesthetic #50s movies #50s #50s style #old hollywood #golden age of hollywood #actress

[in-our-special-place]

To know, know, know him is to love, love, love him

Just to see him smile, makes my life worthwhile

To know, know, know him is to love, love, love him

And I do (and I do, and I, and I do, and I, and I do, and I, and I do, and I)

I'd be good to him, I'd bring love to him

Everyone says there'll come a day when I'll walk alongside of him

Yes, just to know him is to love, love, love him

And I do (and I do, and I, and I do, and I, and I do, and I, and I do, and I)

Why can't he see how blind can he be?

Someday he will see that he was meant for me, oh oh, yes

-To Know Him Is to Love Him The Teddy Bears

#fellow travelers #hawk x tim #hawk x skippy #tim x hawk #skippy x hawk #jonathan bailey #matt bomer #tim laughlin #hawkins fuller #50s music #1950s music #the teddy bears

[lettersfromthewindmill]

All the record covers I drew for illustrations of The Cadence of Part Time Poets by @motswolo . From the record collections of Hope, Sheila, the boys and the girls. I didn't end up using all of them, and a couple I've made assumptions on which album was being referred to.

Some of these I had from an old ATYD Sirius' record collection drawing which I might repost later.

Album cover design is just so cool. Displayed in order of release (I think could be wrong, don't check it.)

#motswolo #the cadence of part time poets #cadence art #coptp #1970s music #tcoptp #queen band #the beatles #the who #1950s music #1960s music #album cover #album cover design

[kilianromero]

Mambo - Xavier Cugat & His Orchestra (1953)

#vintage #illustration #cool #1950s #weekend #friday #vintage illustration #album cover #album art #album #mambo #xavier cugat #musician #musica #music #1950s music #1950s fashion #fashion 50s #midcentury

[darkphoenix180]

Random post for Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies. Loved the first season. I hope it gets renewed for a second. Reblog if you agree that it needs a second season.

#grease musical #grease rise of the pink ladies #rise of the pink ladies #pink ladies #t birds #class president #think pink #thunderbird car #1950s music #1950s fashion #1950s #1954 #tbirds and pink ladies #grease rotpl #rotpl

[ffs-free-me]

Chet Baker by Bob Willoughby, Los Angeles 1953

#chet baker #vintage #photography #1950s #1950s photography #1950s music #music #jazz

[my-1red-heart]

Will you still love me tomorrow?

#lizzy grant #female hysteria #it girl #whisper girl #manic pixie dream girl #lana del rey #coquette girl #coquette #1950s style #love #1950s music #the shirelles #alana champion #girlhood #girl interrupted #ultraviolence #nympette #girlblogging

[eyesfullofmoon]

Connie Francis recording her album Country & Western Golden Hits at MGM Records in New York.

Photographed by Popsie Randolph on July 10, 1959.

#1950s #connie francis #music #* #women in music #popsie randolph #1950s music #50s #50s music #50s fashion #vintage fashion #vintage music #old music #female musicians #female singer #60s 70s 80s 90s #vintage style #women musicians #1950s fashion #pop music #pop singer #50s icons

[twixnmix]

Lena Horne photographed by Friedman-Abeles during the cast recording of the Broadway musical "Jamaica," 1957. 

#Lena Horne #1957 #jamaica #broadway #1950s #1950s fashion #1950s music #african american #actress

[popculturebaby]

Gina Lollobrigida as Queen of Sheba in “Solomon and Sheba”, 1959 ✨

#gina lollobrigida #solomon and sheba #queen of sheba #1959 #celebrities #iconic #pop culture #hollywood #fashion #movies #1950s style #1950s history #1950s movies #1950s vintage #1950s fashion #1950s #1950s music #1950s aesthetic #50s #50s hollywood #50s movies #old hollywood #golden age of hollywood #actress

[in-our-special-place]

It's far beyond a star

It's near beyond the moon

I know beyond a doubt

My heart will lead me there soon

We'll meet beyond the shore

We'll kiss just as before

Happy we'll be beyond the sea

And never again I'll go sailin'

I know beyond a doubt, ah!

My heart will lead me there soon

We'll meet, I know we'll meet beyond the shore

We'll kiss just as before

Happy we'll be beyond the sea

And never again I'll go sailin'

-Beyond the Sea Bobby Darin

#fellow travelers #hawk x tim #hawk x skippy #tim x hawk #skippy x hawk #jonathan bailey #matt bomer #tim laughlin #hawkins fuller #50s music #1950s music #bobby darin

[undine66770]

Buddy Holly (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959)

“Buddy, I can still see you with that shy grin on your face Seems like your hair was always a little messed up, kinda out of place Now not many people actually knew you, or understood how you felt But just a song from, just a song from you could make the coldest heart melt“ Eddie Cochran, Three Stars

#buddy holly #charles hardin holley #1950s #the 50s #the 1950s #rock n roll #rocknroll #rock and roll #the crickets #buddy holly & the crickets #rockabilly #rock and roll music #rock n roll music #1950s music #50s music #oldies #oldies music

[alienelvisobsession]

The Jack White Connection

In January 2015, Elvis’ very first recording, an unassuming simple acetate dating back to 1953, was sold at an auction to an undisclosed buyer for $300,000. It featured two sentimental ballads sung by Elvis, then a shy 18-year-old kid with a ducktail haircut: on the A-side was “My Happiness”, a tune from the 1940s that would be later made famous by Connie Francis, and on the flip side “That’s When Your Heartaches Begin”, which Elvis would later re-record and release as a B-side to “All Shook Up”. Back in 1953, Elvis had paid $3.98 for this service offered by Sam Phillips at Memphis Recording Service, either to hear how he sounded on record, or as a present for his mum, as he would later claim in interviews. Some would go so far as to say that he hoped Sam would hear his voice and sign him up at Sun Studios. Whatever the reason, Elvis took the record to his high-school friend Ed Leek, who, in his recollection, had given him the money ($3.98 amount to about $45 adjusted for inflation) and owned a record player. Elvis played the songs there, and then for some reason left the record at his house. It’s funny how in later years some articles would claim that Gladys played the record over and over, while Elvis admitted in the Million Dollar Quartet recordings that he had lost it. In 1988 Ed Leek let RCA transfer the songs to digital to be released, but he kept the original acetate until his death in 2010.

In March 2015, a couple of months after the record was sold at an auction by Leek’s niece, it was disclosed that the buyer was a fellow rock ‘n roll musican, Jack White. The Detroit native planned to reissue the precious artifact on vinyl in a limited edition for Record Store Day. For this, he faithfully recreated the 10-inch, 78-rpm record in every detail, including the yellowish aging paper of the plain sleeve and the typewritten labels. Alan Stoker, the son of Gordon Stoker from the Jordanaires, the background singers in many of Elvis’ hits, did the transfer at the Country Music Hall of Fame. He ensured that the sound would be as clean as possible while maintaining the old haunting feeling of what many consider to be the Holy Grail of rock ‘n roll.

From this, you may have gathered that Jack White, who has won 13 Grammies in his career and is credited for writing the most distinctive guitar riff of the early 2000s with “Seven Nation Army”, is an Elvis fan. Not only did he embark in the project of bringing Elvis’ first record to the public with a precise replica, but he also played Elvis in a cameo for the comedy “Walk Hard: the Dewey Cox Story” (2007), which is a parody of music biopics. In the now iconic scene, Dewey, played by John C. Reilly, is terrified because he has to go on stage after Elvis, who’s hungry and wants to get out of there early. When Elvis approaches Dewey Cox, he speaks in an unintelligible Southern drawl, and anachronistically attempts a karate chop in the 1950s, before he even started to study it! This is a spoof of music biopics, after all, where these “artistic liberties” are plentiful (Baz Luhrmann’s movie has Elvis sing “Trouble” at Russwood Park, for instance). Then Jack White’s Elvis hilariously explains karate: “It’s called karate, man. Only two kinds of people know it, The Chinese and The King.” This unflattering and stereotyped portrayal of Elvis purposefully misses everything about Elvis’ personality, especially his humility and his Southern accent, focusing on some unimportant stereotypes instead: the sweating, the love of junk food, and the mumbling.

But, aside from playing him in a now famous gag, Jack White payed homage to Elvis as a musician as well. His 2014 Grammy-winning single “Lazaretto” features a cover of “Power of My Love” on the B side. The single holds the record of being the world’s fastest released record. It was recorded live in Nashville in front of an audience, pressed and released in under 4 hours. The B-side is according to The Tennessean “a thunderous version of Elvis Presley's ‘Power of My Love,’ — a faithful rendition, aside from cranking up the tempo and piling on the guitar overdrive.” In 2022, as we know, he had the honor of recording a duet of the same song alongside Elvis’ voice. The song is featured in the soundtrack of Baz Luhrmann’s movie.

And finally, Jack speaks about his love for Elvis Presley in a 2018 episode of the podcast “Revisionist History” by Malcolm Gladwell. In an episode called “Analysis, Parapraxis, Elvis”, the author tries to understand why Elvis never seemed to get a particular part of “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” quite right. Jack, accompanied by his guitar, sings the song in full, including the slightly corny spoken bridge where the singer feels vulnerable, deceived and rejected, which is the emotional part that Elvis couldn’t face to sing. He says there are a lot of minor chords in the song that can get you in that melancholy vibe. The singer is lonesome and he doesn’t really care if his ex lover is lonesome: “it’s a McGuffin to pretend he’s worried about her”, Jack explains.

I’m sure there will be more occasions to hear Jack White paying homage to his idol in the future. After all, he has an Elvis shrine at home, as Gladwell reveals!

This is part of a series of posts about Elvis’ influence on the artists who followed him. You can read the other Elvis connections I wrote about here. So far I’ve written about people as diverse as Jimi Hendrix, Quentin Tarantino and Andy Warhol.

#elvis presley #elvis #jack white #rock n roll history #elvis presley history #1950s music #rock and roll #vinyl records #vinyl #walk hard: the dewey cox story #Youtube #power of my love #lazaretto #are you lonesome tonight?

[dimity-lawn]

*Reminder that “Imp y Celyn”=“Bud of the Holly”, so Terry Pratchett really did write a character named Buddy Holly who was a rockstar.

#discworld #gnu terry pratchett #meme #discworld meme #created by yours truly #death #soul music #imp y celyn #the band with rocks in #music with rocks in #sto plains #music #1950s music #1950s #history #history meme

[foreverdolly]

elvis receiving the key to tupelo, which was given to him by the mayor (james ballard), when he headlined at ‘tupelo’s own’ on september 26th, 1956.

#elvis #elvis presley #foreverdolly #elvis 1950s #elvis fans #elvis fandom #elvis the pelvis #elvis film #elvis the king #elvis 2022 #elvis history #elvis baz luhrmann #elvis movie #1950s music #1950s #1950s vintage #vintage films #rock and roll #rock music