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We continue our highly popular and successful America’s Greatest Hits series as we work back through the 1950s, this time with an expanded 4-CD set edition to sit alongside the existing single ...
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Blessed with matinee idol good looks, Dick Haymes was one of the most popular and successful singers of the post-war era, registering his first Billboard chart entry in 1941 and racking up a string of...
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Joan Baez is one of the most revered and important names in contemporary folk music, a pioneer of the protest movement in the 1960 alongside Bob Dylan and others, and an artist whose peerless voice an...
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Don Gibson was a country singer and songwriter, whose influence and impact was achieved not only through his own hit singles, but also those by other artists who recorded his songs. He came to promine...
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Sam Cooke is widely recognised as the pioneer of soul music, creating the crossover between R&B and pop during the late ‘50s and hugely influential as both a performer and songwriter. He had...
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Smiley Lewis was one of the unluckiest artists to emerge during the R&B era of the early ‘50s and the formative years of rock ‘n’ roll, overshadowed as he was by another R&B ...
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The McGuire Sisters were one of the most popular of the many female vocal groups who came to prominence in the early 50s and enjoyed huge success through the next few years on both sides of the Atlant...
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The McGuire Sisters were one of the most popular of the many female vocal groups who came to prominence in the early 50s and enjoyed huge success through the next few years on both sides of the Atlant...
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Spike Jones and his band The City Slickers produced a string of hits during the '40s and '50s with hilarious spoof versions of popular songs, which are as funny today as they were when first...
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