Songs Of The 50s

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    Around 1957, I was 12, , Marvin Rainwater came out with this song, and it is still one of my favorites.

     
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    Never heard this before it's enjoyable fits right in today.
     
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    I shall always find it fascinating how certain songs continue to evoke the feelings (or even the general state of being) I had at the point in my life that I first heard them. Music is extremely powerful stuff.
     
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    here's an oldie from 1957

     
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    From 1955 Mindy Carson & The Fish

     
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    From 1953 Frankie Laine, Jimmy Boyd

     
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    Don Rondo sings two different worlds
     
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    From 1958
     
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    Man, I used to play that 45 until the grooves turned white.
     
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    Me too I love that song and that instrumental.
     
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    When's the last time we heard someone "Ballin' the Jack"?
     
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    I had to go look, because I always thought it was a reference to the game of Jacks.

    You are correct in your RR explanation. I find reference to a 1913 song titled Ballin' the Jack, and then another reference to Danny Kaye and a song of that title, but I don't know if he sang that original song or if he wrote one of his own with that same title.
     
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