1950s S & D

Help me with my shopping. Name ten or twenty 1950s albums you own or would like to own. Please include pictures if you can.

Little Richard's singles for Specialty - i have the version titled Georgia Peach and it rules!
the first rhino Doo Wop Boxset is pretty essential
The Very Best of the Shirelles
Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes feat: Veronica
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might as well add the Five Royales - monkey hips and rice but it may take some searching

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well, if we're gonna go Sinatra:

Swing Easy!
Songs for Swingin' Lovers
Come Fly With ME

Sam Cooke s/t

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Louvin Brothers "The Family Who Prays"

I will represent for the second Rhino doowop box set, it is great.

I also enjoy the work of Moondog and Harry Partch from this decade.

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a coupla gospel ones:
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the Soul Stirrers feat. R.H. harris - Shine On Me
and Swan Silvertones were also fantastic

the Chordettes (altho not sure what album to recommend - albums were not really central to the pop music format in the 50s, which makes this thread kinda problematic)

the 1950s are my favourite decade music-wise. guitar-wise i consider it the apex of creativity, despite all the innovation i don't know that we've ever actually surpassed the levels of musical greatness created during that decade.

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This one is one of the finest vocal jazz albums of all time. Vaughan's singing is out of this world.

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I guess this is kinda obvious, but it's still a brilliant album. Both Brubeck and Desmond have a sound that's among the prettiest in jazz. I could listen to first two minutes of "Strange Meadow Lark" again and again.

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This is one of my favourite box sets ever: it collects pretty much everything Dean Martin released between 1946 and 1955. Dino's voice was one of kind: even the throaway novelty tunes are made interesting by the detached coolness he oozes.

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This is basically just four extended percussion jams, I guess it's not considered a classic among Blakey's albums, but it's loads of fun.

Dangerous blog post from Chuck Eddy. My discogs shopping list is ballooning rapidly:

https://accidentalevolution.wordpress.com/2022/04/20/150-best-albums-of-1957-58-59/