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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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Despite the fact that his career was so tragically curtailed when he died in the fateful plane crash on 3rd February 1959, in which The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens also perished, Buddy Holly remains...
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Ritchie Valens was one of leading lights in what became known as the Chicano style of rock – music from the Mexican-American community of the USA, often sung in Spanish and heavily influenced by...
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Jimmy Dean was a country singer and radio and TV personality and actor whose primary claim to musical fame came with the iconic landmark 1961 crossover pop/country hit “Big Bad John”, alth...
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Along with Bessie Smith, Gertrude “Ma” Rainey has come to be recognised as one of the towering figures of early blues, pioneering the recording of blues by female artists during the earlie...
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The Chordettes were one of the female vocal groups who epitomised the style and atmosphere of early ‘50s popular music but who continued to have pop hits through into the rock ‘n’ ro...
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Frankie Vaughan was one of the most popular and successful British singers of the 1950s and ‘60s, his career transcending the vagaries of the rock ‘n’ roll era, despite the fact that...
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The owner of one of the most distinctive voices in rock, Graham Nash, of The Hollies and then Crosby Stills & Nash, celebrates his birthday today.
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