#doowop

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Michael J. Fox & Huey Lewis

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top of the food chain

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The Evolution of Popular Music in the 1950s | Mental Itch

🎶✨ Travel back to the 1950s and discover how rock 'n' roll, doo-wop, and jazz reshaped the music world! 🎷🎸 Read all about The Evolution of Popular Music in the 1950s. 📖 https://mentalitch.com/the-evolution-of-popular-music-in-the-1950s/

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Please Little Spider -- 1930's doo-wop/jazz [original AI song]

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𝑰 𝑶𝑵𝑳𝒀 𝑯𝑨𝑽𝑬 𝑬𝒀𝑬𝑺... : 𝑴𝑼𝑵𝑺𝑶𝑵

note: hey y'all....I'm just gonna leave this here, see you guys in 6 months! (I think I'm kidding), there's another way I want to take this, so I'll post it later.

eddie munson x gender neutral reader

synopsis: you and Eddie spend a moment in each others company, the flamingos providing a background music.

warnings: lowercase letters, mentions of weed.

beholder | time: 11:50 a.m

"I only have eyes for you..."

your fingers strum across the cords with ease, lightly tapping your feet to the melody. the comforting smell of eddies shampoo hits your nose roughly, you crinkle it but plow through it with the next line.

"I don't know if we're in a garden.."

the bed shifts underneath a new kind of weight, and a chest is pressed against your back, your body unconsciously leans into the heat. a warm breath hits the back of your neck making you halt your movements,

"eddie!" you giggle, swatting his face away, "get back, you're making me mess up!"

he groans, throwing his head back in mock frustration, "I just wanted to watch you playyy."

you continue to strum, only pausing to readjust the strap on your shoulder, "you can watch me play-" you briefly nod towards the space in-front of you, "on the floor."

he groans again, this time throaty and childish, "why can't I watch from over here?"

"because your breath is like a sauna and all I can smell is chocolate chip cookies and weed." you deepen your voice, titling your head slightly.

eddie smirks, leaning so he could softly whisper in your ear, "I thought you liked it?"

you turn your head around towards him, just enough to still see the cords your strumming while being able to see his cocky grin. there was little light in his room, him having breaking it awhile ago- when play fighting with dustin. the sun shines through his boarded up window, providing some yellow light into the room. when he moves closer the light shifts towards the right side of his face, just below his lips.

you quickly look away before he notices, "I never said I did," you hum, moving your hands to the next progression, "or on a crowded avenue,"

"I beg to differ," he quickly turns around, moving his hands up and down his back while making damp kissing noises, "oh eddie!" he mocks, adding in wild head gestures, "I love it when you kiss me! you always smell so unique, I wish I could just eat the smell!"

a giggle escapes you as you push him away, "gross!"

"you are here and so am I..."

eddie stops moving around, situating himself against the pillows on his headboard, the sleeves of his sweater slide downwards as he neatly folds his hands in his lap. he looks content, which is a strange because he didn't seem like a doowop type of person. his main music taste was heavy metal, nothing slow or blues-sie. the contrast was very different.

you take a moment to take him in, a slight smile ghosting his features, it takes everything out of you to not put down the guitar.

"maybe a millions of people go by..."

"y/n?" eddies voice speaks over the music, you hum in response, pausing to say the next verse, "where did you learn how to play guitar?"

"my dad taught me along time ago, when I was little. thought I could put my quick learning skills to use," you play the next cord, "turns out I picked it up faster than expected."

he yawns quietly, not bothering to close his mouth, "why don't you ever play metal music?"

a light laugh shakes your body, "because that's your thing, ed's. not mine,"

"but they all disappear, from view..."

a light tease laces his voice, and he lifts his torso up for a second, with his eyes still closed, "so what is your thing, y/n?"

you don't say anything, letting the next verse hit him better than anything else, testing him to see if he was actually paying attention.

"and I only have eyes, for you..."

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Classic Beach Motel Architecture... by roylee21918 Wildwood, NJ https://flic.kr/p/2ocVMhb

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Today’s compilation:

Billboard Top Rock & Roll Hits: 1959-1962 1989 Rock & Roll / Pop / Doo Wop / Pop-Rock / Bubblegum Pop / R&B

Here's a lot of numbers I'm about to say: this four-cassette brick is the second release out of five that I'm going through in succession that, in total, documents the top-ten Billboard hits of each year from 1955 through 1974. Last week I posted the set containing 1955 through 1958 and today I'm posting 1959 through 1962.

Two things, though. First, as I noted in my 1955-1958 post, Rhino Records, the label tasked with gathering all these top hits, failed in some instances to acquire licenses for some of the songs, so they had to find ample replacements instead. But this could actually be something of a blessing in disguise, because even though it's sort of false advertising to present a compilation as having the top ten hits from each year and then not actually include them all, you'll still get a few nice, little, less remembered surprises instead. It ends up digging a tad bit deeper into Billboard's chart history and, as a result, shines a light on some songs that aren't thought of on the same level as, like, say, "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" by The Tokens or Dion's "Runaround Sue."

Second, it bills itself as containing the top "rock'n'roll" hits from each year, but that's a very loose and vague term. There's a bunch of tunes within these cassettes that aren't really rock & roll at all, and, really, it just seems like "rock'n'roll" is serving as a replacement catch-all term for "Hot 100," Billboard's long running chart that tracks the 100 most popular songs in the US every single week.

All that said, going through these oldies has been a real blast for me so far. I don't have very many oldies comps in my collection yet myself, so these sets are serving as some great 50s and 60s building blocks. And there's actually some songs in here that are really good that, surprisingly, I don't think I'd actually ever heard before, like the wonderful instrumental, "The Happy Organ" by Dave 'Baby' Cortez, or "Quarter to Three" by Gary U.S. Bonds, which is a song that Dion ripped off a few months later to drop the much more famous "Runaround Sue" 👀.

I didn't really think I'd be getting much out of these cassettes beyond something similar to your standard oldies radio station playlist, which is why I held off on biting this bullet for so long, but as it turns out, I actually seem to be getting a bit more than that, and it’s been a really pleasant surprise thus far ☺.

Highlights:

Cassette 1 (1959):

Bobby Darin - "Mack the Knife" Lloyd Price - "Stagger Lee" Wilbert Harrison - "Kansas City" Elvis Presley - "A Big Hunk O' Love" Dave 'Baby' Cortez - "The Happy Organ" The Coasters - "Charlie Brown" The Crests - "16 Candles"

Cassette 2 (1960):

Chubby Checker - "The Twist" The Ventures - "Walk - Don't Run" Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs - "Stay"

Cassette 3 (1961):

Bobby Lewis - "Tossin' and Turnin'" Del Shannon - "Runaway" Dion - "Runaround Sue" Gary U.S. Bonds - "Quarter to Three" Shirelles - "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" The Marvelettes - "Please Mr. Postman" The Tokens - "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"

Cassette 4 (1962):

Gene Chandler - "Duke of Earl" Tommy Roe - "Sheila" Joey Dee & The Starliters - "Peppermint Twist - Part 1" Little Eva - "The Loco-Motion" Dion - "The Wanderer"

P.S.: Follow me on Twitter as I unpack these comps and dig into their tunes, telling some of the great stories behind them. Like, did you know that Little Eva, of "Loco-motion" fame, was actually a nanny for the song's writers, Carole King and Gerry Goffin, and that she originally recorded it as a demo for Dee Dee Sharp, but Sharp passed on it, so another label seized on the demo and then Little Eva went to #1? Or that Carole King also co-wrote and composed The Shirelles' "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" at around 19 years old? Or that "The Twist" by Chubby Checker was actually a cover that ended up playing a gigantic role in breaking down rock & roll's class barriers, as teenagers first made it popular in 1960, and then rich socialites twisted the nights away in nightclubs during the winter of 1961 and 1962, marking rock & roll's expansion beyond being just some rebellious teenage fad phenomenon? All those fun facts and more when you throw me a follow 😁!