ITT: Anon Babble in 1961
ITT: Anon Babble in 1961
man, rock really died, didnt it
I think its over
that's right. you'll never escape me and my crew now. ha ha ha ha ha.
well, it was good while it lasted
looking back it was not that good anyways
Bros, I miss him so much...
I'm not doing this
I am quite fond of American President John F. Kennedy
Elvis had his little run, we own your radio dial now.
why didnt he wear lenses
doing what?
Kennedy is a weak bum, he looked pathetic in Vienna. Khrushchev just rolled him over like a carpet. That would have never happened if Nixon was president instead.
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it's only 28 years until Taylor Swift is born. enjoy it while it lasts.
JFK is a corrupt whiskey chugging mick Catholic mafioso. Nixon is a proper Christian man of good moral character. The fact that JFK won shows that either the commies rigged the election because he's so yellow or that good looks really will get you anywhere.
Mark my words, Nixon will have to spend the entirety of his first term fixing Kennedy's mistakes.
Connie is super hot
except she's a guido so she probably has very hairy arms and legs
Elvis was still ruling the radio dial in 1961
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A star is born...but not quite on this record label.
if by "ruled" you mean "turning into post-Army safe pop country mush" then yes
This is fine, par for the course for early 60s r&b.
she sounds like an excitable kid on here, not necessarily the more laid-back adult cool of the Atlantic years
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Thanks Phil and Co.
Do people just ignore the fact that he was releasing gooey sentimental ballads and gospel records before the Army? Love Me Tender was one of his first big hits. Elvis was never chained to rock and roll.
JFK is an open minded down to earth guy who appeals to the people. Nixon is an old hack with loose wires in his head, the water has went past and through his gate.
I don't ever see him being anywhere near the White House again.
Sounds like she's trying to be a female ray charles
Don't forget the time he accepted bribes and deflected the scandal with that mushy crap about his kid's doggie. Hopefully the people who fell for that hogwash stayed home last November.
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And that's a wrap. The end of the road for these fabulous babes.
ah yes the era of singing black girls and proto-Justin Biebers named Frankie or Bobby when everything was just aimed at 11 year old girls. wake me up in 3 years going back to sleep.
surf rock is super hot
whats cooler than that
was
Why do you use past tense?
What is this vulgar negro drivel doing on my top 40 station?? Society is collapsing.
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put on some nice music then
Down to earth in the sense that he gives every job to his friends and family, maybe. All he does is kick back in his chair lighting up fancy Cuban cigars like missiles straight to the hole in his head where his brains should be.
He joined the army 3 years ago my guy
I meant this
isn't that dude mixed race or something? he looks pretty mutted.
rock n roll will never recover
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Are you still here? Get off my radio already.
he lasted longer than expected
A new band I think the singer is called Dyke Love or something, whatever his cousin seems way more talented.
There's also this(that didn't actually get released but whatever)
Hitler sure was a swell guy, no foolin’. He didn’t do anything wrong, that’s for sure! The jews are just giving us a bum steer, I tell ya.
You'd get your ass kicked by former GIs for saying that in 61
whoever sings has a good voice
le current year
You'd especially get your ass kicked in Brooklyn back then.
ha ha wouldn't it be funny if she was raped by a nog in a hotel room 13 years from now?
LETS TWIST AGAIN
like we did last summer
YAAAAAHHHHHH, let's twist again
like we did last year
Do you remember when
things were really hummin'?
Yeah, let's twist again,
twistin' time is here
Try telling the people who actually fought in that war that the guy who killed their friends was actually a swell guy, see where that gets you. Bear in mind people were actually still patriotic back then. Even Lindbergh was firmly pro war and patriotic once the war actually began and renounced Nazi s
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This is the last time this fabulous babe will be heard on the radio. The LPs will keep coming but this is the end of her as far as singles/radio play goes. Thank God.
"Hit The Road,Jack" ought to be addressed to her and Pat Boone.
oh no we're not quite done with Pat yet. in fact '62 will be another big year for him on the Billboard.
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Neat it's everyone's favorite buzzjazz/Playboy Mansion anthem.
Neat it's everyone's favorite buzzjazz
*Buttjazz I meant to say.
Stop shitposting on Anon Babble and cram for those college exams, Bob.
Anyway...
Name my band
Blue Rondo > Take Five
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I ain't scrolling down and reading that comment section though, I know better.
the boyband
she sounds like Connie Francis but an octave or so lower and good call, i ain't gonna look at any comment section on her songs
negroes tend to do that
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do you know Youtube doesn't show any search results for this one because it filters the word "dick"?
S'up.
Filtered by Sketches of Spain
Why bother...
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The Fat Man is still cranking out the hits, nine of them this year but nobody remembers these or anything that wasn't released in 55-56.
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She's still got four more Billboard hits this year. Guess there's still enough housewives to keep her afloat. For now, anyway.
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Nadir. The 65th recorded version of I Walk The Line.
psst, hey bro. want a bad "country" album by a mainstream pop singer? i got just the order to fill your prescription.
Page's wasn't that bad, at least she was from Oklahoma and not a Jew from Filthadelphia so she could do that material semi-believably.
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This is exactly what Mitch Miller would think country is supposed to sound like.
There's a great take-down/pan of this album on Discogs from a reviewer.
No less than four LPs this year and it looks like she was trying to squeeze out the last bits of sex appeal here before turning 30 and being walled forever.
One Direction
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Want Justin Bieber? We have him too.
the third one is another mock-country album ala
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Another '50s powerhouse has one of their last hits in this embarrassingly meta song.
Worst version of Walking The Floor Over You ever. Too bad she didn't learn her lesson and would keep trying this stunt more times in the years to come.
you know what's the best part about '60s music threads? there is no hip-hop anywhere to be found.
IT'S BLOODY PEAK
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Kay Starr is back on the Billboard after an absence of three years. She will have one other hit this year with I'll Never Be Free.
Kay Starr is back on the Billboard after an absence of three years
*Four, sorry. Her last hit was in '57.
Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens are dead
Elvis is in the army
Chuck Berry is in jail
Jerry Lee Lewis is a disgusting pervert.
Sadly, I think you're right.
What, exactly, do you mean by "Atlantic years"?
I don't understand your post.
She's on Columbia Records.
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Now is the beginning of a fantastic story. Let us make a journey to the cave of monsters!
Who's Justin Beiber?
I predict great things for this little lady.
I have a feeling she'll be around for a long time.
It almost makes me want to listen to country music on a regular basis.
This is a good song.
Reminds me of On The Road, by Jack Kerouac, even though there is no mention of car thieves, or hitch hiking.
But when you think about it, Jack did hit the road, and swore he'd never come back.
Of course he did, but that doesn't stop it from being a good song, or reminding me of On The Road.
I'm surprised that all my Beatnik friends don't like it, and think it's "Square" for some reason.
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An album-only cut but they did a pretty ok version of this pop country staple, one of the better ones I've heard (and there's a lot of them). Youtube told me there's a Solomon Burke version but I don't know that one. Connie Francis did the song too.
These guys just released their first record on the Candix label called Surfin'.
From what I understand, it was written by the drummer for a creative writing class assignment. I heard he got an F. If he got an F, then this is sure to flop.
Let's face it, they're nothing more than a Jan and Dean rip off with barber shop quartet vocals.
Nobody's going to remember them by next year.
Is that you, Charlie?
When did you get out of the joint?
What do you mean "Back then"?
hey my old high school pal Dick is on the run and the FBI is after him, they say he chopped up a girl he met in a bar. kind of makes me want to dig out my Tom Dooley 45. i always did know he had a few screws loose. hopefully they lock him up for good and he won't do this again 14 years from now, right?
And you know this, how?
Are you in the music business?
Do you know something we don't know?
You're not involved with any form of "Payola" are you?
It's not Lionel Hampton, but it swings.
The Silver Beetles has a nice ring to it.
Man, wouldn't it be great if somebody could actually play this on the guitar?
I know this is impossible, and, probably nobody could ever do it, but I'll bet it would sound wild if somebody actually did it.
I always assumed they were all black. never saw their picture before
But there are quite a few so called oy bands today.
I mean you got your Four Season, you got your Beach Boys, I think just calling your band Boy Band would be self defeating.
It's not catchy. It's too plain. They gotta come up with a name that nobody will forget. Something catchy.
Who, or what, is "Discogs"?
Actually, that's not a bad name, but I don't think it fits them.
No, I'm sticking with The Silver Beetles.
I don't know why, but I have a good feeling about that name.
Maybe somebody else could call themselves One Direction.
I mean, there's already a band called The Detours, isn't there?
You don't have to be THAT committed to the larp
Again with the Justin Beiber?
Who is this Justin Beiber?
What a dumb name. Every band name is "the somethings" or "something and the somethings". No one will ever see a band whose name is singular and lacks a definite article.
The Who?
the band?
This isn't going to go anywhere, and nobody's going to remember this band next year.
Girl groups are on their way out.
This will never be an international success, let alone a local one.
Give it up, ladies.
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this melody is catchy but man what a bore! I need something I can dance to. needs more percussion or something
What's "Hip-Hop"?
A children's game?
A new dance, perhaps?
When you consider all these crazy movements that these kids are doing these days and giving them names like The Twist, The Frugue,The Hully Gully, etc. it wouldn't surprise me that there would be a new dance called The Hip Hop.
Kids these days. Sheesh!
PLEASE DON'T DISRUPT THREADS LIKE THIS IN THIS MANNER OF FASHION EVER AGAIN!
Either pretend it's 1961 or don't participate.
Oh, I don't know.
I could see how a name like One Direction could work.
I mean there have been weirder names for bands in the past.
That might be an interesting name for a band
I don't see how that could ever work for a band name.
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apparently, there's a new kind of organ in this called a "synthesizer." what the heck kind of a name is that? sounds like a machine that unclogs your toilet or something. but the music it makes seems catchy enough
I think this could open the door to a lot of instrumental inspirations.
I mean, do you remember Rumble, by Link Wray?
People said that wouldn't go anywhere either, but this is carrying on the same tradition.
I predict that in the not too distant future we're going to be hearing a lot of rock and roll instrumentals.
You mean that's not a Farfisa?
Still, a catchy little number, though.
wut
They were mixed and this created problems for the group as they couldn't tour in the segregated South.
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Five big hits this year and our grandkids will only remember her for a few weeks in December every year. Such is the ephemeral nature of fame.
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This one gets points whacked off for the strings. I like the bluesy vocals though.
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Redemption for this poor lady who finally got a hit at the ripe old age of 36 after years of failure.
would it be so much to ask for you guys to post jazz cuts or anything cool in this thread instead of bland dishwater pop? we came for Coltrane not shitty songs made by past-their-prime '50s singers.
Let this autist have his fun
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Problem is there's a _lot_ of jazz in this era. Where to even start is anyone's guess.
Let this autist have his fun
How in the flaff were the Beach Boys or Orbison past their prime in '61?
posting LOLcats images
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The fuck is wrong with you?
the original popslut
Actually if this is 1961 he's boldly ahead of the time
who said rock and roll was dead in the early 60s? nobody even remembers Freddy Cannon.
A couple anons posted some unkind words about 50s dishwater pop (as why wouldn't they?) One unmedicated schizo became convinced it was one guy.
Gary US Bonds is dropping potato-quality bangers too
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That particular song is a cover of the McGuire Sisters' hit from '54 but I'd rather listen to the original. Try his original tunes instead.
nah she's not the only ones. Rosemary Clooney and Teresa Brewer had their popslut moments from time to time. what's the link? they were all C*tholic.
Italians seriously have no taste at all.
Cash's only appearance on the Billboard pop chart this year.
Sue Thompson, a Missouri native whose real name was Eva McKee, had many years of bad luck before achieving success in the early '60s. She had to raise a daughter herself after a failed teenage marriage and began singing in California clubs to afford food. She eventually got a recording contract with Mercury in the early '50s but none of the sides she put out for the label attracted any notice and she left by 1956 to try Decca with similar lack of success; both labels had established girl singers such as Patti Page at this time and made no effort to promote or develop her as a singer. A one-off record released with Columbia under the name "Taffy Thompson" also bombed.
She finally hit pay dirt with indie label Hickory Records and rode a series of John Loudermilk-penned songs to the top 20 from 1961-65 before turning to country, of which the highest-charting was the #6 "Sad Movies Make Me Cry" in 1961--although in her mid 30s, she had a high, kid-like voice that enabled her to compete with the likes of Brenda Lee. Thompson passed away at her daughter's Nevada home in 2022 at age 96.
Sounds like she needed a label that could properly utilize her and the big ASCAP labels weren't it. That's like Aretha Franklin who needed Atlantic to become the Aretha we all know instead of the AC balladeer she was at Columbia.
Aretha did ok chart-wise on Columbia, it's just that they weren't the right label to do soul/R&B material. Her Columbia output was more R&B through a showtunes filter.
Dopes sleep on surf/instrumental rock for some reason. Chads were all getting stoned to that way before the summer of slop in '67.
I used to be into jazz until Miles Davis let me down and starting making lame Playboy Mansion sound system music. Ah, who needs him anyway? Fuckin' sellout.
tbqh the late 50s-early 60s was a golden age of indie labels and they made up a large portion of the Billboard hits in that era while the major labels like Columbia and Capitol were mostly relegated to LPs for the adult audience, usually standards, jazz, or showtune material. with exceptions--Connie Francis and Brenda Lee of course were major label which is why they had years of domination on the Billboard in contrast to the more ephemeral nature of indie label acts.
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Connie Francis and Brenda Lee of course were major label which is why they had years of domination on the Billboard in contrast to the more ephemeral nature of indie label acts.
They basically amounted to getting some younger pop girls to replace the aging croonershitters who mostly shit out balladslop, could rock when they needed to but were mostly about the big ballad. Having said that Francis's catalog was quite huge and she tried almost everything at some point, often more interesting than her play-it-safe hits. The record industry ultimately did recognize that kids were the future and shifted their emphasis to the teen market in the late '50s but in a more calculated way.
And that was pretty much how things stood for a few years; the charts were heavily teenager-focused but always in a safe, corporate, and inoffensive way. The early '60s was exceptional for how innocuous and twee that pop music became, moreso than the '50s which weren't really all that innocent in retrospect.
Patti Page had hits as late as 1968. She perfected a brand of MOR so inoffensive that it could last seemingly eons even if all her blockbuster hits were pre-Elvis.
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Anita Bryant's other '61 hit. As I said earlier, basically diet Connie Francis.
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There's Wanda Jackson although she also had white bread pop hits like this one. However, put on Funnel of Love for the real Wanda.
Alright, finally that degenerate dumb "rock and roll" experiment is over, jazz is going to rule the 60's, just listen to this:
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Rejoice, jazzbros, literally NOTHING will stand in our way this decade
Etta never disappoints vocally but the violins on here do.
How could you possibly know what will happen in 1967?
Are you trying to get out of serving your country, young man?
It's a little true crime reference I threw in there.
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Here's a real weirdo--Bullmoose Jackson's #1 R&B hit from 1947 was reissued in '61 by 7 Arts Records and made the Billboard that fall. Quite odd especially considering that this sounded totally antiquated by the Kennedy years.
kinda disappointing because you'd expect some kind of blues or whatever shit and this is just generic croonerslop but with a black guy singing
#IN JAIL
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The Sensations are back after a few years with a cover of the old Teresa Brewer standard. A cute little tune but their big hit isn't until next year.
glad that Negro hoodlum was busted. here, lemme give you a John Birch Society pamphlet detailing the dangers that Negro music poses to your children.
I’m a time traveler, and I’ve come back in time to call you a cracka
"Wait a minute, Steve Lawrence sucks ass!"
"Yeah, what were we thinking?"
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His old lady had no singles this year just 2 albums. One was a Spanish album (she knew the language and once worked as an interpreter before she was a singer). The other was a generic MORshit record but at least she sings in a restrained manner for once. It's not on Youtube so I had to get it from a Russian MP3 site.
Oh yes he did suck whether he was doing ersatz Sinatra or showtune rock-and-roll. When the fucker died last year the mods didn't deign to give him a sticky on Anon Babble.
What's a "Cracka"?
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What is "You Tube"?
And what is a "Russian MP3 Site"?
I think J. Edgar, and some of his men would like to have a word with you.....
the keyboardist seems like the most talented of the group
sounds like a fag to me
What do you mean Steve Lawrence died last year?
He's very much alive.
I just saw him, and his wife, Edie Gormet perform in The Catskills last weekend.
Isn't that some kind of Jew hangout? Here, let me give you another John Birch pamphlet about how Jews are directing the so-called Negro integrationist movement with the express goal of forcing Negros into your schools, homes, and daughters.
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Rosemary Clooney's Solves The Swinging Riddle LP from this year. A very good standards album that showcases her capabilities well.