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 brought a warmth to American living rooms that no television screen could match. Families gathered around their ...

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 ...

We recently looked at five standout songs recorded in the 1950s that were largely overshadowed by covers that came later. Of ...

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 ...

On this very day in the year 1950, the incomparable country music pioneer Hank Williams recorded the legendary song, “Moanin’ The Blues”. The song was recorded during a session at Castle Studio in ...

It’s one of those legends of early rock ‘n’ roll music that lives on and on. On Feb. 3, 1959, three popular musicians were leaving a performance in Clear Lake, Iowa for another one in Minnesota. Their ...

Dance halls, honky-tonks, speakeasies, jazz clubs, ballrooms, rock 'n' roll clubs, discotheques, raves, nightclubs and EDM festivals have different names, but they all have continued to attract music ...