We recently looked at five standout songs recorded in the 1950s that were largely overshadowed by covers that came later. Of course, there weren’t only five songs that fit that description. One of the ...

When the modern world was born, Jerry Lee Lewis was there. During that heady spurt of mid-1950s generational rebellion, Lewis and his pompadoured peers invented rock ‘n’ roll and became footloose ...

Rock ‘n’ roll seemed to some like it emerged fully formed in the 1950s, as artists became superstars overnight on the strength of a magnetic single or two. In actuality, the music had been slowly ...

The sounds of 1950s rock and roll were so quintessential and delightful that they remain fundamental. The genre was just coming alive but somehow there were incredible standout acts that have lasted ...

AUSTIN, Texas — In the late 1950s, radio, TV and the record labels discovered teenagers had money to spend and they spent a lot of it on rock 'n' roll records. Singers barely out of their teens ...