From Open Culture: “For sixty years, conventional wisdom has told us that women generally did not perform rock and roll during the 1950s,” writes Leah Branstetter, Ph.D. candidate in musicology at ...

Explore the influential female country singers of the 1950s who shaped Nashville's golden era. ... known for her energetic stage presence and western swing style. • Years Active: 1937–1996 ...

The group also recorded and performed on TV with Bing Crosby in the early 1950s. The Cass County Boys were inducted into the Western Music Hall of Fame in 1996.

Gene Autry, the "singing cowboy" and multimedia star credited with popularizing country-western music, was born on Sept. 29, 1907. Autry also founded the Los Angeles Angels baseball team.

To American TV watchers of a certain age, Slim Whitman, the Country and Western singer who died this week at 90, is remembered as the man who was bigger than Elvis and The Beatles — at least ...

Singer Phil Everly – one half of the ... During the late 1950s and early 1960s, Phil Everly and his brother, Don ... the offspring of country and western singers Margaret and Ike Everly.

Connie Francis, the wholesome pop star of the 1950s and 1960s whose hits include Pretty Little Baby, has died at the age of 87. Her death was announced on Thursday by her friend and publicist, Ron ...