My how time flies… at both 4x and regular speed. We find ourselves in June, 2022 and listening to the music of August, 1957. Which may beg the question for some of you, what happened to July, 1957? Well, we were there…where were you?
Oops! Got busy and didn’t get time to finish the blog post and send it out. We listen to the music like clockwork, but sometimes fitting in the writing is a struggle. So we missed a week in your inboxes. You can view the missing month and play list here.
The songs of August, 1957
“A Teenager’s Romance” – Ricky Nelson
“A White Sport Coat” – Marty Robbins
“All Shook Up” – Elvis Presley
“Around The World” – Mantovani*
“Around The World” – Victor Young And His Singing Strings*
“Bernadine” – Pat Boone*
“Bye Bye Love” – Everly Brothers
“C.C. Rider” – Chuck Willis
“Come Go With Me” – Dell-Vikings
“Dark Moon” – Gale Storm
“Diana” – Paul Anka*
“Gonna Find Me A Bluebird” – Marvin Rainwater*
“Goody Goody” – Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers*
“Honeycomb” – Jimmie Rodgers*
“I Like Your Kind Of Love” – Andy Williams
“I’m Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter” – Billy Williams
“In The Middle Of An Island” – Tony Bennett*
“It’s Not For Me To Say” – Johnny Mathis*
“It’s You I Love” – Fats Domino
“Jenny Jenny” – Little Richard
“Little Darlin'” – Diamonds
“Love Letters In The Sand” – Pat Boone
“Love Me To Pieces” – Jill Corey*
“Loving You” – Elvis Presley*
“Mr. Lee” – Bobbettes*
“Old Cape Cod” – Patti Page
“Over The Mountain Across The Sea” – Johnnie And Joe
“Rainbow” – Russ Hamilton*
“Remember You’re Mine” – Pat Boone*
“Searchin'” – Coasters
“Send For Me” – Nat King Cole
“Shangri-La” – Four Coins
“Short Fat Fannie” – Larry Williams
“So Rare” – Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra
“Stardust” – Billy Ward And His Dominoes
“Start Movin'” – Sal Mineo
“Tammy” – Debbie Reynolds*
“Teddy Bear” – Elvis Presley
“That’ll Be The Day” – Crickets*
“The Flying Saucer 2Nd” – Buchanan And Goodman*
“To The Aisle” – Five Satins*
“Valley Of Tears” – Fats Domino
“Whispering Bells” – Dell-Vikings
“White Silver Sands” – Dave Gardner*
“White Silver Sands” – Don Rondo*
“Whole Lot Of Shakin’ Going On” – Jerry Lee Lewis*
“Wonderful Wonderful” – Johnny Mathis
“Young Blood” – Coasters
* = New to the chart this week.
You can listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link or embedded below:
This month in history
On August 5th, American Bandstand launched across the USA. The show featured teenagers dancing to music of the time. Like this classic clip from 1957 of some teenagers “rock & roll” dancing. It’s been a while since 15 year old boys have worn suits on the regular…
In more 2022/1957 parallels, on August 26th the USSR announced a successful test of intercontinental ballistic missile – ramping up the cold war fear factor.
And on the 24th Stephen Fry, English comedian, writer and actor was born in London. A personal favourite on all fronts, you can see some of his classic comedy moments in the video below:
What’d Sadie think?
It was already at the top spot for 2 weeks in July, and its another 5 weeks at number 1 for Elvis with “Teddy Bear”.
Love ’em
A couple of real rock classics – “That’ll be the day” and “Whole lot of shakin’ going on” in this month’s playlist. The former is credited to ‘The Crickets’ because of some contractual issues Buddy Holly had at the time by all accounts. Great tunes whatever you call them…
“Honeycomb” – Jimmie Rodgers
“Love Me To Pieces” – Jill Corey
“Mr. Lee” – Bobbettes
“That’ll Be The Day” – Crickets
“Whole Lot Of Shakin’ Going On” – Jerry Lee Lewis
Like ’em
“Bernadine” – Pat Boone
“Diana” – Paul Anka
“Gonna Find Me A Bluebird” – Marvin Rainwater
“Goody Goody” – Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers
“It’s Not For Me To Say” – Johnny Mathis
“Loving You” – Elvis Presley
“Remember You’re Mine” – Pat Boone
“To The Aisle” – Five Satins
“White Silver Sands” – Don Rondo
Leave ’em
“Around The World” – Mantovani
“In The Middle Of An Island” – Tony Bennett
“Rainbow” – Russ Hamilton
“Tammy” – Debbie Reynolds
“The Flying Saucer 2Nd” – Buchanan And Goodman
Now go listen to the full playlist on Youtube via this link.