Gale Storm - A Heart Without a Sweetheart (1956) video free download

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Wonderful! Thanks for posting this!

CatsPjamas1

@TheSteamtramman I was born in 1978 but I remember school dances in the 1990's when I was in high school, not with any great music of course. I used to go to those dances wishing they would play '50's music instead. Some people have said I was born in the wrong time. I used to go all around the school singing '50's songs to pretty girls, and during charity drives, I'd do it in classrooms for $1.00

TheSteamtramman

Oh come Cats Pyjies don't you remember school dances (usually in the Gym)? We all had to kick off our shoes - blue suede or otherwise - and that elegant 5' 8" girl you brought along suddenly became her thoroughly attractive 5' 5" self you knew. It was the age of stillettos and even some ballrooms 'requested' girls brought flatties. And boys crepe creepers which squealed as we turned. None of which changes the fact this is a super song with a beautiful girl singer......

CatsPjamas1

@musicmandon1 Well, to be technical, I suppose "sock" meant a level of impact that record might have. I've also heard the term "socko" or "boffo", as in "That's a socko record!" I just looked up the term "Sock hop" on Wikipedia because I'm curious as well to where it came from. Apparently, the dances were often held in school gyms and the students would be asked to remove their shoes so as not to leave marks on the floor, so they were in their socks.

musicmandon1

Sock? I wonder if that's why '50s dances were called "Sock hops." if "sock" was a word for a hit song played at dances, i guess the term kind of makes sense. Another odd bird term for women-when my wife and her lady friends get together and complain about their men's shortcomings, (real or pretend,) why is it a "Hen party?" (she doesn't like when I use that term to describe their monthly sessions or their annual retreat that's coming up later this month.

CatsPjamas1

@musicmandon1 I laughed out loud when I read your comment, because I was wondering when someone would notice that in the Billboard reviews! I'm surprised no one mentioned it earlier. It seems that, in almost every review of a record by a female singer, the reviewer refers to her as a thrush or a canary. The reviewers also liked the words "sock" to describe records they thought would go over well, and "warbles" to refer to singing. I'm sure there are other words they repeat a lot too.

musicmandon1

What's with Billboard calling women singers 'Thrushes?" obviously pre-women's lib. In this sorry world I can't even refer to a woman as a "Chick," without my wife getting tight around the beak!

shatinterry

Gale Storm, another big name in the 50s, she had a sweet tender voice...

Gale Storm

Gale Storm - "Dark Moon" (HQ)