Growing up, family parties would wind down around our favorite special occasion appliance. My father clumsily ran cables from the karaoke machine into our television, transforming the living room into ...

This little R&B rock and roll tune from The Crystals dropped in April 1963 and was a fast hit for the band. Co-written by the famed Phil Spector, this song was composed in only two days. That’s ...

Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, recently issued Bob Dylan’s Bootleg ...

During the golden age of '60s girl groups the Ronettes and their unforgettable songs made a major impression. The soaring vocals and lush production (by the infamous Phil Spector) on their most famous ...

While the 1970s get a lot of the praise and adoration when it comes to classic rock, the decade wouldn’t be anything without the 1960s. That’s when rock music really began to take shape. Where would ...

The Beatles were prolific in the eight years that Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon and George Harrison were together as a band. Between 1962 and 1970, they released 12 studio albums in the UK ...

In November of 1963, John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. In February of 1964, the Beatles arrived in America, performing to millions on The Ed Sullivan Show. In between those two momentous ...