Petula Clark is the first one I thought of, she certainly recorded and released material in the 40s.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 April 2023 17:23 (one year ago) link
How could I forget Petula?
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Thursday, 13 April 2023 17:25 (one year ago) link
Harry Belafonte, 96.
― Alba, Thursday, 13 April 2023 17:46 (one year ago) link
Tom Lehrer, obviously.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Thursday, 13 April 2023 17:51 (one year ago) link
* Michael Stoller (of Leiber and Stoller)* Clarence "Frogman" Henry* Wanda Jackson* Brenda Lee
(Not counting people who had careers going back into the 50s, but no hits in their own name until the 60s - Tina Turner, Herbie Hancock, etc.)
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 13 April 2023 17:52 (one year ago) link
* at least three of the original Shadows
Was just checking whether Lehrer had hits as singles in the 50s, or just albums.
― Alba, Thursday, 13 April 2023 17:53 (one year ago) link
Cleo Laine released albums in the 50s but didn't have a chart hit until '61.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Thursday, 13 April 2023 17:56 (one year ago) link
Johnny MathisPat BoonePaul AnkaDionFrankie Avalon
― Alba, Thursday, 13 April 2023 17:57 (one year ago) link
Sorry, you already had Anka and Avalon
Jack Jones is in the same boat as Cleo Laine
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Thursday, 13 April 2023 18:00 (one year ago) link
Sonny RollinsFaye AdamsLeroy Van Dyke
― Alba, Thursday, 13 April 2023 18:00 (one year ago) link
How soon you forget Rolf Harris
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Thursday, 13 April 2023 18:06 (one year ago) link
If getting a single to #49 in 1957 counts, Simon and Garfunkel (as Tom and Jerry).
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 13 April 2023 18:41 (one year ago) link
I watched the 1956 musical comedy The Girl Can't Help It last night; Fats Domino and Little Richard are gone, but which musical performers from the film are still around?Johnny Olenn, 85Nino Tempo, 87Ray Anthony, 100― Halfway there but for you, Friday, October 21, 2022 6:43 PM (three months ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, October 21, 2022 6:43 PM (three months ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 13 April 2023 18:45 (one year ago) link
Connie Francis
And Connie Stevens!
― Alba, Thursday, 13 April 2023 18:47 (one year ago) link
Melania Trump
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 13 April 2023 18:53 (one year ago) link
Sad to discover that the Scottish Elvis, Jackie Dennis, died a couple of years ago.
Eden Kane a fixture of UK rock and roll revival tours is still around but his first release was 1960.
― Dan Worsley, Thursday, 13 April 2023 19:02 (one year ago) link
Wee Willie Harris probably as good a shout as Tommy Steele
Marty Wilde and Vince Eager from the Larry Parnes stable still with us
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Thursday, 13 April 2023 19:24 (one year ago) link
OK, so "The Quatermass Xperiment" has just started on Talking Pictures and Wikipedia tells me the female lead, Margia Dean, is still alive... she's 101. Her career started in 1929.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Friday, 14 April 2023 20:08 (one year ago) link
(... Wiki also tells me the actor who plays her husband was the great-great-grandson of William Wordsworth!)
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Friday, 14 April 2023 21:01 (one year ago) link
to be clear "her husband" is the lad who turns into a giant plant-based spacecrab!
― mark s, Friday, 14 April 2023 21:10 (one year ago) link
spoilers i guess
― mark s, Friday, 14 April 2023 21:11 (one year ago) link
I forgot this ends up at Westminster Abbey (another spoiler?)
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Friday, 14 April 2023 21:28 (one year ago) link
Margia Dean: not a fan of Jock Mahoney or Scott Brady; disappointed by Cesar Romero’s homosexuality (according to IMDb). Retired from film before the rating system started
― Josefa, Saturday, 15 April 2023 04:48 (one year ago) link
Bassist-composer Richard Davis, who turns 93 today! Possibly/probably the only musician who has played with both Albert Ayler and Bruce Springsteen.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 15 April 2023 12:27 (one year ago) link
and Van Morrison
― Beatles in My Passway (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 April 2023 16:40 (one year ago) link
Not a person but: Tupperware.
― Kim Kimberly, Saturday, 15 April 2023 16:43 (one year ago) link
trying to think which 50s musicians (that actually had hits in the 50s) are still alive.
First recordings in the 50s, first hits not until the 60s: Willie Nelson
― The Terroir of Tiny Town (WmC), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 02:38 (one year ago) link
Mohamed Al-Fayed
― Alba, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 20:24 (one year ago) link
My God, yes!
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 21:36 (one year ago) link
He’ll probably die the day before the coronation.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 21:40 (one year ago) link
Or on the day itself, burned in a giant wicker corgi on the roof of the palace
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 21:42 (one year ago) link
I still have to check Stanley Baxter is alive every now and then, because he's quite clear in his autobiography that he didn't want it published before he died (and in the last chapter he seems to be at death's door).
Then I have to check Glen Michael too.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 22:12 (one year ago) link
Bill O'Reilly (sadly)
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 02:53 (one year ago) link
(xp) Also John Cairney and Una McLean.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 06:14 (one year ago) link
trying to think which 50s musicians (that actually had hits in the 50s) are still alive
Carol Connors, 81 ('To Know Him Is to Love Him' = 1958)
― Sam Weller, Wednesday, 19 April 2023 07:38 (one year ago) link
Caterina Valente
"The Breeze and I" was a hit in 1955, she's 91
― Mark G, Wednesday, 19 April 2023 08:12 (one year ago) link
Doris Andreae, Karlheinz Stockhausen's first wife (mother of Markus), 99.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 11:36 (one year ago) link
In a similar vein, Nuria Schoenberg, daughter of Arnold and wife of Luigi Nono, 90.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 11:56 (one year ago) link
composer betsy jolas 96 (daughter of the also somewhat famous eugene & maria)
― no lime tangier, Thursday, 20 April 2023 07:55 (one year ago) link
In a different vein, Jeanette Charles - "The" Queen "impersonator" is 95 (Retired in 2014)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeannette_Charles
Charles appeared as an actress in repertory theatre in her twenties, but had difficulty obtaining Equity membership. Her resemblance to Queen Elizabeth II made it difficult to obtain roles, and she eventually left acting to become a secretary.In 1972, a painting she commissioned of herself in her forties (as a present for her husband) was displayed by the artist at the Royal Academy in London, where it was taken to be a portrait of the Queen. On the assumption the painting was of the Queen, it was disqualified as portraits had to be painted from life. When it was revealed that it was not the Queen, Charles (as the actual subject of the painting) received a great deal of press attention, and started receiving offers to portray the Queen in print advertisements.[2] Charles accepted the offers she felt were appropriate (turning down, for instance, offers to portray the queen in lingerie or, in one case, as a centrefold), and insisted that it be made clear in any advertisement that the Queen was being played by an impersonator.After studying the Queen's voice, as well as her appearance, Charles also made in-character personal appearances at trade shows and corporate events, and soon broadened into film. Charles has played the role of Queen Elizabeth II in many films including Secrets of a Superstud (1976), Queen Kong (1976), The Rutles' movie All You Need Is Cash (1978), National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985), The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) and Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002).
In 1972, a painting she commissioned of herself in her forties (as a present for her husband) was displayed by the artist at the Royal Academy in London, where it was taken to be a portrait of the Queen. On the assumption the painting was of the Queen, it was disqualified as portraits had to be painted from life. When it was revealed that it was not the Queen, Charles (as the actual subject of the painting) received a great deal of press attention, and started receiving offers to portray the Queen in print advertisements.[2] Charles accepted the offers she felt were appropriate (turning down, for instance, offers to portray the queen in lingerie or, in one case, as a centrefold), and insisted that it be made clear in any advertisement that the Queen was being played by an impersonator.
After studying the Queen's voice, as well as her appearance, Charles also made in-character personal appearances at trade shows and corporate events, and soon broadened into film. Charles has played the role of Queen Elizabeth II in many films including Secrets of a Superstud (1976), Queen Kong (1976), The Rutles' movie All You Need Is Cash (1978), National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985), The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) and Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002).
― Mark G, Thursday, 20 April 2023 09:53 (one year ago) link
closely studying the queen's voice for a more authentic impersonation in SECRETS OF A SUPERSTUD (1976)
― mark s, Thursday, 20 April 2023 09:59 (one year ago) link
Always instantly recognisable as Jeannette Charles.
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 20 April 2023 10:04 (one year ago) link
Clive Everton, snooker commentator, 85.
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Thursday, 20 April 2023 13:26 (one year ago) link
Edmund W. Gordon, social psychologist, 101.
― alimosina, Friday, 21 April 2023 17:23 (one year ago) link
Dickie Bird, cricket umpire, 90
― AlanSmithee, Friday, 21 April 2023 21:56 (one year ago) link
Lea Massari, the actress who played the missing woman in L'avventura, 89
― AlanSmithee, Friday, 21 April 2023 21:59 (one year ago) link
Haven't seen her in a while
― Josefa, Friday, 21 April 2023 22:05 (one year ago) link
Harry Belafonte, 96.― Alba, Thursday, April 13, 2023 6:46 PM (one week ago)
― Alba, Thursday, April 13, 2023 6:46 PM (one week ago)
Well I fucked that
― Alba, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 14:06 (one year ago) link