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"Imagination" is a popular song with music written by Jimmy Van Heusen and the lyrics by Johnny Burke. [1] The song was first published in 1940 . The two best-selling versions were recorded by the orchestras of Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey in 1940.
Many of the songs in the 1950s hinted at the simmering racial tension that would later usher in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. The 1950s was a pivotal era in music, laying the groundwork ...
Bing Crosby had three songs on the year-end top 30. The Ames Brothers had three songs on the year-end top 30. This is a list of Billboard magazine's top popular songs of 1950 according to retail sales. [1]
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.
January 25, 1950 (with Jim Harbert's orchestra) "Bright and Shiny" Bob Sherman Dick Sherman: December 23. 1960 from the album Bright and Shiny "A Bushel and a Peck" Frank Loesser: September 13, 1950 TOP 20 HIT IN 1950 (with David Rose's orchestra) "But Beautiful" Jimmy Van Heusen: Johnny Burke: September 26, 1956 from the album Day by Day "But ...
"The Thing" is a novelty song by Charles Randolph Grean released in 1950. The song received heavy airplay, spending 14 weeks on the Billboard charts. The melody is derived from the English bawdy folk song "The Chandler's Wife", which itself derived its melody from the earlier English folk song "The Lincolnshire Poacher".
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music [2] Imagination is a 1958 album recorded by Billy Eckstine. [3] It was released under the EmArcy label. Track listing
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.