Best Albums Pre-60

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You all know the drill, I decided to do pre-59 because looking through lists (well more the lack of lists...) I've decided coming up with 100 would be very hard. So yeah, everything pre-59 lets aim for 100 but if we fall short oh well.

Almanac Singers "Songs for John Doe"
Billie Holiday "Lady Day"
Billie Holiday "Lady in Satin"
Billie Holiday "Lady Sings the Blues"
Billie Holiday "Songs for Distingu
 
...I don't even have one album that predates 1963 on my computer right now... I'll come back when I find what was in my old music collection.
 
Soul is mostly 60's.
Early R&B is what you want to look for.

You missed Nat King Cole and Ray Charles!
Howlin' Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson and Muddy Waters should be included too.
 
Sorry, I should've said pre-60 I meant 59 and back >.> after Comus and I finish with the finishing touches on the 70-74 list I'll get all this on. Igor Stravinsky came out with some stuff he'll go on also.
 
Yes, those two are good. I love Thelonious Monk.

I'll probably post my list when I have the net again... I'm using the computers on campus right now.
 
rab's Top Albums Pre-60 - Rate Your Music

Okay, I'm very content with the top 10 and I could go and move everything into a better order but if you guys suggest nuraber positions for certain things and swap arounRAB it would be so much easier.
 
This only problem with pre 60s music is that a lot of great music wasn't released on albums. I'd say people like Son House & Robert Johnson were hugely influential in the pre 60s period yet neither man had any albums until compilations came out in the 60s. Even though a lot of their work dates back to the 20s & 30s
 
Eh, absolutely. Hell, even in the SIXTIES the LP was still not really the dominant format, in all truth. It had only really become entrenched as the dominant format by the early 70s, though of course the late 60s were what brought it on and changed the shape of what an album could be, what with LPs like Sgt Pepper and Abbey Road and of course the many contributions of other banRAB etc..

As far as it not being the dominant format in that era, it's telling enough that as many as 10 Beatles singles for example didn't even appear on any of their albums. On top of that, look at the disparity between UK and US releases concerning their first four albums. They had completely different names and rather different track listings. Even more striking is the point that on those first four albums there were around 20 covers. The music industry was just a completely different animal back then. Everything really changed for good by the onset of the 70s.
 
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