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Christmas has provided a rich seam of subject matter for songwriters to mine over the years, building on a significant repertoire of carols and other religious songs in the traditional arena, and an e...
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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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Brook Benton was one of the most successful of the R&B artists whose talent and versatility enabled them to transcend the genres and enjoy success, and retain their credibility, in the R&B, po...
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This is a welcome addition to Acrobat’s already extensive catalogue of ‘50s doowop and R&B vocal group recordings, featuring an ensemble that simultaneously wore two different recordin...
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Acrobat’s catalogue features a wealth of fascinating and collectable gospel repertoire from the genre’s heyday in the ‘40s and ‘50s, and this release recognises one of the fine...
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In the era following the rock ‘n’ roll explosion and before the British Invasion, Pat Boone was second only to Elvis Presley as the USA’s most popular and successful male artist, rac...
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Les Paul & Mary Ford were extremely significant artists during the early 1950s, their records featuring the revolutionary and innovative recording techniques which Les was dev... |
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Earl Bostic was an alto saxophonist who was a technical master of his craft and highly influential in the early careers of important later exponents of the instrument, but has maybe not received the r...
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Charlie Barnet was a highly successful bandleader in the swing and big band eras of the '30s and '40s, and was one of the first to racially integrate his orchestra
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