American doo-wop group The Crests was formed by bass vocalist Jay Carter in the mid-1950s. The group included Talmadge “Tommy” Gough, Harold “Chico” Torres and…
Browsing: Music – 1950s
The song Sh-Boom was originally recorded early in 1954 by The Chords. But it was the version by Canadian quartet The Crew Cuts (released later the same…
As the most prolific white rocker on Checker Records, Dale Hawkins (born Delmar A Hawkins Jr on 22 August 1936) blazed a trail of blues-drenched…
The Dallas Boys – sometimes described as “England’s first boy band” – formed in Leicester, England, and comprised four former pupils of Moat Boys School…
Danny and The Juniors (originally The Juvenairs) all attended John Bartram High School in Philadelphia and formed in 1955, practising their harmonies in a car…
This British crooner was one of the biggest home-produced names in the early and mid-1950s, The singer (who hailed from Hull) had hits including Mama, Cara Mia,…
Dean Martin was born Dino Paul Crocetti in Steubenville, Ohio, in 1917. By the age of 15, he had dropped out of high school and…
Formed in 1955, doo-wop group The Del-Vikings hold the distinction of being the first commercially successful racially integrated group in American pop history. The group…
The Dells have been around so long they make The Rolling Stones look like young whippersnappers. Starting out in Chicago as a Doo Wop group called The El Rays,…
The popular music industry in the United Kingdom continued to develop in the early Sixties, with talented individuals working across all areas. Billy Fury, for…
Like The Crew Cuts, whose career they so closely followed, The Diamonds also came from Canada, where Ted Kowalski (tenor), Phil Levitt (baritone) and Bill…
Richard Charles Kneller was born in Thornton Heath, Surrey. After leaving school he tried a wide variety of jobs including stonemason’s assistant, spraypainter, electric plater,…
Australian singer Digby George Richards was born the son of a policeman in Dunedoo in New South Wales on 12 September 1941. Digby (or ‘Dig’…
Born Ruth Lee Jones in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Dinah Washington grew up in Chicago, where she sang and played the piano in a Baptist church. After…
The Dominoes (also known as Billy Ward & the Dominoes) had one of the finest musical pedigrees of any R&B vocal group of the 1940s. …
Dorothy Squires was born Edna May Squires in Pontyberem, Carmarthenshire (South Wales) on 25 March 1915. She began to perform professionally as a singer at…
The Dovells were an American vocal group, formed at Overbrook High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1957, under the name The Brooktones. Their first single was No,…
Formed in 1953 in New York at the behest of Atlantic Records, The Drifters were consistent US hit makers until 1964. A few years later their…
Duane was born in Corning in far upstate New York, 150 miles from the Canadian border. He grew up there and in other small upstate…
American singer Eartha Kitt was born Eartha Mae Keith on 17 January 1927 of Cherokee and African descent. She became known for her highly distinctive…