The 1950s brings to mind poodle skirts ... The song won an award at the 1956 Oscars for Best Original Song. Sung by the doo-wop group The Penguins, “Earth Angel” was the group’s biggest ...

The 1950s saw the birth of rock and roll, but not all the great songs were made by men. The women could rock, too.

Elvis Presley is regarded as one of the greatest entertainers of all time for good reason. Nearly 50 years after his untimely ...

"Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" by Marilyn Monroe from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) The song is perhaps most famously performed by Marilyn Monroe in the 1953 film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

Broadway was booming in the 1950s, and from this latter part of the Golden Age came many musicals that today are considered by many to be the best ever written. Study up on the great musicals of ...

Taking advantage of a unique recording trick, Sheb Wooley created one of the best novelty songs of the 1950s. In 1958, Sheb Wooley unleashed “The Purple People Eater” from his imagination into ...

The 1950s brings to mind poodle skirts ... The song won an award at the 1956 Oscars for Best Original Song. Sung by the doo-wop group The Penguins, “Earth Angel” was the group’s biggest hit. The song ...