One of Prado’s songs became a summer jam decades later, in 1999, when Lou Bega updated his “Mambo No. 5.” 8. Johnny Horton, “The Battle Of New Orleans” ...

Many of the songs in the 1950s hinted at the simmering racial tension that would later usher in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. The 1950s was a pivotal era in music, ...