1953 -- My Favorite Album, Song, Movie & TV Show (Series Episode 4)
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3rd Runner Up: • The Drifters - Money H...
2nd Runner Up: • Help Me Somebody
1st Runner Up: • There Stands The Glass
Favorite Song: • Amos Milburn - One Sco...
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There are three movies I really like from this year. My favorite is probably Stalag 17. I also really like The Robe and Roman Holiday.
Thanks Jason. Roman Holiday got serious consideration as I love Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn's performances.
This is an interesting series!, i have some Errol Garner and Webb Pierce but I haven't listened to them in a very long time
Webb Pierce was about as honky tonk as you could get and it had been a while since I had played any of his music as well. I do like that type of country. Thanks for watching.
You are getting into the prime doo wop years, I wasn't aware the Drifters were around as early as 1953. One Scotch, One Bourbon got homaged in reggae at least once, Lloyd Hemmings' Rude Boy goes "one draw, one cigarette, no bail". Come to think of it, Stalag 17 turned up in Jamaica as well, there was an instrumental titled after the film that the melody went on to get reused hundreds of times and become known as the Stalag rhythm. Good to see this series continuing, cheers!
It does sound like a unique homage to that tune by Lloyd Hemmings. That was indeed the first Drifters single in 1953. They started out as kind of Clyde McPhatter's backing group and I wish he would have stayed longer with them but I do enjoy his solo material. I had not heard about the Stalag rhythm and that the film inspired the melody. Have a great weekend.
Congratulations to Tom Lehrer. It would be fun to see a copy of that album from Tom's original, self-produced batch.
The Band Wagon is my favorite post-1930s Fred Astaire movie. It's a bold claim to personally rank it higher than Singin' in the Rain. This could have caused some controversy. I'm up for looking at both films with new eyes. Less controversially, it would have been good to see more pairings with Cyd Charisse. It's also a treat to see Oscar Levant show up in supporting roles.
I once saw Nanette Fabray perform on a bill that featured the Tex Beneke Orchestra and (three of the original) Four Lads. Nanette, who was backed by Beneke's band, turned her back to the audience and flashed the musicians. I can remember one of the trombonists being particularly delighted by the experience. It took some time for the red to leave his cheeks.
Co-writer, Norman Corwin, was a close friend and early champion of Ray Bradbury.
1953 was a good year for drinking songs. It's my favorite subgenre about self-destructive lifestyles.
Scotland Yard looks interesting.
Looking forward to 1954.
My dad taught math and physics and I can remember playing him the tune "New Math" from Tom Lehrer, from a different album of course. I may have to go back and rewatch The Band Wagon, just to make sure it is still my favorite. That sounds like a unique Nanette Fabray performance. It's funny that you should mention her as I just watched The Cockeyed Cowboys Of Calico County with my dad. When I switched from vinyl to CD's before eventually going back to vinyl, I didn't have a great purge but I did sell a few things that I regret. One was a Tex Beneke Orchestra vinyl box set.
I do like my drinking songs and jump blues and country sure supplied quite a few.
Scotland Yard is probably a hard TV show to find.
Thanks for watching.
I remember Thorogood's version of One Bourbon as a teenager. Stalag 17 is so great, the pre Hogan's Heroes! Awesome job as always Randy.
Stalag 17 was also a lot different in tone to Hogan's Heroes. I like the Thorogood version but I prefer the jump blues piano of Amos Milburn.
Another enjoyable vid - The music I don't know the albums or songs but I will start looking - the movies - Have Stalag and Naked Spur - the other 2 I'll track down - TV series sounds interesting
The TV Series may be hard to find but I find it very interesting. I do like a lot of music from the early 50's but a lot of it wasn't what was big on the Hit Parade. Thanks for watching.
Solid picks Randy. “There Stands The Glass” by Webb Pierce, is definitely an all time classic, and you really can’t go wrong with “The Big Heat”. Some of my top five favorite songs are guilty pleasures, like the politically incorrect “Mexican Joe”, by Jim Reeves, and “North Wind” by the often maligned Slim Whitman…. Also “I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know”, by The Davis Sisters, “Vaya Con Dios”, by Les Paul & Mary Ford, and “Theme From The Moulin Rouge”, by Percy Faith. -Top 5 favorite movies for me are, “The Wild One”, Shane”, “Mogambo”, “Roman Holiday”, and number one is the independent film, “Little Fugitive”. Nice video as always..
I do like that Les Paul & Mary Ford song and my dad's favorite song was "The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise" by them. I do have those tunes you mentioned except I don't think that I have anything by The Davis Sisters although I do have Jerry Lee Lewis doing the song. I will have to check out "Little Fugitive" as I don't know that film, but I do like your other selections. I'm a big fan of Ava Gardner, so I have seen "Mogambo" often. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Hey Randy! 'Stalag 17' is a great movie! I'm not one to watch repeated viewings of a movie, but I have seen that about 10 times. Not many fall into that category for me, but others would be; Wizard of Oz, Great Escape, and Magnificent Seven. I probably won't start making a connection with music until 1956. Great series!
The Wizard of Oz is another one that I have seen a lot. I remember The Great Escape being shown on TV a lot as a two nighter as it was a long movie. I imagine that quite a few will recognize more music from 1956 on. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Great video, Randy. I enjoyed seeing your selections. I have that same Columbia noir set
Thanks Neil. I also have the other Columbia volumes. They are really fine sets.
Your knowledge of early American rock n roll roots is immense ! Webb Pierce was a country and western superstar, for sure ! I watched Von Ryan's Express last night.. Stalag 13 .. I want to watch it again. 😊
Von Ryan's Express is great and Stalag 17 is an irreverent POW camp movie from the great Billy Wilder. Webb Pierce also wore some of those pretty outrageous Nudie Suits. I do like a lot of the music that had a big influence on rock 'n' roll.
The Burrito Bros. took a lot from Webb and Porter, especially those cool Nudie suits ! Hank Sr. infuence and reach went much further than country for instance.. I'd say inspiring singer songwriters !
I really like the early influences as well.. Its fascinating ! Ray Charles comes to mind and everyone who was inspired by him !
I'm gonna look at Billy Wilder films, he'll be a good one to start collecting and.. Watching !
@@jtsrecordroom3963 I can picture Gram Parsons in his Nudie suit and he was a big fan of those honky tonk country artists.
Great series Randy. As much as enjoy the Astaire-Rogers movies from the 30s, I have never taken the time to watch The Band Wagon. I'll try and catch it next time on TCM. A couple of Oscar heavy hitters are favorites of mine from 1953, namely Stalag 17 and From Here to Eternity. I'm a fan of Gloria Grahame, so The Big Heat is outstanding. Other film noirs from this year that I like are Angel Face, Pickup on South Street and 99 River Street. Looking forward to 1954.
From Here To Eternity was hard to leave off, especially since one of my favorites in Merle Travis has a small role. I think that William Holden and Gloria Grahame have their best performances in Stalag 17 and The Big Heat respectively. I just watched Angel Face before my picks to see if it would crack my runners up but it didn't even thou Jean Simmons and Robert Mitchum are great in it. I like those two other noirs you mentioned as well.
Good Evening Randy - Another enjoyable program. This was a good year for me with regard to films. I have two of the ones you highlighted. My top favourites are: At No 1 - Billy Wilder's "Stalag 17", with William Holden & Otto Preminger. At No 2 - It’s Fritz Lang’s “The Big Heat”, with Glen Ford and Gloria Grahame. At No 3 - It’s Yves Montand starring in “The Wages of Fear”. A good restoration has been done and released for this film. William Friedkin remade this film in 1977 as “Sorcerer’. The latter version also has some very exciting sequences in it. Both films are well worth the watch. I also give mention to one of my favourite horror films, namely, “House of Wax’, starring Vincent Price, that for me is the definitive version. The version starring Lionel Atwill and Fay Wray from 1933 “Mystery of The Wax Museum’ is still very good, but for me the Vincent Price version has the edge. I also have a series of thrillers that I have enjoyed on repeated occasions, Alfred Hitchcock’s “I Confess” with Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter and Karl Malden, Henry Hathaway’s “Niagara”, with Joseph Cotton and Marilyn Monroe, Fritz Lang’s “The Blue Gardenia”, with Anne Baxter, and finally the whodunnit “A Blueprint For Murder’, with Joseph Cotton, Jean Peters & Gary Merrill. This last film seems to be hard to track down, but worth a watch. Looking forward to 1954. Have a great week Randy.
Thanks. I knew that you would probably be a little disappointed that I had a musical as my top pick. There may be one other coming up. I just rewatched "The Big Heat" before I did my video and it still packs a punch. I really enjoyed William Friedkin's "Sorcerer,' especially the bridge scenes, so I will have to track down "The Wages Of Fear." I remember the 1933 "House Of Wax" for it's early use of 2-strip technicolor but I think Vincent Price's performance puts the 1953 film over the top. I need to also look for "A Blueprint For Murder" as I haven't seen it. "Niagara" and "Angel Face" were two that I was seriously considering. I enjoy reading your comments.
@@RandyforRoyals Hi Randy - I was caught off guard with your Musical for sure... lol... The bridge scenes were excellent and suspenseful in "Sorcerer", I remember not being able to move while watching them. I need to track down Otto Preminger's "Angel Face", a film I have not seen. I also enjoy your feedback. There are always so many films that slip through the net that are excellent that we can pick up on and enjoy. I wonder what the next musical may be......
@@bruce5565 I see that "The Wages Of Fear" has a Criterion release and the website and Barnes & Noble have a half off sale starting in July, so I may look for it. Jean Simmons and Robert Mitchum are very good in "Angel Face" and Preminger's direction is superb. The other musical is coming pretty soon.
I have that Tom Lehrer record! Stalag 17 is really good. I don't think I have seen the others or Scotland Yard.
Tom Lehrer's sense of humor always resonated with me and he had humorous songs that I didn't get tired of like some comic recordings. Stalag 17 is a classic and Scotland Yard is hard to find in any format.
Hi Randy!!! well done and cool selections too.... had no idea "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" was written by Amos Milburn, just know the George Thorogood and JL Hooker version and i thought he wrote it!!!. Now i know were i came from, lol... cheers and be well
Rudy Toombs actually wrote "One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer" but Amos Milburn had the first hit with it. I enjoy the Hooker and Thorogood versions as well. Thanks for watching and take care.
I love Stalag 17. Hard to believe Hogan’s Heroes came out of that. I haven’t seen your number one and two runners up but they sound intriguing. Especially the Big Heat. Your number one movie lost me when you said “musical”. My number one pick for 1953 is easy. War of the Worlds. I don’t really know any of the music you talked about so I can’t really comment. Keep ‘em’ coming Randy!
Hogan's Heroes is quite a change in tone when compared to Stalag 17. The Big Heat is a great noir and Lee Marvin is always interesting, especially when he plays a bad guy. I seriously considered War Of The Worlds as I do have the Criterion edition and have always loved it since I saw it as a kid. The rock years are coming in the music category.
1953 is tough for favorite albums for me. I think more of favorite songs up until maybe the mid-60s. I just now looked at the Billboard top 30 songs for 1953 and there's really not anything I like that much. lol I did a similar search for tv shows that started in 1953 and I had never even heard of 90% of them. I did see that The Danny Thomas show started in 1953; I wonder if that's the same as Make Room For Daddy? Either way, I wouldn't pick it as a favorite since I've never seen that show, only heard of it. Guess who else had a tv show in 1953? Larry Storch! Corporal Agarn on F-Troop! That Jimmy Stewart movie you picked is so great. And The Big Heat is another favorite. I looked at a list of top movies for 1953 and the only one that you didn't mention that is on the same level is the one you alluded to - Shane. I'm enjoying the series Randy!
You definitely have to dig a little deeper into blues, r&b and country for these early years but rock is on the horizon. I think that it was originally called Make Room For Daddy and they later changed the name to The Danny Thomas Show. This was my hardest year so far to find a television show. I just looked it up and it looks like The Larry Storch Show only lasted 10 episodes. I had not heard of it and I can't find much information. There seem to be a lot of people who had variety shows back in the day and many of them didn't air for very long. I love Gloria Grahame in The Big Heat and that was an iconic role for James Stewart. I did hate leaving Shane off the list but there were quite a few movies I liked in 1953. Thanks for watching and commenting.
New to the channel. This looks like a great series. I’m a fan of physical media. I like the added caveat of you have to own the media to share. My favorite song would be Big Mama Thornton’s Hound Dog. For favorite movie from 53, I would choose Peter Pan, but also runnner up would be Roman Holiday. Just subbed the channel. Great content.
Thanks for checking my channel out. That Big Mama Thornton track is great. I also have a live album of hers with the Muddy Waters Blues Band that is fantastic. I haven’t seen Peter Pan since I was a kid but I do love the film Roman Holiday.