'50s On 5 Playlist, Version 2.0

[ceaser]

who programs this channell?

[AZjoe]

Lou Simon, who also programs 60s on 6.

[Thomps2525]

I finally added a few more songs to the list. One surprise played today was The Enchanted Sea by the Islanders. The whistling in it was a lot louder and more irritating than the whistling in Martin Denny's version but the Islanders' version got higher on the charts. Go figure!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP7mgcCtImY

[Mr. D.T.]

Bringing back an old thread of a channel yet manipulated and mutilated by the FM suits at Sirius, telling the channel what to play, unlike the old XM counterpart. That's how we lost Moments To Remember, Matt, etc...

I personally don't listen to the channel anymore, yet they do play some good selections once in a while.

This used to be one of THE channels to listen to, and anything 50s would come on this channel, with nary a repeat within three days or more. Today, none of that applies.

[Thomps2525]

One of my mostest favoritest groups of the 1950s was Dion & the Belmonts. Here is the sad news that Fred...is dead:

Dion & the Belmonts Singer Fred Milano Dies
Rolling Stone, January 4 2012, 8:45 AM ET

Fred Milano, an original member of the 1950s doo-wop group Dion & the Belmonts who sang on hits including A Teenager In Love, has died of lung cancer at age 72. "May he rest in peace and rock on in heaven," wrote Dion DiMucci, the group's frontman, on Facebook.

The singer died on January 1, three weeks after his cancer was diagnosed, in Massapequa, New York. Though Dion left the group to go solo in 1960, Milano was still performing with the Belmonts as recently as a few weeks ago. Between gigs, he worked for the New York City Department of Correction as a legal coordinator at Rikers Island. Milano and the other members of the Belmonts were unhappy when Dion was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame without them in 1989. "We had our ups and downs through the years but that's how things go in families," DiMucci wrote.

[marker101]

Hey, Mickey & Sylvia's "Love is Strange" is sampled in the new Pitbull MIB3 song...so of course the 50's on 5 is now spinning it twice a day. Gotta be hip.

[Thomps2525]

Sylvia, who also had a big solo hit in 1973 with Pillow Talk, died of congestive heart failure on September 29, 2011. If the '50s Channel stayed true to form, they probably played Love Is Strange many times in the weeks following her death, just the way the '80s channel didn't play much by Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston until after those artists died.

[Thomps2525]

Is the '50s channel thread a good place to post this obituary? I'll say "yes."

Composer Richard Adler Dead At 90
Associated Press, Jun 22 2012 11:14 AM

Composer and lyricist Richard Adler, who won Tony Awards for co-writing snappy and infectious songs for such hit Broadway musicals as The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees and who staged and produced President John F. Kennedy's 1962 birthday celebration featuring a breathy Marilyn Monroe singing Happy Birthday To You, died June 21 at his home in Southampton, New York. He was 90.

Some of Adler's biggest songs are You Gotta Have Heart, Hey There, Hernando's Hideaway, Whatever Lola Wants, Steam Heat, Rags to Riches and Everybody Loves A Lover.

[Thomps2525]

New and improved for 2013! The '50s Channel playlist has been revised and updated and is now at http://xmfan.com/viewtopic.php?t=120125