The Songs of 'State Fair'
The poster above is from the 1945 film State Fair, a charming film with six good songs by Rodgers and Hammerstein in the Americana mode that for them started with the blockbuster s...
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The poster above is from the 1945 film State Fair, a charming film with six good songs by Rodgers and Hammerstein in the Americana mode that for them started with the blockbuster s...
American singer and actor Frank Sinatra, wearing a tuxedo and bow tie, performs during the United Cerebral Palsy telethon, at the studios of KECA-TV in Los Angeles, California, 16t...
American singer, songwriter and pianist, Ray Charles (1930 - 2004) performing at the Olympia in Paris, France on May 18, 1962. (Photo by REPORTERS ASSOCIES/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Im...
The tracks that helped shape the cultural landscape of the U.S. over the past six decades. Continue reading…
Wednesday, on “The Alex Marlow Show,” actor, singer, and filmmaker Robert Davi talked about music. Davi said, “At this 250th anniversary, there’s wonderful artists, but nothing tha...
American soul singer and songwriter Sam Cooke (1931 - 1964), 1963. A publicity shot for RCA Records. (Photo by Gems/Redferns/Getty Images) Baby boomers unite! These iconic songs fr...
John Hersey's A Bell for Adano was one of the most successful literary works with a World War II setting. The 1944 novel won a Pulitzer Prize, became a successful play and film, an...
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Just as the 1920s were defined by the Jazz Age, the 1930s were also defined by swing, the popular music of the time. Jazz had become danceable. But as America swung through the dec...
Picture taken on November 4, 1959 at Paris showing Canadian-American singer and composer Paul Anka. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images) Elder baby boomers unite! These...
Irving wrote the first version of ‘God Bless America’ in an attempt to write the perfect peaceful song that would help unite the world and inspire men to live in harmony, much like...
From Harlem’s Apollo Theater to the world’s greatest concert stages, Ella Fitzgerald transformed jazz singing through unmatched vocal precision, groundbreaking scat improvisation,...
This quiz is a whole concert of Rat Pack songs without needing a trip to Vegas (or a time machine).View Entire Post ›
Les and admirersLes Brown and his band have always been popular around here, so here goes a triple play of 10-inch LPs from his early years with Coral records.Back then it was fas...
CIRCA 1959: (L-R) Billy Guy, Will 'Dub' Jones, Carl Gardner, Cornell Gunter, Adolphi Jacobs of the doo wop group "The Coasters" pose for a portrait in circa 1959. This lineup of th...
Singer Patsy Cline poses for a portrait circa 1961. Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images If you're a baby boomer, I bet you still remember these top-notch songs from 1961,...
1960: Portrait of American singer and actor Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977), sitting on the set of director Don Seigel's Western film, 'Flaming Star', wearing a cowboy hat and a blue s...
His epic survey of the Great American Songbook begins...
A sold-out week at New York’s legendary Café Carlyle now lives on through Stella Cole’s captivating first live album. ‘Live at Café Carlyle’ arrives today on Decca Records US, capt...
American history is complicated. So are these all-American hits. From "Born in the U.S.A." to "We Shall Overcome" and "Sweet Home Alabama," these songs encapsulate America in all i...
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