50s R&B
The music that helped birth early rock and roll. Featuring the great R&B and urban blues stars of the late 40s and early 50s, and those who stayed with the raw music even after rock took off.
Oldies Music Encyclopedia: "Jump Blues"
A basic guide to jump blues, its best and most popular artists, bands, singers, and songs, and a history of how the style fits into other areas of popular music. From the Oldies music guide at About.com.
A basic guide to jump blues, its best and most popular artists, bands, singers, and songs, and a history of how the style fits into other areas of popular music. From the Oldies music guide at About.com.
Profile: Clyde McPhatter
Clyde McPhatter's era-defining stints as lead singer of the Drifters and with Billy Ward and the Dominoes was just the beginning of this proto-soulster's career, which also resulted in solo hits like "A Lover's Question." This Clyde McPhatter profile is the latest in a series on music's most popular artists of the 50s, 60s, and 70s, written and compiled by your oldies Guide here at About.com.
Clyde McPhatter's era-defining stints as lead singer of the Drifters and with Billy Ward and the Dominoes was just the beginning of this proto-soulster's career, which also resulted in solo hits like "A Lover's Question." This Clyde McPhatter profile is the latest in a series on music's most popular artists of the 50s, 60s, and 70s, written and compiled by your oldies Guide here at About.com.
What Is Boogie-Woogie?
A basic guide to "Boogie Woogie" music, its best and most popular artists, bands, 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 "Boogie Woogie" music, its best and most popular artists, bands, 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.
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About's own Reverend Keith A. Gordon has a wealth of information on his site about Blues music of the immediate postwar period.
About's own Reverend Keith A. Gordon has a wealth of information on his site about Blues music of the immediate postwar period.