An Hour of Lesser Known Oldies From the 1950s & 60s
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ต.ค. 2022
- A medley of songs from the late 1950s and early 60s that are either lesser known or rare recordings. These songs were either regional successes in their day, were covers of popular songs, or did not reach success until later decades (EX: Freddy Fender's "Wasted Days & Wasted Nights" did not become popular until the mid 1970s when it was rerecorded to a country song.
I hope you enjoy this compilation of beautiful songs that I hope will get the attention they deserve.
The playlist fellow fans of magnificent music!
00:00 Queen of the Starlight Dance -Larry & Mike
02:28 Sleepwalk -Sammy & The Del -Ards
05:09 Wasted Days and Wasted Nights -Freddy Fender
08:03 Satisfied -The Chateus
10:18 Need You -Johnny Jack
12:42 My Lost Love -The Webtones
15:08 Darling Can't You Tell -The Clusters
17:32 My Guardian Angel -Jimmy Breedlove
20:24 This Is My Story -The Valentines
22:40 I Won't Be the Fool Anymore -The Heartbeats
25:00 Impossible -The Velvatones
27:45 Speedillac -Sonny Day & The Versatiles
30:12 Oh Betty -The Pharaohs
33:04 Miss You -The Holidays
35:17 Stand There, Mountain -The Planets ft. Vince Howard
37:57 I Need a Girl -The Marvellos
40:00 The Love You Gave - Dolly Parton w/ The Merry Melody Singers
42:10 Kiss Me Goodnight -Tony Castle
44:12 It Hurts -The Rialtos
46:42 Why Do a You Look At Me -The Medallions
49:07 If You Should Leave Me -The Sinceres
51:32 Your Sweet Love -The Kings
54:14 I'm Not A Know It All -Johnny Wes
56:51 Love Me -The Royal Jesters & The Memphis III
Mr Moonlight :) Please, what browser extension or software did you use to construct this wonderful timestamp list. I would like to do the same with some other multi-song videos.
@@realwildchild4698 Hello. Honestly, I did it the old fashioned way (the only way I know how to do things):
I just noted the song title & performer, saw at what time the song began, and wrote it on a sheet of paper. Once I had the whole list, I typed it as a comment.
I'm 84 yrs old this is real music for the mind & heart wonderful memories
Wow, thank you for doing all that work!
Awesome! 💃❤❤
This all brings tears to my eyes. Teenage love. And now, at eighty, there are fewer and fewer folks left that can enjoy it along with me.
i dont care what anyone says those were the days i know i was there many many masterpeieceswasnt about drugs money power but true love words you could understand and had meaning DOO WOPS THE BEST
I'm 80 as well. And i have the same reactions. The music takes e back instantly and it is a unique realization that generations following have a complete dead space that this ever occurred. You and I are fortunate yet can't really pass on this warm and tender experience that would be so valuable for those we love.
I'm 78. I know what you mean. Hang in there, pal. Rock on!
@@serenaspeace22 I’m 19 and I grew up listening to this music with my grandparents…I love Doo Wop so much and I wish I could have lived back then
23 and love this music. Superior to today’s music
I Love all these Doo Wops, I recorded them & I listen to them all of the time, I always listen to oldies and collected them since I was 14 yrs, I’m 61 now… I have thousands of Oldies & doi wops, I’ll always love them forever❤️❤️❤️❤️😊
I listen again and again as long as I live. I just can't get enough of the oldies from the 50's and early 60's and I click on the thumbs up sign on several of you here because I know how you feel when you say Doo Wop brings tears to your eyes. Songs that had meaning and made all us teens feel sad, sentimental, cheery, fall in love and more. I am 83 my memories are remembering those times and I feel the sadness in my gut that such songs are gone.
So true. Us Doo Woppers still hold this music to our hearts.❤❤
Couldn't have said it better myself ✊ I lost my 19yr girlfriend 30yrs ago, and my heart is STILL broken 💔😢... These songs, although beautiful, are BITTER-SWEET especially "The Love You Gave", and "It Hurts"
That music makes me feel sixteen forever
I love Dolly Parton "The Love You Gave".😢 I lost my 19yr Ol' girlfriend in a motorcycle accident 30yrs ago.
Sounds like you still grieve, Bless you and your memories of her.😢
I GREW UP IN THE ROCK N ROLL ERA I WAS BORN IN 1949 LISTENED TO ALL THE 50"S 60"S 70"S 80"S THE MUSIC IN THE 2022 CANNOT HOLD A CANDLE TO WHAT I GREW UP IN ROCK N ROLL ERA. WE HAD FUN IN THOSE DAYS MISS EM ALL. I GRADUATED HIGH SCHOOL IN 1967 . I AM 73 NOW .
I was also born in 1949, and I feel the same ......
1949 here, too!
I'm a 49er and still a musician but I masqueraded as a soldier a printer ,truck driver, Security and over 40 years in education...to relax I play guitar and listen to the decades of sound!
I was also born in 1949 at 14 I went to youth club dances
Another 49er, but quit school 1 yr to head to CA. Came back and was class of '68. Sock hops at the skating rink.
Love this music. Hi school grad 1959.the best music ever.still listening to it every day
me too
me, too
Those oldies but goodies remind me of you
Good Lord! this sure brings me back to my youth. I'm 84 now and it's a shame the music of today, I'll just say it, SUCKS. No passion or feeling or slow dancing. Everyone wants to be an individual and not a pair. I wish I could relive those times but alas, my time is almost finished here in this crazy world. RIP to genuine fun and togetherness.
I'd like to think about leaving this world doing the stroll and grinning from ear to ear! Because surely heaven holds a place where we're all when and where we want to be.
If today's music only sucked it would be pretty good. It is way beyond sucking.
I was born in 59 in the 🇬🇧 But this music stays in my mind. For some nostalgic reason it plays through my head when Im ever in a place where the area has a 50s throwback to it. One particular memory is from the late 70's. I was a soldier patrolling my base on the outer perimeters in Germany, a cold winter night, the rain drizzling in the lamp lights, yet this kind of music was running through my head it was so clear as if back in that era. It is still with me today. The best music ever so easy and relaxing absolutely beautiful harmonies and melodies. Long live doo wop.♥️♥️
Hi Wolf....I was in the Marines (USA) 60's I found the enormous jet hangars were great to serenade in. Acoustics terrific.I was guarding to make sure they didn't run away in the night haha. I did a great version of "A casual look" by the "SixTeens" I would really step it up on the high womens notes and sort squeal ....remains vivid to this day. makes me smile. Luck to you Wolfie.
Also born in 59....nothing better than the old Doo wop....🙌💞😜
My grand girls love this music too....17 years old and 12....😅
Also born in 59....hubby and I always listen to doowop...nothing better....❤😂
doo wop and street lights go hand in hand
Thank you for inviting me to travel down memory lane...
Being a "kid " of 73, I was prretty young during tha late fifties, but in 1956 Dad bought me a transistor radio and at night I would listen to KPOI in Honolulu and grew to lLOVE Doo-Wop...Still do! I think its the BEST!!!
1955/1965..the best ten years of musical bliss.
In spite of the commie scare, it was America at its greatest. We have lost so much.
@@nickv1008 The commies are far worse now and more in control of the economy-culture than in 1954!
What happened in 1966 to end those great musical years? I would make the decade, 1953-63, or if post-Beatle-1964, 1957-67!
@@freeguy77 around 1966 you had 1) Vietnam war, young men drafted, and dieing, 2) student racial rioting, 3) economic problems from surtax, welfare, changing job market, women coming into the job market. 4) maybe it was FM radio and more TV sets being sold.
@@nickv1008 You can say the same thing by late-1965, after LBJ shoved young boys in real fighting army-marines units to that hellhole on Mar. 8. My pick for 1957-63 as the true Golden Oldies years, and 1954-63 for the decade. Anyway, LBJ and Truman should be rated far, far lower by the (court) "historians" if only for their foreign meddling, mass murdering, interventionist mentality that had nothing to do with U.S. national security. Kennedy was withdrawing the first 1,000 of the 16,000 military advisors (no fighting units!) but his withdrawal order was reversed by the ugly, corrupt, war-hawk LBJ on Tue. Nov. 26, 1963, the day after the funeral.
I Need You. Best song of all time.
I’m a teenager again. Wonderful, thank you.
LOVE THE DOO WOP MUSIC! SO GLAD I CAN FIND THIS GREAT DOO WOP MUSIC! DOO WOP MUSIC LIVES ON FOREVER!! GOD BLESS!!
WE ARE ALL GOING BACK TRUST ME. LIFE WAS GREAT AND ALL MY FRIENDS (GIRLS & BOYS. I STARTED DANCING IN 1957 THANK YOU GOD.
Oh dear, that's definitely the music, I love!
I just love all the saxophone in these songs!!
Love the original version of Wasted Days & Wasted Nights. Freddie was a nice man. I got to hang with him.
Saying thank you is not half enough. You are very kind and the gift of music and memory is much appreciated.
Born in 66 but rared on Elvis Holly Fats Big O and many more , Heard doo wop at 10 yrs of age on luxemburg radio
And i was stunned ❤️❤️
Love the doo wop by Dolly. Who knew she did great doo wop.❤❤😊😊
Smashing music
I love this archival stuff. Back when people actually played music and had talent, before the robots and corporations took over. More, please!
Nice to hear music that doesnt have subliminal messages packed in it. 👍👍
@@nickv1008 no computers or auto tuning to cover "singers" that can't carry a tune, either!
@@1953beatlefan those slips make it real, like art, they used to try to be perfect as a photo. Now they try to be creative and not so perfect.
Just be thankful for the gift of life.. the best is yet to come if you grasp it with faith and and trust..just hold on to all of it you sre able to muster⚓️🕊
WOW, great blast's, I'm a singer here in Spain, 70 yrs old, I sing all the usual, 2 hour show , this is great, I now play this between sets. Thanks, keep bopping
Hernano
Como le va
Desde Rene aqui en nueva jersey
Mis ancianos vinieron de galicia y barcelona
Hace mas de 300 anos
The music industry today has gone down the pan with so many untalented people talking their way through a song , thank goodness for good old days when music was great keep it coming
I love this! The Chateaus and the Freddy Fender songs are the best.
The Dolly Parton tune was the earliest I have heard..sounded kinda like Little Millie Small (my boy lollypop) voice.
enjoyed all...thanks
This is fantastic music!! Brings back wonderful memories!!
I love this type of music,from my day,missing it so much
Lost my husband of 53 years in 2021. We loved listening to oldies...he would have really enjoyed all these. Bringing tears to my eyes❤😢
Usted Sra.y su esposo qué disfrutaron muy juntos de estas bellas melodías, él era muy feliz al escucharlas con una emoción distinta a otras.Usted,retorne a ese pasado tan luminoso,y sea feliz;ya qué lo inolvidable qué vivimos,queda danzando cerca de quiénes amamos y disfrutamos de bellos momentos ¡ Sea una mujer alegre cómo antes, qué será para SIEMPRE !
@@mariolucero8559 Sorry, I don't speak Spanish. I took it for a year in high school back in '62, so I remember very little 😊
@@loisbrown1469 Be Happy ! He Is by her side,listening to her favorite melodies. ¡ Good Luck !
@@mariolucero8559 That's very sweet...thank you🙏
I too lost my soul mate. 46 yrs. She loved the old tunes and of course Elvis. This obscure music is awesome can't get enough of it. The best music I've ever heard is music I never heard. I have tons of this and willing to share it. Enjoy and GOD bless. JESUS is LORD.
When we had feelings an loved each other....
ALL THESE REVIEWS ENDEARES ME TO THE ARTIST WHO SANG THESE SONGS AND TO THE REVIEWERS AND THEIR EXPRESSIONS. I WILL BE 80 YRS OF AGE NEXT MONTH. 5/16/24. 5 20 PM PT TIME.
💥Thanks for opening the door to heaven! This music is so comforting and filled with memories of long lost friends. Being 80 years old now I look forward to joining them in heaven soon." 😎 Dave-Kansas 2022
I'm glad the music is bringing some great memories of you and your friends. Cherish the memories and keep thee memories alive and flowing
Biggy hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
David..... I know what you mean....everybody I knew is gone but I do remember them....1950's-1960's were great days.....gone for sure.... drive-ins too....this music reminds me of loafers
Not too soon , I hope , david
I’m only 19, but I wish I could have lived back then…I love Doo-Wop so much
I love this music brings back a lot wonderful memories
Having lost so many of the early great pioneers of rock& roll and dowop it's wonderful that we can still enjoy our kind of music. RIP Jerry Lee ( killer) Lewis. Thanks so much!😉☮️
I was about 13 ..I missed the school bus because I wanted to hear "High school hop" My mother wrote an excuse for late--missing the bus....He wanted to hear "Jerry Lewis" please give him detention. The funny part is she thought it was Dean Martin's partner..then.. I saved the excuse ..didn't turn it in..have it somewhere.. turned 79 myself.
Be good now. Ripple Red
What a collection! Special kudos for Larry & Mike and Dolly Parton (at age 14)!
I would've never thought Dolly did Doo wop! 👍❤️
Me neither
Can't thank you enough. These slow dancing doo woo oldies really go to the HEART of teenage love and romance. They really capture how kids felt so fully at that place and time.
While everyone is familiar with the big hits of the time, it was these lesser-known songs, which were played at the same time as the big hits, and were popular, to one extent or another, and then faded out, which really helped to define an era (maybe some of them possibly more so than the big hits, you could argue), it's just that they've faded into obscurity.
If you've ever heard a song that you hadn't heard in a REAL LONG time, it can trigger memories shooting back to you in a way the more familiar (and more often played) oldies don't.
So I really appreciate your selections. I'm also interested in rare American Bandstand shows from the 1950's. They're available in clips here and there, but not the entire program. There is only one entire show from December 1957. Someone has been posting entire Bandstand programs from the 1960's and 1970's, but I am really interested in entire programs from the 1950's, if they're available. (Boy, talk about a source for some rare and obscure music...!). I realize you might not have any information about these old Bandstand shows. I'm just putting it out there
Many thanks, Chris
The 5 cent records sold at most malt shops and some record stores. Some of these were covers of hit records. I rarely bought any but I found several years later in yard sales and such. Some of these people did have hits later on under different names . But the 5 cent record is part of Rock and Roll history. It was for kids that couldn't afford the hit records.
For me this is the first-time hearing "oh betty" by the pharaohs. are you kidding me? this song is so good that its hard to believe that its a lesser known recording. I'm 66 and I'm not supposed to know much less like this type of music but it does something to me i cant explain. i have pretty vast knowledge of doo-wop just like much of you guys here and how come i never heard this song. i absolutely love it. i have a couple of co-workers who like doo-wop and one of them said to me give me your top 10 of all time..i told him all i can do is give you my #1 and #2 after that its to hard to rank. So for me my all-time #1 favorite is "in the still of the night" by the five satins and #2 all time for me is Donna the prima Donna by Dion. After that i said to him i can give you my top 100 but ranking them is impossible. well for me at least. it's like / is runaround sue number 3 or is it the wanderer. or neither.
should it be.....
heart and soul
there goes my baby.
hats off to Larry.
little town flirt
blue moon
little darlin
the stroll
leader of the pack...............sorry i can't stop.........LOL
i love how you love me
the twist
let's twist again.
you cheated by "the shields" just discovered that one about a year ago..give it a try if you haven't heard it.
donna by Richie Valens
the angels listened in
you're so fine by "the falcons."
the loco-motion by little eva
maybe by the chantells...what a voice she had
so, i didn't rattle all of those off to him. how could you rank something like that. You could but it would watered down for lack of a better word of the moment and
but if any of you want to give me your #1 and #2 of all time. I would love to see the two you chose.
keep the oldies alive. A time long past where keeping your doors open at night was the norm.
or waiting for it to get dark so we could start trick or treating instead of now days where they go to malls and trick or treat and their done by 8pm. Haha we were just getting started. Anyways those were good times I'll never forget just like everyone here. God bless ✝and I believe we all will be together someday. 🎶🎵
Thank you for checking out the music. I'm glad you digged it. And thanks for sharing your top songs and memories!
I remember when "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights" was a hit in the 70's. Did not know there was an earlier version by Freddy Fender. This version does sound a little different.
I’ve never heard the 59 version
I agree with Chris Freeman regarding these lesser known doo wop songs! They are as wonderful to slow dance to as the bigger known hits! If you have EVER heard if the disc jockey Porky Chedwick, from Pittsburgh,PA, or more specifically, Homestead, PA, where i grew up, this is the sound that he was so well known for! He gave many groups their start by playing their music when no one else would!!!!! Jive Five gave him credit at an oldies Concert that my late husband and I attended in Pittsburgh, PA many years ago! And you have to know that Pittsburgh is the “Doo Wop Capital of the World!”
Pittsburgh certainly had its share of the group harmony sound. But I would put my money on New York City. Group harmony proliferated. Butchie Saunders with the Elchords' ("Peppermint Stick,") "Candy Store Love," The Valchords, The Students, ("I'm So Young") , Lillian Leach and the Mellows, ("Smoke From Your Cigarette,"), The Schoolboys ("Please Say You Want Me"), The Clovers, The Wrens, The Paragons, The Jesters, and the list goes on.
Hello. I am MUCH younger than these wonderful songs, yet these are wonderful to me. This is the first I have heard of most or all of these, yet I am absolutely enchanted. Such beautiful music --- 2022 music simply is nothing compared to this. Love these songs
I'm trillions and trillions of years old, these were actually our records. ❤😂
What a terrific selection, Sir. Thoroughly enjoyed this. There's no beating doo wop ballads. Thank you again.
Thank you for this wonderful gift. Comforting and soothing. Many blessings. Amador, Kingdom Christian from sunny Puerto Rico.
Thanks for these. I especially like the Jimmy Breedlove Okeh 45, Dolly on Mercury, and The Webtones on MGM. Priceless...
I sure miss the good old DoWop music. I listened to this stuff growing up in the 50’s and 60’s.
Big hair tight skirts slow dance . . . aah the 50’s . . . I was born in 1944. 🥂🥂👏👏😘
Me too
Ima start wearing formal clothing and suits. I just love the beautiful music that was produced back then :)
Before my time but still great music.
These are nice sides - It's nice to see some rareities instead of common oldies
Love this music
Any kind of music can make a Positive I am happy all the time in my mind a
TRhe Clusters' record is my all-time favorite uptempo group harmony record. It was a #25 hit in New York City when new in 1958. The overdubbed woman singing above the lead was the lead of The Deltairs ("Lullaby of the Bells," another great one). -- Bonus points for the great early Dolly Parton track.
This just goes to show there was a lot of 🎶 music out there that didn't get the attention and credit it deserved. Thank you so much for sharing these great tunes ❤️ with us !!!
There were lots of records like this I had to sort through my late husband's record and CD collection even I hadn't heard of half of these he was a big music fa.
Love this. Right out of my youth.
If you should leave me... Sinceres....best of this bunch imho. classic sound. Write it in stone.
This is the best music, I can identify with this,❤🎶🎶💕😍
Fantastic Bringing back great memories. ❤
Thank very good compilation.
Great songs. Tks. Much.❤
Hi spiffy!! Thanks for sharing another wonderful awesome golden oldie best music 🎶 🎵 💛 ❤️ 👌 💜 🎶 🎵 💛 ❤️ 👌 💜 ever 🎶 🎵!!
I love the 60s and 70s music. The lesser know hits of the 70s are Pasadena by Mumma Bear, Waldo P Emerson Jones by Pickettywitch, My Brother Jake by Free,:Shoo Be Doo Ah by Peter Noone, Iron Horse by Christie, Shut me out by The Matchbox, This song's for you by the Mixtures, She's A Lady by the Hermitts etc etc
Terrific stuff thanks and best wishes from the u.k 😀👍
This is music at its best ❤👍
Thanks so much from the UK🇬🇧
Some of the flip sides were good,also!
This was an hour well spent. Thank you all the best to you.🥇🥇🥇
Awesome songs,thank -you.
Thank you for some great memories.
Thanks for these lovely oldies you are playing for us. Cheers.
"The Love You Gave " by Dolly Parton and the Merry Melody Singers is a real buried treasure; virtually a female version of "The Girl of My Best Friend." Nice old song.
Wonderful memories
This is what music is at about.
You know my kind music. Genius
Very cool music
Awesome 👍
Nice song. Thanks
What a great list of songs, my 2nd favourite dowop song -my lost love- also I have never heard sleep walk vocalised before,thank you so much
Love the old days music when I listen to those songs i realize most of all the 50s singers are so horney they make records that become hits.
Spiffy Griffy M.: Gran selección de temas del género "bailables lentos",dónde las parejas,sentían la fusión momentánea de un tabú implantado por unas décadas negacionistas ,algunos al dejar fluir los encantos de la atracción entre los jóvenes.¡ Tengan un buen sendero de exitos !
WOW...THANKS , I didn't realize I was that old....
Very nice set here 👍🏼👍🏼
More, Need You by Johnny Jack ( Grecko ) every single week on Bob Livorio, WKPA New Kensington PA.
Great music
I shouldn't have been surprised to find Freddy Fender and Dolly Parton here, but I was.
Not sure if Paul McCartney had heard this tune before, "Sleepwalk"...? but the middle eight''s chord progression is very close to the middle eight chords of Paul's "Oh Darlin" I almost fell out of my chair just now hearing it!! thanks for posting!!
The king of the oldies 4. Goodies. Thanks
*WONDERFUL !!*
THANK YOU FOR GREAT MEMORIES OF THE PAST
Oh yes. Love.
Hermoso y agradable el espacio musical de estas añoradas canciones
Victoria Novena Region Chile
Born 2943 good music
Love all these lesser oldies records ❤❤
Fantastic!!
WOW LOVE THIS ALOT OF TALENT THAT DID NOT GET MUCH ATTENTION TILL LATER ON.