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Frankie Laine (at piano) and Patti Page, c. 1950 Harry Belafonte, 1954 This is a partial list of notable active and inactive bands and musicians of the 1950s . Musicians
Patti Page was the artist with second-longest most cumulative run at number one (22 weeks) between January 1950 until August 1958. Perry Como remained at the top of the Billboard number-one singles chart for 20 weeks between January 1950 until August 1958.
Clara Ann Fowler (November 8, 1927 – January 1, 2013), better known by her stage name Patti Page, was an American singer.Primarily known for pop and country music, she was the top-charting female vocalist and best-selling female artist of the 1950s, [1] selling over 100 million records during a six-decade-long career. [2]
All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues. San Francisco, California: Backbeat Books. ISBN 0-87930-736-6. Harrison, Daphne Duval (1990). Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers. ISBN 0-8135-1280-8. Russell, Tony (1997). The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray.
The 1950s music scene would challenge these simplistic categories by offering more so-called race music than ever before that appealed equally to Black and white listeners. ... famous Black female ...
She was one of the most prolific and popular female singers of the 1950s, recording around 600 songs. Early life. Brewer was born in Toledo, ...
Connie Francis (born Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero; December 12, 1937) [2] is an American pop singer, actress, and top-charting female vocalist of the late 1950s and early 1960s. She is estimated to have sold more than 100 million records worldwide.
This is a list of notable African-American singers that gives their year of birth and music genres with which ... (1950–2005): Delta blues, jazz, morna ...