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 ...

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 ...

After a pair of Beatles-themed shows sold out in 2019 and 2023, the Prentice Concert Chorale dialed back a decade for this weekend's fundraiser/concert, "Celebrating Hits from the 1950s." The ...

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 ...

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' ...

Ruth Brown, the pioneering singer whose 1950s hits including “Teardrops From My Eyes” and “(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean” helped establish both the rhythm-and-blues form and Atlantic Records as ...

Jack Scott (Jack Dominico Scafone Jr.), the Windsor, Ontario-born singer/songwriter whose string of 1950s hits hit the sweet spot between rock and country, died Thursday at the Warren campus of ...

The 1950s brought a warmth to American living rooms that no television screen could match. Families gathered around their radios, the glow of the dial matched by the glow of unforgettable voices. From ...

Teresa Brewer, a singer who found fame as a novelty vocalist in 1950 with the chart-topping “Music! Music! Music!” but reinvented herself as a jazz stylist who performed with some of the genre’s ...