by Bwana | Jan 29, 2019 | Uncategorized
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...
by Bwana | Jan 29, 2019 | Uncategorized
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...
by Bwana | Jan 29, 2019 | Uncategorized
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...
by Bwana | Jan 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
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...
by Bwana | Dec 8, 2018 | Radio Show
by Bwana | Nov 30, 2018 | Country, Doowop, Pop, Rockabilly
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...
by Bwana | Nov 30, 2018 | Country, Doowop, Pop, Rockabilly
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...
by Bwana | Nov 30, 2018 | Doowop, Pop, Rockabilly
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,...
by Bwana | Nov 30, 2018 | Rockabilly
Roy Orbison was an American singer, songwriter, and musician known for his powerful voice, wide vocal range, impassioned singing style, complex song structures, and dark, emotional ballads. The combination led many critics to describe his music as operatic,...
by Bwana | Nov 29, 2018 | Radio Show
