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1955

 

Bill Haley & His Comets – Rock Around The Clock (American rock and roll)

Miles Davis – Blue Moods (American jazz)

Tennessee Ernie Ford – Sixteen Tons (American country)

Otto Luening and Vladimir Ussachevsky – Tape Recorder Music (American electronic music)

Les Paul and Mary Ford – Les & Mary (American vocal pop)

Peggy Seeger – Songs of Courting and Complaint (American folk)

Tony Bennett – Cloud 7 (American vocal jazz)

Lord Invader – Calypso (Trinidadian calypso)

Frank Sinatra – In The Wee Small Hours (American vocal jazz)

Sarah Vaughan – In The Land Of Hi-Fi (American vocal jazz)

Lotte Lenya – Lotte Lenya Singt Kurt Weill (Austrian cabaret)

Kenny Dorham – Afro-Cuban (American Afro-cuban jazz)

Thelonius Monk – Plays Duke Ellington (American jazz)

Harry Partch – The Bewitched (American contemporary classical)

Eartha Kitt – Down To Eartha (American vocal jazz/pop)


Audiovisual extra credit (movie musicals etc): Oklahoma! 


Notes: This might be my last years from a hat thing for a little while, as I'm thinking of getting off Spotify and that's how I'm listening to a lot of this stuff that I don't actually own. There may be a new project coming soon where I listen to and review the full discographies of bands and artists though. 

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