5 on Friday - Set 53

Travis at Trav's Thoughts invites everyone to lay down a short set of music that takes their fancies for his 5 on Friday meme.






Continuing with the series of popular music through the decades which I began last fall, let's listen to what the 1950s had to offer -




1 - Mr. Sandman - The Chordettes

Mister Sandman
Bring me a dream
Make him the cutest that I've ever seen

Give him two lips
Like roses and clover
Then tell him that his lonesome nights are over

- Pat Ballard



2 - Fever - Peggy Lee

You give me fever
When you kiss me
Fever when you hold me tight

Fever
In the morning
Fever all through the night

- Cooley / Davenport



3 - Great Balls of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis

Kiss me baby
Feels good

Hold me baby
Let me love you like a lover should

You're fine
So kind
Got to tell this world that you're mine, mine, mine

- Blackwell / Hammer

The song begins at the 1:43 mark.



4 - One For My Baby, and One More For the Road - Frank Sinatra

You'd never know it
But buddy, I'm a kind of poet
And I've got a lot of things I want to say

And if I'm gloomy
Please listen to me
Till it's all, all talked away

- Arlen / Mercer



5 - Poison Ivy - The Coasters

You can look
But you better not touch

Poison ivy
Poison ivy

Late at night while you're sleeping
Poison ivy comes creeping
Around

- Leiber / Stoller