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Post by david on Jun 10, 2010 16:37:44 GMT -5
February 17, 1951 US Audio only: Patti Page - Would I Love You (Love You, Love You) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbkwsd-Y4IYStan Freberg - John and Marsha www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcDiB4y9oOENot on YouTube: Nat King Cole - Jet Dinah Shore and Tony Martin - In Your Arms #1 this week: Guy Mitchell - My Heart Cries for You Pick of the week: Would I Love You, I guess.
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Post by david on Jun 10, 2010 19:47:30 GMT -5
February 24, 1951 US Audio only: Billy Eckstine - I Apologize www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFVFkVyQGNQDinah Shore - Down in Nashville, Tennessee www.youtube.com/watch?v=lle9iNFdBeANot on YouTube: Mindy Carson - Boutonniere Bing Crosby - Sentimental Music Patti Page - Sentimental Music #1 this week: Guy Mitchell - My Heart Cries for You Pick of the week: I Apologize
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Post by david on Jun 11, 2010 9:16:48 GMT -5
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Post by david on Jun 11, 2010 13:25:16 GMT -5
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Post by david on Jun 11, 2010 13:35:02 GMT -5
I could have put this in the Film thread, but since we're on 1950, I thought I'd put it here. This is from a blog post by David Bordwell about old film critics, starting with a quote: The movies live on children from the ages of ten to nineteen, who go steadily and frequently and almost automatically to the pictures; from the age of twenty to twenty-five people still go, but less often; after thirty, the audience begins to vanish from the movie houses. Checks made by different researchers at different times and places turn up minor variations in percentages; but it works out that between the ages of thirty and fifty, more than half of the men and women in the Unites States, steady patrons of the movies in their earlier years, do not bother to see more than one picture a month; after fifty, more than half see virtually no pictures at all.
This is the ultimate, essential, overriding fact about the movies. . . .Yes, another oldie, this time from Gilbert Seldes’ book The Great Audience (1950). What we’ve been told for years was characteristic of our Now—the infantilization of the audience—has been in force for at least sixty years. By the way, here are some US features released in 1950: Father of the Bride, Gun Crazy, House by the River, In a Lonely Place, Julius Caesar, Mystery Street, Night and the City, Panic in the Streets, Rio Grande, Shakedown, Stage Fright, Stars in My Crown, Summer Stock, Sunset Blvd., The Asphalt Jungle, The Baron of Arizona, The File on Thelma Jordan, The Furies, The Gunfighter, The Third Man, Twelve O’Clock High, Union Station, Wagon Master, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Whirlpool, Winchester ‘73, and probably some other good movies I haven’t seen. Perhaps not a luminous year, but I’d settle. Especially compared with 2010. Did kids just have better taste then? The full piece is here: www.davidbordwell.net/blog/
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Post by david on Jun 11, 2010 13:54:41 GMT -5
Some other good ones from 1950 Bordwell doesn't mention: All About Eve The Blue Lamp Born Yesterday The Breaking Point Cinderella Destination Moon D.O.A. The Flame and the Arrow The Happiest Days of Your Life Harvey Kill the Umpire Last Holiday The Men Los Olvidados Orphee Rashomon Seven Days to Noon State Secret Three Came Home Variety Lights
I'm not crazy about all the songs I've been finding, but there have been quite a few more gems than I'd be likely to find on the 2010 pop charts. So the answer must be yes, kids did have better taste back then . . .
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Post by david on Jun 11, 2010 18:06:12 GMT -5
March 17, 1951 US Guy Mitchell - Sparrow in the Tree Top www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwnwE3j06DcDean Martin - Tonda Wanda Hoy www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU70d7pRtGwNot on YouTube: Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters - Sparrow in the Tree Top Sammy Kaye and His Swing and Sway Orchestra - Tonda Wanda Hoy #1 this week: Mario Lanza - Be My Love Pick of the week: Sparrow in the Tree Top, though Dino has a good one too.
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Post by david on Jun 11, 2010 21:59:44 GMT -5
March 24, 1951 US Dean Martin - You and Your Beautiful Eyes www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRCLgkOKWB0Mario Lanza - Vesti la Giubba (On With the Play) www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkN2C6kWOAo#1 this week: Mario Lanza - Be My Love Pick of the week: Apples and oranges here, with Dino delivering a helluva pop single and Lanza delivering a helluva great version of a classic aria. I'll give it to Mario, because you don't see Pagliacci crack the top 40 pop charts very often . . . Not on YouTube: Phil Harris - Oh, What a Face!
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Post by david on Jun 12, 2010 8:56:39 GMT -5
March 31, 1951 Not on YouTube: Nat King Cole - Always You Baron Elliott Octet - The Shenandoah Waltz Dinah Shore - Lonesome Gal Tommy Tucker and His Orchestra - The Shenandoah Waltz Bobby Wayne - Always You #1 this week: Mario Lanza - Be My Love Pick of the week: Pass Alternate version of Shenandoah Waltz (audio only): www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsHH9qch3Uc
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Post by david on Jun 12, 2010 15:29:04 GMT -5
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Post by david on Jun 13, 2010 8:57:40 GMT -5
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Post by cripes on Jun 13, 2010 11:33:45 GMT -5
Les Paul and Mary Ford - How High the MoonGreat video clip--never saw that one. There was no 'off' position on Les Paul's genius switch. Here's a neat-o Jeff Beck doing 'How High' that was on TV recently. Leroy Anderson and the Pops Concert Orchestra - The Syncopated ClockI wasn't around back then, but my mind's eye sees life in the early fifties in black and white with this song in the background.
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Post by david on Jun 13, 2010 13:35:59 GMT -5
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Post by david on Jun 14, 2010 15:40:29 GMT -5
May 19, 1951 US Audio only: Frankie Laine - Rose, Rose, I Love You www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpEGTSed1lIPerry Como - Hello, Young Lovers www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh3N-8SG_KMVaughn Monroe and His Orchestra - Old Soldiers Never Die www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyDldGPTDNQNot on YouTube: Margaret Whiting - Hello, Young Lovers #1 this week: The Weavers with Terry Gilkyson - On Top of Old Smoky Pick of the week: Rose, Rose, I Love You Hello, Young Lovers from the film version of The King and I: www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2yeH7uTX88More of the many versions of Hello, Young Lovers: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOJHKv8bW1Awww.youtube.com/watch?v=sLJxNYLyfOowww.youtube.com/watch?v=G9hUNYileM8www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F-PwAMA8iMwww.youtube.com/watch?v=UKrkzWFD2IAwww.youtube.com/watch?v=xqaFBkiwDNEOriginal version of Rose, Rose, I Love You (audio only): www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4_X-Zcpyb4
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Post by david on Jun 14, 2010 21:21:03 GMT -5
May 26, 1951
Not on YouTube: Arthur Godfrey and Laurie Anders - I Like the Wide Open Spaces Eddy Howard - The Strange Little Girl Hugo Winterhalter and His Orchestra - I'll Never Know Why
#1 this week: Les Paul and Mary Ford - Mockin' Bird Hill
Pick of the week: Pass
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Post by david on Jun 14, 2010 21:37:06 GMT -5
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Post by david on Jun 15, 2010 8:27:50 GMT -5
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