Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller are the biggest songwriters you've never heard of, penning over 70 chart hits and establishing ...

The 1950s saw some of the biggest stars in country music getting their start. Here are four that deserve more modern ...

These sad country songs are stone-cold classics. In the 1960s, heartbreak looked a little different than it does today: There were no breakups over text or email, no obsessively scrolling through ...

Legendary tenor saxophonist Johnny Griffin released his first solo album on the Blue Note label in January 1957. Containing both the fast-paced work for which Griffin became known and some more ...

Eye of the Tiger by Survivor is best known as the theme song to the 1982 film Rocky III (or as many casual moviegoers know it ...

THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR CURRENT COUNTRY SONGS ACROSS ALL GENRES ... Weeks at no. 1 Weeks on chart Dash Week of September 19, 1960 click to see more Dash D.Robertson, H.Blair ...

In his new book, ‘And the Roots of Rhythm Remain,’ music impresario Joe Boyd traces the vast influence of global music. Here, ...

The peak of the muscle car era intersected with the explosion of rock-n-roll in the United States, spanning the period from the 1950s through the 1970s. The nexus of the car song craze is likely ...

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Ian Edmundson recalls a memorable encounter with James Earl Jones at Manistee airport, inspiring a song by Ben Folds Five ...

Benny Golson, one of the most accomplished tenor saxophonists and composers of the 1950s hard bop era, passed away1.

Corita (Sister Mary) Kent 1918-1986 "One Must Not Cut Oneself Off From The World," 1967 Screenprint in colors on paper ...