Begun in 1948 in the Municipal Auditorium in Shreveport, the Louisiana Hayride was the launching-pad of country music in the 1940s and 1950s. The show, dubbed the "Cradle of the Stars ...

Quincy Jones bridged the gaps between jazz, pop, rock, gospel, rhythm & blues, hip-hop, and beyond. Here are some ways he ...

Modern songs are simpler now than in the 1950s thanks to three musical revolutions that have dumbed down melodies, a study has found. Songs have undoubtedly changed from the Rat Pack era of Frank ...

The songs of the late 1940s and early 1950s, when the big bands had their last great flowering before giving way to rock ‘n’ roll, are what he sings with Roy Battle and the Altones ...

The turntable has been used as a musical instrument since the 1940s and 1950s when experimental composers began sampling and creating music entirely produced by the turntable. However, it wasn’t ...

Trumpet was the music mogul's first choice of instrumentation, being swayed by the big band popularity of that time. Circa ...

The rise and decline of Lowell’s Portuguese population, within this First Great Wave of Immigrants to the United States, is clearly evident in the 70 years from 1880 to 1950. As shown in Table 8, ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

The aforementioned songs became actual hits and are still quite recognisable today. But a lot of 1950s mainstream music enjoyed plenty of airplay not because it was particularly good or popular but ...

Open-Door Playhouse will present THE FISH AND THE WORM, a new podcast play by Matthew Moore. Directed by Kim Hlavac, it ...

Mento is the name given to Jamaican folk music that emerged in the 1940s and 1950s. Similar to Calypso, which originated in Trinidad, the sound of Mento can be traced back to the convergent ...

The first guest asked to select the music, book and luxury item they would take to a lonely island was the comedian Vic Oliver, whose choices you can still find today on the DIDS website.