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Hard for me to say my "favorite" from the 50's, but I'll offer this. One of the 50's great standards, sung by one of jazz's greatest singers and recorded in the year of my birth:

 

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Not sure I'd call that jazz, but she diffidently had a magnificent voice.

 

Well it is considered a jazz standard, but I can understand if you wouldn't label it jazz by the way it sounds. But Ella is most definately a jazz singer. How about another standard from the 50's?

 

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Yeah but BS were standing on the shoulders of giants.

 

no, they started their own style, they may have been inspired by the success of earlier generations but their music is all their own. Actually Metal has a lot of roots in "heavy" classical music, even some of the guitarists had classical training, something that youngsters could learn today as many of them couldn't put a tune together to save their lives.

 

"Randall William "Randy" Rhoads (December 6, 1956 – March 19, 1982)[1] was an American heavy metal guitarist who played with Ozzy Osbourne and Quiet Riot. He died in a plane accident while on tour with Osbourne in Florida in 1982. A devoted student of classical guitar, Rhoads combined his classical music influences with his own heavy metal style."

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Rhoads

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no, they started their own style, they may have been inspired by the success of earlier generations but their music is all their own. Actually Metal has a lot of roots in "heavy" classical music, even some of the guitarists had classical training, something that youngsters could learn today as many of them couldn't put a tune together to save their lives.

 

"Randall William "Randy" Rhoads (December 6, 1956 – March 19, 1982)[1] was an American heavy metal guitarist who played with Ozzy Osbourne and Quiet Riot. He died in a plane accident while on tour with Osbourne in Florida in 1982. A devoted student of classical guitar, Rhoads combined his classical music influences with his own heavy metal style."

 

http://en.wikipedia....ki/Randy_Rhoads

I am aware that many 60's rock and roll artists got a influence from classical music. And jazz. But can we confine this to music recorded in the 50's? You can start a heavy metal thread you know.

 

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sorry man, was just having fun with the first comment and it went from there. No hard feelings and enjoy what you like.

Good Lord no hard feelings at all. Some one contaminated this thread with a 50 cent "song." I love Sabbath so I started a new thread.
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Gents, few weeks ago on American Masters on PBS featured Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

 

I will be the first to say i had not heard of her, but damn watch this condensed clip. Maybe y'all knew her before, i did not.What an influenece i think on all the 50's rock and roll early icons

 

Now have several of her tracks on the library.

 

 

Here is the enitre show...great watch

 

http://video.pbs.org/video/2337391461/

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