When Sheb Wooley wrote his musical story about a purple alien coming from the sky that would eat people and just wanted to join a rock band, little did he know he had an enteral hit on his hands. But ...

The 1960s produced more music that mattered than any decade before or since. In ten years, popular music absorbed the British ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tom Lehrer, the sardonic singer-songwriter-pianist who rose to national fame after his dark, tartly funny topical songs were used ...

Several of his songs were also used in the satirical comedy TV show 'That Was the Week That Was.' By Carly Thomas Senior Editor, Digital Tom Lehrer, a mathematician and satirist whose musical ...

It was completely by accident that I came across the song “Tell Laura I Love Her” by Ray Peterson, but that song opened up an entire new style of song that I didn’t even know existed—the teenage death ...

Holiday playlists change every year, but a handful of Christmas records from the 1950s and 1960s still feel like the season’s default soundtrack. These albums mix lush orchestration, crooner warmth, ...

Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...

A celebration of the songs that made teenagers swoon across America is coming to Prescott this spring. “Travelin’ Man — A ...

Tom Lehrer, the sardonic singer-songwriter-pianist who rose to national fame after his dark, tartly funny topical songs were used on the comedic ‘60s TV news show "That Was the Week That Was," has ...