1964 Music
I Want to Hold Your Hand: The Beatles is a song by the English rock band the Beatles. Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, and recorded in October 1963, it was the first Beatles record to be made using four-track equipment. With advance orders exceeding one...
1964 (Part 2)
June 17, Author Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters embark on their cross-country trip aboard Farther (bus) spreading the gospel of LSD. The Supremes were an American female singing group and the premier act of Motown Records during the 1960s. Founded as The Primettes...
1964 (Part 1)
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973) was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. Formerly the 37th vice president of the United States from 1961 to 1963, he assumed the presidency following the assassination of...
Carole King
Carole King is an American composer and singer-songwriter. She is the most successful female songwriter of the latter half of the 20th century in the US, having written or co-written 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1955 and 1999. King also wrote 61 hits...
Brill Building Pop (Songwriters)
Burt Bacharach and Hal David Burt Bacharach, is an American composer, songwriter, record producer, pianist, and singer who has composed hundreds of pop songs from the late 1950s through the 1980s, many in collaboration with lyricist Hal David. A six-time Grammy Award...
Brill Building Pop
Brill Building Pop is a subgenre of pop music originating from the Brill Building in New York City, where numerous teams of professional songwriters penned material for girl groups and teen idols in the early 1960s. The term has also become a catch-all for the period...
Legends of Guitars Pt 4
Chuck Berry (1926-2017) Chuck Berry was an American singer, songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" (1955), "Roll Over Beethoven" (1956), "Rock and Roll Music" (1957) and "Johnny B. Goode" (1958), Berry refined and...
Rock, Pop, Doo Wop, Country, and Rockabilly (Part 3)
Link Wray was a Native American rock and roll guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist who became popular in the late 1950s. Building on the distorted electric guitar sound of early records, his 1958 instrumental hit "Rumble" by Link Wray & His Ray Men popularized "the...
Rock, Pop, Doo Wop, Country, and Rockabilly (Part 2)
Buddy Holly was an American musician, singer-songwriter and record producer who was a central and pioneering figure of mid-1950s rock and roll. He was born in Lubbock, Texas, to a musical family during the Great Depression, and learned to play guitar and sing...
Rock, Pop, Doo Wop, Country and Rockabilly (Part 1)
Elvis Presley was an American singer and actor. Regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century, he is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply the "King". Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, and relocated to Memphis,...