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Perhaps more than any other artist, Ruth Brown helped lead the way in bridging the gap between R&B and pop as far as female artists were concerned, paving the way for the likes of Mary Wells and...

The Browns were a family vocal trio comprising Jim Edward Brown and his sisters Maxine and Bonnie, who had a string of country hits in the USA through the late '50s and early '60s. They were, of...

Anita Bryant is a pop singer who had several big hits during the late '50s and early '60s and made several successful albums, becoming best-known for her 1960 US Top 10 hits "Paper Roses" and "My...

Johnny Burnette is best known as the teen idol late era rock 'n' roller, whose Top 5 hits with "Dreamin'" and "You're Sixteen" typified the lightier, poppier direction that rock 'n' roll took at the...

Born in Missouri in 1926, Champ Butler (his real name) was brought up in Los Angeles, and after service in WWII worked in the parking lot of Hollywood's Mocambo nightclub, where he met many stars,...

Don Byas was one of the most highly-regarded tenor sax players of his generation - he had a distinctive sound and a technique that enabled him to swing with effortless smoothness, yet with the...

Cab Calloway was a jazz singer, bandleader, songwriter, dancer and actor who came to fame as a regular performer at the Cotton Club in Harlem, where he blended jazz and vaudeville to establish a...

The legendary Cab Calloway had a career that stretched from the 1920s to the Hollywood blockbuster "The Blues Brothers". His orchestras brought to the world some of Jazz's greatest stars of the...

Freddy Cannon was one of the second wave of rock 'n' roll artists to make their mark on the US and UK pop scenes in the late '50s, bringing a more Tin Pan Alley influenced style to the genre. He had...

The Caravans were a gospel vocal group who originated in Chicago in the late 1940s as the Robert Anderson Singers and The Robert Anderson Gospel Caravan, and evolved to begin recording as The...

The Carlisles were a hillbilly country group formed in the early 1950s by Bill Carlisle, who had previously recorded with his brother Cliff as The Carlisle Brothers during the 1930s and '40s until...

The Carter Family are among the most important artists in the entire history of popular music. They were pioneers in writing and recording folk and country music for the commercial market, and their...