Soft Rock and Easy Listening

Soft Rock and Easy Listening

Soft Rock is a form of pop rock that originated in the late 1960s in the U.S. region of Southern California and in the United Kingdom. The style smoothed over the edges of singer-songwriter and pop rock, relying on simple, melodic songs with big, lush productions....
The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers were an American country-influenced rock and roll duo, known for steel-string acoustic guitar playing and close harmony singing. Featured Don and Phil Everly. When the brothers were still in high school, they gained the attention of prominent...
The Wrecking Crew

The Wrecking Crew

The Wrecking Crew were a collective of session musicians based in Los Angeles whose services were employed for thousands of studio recordings in the 1960s and 1970s, including several hundred Top 40 hits. The musicians were not publicly recognized in their era, but...
Columbia Records

Columbia Records

Columbia Records, is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony. It was founded in 1887, evolving from the American Graphophone Company, the...