The 1950s saw the birth of rock and roll, but these original songs might have been overshadowed by their covers.

Popular Christmas songs ... of the ’50s was to a great extent an epiphenomenon of its economic arrangements—and those arrangements are not coming back. Yuval Levin, in The Fractured Republic ...

If that wasn’t enough, country music revelled in the genius of Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, while Nat King Cole and Peggy Lee were ... 50s series. Here’s presenter Leo Green’s top 10 songs ...

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