Here they are the moldy oldies, blats from the past, the knocked out nifties. If you were born between 1930 and 1945, the music of the fifties will always be part of your life. As a pre-boomer, you’ll remember these hits.
1950: Mona Lisa (Nat King Cole), Music! Music! Music! (Teresa Brewer), The Tennessee Waltz (Patti [...]
One recent Saturday morning I took the freeway to the Westside of Los Angeles. At the foot of the off ramp there was a gathering of men, maybe two dozen strong. They were hanging out waiting for someone, anyone, who had work for them. I drove another block and noticed more men scattered throughout the [...]
“We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness –“ this famous
phrase from the Declaration of Independence is the corner stone on which our nation was built. So what [...]
Growing up in Philadelphia and later working in Manhattan gave me an early sense of musicals and their impact on the cultural scene. I saw one big musical production at the old Shubert Theatre in the late ‘40s, but I was exposed to the songs from Oklahoma, South Pacific and The Music Man through the [...]
Do you remember the first ten years of rock and roll? Was it the music you liked when you moved on from your teen years? If so, chances are the pop music of those years is still your favorite.
It was in Wildwood New Jersey on Memorial Day weekend in 1954 that Bill Haley [...]
