After two weeks at #1, Marty Robbins’ “El Paso” (see my entry for January 4) was displaced at the top of the pops by Johnny Preston’s “Runni...

That grand wild sound of bop floated from beer parlors; it mixed medleys with every kind of cowboy and boogie-woogie in the American night. ...

This is the meaning of life To tune this electric guitar --Talking Heads, “Electric Guitar” According to Dik de Heer’s exhaustive In the Can...

Nat “King” Cole’s album At the Sands was recorded live on January 14, 1960 at the Sands Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. At the time of Cole’...

In yesterday's blog I referred to Albert Goldman's controversial biography Elvis (1981). Having mentioned the book, I was prompted ...

I've never been able to shake the impression that Elvis's year and a half in Germany (October 1958-March 1960) while a soldier in th...

According to author Stephen Rebello, in his extremely interesting and well-researched book, Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho (St. ...

The crucial role of television to promote presidential candidates and their agendas is now an accepted truism. If this commonplace bit of wi...

A week earlier, on January 2, 1960, then Senator John F. Kennedy announced his candidacy for President of the United States, ending several...

"...But there ain't no cure for the summertime blues..." According to the webpage www.eddiecochran.info , on January 8, 1960, ...

"Marina found herself thinking, how odd, that when Khrushchev visited Minsk while she was living there with Lee, there were strong rumo...

"Until one morning in mid-November of 1959, few Americans--in fact, few Kansans--had ever heard of Holcomb." On January 6, 1960, R...