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.
I Started Late and Forgot the Dog. 