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Johnny Cash occupies an unusual niche in popular music as an artist who was able to straddle the genres to encompass not only the country idiom with which he is most identified but also rockabilly, bl...
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The early ‘50s was the heyday of pop performers whose style and image was ideally suited to the mood of the times and whose music epitomised the easy-going middle-of-the-road output of mainstrea...
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The Mills Brothers were one of the most important and influential vocal groups in 20th century popular music, bringing together styles and techniques that embraced barber shop, gospel, doowop, ragtime...
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Big Joe Turner was one of the great blues shouters of the post-war era, and was one of those artists that bridged the gap from R&B to rock ‘n’ roll, his recordings of “Chains Of ...
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Margaret Whiting, who died in January 2011 at the age of 85, probably never achieved as exalted a place in the pantheon of jazz and easy listening vocalists as she deserved. Quite why that was is hard...
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This is the latest in the continuing series of jazz and blues collections researched and compiled for Acrobat by the highly-respected catalogue expert Opal Louis Nations focusing on the music of the U...
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Although Teddy Johnson was best-known for his Eurovision hit “Sing Little Birdie” with his wife Pearl Carr, he was a prolific and popular recording artist during the ‘50s, making 30 ...
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Segovia is probably the best-known name in thw world of classical Spanish guitar, and he not only popularised the medium, but established a benchmark of style and virtuosity within the genre
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