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Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel write their first song, "The Girl For Me" (copyrighted with the Library of Congress in 1956), and begin singing together as a duo while still in high school in New York City. Nine-year-old Al Green forms a gospel quartet, the Green Brothers. Clyde McPhatter launches a solo career.
Rock & Roll began to dominate popular music starting in the mid-1950s with origins in a variety of genres including blues, rhythm & blues, country, and pop. Major rock artists of the 1950s include Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ritchie Valens, Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, Carl Perkins, Bill Haley, and ...
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1955 Popular Song Chart1. Rock Around The Clock – Bill Haley & The Comets2. Love and Marriage – Frank Sinatra3. Earth Angel – The Penguins4. Only You (and You Alone) – The Platters5. Ain’t That A Shame – Fats Domino6. Maybellene – Chuck Berry7. Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White – Perez Prado8. Same Old… Read More
The 1950s were one of country music's most influential decades, with artists such as Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, and Patsy Cline being some of the decade's most notable. The honky-tonk style of country music remained heavily popular during the decade, and the late 1950s gave rise to the Nashville sound. Blues music was highly influential to ...
Mar 3, 2024 · North wrote the music as a theme for the prison film Unchained (1955), hence the song title. Todd Duncan sang the vocals for the film soundtrack. Todd Duncan sang the vocals for the film soundtrack. It has since become a standard and one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century, most notably by the Righteous Brothers in 1965.
