Rock and Roll was just in its infancy, but LOTS of it was created. I’m always amazed at how many great songs were made in the 50s that I’ve never heard before. Share your love for 1950s Music: What Songs Were Most Popular? Classical music was still very popular. Blues, swing and...
In fact, The Beatles penned the basis for more than 4,000 cover versions of their songs through the years. One of their most popular tracks, "Yesterday," almost never saw the light of day—McCartney found it so easy to write that he thought he had stolen it from someone. It would go...
In fact, The Beatles penned the basis for more than 4,000 cover versions of their songs through the years. One of their most popular tracks, "Yesterday," almost never saw the light of day—McCartney found it so easy to write that he thought he had stolen it from someone. It would go...
In fact, The Beatles penned the basis for more than 4,000 cover versions of their songs through the years. One of their most popular tracks, "Yesterday," almost never saw the light of day—McCartney found it so easy to write that he thought he had stolen it from someone. It would go...
The legacy of the popular, Emmy-winning musical comedy-drama series "Glee" was tempered by the fact that three of its cast members died under tragic circumstances. Actors Corey Monteith, who died of a drug overdose, and Mark Salling, who took his own life after being charged with possession...
Within two months of its 1948 debut, Milton Berle’s “Texaco Star Theater” was so popular, it was the only network show not preempted for coverage of Harry Truman’s surprise election upset over Thomas Dewey. And the same day that comedienne Lucille Ball, in real life, gave birth by ...
His 1983 album "An Innocent Man," which featured “Uptown Girl” alongside other huge hits, including “Tell Her About It,”“The Longest Time,” and more, is among his best-selling and most highly acclaimed. A tribute to the popular music styles of his youth in the 1950s and 60s, ...
“Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious,” Judy Garland’s version of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” inThe Wizard of Oz. Concurrent with this, with the likes ofBlackboard JungleandJailhouse Rock, the rock’n’roll movie was born in the 50s; in the following decade,The Beatleselevated the genre ...
Trained under the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, Malcolm McDowell wowed critiques with his brilliant depiction of restless youth in classic such as If... and A Clockwork Orange. After taking his mother's maiden name McDowell because there was another British actor with his name, Malc...
identify the heroes and villains easily. Since scenes were in black and white, it would have been quite confusing to have both parties where similar shades. And when color was finally invented in film, it didn’t make sense to stop the trend because it had already become wildly popular. ...