The song is on Anderson’s Bill Anderson Sings Country Heart Songs, and became his first single to land at the top of the charts. “Mama Sang A Song” spent a total of six non-consecutive weeks in the No ...

What’s being described as the master tapes of the Beatles performing live in Hamburg, Germany, in 1962 not long before Beatlemania exploded worldwide is going to auction April 1 and is being offered ...

Filming The Music Man became a family affair for Shirley Jones, who was secretly pregnant with her second son, Patrick. “Robert Preston and my mom are on that footbridge singing,” recalls Shirley’s ...

Presenting the opera "The Coronation of Poppea," Monteverdi's 1643 masterpiece about sex and power in imperial Rome, is a very different sort of undertaking from staging something by Mozart or Verdi.

From 1962 to ’66, Bob Dylan reigned as one of the most influential figures in popular music. He released such landmark albums as “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan” and “Highway 61 Revisited,” in between ...

Scott Siegel's nostalgic "Broadway by the Year" series winds up the season by turning back the pages to 1962, a year that celebrated the birth of free Shakespeare in the park. Folk music was topping ...

The 1962 contract that officially bound the Beatles and manager Brian Epstein will go to auction in September as part of a Sotheby’s exhibition that’s heavy on items from the Beatles, Bob Dylan and ...

Imagine a world before YouTube effects pedal demos? It's hard, we know. Gibson Electonic's 1962 showcase for the FZ-1 fuzz, and arguably the world's first pedal, came on a vinyl record and showed off ...

Saturno 2000 - La Rebajada de Los Sonideros 1962-1983 celebrates a previously obscure form of sonic manipulation. In Mexico, DJs were playing records at a lower rpm than the standard 33 1/3 or 45 ...