The 1950s brings to mind poodle skirts, sock hops, and drive-in movies. I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, and Leave It to Beaver were popular television shows, and Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You can’t talk about music from this era without including Little Richard, a famed artist from Macon, Georgia. The track, "Tutti ...

These days, there isn’t much with real staying power. It seems that modern songs—like microwaves or apartment faucets—were made to be disposable more often than not. But 70 years ago? That’s when ...

The 1950s were a seismic turning point for contemporary popular music, a decade when the sonic landscape shifted dramatically enough to set the stage for the entire musical culture that followed.

Dads like things that are old. Have you seen your dad’s favorite shirt? It’s approximately 1,000 years old. His car? Yes, decades old. It’s just that way. Old, old, old. Old things are sturdy, ...

For its final show of the 2018-19 season, Cape Fear Regional Theatre is stepping back in time. That time is the 1950s, when society was much more segregated than today. The place is Memphis, where ...

You can’t study the history of popular music without familiarizing yourself with the best Black singers from the 50s. In fact, you might be surprised just how many music genres can trace their roots ...

Some John Lennon songs and Queen’s “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” sound like the same era. John compared Queen’s “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” to tunes by an early rocker. He also discussed the ...

Seventeen months after the original date, Johnny Mathis is coming back to town on Aug. 28. And 17 months isn’t a long time in the grand scheme of Mathis’ career, who signed with his current label, ...

The 1950s brought a warmth to American living rooms that no television screen could match. Families gathered around their radios, the glow of the dial matched by the glow of unforgettable voices. From ...