50 50, Pt. 1 [CD-single] [Import]

50 50, Pt. 1 [CD-single] [Import]

Track Listings

1. 50/50 (Radio Edit)

2. Lullaby

3. 50/50 (Blacksmith R&B Rub)

4. 50/50 (Video)

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
The second single from the winner of the BBC's 'Fame Academy' series. Four tracks, '50/50' (radio edit), 'Lullaby', '50/50' (Blacksmith R&B Rub feat. Jahzell) & '50/50' (video). Columbia. 2003.

Tracks:

Light My Fire - Zacharias
Sunshine Superman - Mel Torme
Incense And Peppermints/A Beautiful Morning - Martin Denny
Uptighy (Everything's Alright) - Henry Jerome
Green Tambouine - Sir Julian
Tired Of Waiting For You - Stu Phillips
Mellow Yellow/ We Gotta Get Out Of This Place - David McCalum
Gimme A Little Sign - Buddy Morrow
A Hard Day's Night - Peggy Lee
A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Mariano Moreno
Heartbreak Hotel/don't Be Cruel - Hollyridge Strings
As Tears Go By - New Classic Singers
Evil Ways - Al De Long
Get Back - Little Big Horns
Hell, I Love You/Touch Me - Lettermen
Dizzy - Royal Blue
Theme From Shaft - Hollyridge Strings
Mighty Quinn (quinn The Eskimo) - Julie London
A Day In The Life/ I Am The Walrus - John Andrew Tartaglia
Daydreamer Believer - Lord Sitar
Winchester Cathedral - Nelson Riddle
Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) - Wayne Newton
Bonus Track - On The Rocks

Customer Reviews:

It's Retro lounge! Ditch the grouchiness you grouches!.......2007-05-20

Oh Man, This cd is so cool! I loved every ineterpretation and rendering! Hey I'm young , but I realize this is lounge and not mean't to usurp or dinegrate the original, so some of you peeps lighten-up! It's fab! These songs do make you think of times when cars were sleek and clothes actually fit people! The 60's were a mixed bag and that's what I love about this music, you could have hard rock, pop and lounge and they all co-existed...what an awesome world to have lived in. I would give this cd 10 stars if possible!

I'll pick up your hand and slowly blow your little mind.......2004-09-20

These recordings date from 1964 to 1971. During this time period, there were two kinds of "pop" music. There was the kind for teenagers, which featured the likes of the Beatles, the Doors and the Strawberry Alarm Clock. And then there was pop music for the parents of teenagers, featuring the likes of Julie London, the Letterman and the Hollyridge Strings. This CD features teenage pop songs as performed by pop artists for the older folks. Boy, talk about a style clash! Can you imagine Mel Torme singing "Sunshine Superman", or Julie London singing "Mighty Quinn"? Well, you don't have to imagine it, you can get this CD and hear it for yourself. There are some strange renditions of songs that will be familiar to anyone who ever turned on an oldies radio station. Most of the songs are instumentals, although I wouldn't call it "elevator music", for the most part. I have to make special mention of the orchestral version of "Heartbreak Hotel", which is downright spooky! Fans of "kitsch" should dig this CD.

A Veritable Smorgasbord of Bad Taste--and that's the idea!.......2003-11-12

The 1960s was the most tumultuous decade of the 20th Century. There were a great many events to commend it and condemn it. It produced the Apollo space program to put American astronauts on the Moon and some of the best original popular music as just two commendable events. Assassinations and the divisive Vietnam War were events certainly to condemn the sixties.

Listening to Capital Records' "On The Rocks, Part 1"-part of the Ultra Lounge series-- has convinced me there is something else that gave the sixties a black eye. It spawned some of the worst rendition music ever to waste valuable recording studio time.

As I mentioned before, the sixties produced some of the best popular music, and always sounded best when released by the original artists. However, this left the door open for others deluded into thinking they could take a top 40 hit and resuscitate their lagging career, or take a perfectly successful recording career and sending it into the ground.

The On The Rocks Part 1 (& Part 2) CD is a compilation of some of the worst the 1960s and 1970s had to offer in rendition music. Better examples of a total lack of judgment probably cannot be found. Take, for example, Mel Torme singing Sunshine Superman, or Peggy Lee singing "Hard Day's Night"-please! Even Julie London took leave of her senses to record "Mighty Quinn'. Most painful to listen to.

The indignities don't end there. Imagine the Hollyridge Strings performing the Theme from Shaft, or the Lettermen mis-performing the Doors tunes "Hello I Love You" and "Touch Me." Even the impeccable Nelson Riddle can step on the proverbial wet bar of soap, musically speaking of course, and produce their sad rendition of "Winchester Cathedral."

If you have a morbid curiosity or want a great gag gift for your fellow Loungers, this is definitely the disc to get.

A New Level Of Kitsch.......2003-06-14

Mel Torme singing 'Sunshine Superman'? Julie London warbling 'Quinn, The Eskimo'? Exotica Supremo Martin Denny taking on 'Incense & Peppermints'? No, you haven't gone insane, you're just listening to the ultimate curveball CD from 'Ultra-Lounge' This may be one of the most mind-warping albums I have ever heard; extremly tasteless and misguided takes on your favorite 60's pop hits by desperate loungeurs trying to be 'relevant' to 'the kids'. They miss the boat entirely, but the result is this strange hybrid; not quite lounge music, not quite rock, not really muzak...but it is (in the words of The Firesign Theatre) 'weirdly cool' . On first listening I didn't know WHAT I was hearing, but this disc has become strangely addictive...

Particular faves are a kinda science-fictiony sounding 'Shaft', Lord Sitar(!) doing a faux Indian take on 'Daydream Believer', Zacharias & his spooky violin on 'Light My Fire', and what must be the strangest 'Heartbreak Hotel' since Dread Zeppelin's...plus the vocal numbers mentioned above. If you are an auditory adventurer, and you 'get' the whole 'lounge' vibe...bend your head around this one!

I'm really in the groove, now..........1998-09-26

The British Invasion, it should be noted, contained Miss Peggy Lee. That's right, the Peggy Lee of "Fever". Peggy Lee, you see, was the 5th Beatle. This disc is evidence of that, as you hear Peggy belt out "A Hard Day's Night". Yeah, baby! Oh, and you also get a special version of "Light My Fire"--a version that I think Ed Sullivan would have approved. Come on baby, light my fire. Mel Torme, Wayne Newton--now THAT's counter-culture, man. So put on your fringe vest, those rose-colored Lennon specs, and take a step back in time to some real anit-Establishment venom!

History of Rock: The 60's, Pt. 1 - WCBS FM101

Average customer rating:

A fantastic trip down memory lane.

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Customer Reviews:

A fantastic trip down memory lane........2000-05-09

The History Of Rock series is a great way to find some of the best oldies out there. This one starts off with Dion's Runaround Sue" and keeps right on trucking thru such great songs as "Keep Searchin" by Del Shannon, Curtis Lee's "Pretty Little Angel Eyes," "He's So Fine," "Hey Paula," "Smokey Places" and many more. The only thing I don't like about the disc is the inclusion of "Last Kiss." But, since it's the last track on the CD, I can take it. Simply a good disc.

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Get A Job - The Silhouettes
Eddie My Love - The Teen Queens
When You Dance - The Turbans
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good and original
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Customer Reviews:

good and original.......2005-12-19

these songs are all originals,some are less well known than the others, depending on what part of the country you were listening to the radio at the time, but there is a good mix of the most popular and less well known songs, but all are good

EXCELLENT COMPILATION OF 50s ROCK 'N ROLL.......2003-05-21

For true fans of classic r&r hits of the 50s, you can't go wrong with this wonderful collection by WCBS-FM-Part 1 AND Part 2. Each song is a major hit as done by the original artist, no remakes to be found in this series. My radio is usually tuned into CBS-FM whether at home or at work. If only there were a few more additions to this 50s series. Anyway, get both volumes(1 and 2)and put them on either at home or in the car, sing along & have a great time. Very highly recommended.

HISTORY OF ROCK THE FIFTY PT.1.......2001-06-25

I LISTEN TO THESE SONG ALL THOUGH THE FIFTY'S STARTING IN 1953-54 ON WDAS& WHAT AM IN PHILLY PA. WHAT A TIME TO BE GROWING UP. GREATEST ROCK&ROLL SHOW EVER SO MANY SINGERS AND GROUPS FOR LESS THAN 5.00 DOLLARS. HERE IN PHILLY METRO. WE WERE LUCKY TO HAVE GEORGIE WOOD JOCKO HENDERSON KAYE WILLIAMS FOR DISK JOCKYS. WHO DON'T REMEMBER K WILLIAM SAYING GET OUT BED AND GET THAT BREAD TODAY IS EAGLE DAY! I DANCED TO EVEYONE OF THOSE SONGS AT THE PARISH DANCE. AND KNEW EVERY WORD.

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Album Details

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Speechless Awesome!!!
GO BABY GO GO (3.5 stars)
Terrible Recording Quality
Very amusing.
ooooh baby!

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Release Date: 1995-04-08

Tracks:

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A La Carte - James Holloway
After Hours - Bob Taylor
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Customer Reviews:

Speechless Awesome!!!.......2006-05-02

This CD is great it captures the grit and raunch of 50's and 60's strip music. The sexual conotations in the music are over the top. Unlike the negative review down below the record hiss on some songs adds to the down and dirty bump and grind. I can imagine these being played at a burlesque show. Yes most of the music is from the 50's I know because I research what I like. Contrary to what one reviewer thinks the Jhon and Jackie song "Little Girl" is from 1958 it was originally written and recorded by the Rockabilly great, Gene Maltais. People have this impression that the 50's were a time of poodle skirts and Happy Days, how wrong they are. Some of the most dirtest music came from those "innocent" times albeit on smaller labels. Most of these bands I can tell wouldnt've even been touched by the majors in the 50's or early 60's. Grab em' up while you can the price is worth it. Although the other volumes you can find cheaper else where you can count on me getting all of them! Rare songs you won't find anywhere else!

GO BABY GO GO (3.5 stars).......2005-06-29

Some of the raunchiest, sleaziest, most glouriously outdated rock 'n' roll you'll ever hear. Back in the days when striptease left something to the imagination, strip clubs would often come with a band. They would blast out sleazy jazz or rock 'n' roll. The cover basically shows you what is inside this disc. Perfect music from roaming the streets reeking of hard liqour. This music just reeks of sleaze and bands who wouldn't be found playing outside strip clubs. It's remarkable that they even recorded, let alone these 45s survived up to this day. Like most music of it's type, its sexy but never really sexual. Just a girl in sexy lingerae, nothing more, nothing less. If you like David Rose's "The Stripper", and are wondering where to go from there, this is a good comp to pick up.

Terrible Recording Quality.......2002-09-13

You can hear lots of scratches from the original records, sound is very tinny -- all treble and no bass. Playing this CD on my multi-kilo-buck sound system sounds worse than my 1950's car radio used to sound.

Very amusing........2001-08-11

I have my doubts about all of the songs actually being from the 50's, as the marketing leads you to believe. Some of them, like John & Jackie's "Little Girl", seem a little too raunchy and in too good condition to be that old. It is my favorite song, however; my husband and I laughed out loud when we heard it!

Many of the songs have that great retro feel fans of "The Cramps" go for. The contrast between the jazz or rockabilly sound and the sex in the lyrics and titles makes for an interesting listen. It's more bawdy and faster than "Take it Off - Strip Tease Classics", and as far as home-stripping, would probably be better for someone who has a little experience. It would also be great fun to play at a Swing dance!

I did have one problem. Tracks 3 and 4 were reversed on my CD. But I knew which one was the Peter Gunn Twist and it didn't really ruin my enjoyment of the album. All of the other songs appear to be in order. I'll be buying the others in the series.

ooooh baby!.......2001-06-26

I LOVE this stuff! Before my time, but it always makes me wanna be a Las Vegas [showgirl]... back in the classier times.

My kids love it (13 & 15) as it is the quintessential 'party' music. Now if i only owned leopard print capris and spike heels.