Soothing oldies music from classic instrumentalists and legendary pop vocalists.
A basic guide to Great American Songbook music, its best and most popular artists, bands, singers, and songs, and a history of how the style fits into other areas of pop music. From the Oldies music guide at About.com.
A basic guide to Fifties Pop music, its best and most popular artists, composers, singers, and songs, and a history of how the style fits into other areas of pop and rock music. From the Oldies music guide at About.com.
A basic guide to Exotica music, its best and most popular artists, composers, singers, and songs, and a history of how the style fits into other areas of pop and rock music. From the Oldies music guide at About.com.
A basic guide to easy listening music, its best and most popular artists, composers, singers, and songs, and a history of how the style fits into other areas of pop and rock music. From the Oldies music guide at About.com.
The king of romantic "make-out" music, Johnny Mathis was the preeminent crooner of the Fifties and early Sixties, scoring hits on the pop, R&B, and adult contemporary charts with modern standards like "Misty," "Chances Are," and "The Twelfth Of Never." This Johnny Mathis profile is the latest in a series on music's most popular artists of the rock and roll oldies era, written and compiled by your oldies Guide here at About.com.
The leader in "beautiful music" for decades has an official site here, with a history, news, and product info.
A huge database of information on ALL the material this icon of easy-listening music recorded during his long lifetime.
This smooth pop vocal icon of the 50s-70s gave us classics like "Canadian Sunset" and "Butterfly." This is his official site, featuring a wealth of info, including recent tour dates!
This Yahoo! Group, devoted to "beautiful music" and lounge music, gets a tremendous amount of traffic and is a great forum for easy listening aficionados.
The original "When I Fall In Love" vocalist and smooth romantic paragon is paid tribute to on this fan site, which contains loads of sound files and a history that stretches back to his early days with the Trio.
An elegant and fun site devoted to the most flamboyant concert pianist of all time. Take a virtual tour of one of Lee's six homes or look at his Christmas favors!
This Japanese fan page for "Mr. Lonely" features a timeline of his career milestones, a list of movie and TV appearances, an extensive discography, and covers for all his hit 45s!
The Velvet Fog has straddled the line between pop and jazz for decades now, as well as penning classics like "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire)."
A fan-friendly official site for the crooner Engelbert Humperdinck, best known for his version of "Release Me" and Seventies hits like "After The Lovin'."
An official site for one of the postwar period's most enduring pop vocal idols. Features news, a fan club, sound clips of his songs, and an online store!
The man with "the mad hits" wrote, arranged, and produced some of 60s pop's most enduring hits, including Sinatra's "Strangers In The Night" - not to mention his own celebrated instrumental pop albums. It's all explored at this wonderfully designed official site.
A great place to find out about the "King Of Calypso," featuring the usual lyrics and a discography. It's also a good place to acquaint yourself with Belafonte merchandise and collectibles.
A classy and intriguingly retro-designed official website for The Singing Rage herself, best known for her milestone recordings "Tennessee Waltz" and "Old Cape Cod."
The web's best bio on this vocal group, which scored big hits with 1950's "Rag Mop" and other classics.
The official site for the King and Queen of mellow 50s and 60s pop. The usual discographies and photos, but you can also buy their original LPs and 45s here!
A fantastic fan site - real audio clips and lyrics for EVERY song this vocal group put out in the 60s, including favorites like "Windy," "Along Comes Mary," and "Never My Love." And that's just the beginning!
They don't come more thorough than this Babs' fan site, which bills itself (correctly) as the net's best multimedia discography of Barbra's musical work. There is, however, also a great deal of personal info and news on the legend.
The official site for the early 50s teenage female act ("Bermuda") that wrote its own first hit!
The official home page of these mid-Sixties easy-listening hitmakers ("See You In September," "Go Away Little Girl"). Mostly about their current gigs, but there's a discography of sorts and a bio.
Not as gorgeous as the official Mathis site, but this fan tribute has more content, including scanned magazine articles that really take you back to the opening years of this crooner's amazing career.
A vast database of information about this legendary pop songwriter ("Summer Wind," "Accentuate The Positive," "Fools Rush In," "That Old Black Magic"). Includes MIDIs, discographies, and much, much more.
A tribute to Ol' Blue Eyes that includes lots of multimedia files, history, pics and more! Really gives you that Rat Pack feeling.
An (appropriately?) goofy site for the Vegas performer best known on the pop charts for singing "Danke Schoen." Constantly updated with the latest on Wayne, but be prepared for the embedded MIDI files.
A superb talent whose genius for interpretation speaks to any generation. This official site from Sony records, unfortunately, is the best source of info on him at the present.
The official site for America's favorite pop bandleader, his famous TV show, the acts in his stable, and his beloved "champagne music."
