But in the late ‘50s, when she was just 20 years old, Campbell recorded her own rockin’ composition about lust at first sight ...

The latest episode of All Songs Considered features music by the bands Best Coast and Jenny and Johnny, both of which sparked a conversation about why the late '50s and early '60s sound is so ...

One of the weirdest side effects of the Space Race in the late ’50s, a battle for spaceflight supremacy between the United States and the Soviet Union, was an explosion of pop-cultural ephemera ...

“I wrote ‘It’s Too Late’ in 20 minutes,” said Stern in a 2021 interview on how she would often present lyrics on a notepad to King to compose. “She would take that pad, put it on the ...

Neil Sedaka has been writing songs and releasing hits since the late 50s, like the above. Towards the end of the 60s they dried up, his American label dropped him and the song writing collaboration ...

Stern and King didn't labor over the song. “I wrote ‘It’s Too Late’ in 20 minutes,” Stern told Sound Opinions, explaining that she frequently went to King with a fully crafted set of ...