Uploaded by GeoSilverMore on Feb 4, 2009
You think there was a revolt over rock + roll? Actually it was all Perry Como's fault. He was the original wild man.
1) Don't Let the Stars Get In Your Eyes - Como 1952
2) What Happened To the Music - Don Cornell and Teresa Brewer in 1953 lamenting what was happening to music
3) Wild Horses - Perry Como 1953
In the 1950s music had not only energy but Drive. That's how I would distinguish rock. But pop changed too, and Don't Let the Stars is a prime example.
Como's arranger was Hugo Winterhalter at RCA.
Andy Williams also "rocked" at the start with hits like Butterfly and I Like Your Kind of Love. But this proved to be so distastful to him that later he bought the entire Cadence label catalog - not to reissue those early songs of his, but to make sure they would never be reissued.
Perry Como rocks!
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"Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes" was originally by Red Foley. This song was done in a Tex-Mex style - a "Norteno Polca" Interesting that that style came about in the 19th century when the German settlers in Texas taught the itinerant Mexican musicians in the area their German OmPah music polkas.
JCJasion 2 years ago 2
Yup - That was 'Good Rocking Tonight' on King Records as recorded by Wynonie "Blues" Harris. Wilbur Harrison copied that sound for "Kansas City" 12 years later in 1959.
JCJasion 2 years ago 2
Great post. I love the music of the 40's / 50's and earlier. After that, well.........
Thank you for sharing this reminder of how music was then.
Corrie121 2 years ago 2
Actually there was a massive crossover period. There was a song in 1947 made called Good Rocking Tonight that sounded exactly like 1950s rock and roll. These songs actually are a different type of "40s-50s pop", a more fast tempo variety. That style of easy listening music actually survived in popular music until the mid 60s, and in some forms through the ealry 70s. But still, good video, mainly because it had three old time music of the era I usually listen to.
MVillani1985 3 years ago