1958 Blog Posts

     With rock music approaching 60 years and going through several generations, it's always a joy to not only discover new music, but to find songs that I thought had been original to an artist, just to find out it wasn't at all.

    Connie Francis looked down at the letter in her hand. It was an acceptance letter from New York University offering her a four year scholarship. She ready to turn her back on what was thought at one time to have been a promising si...

     I guess it was a carry-over from my parents who were a bit older than my peers' (Dad was 43, Mom 39 when I was born), but the music that floated around my house was more the music of the late40's, early/middle 50's than rock...

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A Walk in the Zoo Állatkerti séta - anno... More Photos / Több fotó...

Children's Carnival 1958 or 1959 Dečiji karneval 1958 ili 1959.godine...

Court Of Justice 1958 Zgrada suda 1958.godine...

Fifty four years ago I entered this world. 1958 was an interesting year for more than my birth. I thought I’d share some of those events with you. Oh and I share this day with another blogger…JOn KEnna…check out his … Continue...

Fifty four years ago I entered this world. 1958 was an interesting year for more than my birth. I thought I’d share some of those events with you. Oh and I share this day with another blogger…JOn KEnna…check out his … Continue...

     Remember having the 45 of this when it came out in 1972 by Michael Jackson. It reached number 2 that year, but at the time I had no idea that it was a cover....      Bobby Day had some minor success with T...

      Danny Rapp, Frank Maffei, Joe Terranova, and Dave White  had been singing together since their teen years in Philadelphia in the early 50's. They did the usual high school dances (under the name Juvenairs) and such...

     The Crests were formed in 1955 by J.T. Carter and included Talmadge Gough, Harold Torres, and Patricia Van Dross (the older sister of singer Luther Vandross). The next year, when vocalist Johnny Mastrangelo (later known as Jo...

Chain Bridge 1958 A jeges Duna, Lánchíd 1958... (Foto: Fortepan)...

     When we think of the pillars of rock and roll, Eddie Cochran doesn't immediately come to mind, but the timing of his career, his rebel attitude, and his tragic, early death, had a profound influence on the early days of what...

10 KURUS 4.0000 g., Bronze, 21.3 mm. Obv: Star and crescent Rev: Oat stalks divide date and value...

On Wednesday 4th December 1957 the Busby Babes came up against Dukla Prague in an away fixture in the European Cup in which they lost but went into the next round on aggregate. A few delays in the team return … Continue reading →...