Love is not a gadget, love is not a toy

Happy holidays, folks! Wishing each of you all the best this holiday season. May your days be full of cheer and joyous celebration, or quiet contemplation, as is your wont.

Today I published the page 12/8 and 6/8 time songs: part 1, 1954-1959 – “Earth Angel” to “Put Your Head on My Shoulder”.

The page is an extension of the previously published page “Earth Angel” to “Good Timin'”: doc’s pick of  12/8 and 6/8 time songs, 1954-1978. The new page is focused on a portion of the period covered in the parent page, and includes a recording of each featured song or recording in this portion. For items in the selected list in which a specific recording of a song is indicated, in each case this marks the first recording of the song in 12/8 or 6/8 time that I’ve identified. For all other songs in the list, the original recording is in 12/8 or 6/8 time.

songs and specific recordings included in the new page:

• 1954 – Earth Angel, Sincerely
• 1955 – The Great Pretender, Only You
• 1956 – Blueberry Hill (Fats Domino version), In the Still of the Night, My Prayer (Platters version), One Night (Smiley Lewis), A Thousand Miles Away, The Way You Look Tonight (Jaguars version)
• 1957 – Dedicated to the One I Love, Maybe, Over the Rainbow (Echoes version), Silhouettes
• 1958 – 16 Candles, Donna, Ebb Tide (Avalons version), I’m So Young, It’s All in the Game (Tommy Edwards version), It’s Only Make Believe, Since I Don’t Have You, Tears on My Pillow, To Know Him Is to Love Him
• 1959 – I Only Have Eyes for You (Flamingos version), Put Your Head on My Shoulder
• links: selected articles, forum threads, and videos on 12/8 and 6/8 time (bottom of page 2)

The plan is to eventually publish two more parts to cover the remaining years (1960-1978) of the original page, with each part to include about twenty recordings.

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Tears On My Pillow (Sylvester Bradford, Al Lewis)

Little Anthony and the Imperials — recorded on 29 May 1958 in New York City; issued in July 1958 on the single End E-1027, b/w “Two People in the World”