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 ...

Music fans often struggle to name the women who shaped 1950s music. Many great female singers from this time don’t get the recognition they deserve. Their voices and songs helped define an era, but ...

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 ...

The term “bubblegum” has long been used to describe things in popular culture. Indeed, the bubble in that way puts the pop in pop culture. The stuff is meant to be enjoyed, inflated and then discarded ...

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' ...

IT WOULD SEEM that the late ’50s were my wild years as far as my choice of music. Don’t get me wrong, I was still a rock ‘n’ roll, rhythm-and-blues type of person, but when I was at home alone, my ...

Frankie Lymon's soaring soprano epitomized 1950s pop, but behind the sunny melodies lay a life plagued by racism, trauma, and ...

Thirty-five years after singer Connie Converse disappeared, her unusual, tuneful, smart, poignant, personal songs are finally being heard. Converse wrote and sang back in the 1950s, long before ...

We understand that 'best dance songs' are subjective, but we have found a list that has some great dance songs dating to 1950 ...

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 ...