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 ...
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 ...
The 1950s. The dawning of a new era in popular music. The birth of rock & roll. James Brown and Chuck Berry. Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly. In 1958, Billboard released its first newly consolidated ...
The list includes the first major mainstream hit from a Cleveland artist – Screamin' Jay Hawkins' 1956 classic "I Put a Spell On You." The song is one of the Rock Hall's "500 Songs that Shaped Rock ...
Dads like things that are old. Have you seen your dad’s favorite shirt? It’s approximately 1,000 years old. His car? Yes, decades old. It’s just that way. Old, old, old. Old things are sturdy, ...