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 ...
The 1950s was a pivotal time for country music. Some of the genre’s biggest artists got their start in the decade and are still loved by fans across the nation and beyond today. For instance, George ...
The 1950s. The dawning of a new era in popular music. The birth of rock & roll. James Brown and Chuck Berry. Elvis Presley ...
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 ...
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 ...
A long lost jazz club of 1950s New York City comes back to life in the new Amazon Prime movie Sylvie’s Love. Set in 1957 Harlem, but filmed in modern-day Los Angeles, the film follows the complicated ...
The last weeks of this stifling August have offered a profound lesson about creativity, music history and the magic of being part of something larger than yourself. The deaths of Tom T. Hall, Charlie ...
Iconic 1950s ‘Love Letters in the Sand’ Singer Looks ‘Ageless’ Playing Basketball at 91 originally appeared on Parade. Singer, actor, and philanthropist Pat Boone shows no signs of slowing down. At 91 ...