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Music of the United Kingdom began to develop in the 1950s; from largely insular and derivative forms to become one of the leading centres of popular music in the modern world. By 1950 indigenous forms of British popular music, including folk music, brass and silver bands, music hall and dance bands, were already giving way to the influence of ...
Pages in category "Musicals set in the 1950s" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total. ... Bésame mucho, el musical; Blood Brothers (musical)
Linda Ann Fredericks (27 September 1950 – 3 May 2023), better known as Linda Lewis, was an English singer, songwriter and musician.She is best known for the singles "Rock-a-Doodle-Doo" (1973) and her version of Betty Everett's "The Shoop Shoop Song" (1975). [1]
Love from Judy is a musical with music by Hugh Martin, lyrics by Martin and Jack Gray, and a book by Eric Maschwitz and Jean Webster. It is based on Webster's novel and play Daddy-Long-Legs . The original production opened in Coventry in 1951 and then moved to the Saville Theatre on the West End and opened on September 25, 1952.
24 September – US musicologist Alan Lomax leaves for a tour of Europe, in the course of which he collects folk music from all over the UK, broadcasts on the BBC, and works with folklorists Peter Douglas Kennedy, Hamish Henderson, and Séamus Ennis, [3] recording among others, Margaret Barry and the songs in Irish of Elizabeth Cronin; Scots ...
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
My Fair Lady is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe.The story, based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play Pygmalion and on the 1938 film adaptation of the play, concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins, a phonetician, so that she may pass as a lady.
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