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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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As adjuncts to our highly popular “America’s Greatest Hits” series of collections for each calendar year in the 50s and early ‘60s, we have already produced collections based o...
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As adjuncts to our highly popular “America’s Greatest Hits” series of collections for each calendar year in the 50s and early ‘60s, we have already produced collections based o...
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Chubby Checker was one of the many artists to emerge from the burgeoning rock ‘n’ roll scene in Philadelphia during the 1905, helped by the thriving commercial and creative environment provided by the...
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Accordionist, bandleader, composer and TV impresario Lawrence Welk was one of the most visible and popular personalities in easy-listening orchestral pop music through several decades spanning the pre...
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During the heyday of the vocal groups of the early ‘50s, when a number of groups enjoyed lengthy strings of chart hits by adapting the traditions of barbershop quartets for the mainstream pop ma...
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Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers were one of the most distinctive and stylish R&B groups of the post-war era, specialising in a smooth jazz-flavoured style of music similar to the approach pione...
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Don Cherry was one of the relatively few big band vocalists of the late ‘40s who not only built a successful career as a solo performer through the era of traditional middle-of-the-road popular ...
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Jesse Winchester was famously one of the US music industry's draft dodgers, moving to Canada to avoid his Vietnam call-up, and became an influential songwriter during the 1970s.
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