“Let’s Have a Party” by Wanda Jackson (1958) Of all the early rockabilly queens of 1950s music, none was more important than Wanda Jackson. When she belted out lyrics like “I never kissed ...

Early rock & roll albums simply do not come ... Next time, we’ll look at a different collection of great music from the late 1950s, and I promise not to end on a suicide.

50. Still, Sinatra's early fifties were a commercial fallow period - he turned a corner with the delicious Young At Heart in 1954, and by 1956 was taking on all-comers with his Songs For Swinging ...

the decade’s music featured state-backed songs – quite exotic from today’s perspective – carrying communist messages about work, as well as rebellious jazz played in smoke-filled cellars hidden from ...