This has to be one of the most memorable songs of the 1960s. And yet, when it was first released, “What A Wonderful World” did quite poorly on the US charts. That might seem strange, considering the ...

Between 1959 and 1964, Midtown Manhattan was the nerve center of the American pop music industry. Inside just a few square blocks near Times Square, the so-called “Brill Building Sound” flourished, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Concetta Rosemarie “Connie Francis” Franconero, July 1959 (PoPsie Randolph/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) Connie Francis, the ...

These slow dances from the 1960s defined a lot of people's teen years, yet they have been mostly forgotten by modern ...

There aren't many careers that have the longevity of music. Though performing live music requires stamina, dexterity, and memory, there's a surprising number of popular musical acts formed decades ago ...

For Baby Boomers, the 1960s and 1970s represented far more than an era of memorable hit singles scattered across radio playlists. This generation witnessed the birth of the album as a cohesive, ...

Led Zeppelin‘s Jimmy Page worked as a session musician before his career really took off. He played on one of the biggest pop songs to come out of the British Invasion. During that session, a pop star ...

WASHINGTON — Singer LaMonte McLemore, a founding member of the Grammy-winning vocal group the 5th Dimension, whose blend of pop, soul and psychedelic music produced some of the biggest hits of the ...

Pop singer Connie Francis has died at 87. The first female singer to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, she was known for her hit single "Who's Sorry Now?" and for singing the theme song and ...