Design of a (Half) Decade

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

FSVO "Define" (it certainly doesn't mean 'best') - and a lot of the early ones are obviously wild guesses!

1910-1914: "It's A Long Way To Tipperary"
1915-1919: "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles"
1920-1924: "Rhapsody In Blue"
1925-1929: "Makin' Whoopee"
1930-1934: "Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?"
1935-1939: "Over The Rainbow"
1940-1944: "In The Mood"
1945-1949: ?????? (honestly, I have NO idea)
1950-1954: "How Much Is That Doggie In The Window?"
1955-1959: "Jailhouse Rock"
1960-1964: "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?"
1965-1969: "A Day In The Life"
1970-1974: "Mouldy Old Dough" (UK only!)
1975-1979: "Stayin' Alive"
1980-1984: "Rio"
1985-1989: "Kiss"
1990-1994: "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
1995-1999: "The Macarena"
2000-2004: "Independent Women Pt 1"
2005-2009: "Don't Cha"

(Not at all persuaded on this last)

Comments

45-49

[dorsalstop.livejournal.com]

I'd go with one of the earliest rock'n'roll songs (or one of the earliest to mention the term, anyway) - "We're Gonna Rock" by Bill Moore or "Good Rockin' Tonight" by Wynonie Harris?

But perhaps more zeitgeisty would be something like "Confess" by Doris Day or "Mañana" by Peggy Lee.

All the above songs are from 1948 - this is because I once researched a 'design of 1948' or CD700Go!1948 if you will. What struck me most was that almost *everything* from that year seemed to be a 'novelty' song of some sort, either because of deliberately funny lyrics or some exotic musical arrangement. The other thing that struck me was that I could quite easily make a 67-minute cd with very diverse, highly entertaining and sometimes bafflingly forward-thinking music from that year.

Re: 45-49

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I thought about "Good Rockin' Tonight" but I decided it was probably too ahead of its time - tho it was a big hit. (I thought of Robert Johnson for the late 30s one but realised absolutely nobody was listening to him at that point!)

I also thought about "Zip A Dee Doo Dah".