You can’t talk about music from this era without including Little Richard, a famed artist from Macon, Georgia. The track, "Tutti Frutti," was written by Richard and Dorothy LaBostrie and recorded in ...

The 1950s brings to mind poodle skirts, sock hops, and drive-in movies. I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, and Leave It to Beaver were popular television shows, and Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, and ...

American recording artist, singer and musician Little Richard performing live, UK, 27th June 1975. (Photo by Angela Deane-Drummond/Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)Photo by: Angela ...

Music from the 1950s will no doubt have a longer shelf life than the music from the 1940s, which is virtually impossible to hear in southern New Jersey, because some of the 1950s hits were rock 'n' ...

We recently looked at five standout songs recorded in the 1950s that were largely overshadowed by covers that came later. Of course, there weren’t only five songs that fit that description. One of the ...

However, the 1950s were also an era of great conflict. The Postwar Booms Historians use the word "boom" to describe many things about the 1950s: the booming economy, the prosperous suburbs and most of ...

John Lennon was a fan of a Bruce Springsteen song and a Cars song for the same reason. He liked 1980s music with 1950s vibes as well as classic rock songs from the 1950s. The Springsteen song was huge ...

You can’t study the history of popular music without familiarizing yourself with the best Black singers from the 50s. In fact, you might be surprised just how many music genres can trace their roots ...