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Films of the 1950s were of a wide variety. As a result of the introduction of television, the studios and companies sought to put audiences back in theaters. They used more techniques in presenting their films through widescreen and big-approach methods, such as Cinemascope, VistaVision, and Cinerama, as well as gimmicks like 3-D film.
The 1950s brings to mind poodle skirts, sock hops, and drive-in movies. I Love Lucy, ... showcasing the enduring influence of 1950s music. To take a walk down memory lane (or to get acquainted ...
The Joker Is Wild (1957) – musical drama film about Joe E. Lewis, the popular singer and comedian who was a major attraction in nightclubs from the 1920s to the early 1950s [288] Kean: Genius or Scoundrel (Italian: Kean – Genio e sregolatezza ) (1957) – Italian historical biographical film based on the life of nineteenth century actor ...
In 1970, rock musician Ringo Starr surprised the public by releasing an album of Songbook songs from the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, Sentimental Journey.Reviews were mostly poor or even disdainful, [25] but the album reached number 22 on the US Billboard 200 [26] and number 7 in the UK Albums Chart, [27] with sales of 500,000.
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.
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.
The author, who went on to found The Fugs, lived in the beatnik epicenter of Greenwich Village and the Lower East Side in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Among the humor books, Beat, Beat, Beat was a 1959 Signet paperback of cartoons by Phi Beta Kappa Princeton graduate William F. Brown, who looked down on the movement from his position in the ...
Impact and Influence of Black Singers from the 1950s 15th September 1954: Keith Edwards and Queenie Marques, two newly arrived immigrants from Jamaica relax to the sound of Keith’s trumpet playing.