Fans loved the smooth sounds of jazz and catchy doo-opp tunes of the 1950s. This list includes the biggest artists of the ...

Many of the songs in the 1950s hinted at the simmering racial tension that would later usher in the Civil Rights Movement in ...

Richard had a knack for matching the right song to the right artist,” Barbra Streisand said of record producer Richard Perry.

The onetime drummer, oboist and doo-wop singer became the rare producer to have No. 1 hits on the pop, R&B, dance and country ...

He was backstage for 1950s performances by Little Richard and ... he learned to play drums and oboe and helped form a doo-wop group, the Escorts, that released a handful of singles.