TOP TUNES INFLUENCE:
1956/57
In 1956 Elvis arrived and these songs filled the airwaves:
Memories Are Made Of This - Dean Martin
Great Pretender - The Platters
Lisbon Antigua - Nelson Riddle n Orchestra
Poor People Of Paris - L. Baxter n Orchestra
Hot Diggity - Perry Como
Moonglow/'Picnic' - M. Stoloff
The Wayward Wind - Gogi Grant
I Almost Lost My Mind - Pat Boone
Then King Elvis dominated with
I Want You, I Need You
Don't Be Cruel
Hound Dog
Love Me Tender
Heartbreak Hotel
Other hits followed
My Prayer - The Platters
The Green Door - Jim Lowe
Singing The Blues - Guy Mitchell
Strange how the mind remembers the tunes, actors and movie screen images of long ago. One Morris Stoloff combined the theme from the movie Picnic (image) with the song Moonglow, and with the director, produced the sexiest scene on celluloid. This scene is still in my mind today.
Kim Novak and William Holden warmed the cockles of our hearts with this quietly sensual dance scene. You'll never ever forget it. YouTube.
Picnic starred William Holden and Kim Novak and showed to capacity house at the Capitol Cinema that year. Moonglow is a 1934 song but well-known in Singapore as an instrumental from the 1956 movie, The Benny Goodman Story. The song is a classic. Personally, Benny Goodman's version is best.
Heartbreak Hotel is raw rock and roll with Elvis Presley on rhythm, Scotty Moore, lead, D.J. Fontana, drums and Floyd Cramer, piano. Recorded in January 1956 in Nashville, the song introduced Presley to America and the world. Heartbreak Hotel became the first No.1 pop record by Elvis and the best selling single of 1956. Then Singapore saw him in, Love Me Tender...
Original article: Andy Lim.
7 comments:
I remember the Picnic's Willian Holden and Kim Novak yet...How strange my mind remembers it yet too...and I love the Platters, Pat Boone,Perry Como....Also remember the Benny Goodman but...oldis goodis...
Thanks nomore. I am glad you remember the scene. The background music, Benny Goodman's clarinet solo of "Moonglow", bring it all back. Just wondering how many people remember this movie. Cbrace from YouTube says it's, "One of the sultriest, sexiest moments in the movies..."
Elvis, Platters Dean Martin. Those were the best days. Will never come back.
James Kwok
Wikipedia: Russ Hamilton’s 1957 "We Will Make Love" peaked at No. 2 in the UK Singles Chart, and its B-side "Rainbow" reached No. 4 on Billboard's Hot 100. This produced the possibly unique event of a single reaching the Top 10 in the UK, while its flipside achieved the same result across the Atlantic. The record sold over one million copies, and reached gold disc status.
[James is probably referring to the ''we will make love'' scene in PICNIC.]
Andy Young
Author
Thanks James, I think the practice is good because the rainbow comes after the rain and the air is clean of the covid bandit.
CHEERS.
Yip Dick
Amen, Andy ...akan datang " Blue Skies, smiling at me, nothing but blue skies, do I see !" Then we go drink kopi together with James.🤟🤗🤣
Andy Young
Author
Yes, sounds good Dick.
Let us know.
Thanks.
A CUP OF COFFEE
SHARED WITH A FRIEND
IS HAPPINESS TASTED
AND TIME WELL SPENT.
THANKS JAMES, THAT'S A GREAT COFFEE QUOTE TO CONSUME. CHEERS.
THANKING ALL OTHER FRIENDS AND READERS TOO, WHO POSTED AND COMMENTED.
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