On this very day in 1952, Kitty Wells changed country music history by becoming the first female solo artist to top the charts.

The Children's Hour (by Lillian Hellman) is still, after 18 years, vivid and powerful. Into her tale of a child's fiendish lie that shatters tbe lives of two young schoolmistresses, ...

Across the U.S. last week, air waves, nurseries and barrooms echoed with a song called / Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus. To a tune that is basically old reliable corn syrup, with occasional chorus ...

(Originally published by the Daily News on March 28, 1952. This story was written by Wanda Hale.) Gene Kelly’s “Singin’ in the Rain,” together with the Radio Music Hall&#821… ...

The story of that triumph is told eloquently in the magnificent box set Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (1952-1959).

The great music is reason enough reason to get this, but anyone with the barest interest in the development of blues and how it was co-opted by white pop needs Documenting The Sensation Recordings ...