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 ...

A 1950s pop star once tried to warn his good friend, Elvis Presley, that he was on the path to an early death.

For our third and final chapter, we are looking at five singers who faced a different landscape. For these women, born ...

Known as The Genius, Charles combined blues, rhythm and blues, and gospel to contribute to the founding of soul music in the 1950s. He had a profound influence on a number of highly successful ...

The aforementioned songs became actual hits and are still quite recognisable today. But a lot of 1950s mainstream music enjoyed plenty of airplay not because it was particularly good or popular but ...