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Thread #93838   Message #1810165
Posted By: Jerry Rasmussen
15-Aug-06 - 05:46 AM
Thread Name: Pop Go The 50's
Subject: RE: Pop Go The 50's
Thanks for the site, Terry.

The thing that interests me about the fifties is, mixed in among a lot of kinda Schmaltzy pop like Patti Page were odds and ends of odd-ball hits like Ho Happy Day by Ron Howard, Skokiann by the Bullawayo Sweet Rhtyhm Band, National City by the Joiner Arkansas Junior High School Nad (complete with banjos AND trombones), Summertime, Summertime by the Jamies... a high school choral group, Patience and Prudence... 12 or 13 year old sisters singing a sweeter version of Let's Spend The Night Together called Tonight You Belong To Me, Hambone, Lucky Old Son, Call Of The Wild Goose.... You just don't here the diversity of music anymore that there was in the 50's, because it's all corporate driven.

Jerry