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The 1950s brings to mind poodle skirts, sock hops, and drive-in movies. I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, and Leave It to Beaver were popular television shows, and Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, and ...
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.
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.
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. Most Played in Jukeboxes – ranked the most played songs in jukeboxes across the United States.
1950s portal This category is for songs written or first produced in the decade 1950s , i.e the years 1950 to 1959 . For more information, see 1950s in music
Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock-n-roll, and rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It originated from African American music such as jazz , rhythm and blues , boogie-woogie , electric blues , gospel , and jump blues , [ 3 ] as well as ...
This version first entered the US chart on August 29, 1952, and remained on it for 10 weeks, reaching No. 12. [10] All the versions were combined in the rankings on the Cash Box charts, and the song reached No. 1 on those charts as well, lasting on the chart for more than half a year. In the UK, the song also topped the sheet music sales chart.
Topics specifically related to the decade 1950s in the music of United States, i.e. in the years 1950 to 1959. 1900s; ... Music history of the United States in the ...