Word: popularizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Uncle Elvis uses his remarkable inflection to convey his unusual vocal combination of power and tenderness, and in doing so partakes of the best elements in popular, blues, and country music. Art perhaps best being described as the depiction of motion, Elvis is indeed the finest artist in the field today...
...going too far to say that the purpose of music is little more than sexual sublimation, but this is certainly an important element in its value to the participant. The recent advent of the popularity of the "Big Beat," Rock and Roll, is only to be commended; both the music and the listeners are becoming more honest. Since the first big rhythm and blues hit, "Sh-Boom, Sh-Boom," in the summer of 1954, popular music has become increasingly interesting...
...following spring saw the ascendancy of Bill Haley and his Comets with their very big "Rock Around the Clock," a song which caused major riots from Boise to Berlin. However the Comets, like most of those achieving popular music stardom, turned out to be somewhat of a flash in the pan, and yielded to such people as Fats Domino and Elvis Presley...
Presley is certainly the most interesting performer in the field today. He has become popular more quickly than any other singer in recording history, last year selling thirteen million records. The growing sideburn cult and the wearing of "I Love Elvis" skirts are further indications of his adoption as an idol by the American adolescent sub-culture. The nature of the songs he records, mainly concerning romantic love, but often lack of romantic success, is an important factor contributing to his popularity, as is his emergence from the especially other-directed youth culture. The average teen-ager can vicariously share...
...best popular song around, though, is Mickey and Sylvia's "Love is Strange" with intriguing lyrics and an exceptionally frantic instrumental background of electric guitar notes effectively capture the spirit of the age. Songs with more --- lyrics are Hadda Brook's "Old Man River" and Bob Cort's "It takes a Worried Man to Sing a Worried Blues...