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Download as PDF; Printable version ... List of popular music genres; ... This is a partial list of notable active and inactive bands and musicians of the 1950s. Musicians
Popular music, or "classic pop," dominated the charts for the first half of the 1950s.Vocal-driven classic pop replaced Big Band/Swing at the end of World War II, although it often used orchestras to back the vocalists. 1940s style Crooners vied with a new generation of big voiced singers, many drawing on Italian bel canto traditions.
Throughout most of the 1950s, the magazine published the following charts to measure a song's popularity: Most Played by Jockeys – ranked the most played songs on United States radio stations, as reported by radio disc jockeys and radio stations.
Pages in category "Musical groups established in the 1950s" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
During the 1950s European popular music give way to the influence of American forms of music including jazz, swing and traditional pop, mediated through film and records. The significant change of the mid-1950s was the impact of American rock and roll , which provided a new model for performance and recording, based on a youth market.
An R&B/soul group of the 1950s, The Channels formed in 1955 around the singers Larry Hampden, Billy Morris, and Edward Dolphin, "Joe"(Bass) and "Rico"(Lead). But soon after Joe and Rico Departed, with Earl Michael Lewis and Clifton Wright formerly of The Lotharios replacing them. Lewis was the group's main songwriter. [1]
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Chart history; Issue date 33 1/3 R.P.M. 45 R.P.M. Ref. Album Artist(s) Label Album Artist(s) Label July 22: South Pacific: Mary Martin & Ezio Pinza Columbia