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

Popular Christmas songs, like advertising ... The culture of the ’50s was to a great extent an epiphenomenon of its economic arrangements—and those arrangements are not coming back.

Discover more about the most exciting decade in musical history throughout the Sounds of the 50s series. Here’s presenter Leo Green’s top 10 songs from this defining musical era. 1.

But the band also devoted a lot of its energies to covering American R&B songs from the late ’50s and early ’60s, making those songs slightly stiffer and more mannered, putting that big beat ...