I’m always picking on 1955, it seems, but I wanted to do an Oscar post, and I wanted it to be about Academy Award-winning songs, so I started looking through the list. At first, my post was going to be entitled, “Really, 1937?” because I was taken aback that a repetitive and silly faux Hawaiian song won over both “They Can’t Take That Away from Me” and “That Old Feeling,” but then I realized that would be the entire content of the post.
So I was looking further and realized that 1955 boasts the absolute ’50s-est collection of nominated songs.
We’ve got our swingin’ ’50s selections:
pre-Rat Pack Sinatra. ’50s-est.
And some waning Astaire in technicolor. Pretty darn ’50s.
And ’50s Torch Songs:
Doris Day lamenting lost love. ’50s-est.
And an aching ballad from a prison B-movie! ’50s-est!
And, of course, the winner that year–perhaps the ’50s-est ’50s song, which appears in approximately one million beach-make-out scenes in several movies made in the ’50s and set in the ’50s:
In conclusion, the post this ended up being doesn’t actually have that much content, either. Eh. You win some, you lose some.
Great songs! Makes me nostalgic for the day of “mixed tapes”. (Remember those?) These selections would make a GREAT mixed tape…along with a few choice selections from 1937.
I still have a tape deck in my car, so feel free to make me a mix tape, blog bff! 🙂