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. 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 ...

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 ...

As our jazz-era, 1930s, and 1940s playlists show, nothing captures the Zeitgeist of an era quite like music. For the next installment of songs to celebrate *Vanity Fair’*s centennial, we present the ...

I've been listening to a lot of old, favorite songs in these trying times. But even songs that were once comforting are colored by current events. Talking Heads singing, "This ain't no party / This ...