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 had some great country songs. These are three country songs from the 1950s that we know your mom would love.

You can’t talk about music from this era without including Little Richard, a famed artist from Macon, Georgia. The track, "Tutti Frutti," was written by Richard and Dorothy LaBostrie and recorded in ...

The straight-laced 1950s weren’t known for their flourishing gay culture. The Lavender Scare was forcing queer people out of their jobs in droves, homosexuality was still considered a mental illness, ...

Rock ‘n’ roll seemed to some like it emerged fully formed in the 1950s, as artists became superstars overnight on the strength of a magnetic single or two. In actuality, the music had been slowly ...

The 1950s brought a warmth to American living rooms that no television screen could match. Families gathered around their ...

Madonna‘s songs ruled the 1980s and the 1990s. However, one song proved that she could have been a 1950s goddess if she had been born at a different time. Interestingly, the track was inspired by a ...

All songs are love songs. That is if you believe Charles Darwin’s claim that music, like birdsong, developed as a vehicle for sexual selection (indeed, a good voice and a sexy Les Paul go far). But ...