'50s progression
Chord progression and a turnaround used in Western popular music / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The '50s progression (also known as the "Heart and Soul" chords, the "Stand by Me" changes,[1][2] the doo-wop progression[3]: 204 and the "ice cream changes"[4]) is a chord progression and turnaround used in Western popular music. The progression, represented in Roman numeral analysis, is I–vi–IV–V. For example, in C major: C–Am–F–G. As the name implies, it was common in the 1950s and early 1960s and is particularly associated with doo-wop. The first popular song to use the progression was "Blue Moon", written in 1934. This inspired "Heart and Soul" in 1938.
![{\n\\relative c' {\n \\clef treble \n \\time 4/4\n \\key c \\major\n <c e g>1_\\markup { \\concat { \\translate #'(-3.5 . 0) { "C: I" \\hspace #7 "vi" \\hspace #6 "IV" \\hspace #6 "V" \\hspace #7 "I" } } }\n <a c e a> <f c' f a> <g b d g> <c e g> \\bar "||"\n} }\n](http://upload.wikimedia.org/score/p/8/p84iabonfunreovp634qmi7l63pmuel/p84iabon.png)
A '50s progression in C