Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Religious and psychological thought are also to be found in modern song...
...would be unfair, however, to claim that popular songs are limited to American problems, rather than the universals. The love odes of modern song often recall Shelley at his most exuberant...
...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...
...current Elvis hit is "Too Much," which in the three weeks since it has been recorded has moved into second place across the country and is threatening the very good number one song "Young Love." Both recordings of this, one by the Southern Gentleman Sonny James and the other by Tab Hunter (his first record), have sold about two million copies...
These two have pushed the calypso hits, Terry Gilkyson's "Marianne" and the Tarrier's and Belafonte's "Banaha Boat Song" from the top rungs. The "respectable" disk jockies hope that calypso will end the rock and roll craze. Since calypso includes the "Big Beat," it will certainly be much more successful than the previous white hope--fife and drum music as exemplified by the "Yellow Rose of Texas." Rock and roll, however, is here to stay...