Earliest Recordings - Pre Shads era.

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Also worth a mention are the records that you never heard in the 1950s because they were effectively censored - not for religious or 'it'll scare the public' reasons but simply because they sounded too subversive.

So we never heard, for example, 'Black Denim Trousers and Motorcycle Boots' by The Cheers (a 1955 gem written by Leiber and Stoller that made it to No.6 in the US charts) while that wretched 'Beep Beep' song about the bubblecar was played all the time.

Ray L

Ah but Seven Little Girls (Sitting in the back seat) was played all the time................ Back seat sex obviously not subversive enough then eh???

Lyrics
Sitting in the backseat
Hugging and a kissing with Fred
I said, why don't one of you
Come and sit beside me
And this is what the seven girls said

(CHORUS)
All together now, one, two, three
Keep your mind on your driving
Keep your hands on the wheel
Keep your snoopy eyes on the road ahead
We're having fun, sitting in the backseat
Kissing and a hugging with Fred

Dee doodee doom doom.....

Drove through the town
Drove through the country
Showed em how a motor could go
I said, how do you like my
Triple carburetor
And one of them whispered low

(CHORUS)

Dee doodee doom doom.....

Seven little girls
Smooching in the backseat
Every one in love with Fred
I said, you don't need me
I'll get off at my house
And this is what the seven girls said

(CHORUS)

All of them in love with Fred
(Dee doodee doom doom)
Kissing and a hugging with Fred
(Dee doodee doom doom)
Wish that I could be like Fred (doom)

[Martin Page]

Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen By The Sea...

You're a pink toothbrush, I'm a blue toothbrush...

When it's Spring again, I'll bring again
Tulips from Amsterdam...

Martin.

[JimN]

Also worth a mention are the records that you never ...effectively censored ... because they sounded too subversive ... for example, 'Black Denim Trousers and Motorcycle Boots' by The Cheers (a 1955 gem written by Leiber and Stoller that made it to No.6 in the US charts) while that wretched 'Beep Beep' song about the bubblecar was played all the time.
Ray L

Ray, I assume that you are aware that the Bubble Car song was itself a complete product of censorship?

JN

[JohnBassist]

This really is an interesting thread - and it certainly got my "little grey cells" working!!-and Saturday morning (I think) was incomplete without "Uncle Mac".

Based on memory - and my record list - `I still have about 70 x old 78s including:

Happy Wanderer - Frank Weir and his Orch.
Indian Love Call- Slim Whitman
(The Railroad runs thru) the Middle of the House - The Johnston Brothers
Black Hills of Dakota - Doris Day
Whistle My Love - Elton Hayes - (a particular favourite from the original Walt Disney NON-cartoon movie "Robin Hood")
A Four Legged Friend- Roy Rogers.
(What is strange is to see some of the record labels that have long disappeared - e.g. Edison Bell / Regal Zonophone)

Early 1958 I was given my first "Record Player" and we progressed to:
a) My first 45s - Jack O'Diamonds - Lonnie Donegan
Diana- Paul Anka

b) My first LPs (both 10") - Lonnie - Lonnie Donegan
TV's Wyatt Earp Sings (!!) - Hugh O'Brian

Once again, thanks for starting this thread - although not "Shadows" per se, it still brings back happy memories.

John

[JimN]

I also love the light music of the period and have several cds of same including one of early stereo recordings ... Jim. I'm a Rob Wilton fan as well, thanks for reminding me of those lyrics which really only come across when spoken by Rob with his little finger in the corner of his mouth .
Keith

Keith:

We're going to have to compare lists...

JN

[Arpeggio]

Hi John,
Yes indeed - briliant memories. Hugh O ' Brien as Wyatt Earp - with Doc Holliday and Bat Masterson (??). Blimey - haven't thought about these for getting on for 50 years!! "Wyatt Earp, Wyatt Earp, Brave courageous and bold. Long live his story and long live his glory and long may his story be told" Errrr.... were those the words to the Wyatt Earp theme music (or some of them anyway?) I can still recall the melody - blasted out by a stentorian male chorus. Western series....I used to watch them all: "Lawman", "Laramie", "Fury", "Sugarfoot", "Bonanza", "Champion - The Wonder Horse", "Cheyenne", "Bronco", "Maverick", "Gunsmoke", "The Deputy", "Wells Fargo", "The Overland Trail", "Wagon Train", "The Range Rider", "The Lone Ranger", "Cisco Kid", "Hopalong Cassidy", "The Virginian", "The High Chaparral", "The Big Valley", "Have Gun Will Travel", "Branded", "The Rifleman", "The Dakotas", "Cimarron Strip" and lots, lots more! Plus they more often than not had great theme music. Happy days indeed.

Bests....Rob

[JimN]

Take a listen (and a look):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfJjXlkhNiw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRNImRxRNjc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kqyk1euTX94

The last one is a compilation.

JN

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Captain Halliday, Four feather falls, Torchy the Battery Boy, Rag Tag & Bobtail, Tales of the riverbank. Watch with Mother's 'The Woodentops',


Sea Hunt with Lloyd Bridges
Ivanhoe with Roger Moore
William Tell (Come away come away with William Tell, come away with the man you know so well!)

Casey Jones with Alan Hale Jnr
"Casey Jones Steamin' and rollin'
Casey Jones You never have to guess
When you hear the tootin' of the whistle
It's Casey at the throttle of the Cannonball Express"

Such Innocence

Steve

[Risky]

[quote="BrianD"]I turned 60 back in August so my earliest memories of records goes back to the old wind-up gramaphones where you replaced the needle after every play and records were 78rpm and made very fragile flying saucers! The earliest records my father gave me (to prevent me breaking his valuable collection of 78s) consisted of a few nursery rhymes, The Teddy Bears Picnic and TV themes like Davy Crocket and Robin Hood. But the record that I really loved was recorded in 1935 and didn't feature any music. It was called TRAINS and was recorded by someone called Reginald Gardner. To my amazement I just found it on the web as a downloadable MP3. It probably won't appeal to you youngsters but those who grew up in the era of steam may find it amusing. If you have a few sad minutes go to http://mikes.railhistory.railfan.net/sounds.html and download both parts of Trains. It will take a few minutes, but I enjoyed listening to it again.

Brian

Like you I was allowed my own 78. It was The Whistler and His Dog. Have a listen at: http://www.archive.org/details/edgm-9107

Phil

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Rob's list of TV Westerns is roughly the same as the ones I used to watch.......
Bronco with Ty Hardin was a favourite of mine, & so was a very young, very handsome Roger Moore in Ivanhoe.....but top of my list is Wagon Train...... Robert Horton oooer I've gone week at the knees again !!!! what a hunk!!!!!! I still have the coloured centre pictures from The Boyfriend magazines of some of those tv stars... will have to look them out & drool over them again
Does anybody remember Whirlybirds ? I think it was about the same era......
The actor who played William Tell was Conrad Phillips............
& how about Kookie from 77 Sunset Strip.......co-starring Efrem Zimbalist Jr.........
Happy memories.............am really enjoying this topic.............