Please recommend your favorite albums from the 50s -

[Deeds]

I'm looking for some interesting new sounds (as somebody born in 77) and I'm hoping you guys can recommend your favorite albums from the 50s.

 

[PeterWhite]

Heifetz does the most amazing performance of the Sibelius violin concerto you'll ever hear. RCA Red Seal, Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Recorded in 1959, I believe. Microphones weren't very good back in those days, so the sound is a bit funky by today's standards. But the performance is just out of this world.

 

[jostenmeat]

I used to have that Heifetz recording, but I think I've lost it. I bought it for the Glazunov, which there didn't seem to be many recordings of.

I like this title, also from '59.

 

[Masher]

The Weavers - Live at Carnegie Hall

 

[audiohonic65]

Rock n' Rool of the 50's
1 Bobby Day / Bobby Day
2 Danny & The Juniors / Danny & The Juniors
3 The Coasters / The Coasters
4 Little Richard / Little Richard
5 Buddy Knox / Buddy Knox
6 Little Richard / Little Richard
7 Bobby Day / Bobby Day
8 Fabian / Fabian
9 Little Richard / Little Richard
10 Danny & The Juniors / Danny & The Juniors

 

[djreef]

Any of the Miles Davis quintet sessions on Prestige. Davis-Coltrane-Chambers-Garland-Jones. Man, it couldn't be better than this.

DJ

 

[MatthewB.]

Anything from Billie Holliday.

 

[mwheelerk]

Just A Few

Frank Sinatra - In The Wee Small Hours
Billie Holiday - Body and Soul

Lots and lots of classic jazz stuff from Coltrane, Davis and many others

 

[audiofox]

Sonny Rollins-Tenor Madness, Saxophone Colossus
Bill Evans-Portrait in Jazz (additional good titles from the early 60s)
Miles Davis-Kind of Blue
Dave Brubeck-Time Out
LOTS of other superb 50s jazz titles-too many to list
Peggy Lee-Black Coffee
Most RCA Living Stereo pressings, especially those by Fritz Reiner/Chicago SO
Buddy Holly-self titled (second album)
Ray Charles-The Genius of Ray Charles
Johnny Cash-With His Hot and Blue Guitar

There-that should keep you busy for awhile.

 

[no1maestro]

Belafonte Live at Carnegie Hall. One of the best live recordings ever on vinyl.

 

[Geno]

I'm an old guy who was actually buying music in the '50s, but the music I liked when I was 14 or 15 isn't what I like today. My favorites in those days were things like Elvis, Duane Eddy, Bobby Darin, The Everly Brothers, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, and the do-wop groups of the late 50s. The 'remember when' shows think all us old farts still want to listen to that stuff for the rest of our lives. I've grown up, and my tastes have changed, so some of that '50s jazz is pretty good now...didn't appreciate it as a kid.

 

[AllenW]

I'm an old guy who was actually buying music in the '50s, but the music I liked when I was 14 or 15 isn't what I like today. My favorites in those days were things like Elvis, Duane Eddy, Bobby Darin, The Everly Brothers, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, and the do-wop groups of the late 50s. The 'remember when' shows think all us old farts still want to listen to that stuff for the rest of our lives. I've grown up, and my tastes have changed, so some of that '50s jazz is pretty good now...didn't appreciate it as a kid.

Good choice, the old DooWop groups were a favorite and still are, also like Masher says, Billie Holiday, and add Bessie Smith to that.

I have some old Holiday and Smith 78's in great shape...unfortnately nothing to play them on now..

Al

 

[hillbill]

Kind of Blue - I know, I know, Captain Obvious.