The 50's cliche' chord progression challange

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Nobody mentioned it, but you are describing what's commonly called a "ballad." And that progression is usually in there, if the thing isn't in minor to begin with.
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This chord progression is known as the icecream changes. Anyone know why? The few stabs I have made at web searching for the answer have not been productive.
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Alan wrote:This chord progression is known as the icecream changes. Anyone know why? The few stabs I have made at web searching for the answer have not been productive.
Well, it's listed, but you're right, no explanation.

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I think I must be as thick as pigsh*t, but I don't really know what you're all on about. But here's a great site (sadly, not recently updated) that highlights one of pop music's most delicious cliches:

http://www.gearchange.org

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Talkin' Pat Buchannan Paranoid Blues
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Irish Trad: The Kesh Jig, The Irish Washerwoman

Irish Non-Trad: Only Time (Enya)
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The Weekenders wrote:Nobody mentioned it, but you are describing what's commonly called a "ballad." And that progression is usually in there, if the thing isn't in minor to begin with.
I don't think any of these songs are ballads in the traditional sense, the kind of song Child collected. We are only listing songs in which this progression appears as the whole basis of the verse or chorus, often both.

In the 50s, and through to the late 60s, it became necessary to distinguish rock and jump numbers from traditional slow romantic tunes that used to dominate popular fare along with so-called 'novelty' numbers. Those slow, usually romantic, tunes were called ballads. It had nothing to do with the chord progression used and certainly not this one. This cliched progression lends itself to what was called a ballad at the time but that is incidental. 'Runaround Sue' is an out-and-out rocker and several others scoot along too fast to count as ballads.
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Alan wrote:This chord progression is known as the icecream changes. Anyone know why? The few stabs I have made at web searching for the answer have not been productive.
The progression was much loved by very amateurish doo-wop acts. My guess is that it is a reference to where this music was composed and listened to—ice cream parlours rather than bars. Of course the reality was somewhat different. Frankie Lymon who sang 'I'm not a Juvenile Delinquent' was reputed to be a pimp and heroin addict before he hit puberty—juvenile delinquent hardly begins to describe the life he lived.
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dubhlinn wrote:
Flyingcursor wrote: One too Many Mornings (Jerry Jeff Walker)
Bob Dylan wrote "One too many mornings" :wink:

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apologies in advance if there is another song with the same title.
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As Wombat said, the progression isn't always used for slow tunes. Crocodile Rock is also fast.
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I found another brilliant one:

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I found another brilliant one:

All together:

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ChristianRo wrote:I found another brilliant one:

All together:

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