This is a new one for me : how come I’m discovering a real treasure trove of doo-wop and rock’n’roll records for the first time in 2025 ? Simply because they only started coming out in the spring of 2024 … Go look and listen for yourself on the YouTube channel of *Don Juan AI Whisperer (not his real name).
The 50s artwork is striking, nearly always a handsome bequiffed lad or a 1950s-style beautiful doll-like feminine creature. The songs are pretty good although every now and then a more contemporary musical arrangement betrays its recent origin for us 50s aficionados! Perhaps Randy Richter could come in and give a helping hand. A certain amount of reading betrays a non-English-speaker, German I think but I can’t be sure. He gives his name as Juan J. C. and sometimes his sister A. C. sings (every now and then as an AI girl group called the Cheeky Girls). His output is prodigious, in the last few days he has released 5 videos a day! What a guy!
There’s a reason he can be so produce so much though : AI. This is not to say that the music is completely the work of a computer, just like the prolific Hank C. Burnette in his home in the 1970s, our Juan J. C. is recording his music from his home and using the technology of his time. What is the quality and originality of Juan C. J’s music? I’m only aware of the man for the last half-hour so I can’t come to an overall conclusion, but what I’ve heard sounds good, I’ll let other geeks and nerds … sorry specialists work out if it is derivative or original, but in truth why not explore his channel and enjoy the music without getting all cerebral! Keep on rockin’ Juan J. C.!
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Released on the 4th of March 2025, the following mix is not so spectacular because of the music (some transgressing into Bruce Springsteen prog rock or country) but because the AI recreation of early 1950s New York street scenes in which sharp-eyed viewers may recognise a more contemporary street scene in a German town,
POSTED January 2025.
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