Just before the end of the 40s, young white listeners became interested in the new R&B black music. It seems that the slow tempo of the bubblegum style was for adult people, those who had become tired after the long war. But the young generation wanted something else, something fresh and bubbling. It was not simple, in those distant days, to find this kind of music. There were special radio station for black audience, and special record shops for race records, which white people would never enter. Just imagine the angry parents who find their child listening to that 'unfitting'…

Please forgive me for not using the new term Afro-American. I think that black people have better qualities than white people (music, sports), and that they should have been proud of being black.

The story of the relations between the white majority and the black minority in the USA, starts with the first slave ship in 1619. Until the end of the 19th century, each culture developed its own music. The white music originated from European classical music and folk songs, and the sources of the black music came from Africa. The first occasion of confluence is the Ragtime…

Many terms of the modern music are not defined well. For example, the term genre has many meanings. Many questions have no answers: Is oldies a genre? Maybe 50s? Would rock and roll be better? And rockabilly, is it another genre?

From these examples, one thing is clear – the term genre has no strict definition. There was a time when I tried to find categories for mood. I search the Internet, and found that university professors in Eastern Asia and Canada researching the subject, and cannot agree among themselves. MediaMonkey creators adopted four categories, which are…

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In 1957 there was a shift change. The old shift, the artists from the beginning of the decade, left the charts, and the new generation, young artists like Fats Domino (started 1955), Pat Boone (1955) and those mentioned before, took over. A new style, the calypso, like Banana Boat (Day-O), topped the charts, but not for long.

Another change was more important. The Brill Building, an overall name for a group of young creators, rushed in. the rush started with a…

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1953 was still a year of bubble-gum. Here is a beautiful song, Doggie In The Window, that I like very much. However, the winds of change already blow, and the mambo/cha-cha-cha are here. Istanbul (Not Constantinople) is a strange oriental mambo, which gained a great success.

1954 is the year of the changes. In January, a new style enters the charts, the Doo-Wop, with Earth Angel. Later, in July, the song Rock Around The Clock appeared on…

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There is no landmark that says: Here starts the music of the 50s. The music of the first years of the decade is something sweet and sticky, or in short, bubble gum music. The best example is the song that was at the top charts on the first week of 1950: I Can Dream, Can't I . Not all of the songs were melancholy. Some were merrier, jazz like, as: If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd Have Baked A Cake.

1951…