Mass-marketed music for the X-Factor generation promoting attractive, clean-living male singers to teenagers looking for romance from their pop idols is not actually a new thing.
Get in the holiday spirit with this classic Christmas playlist featuring Stevie Wonder, Frank Sinatra, James Brown, Peggy Lee & many more.
The 'Show Boat' tune became one of the master organist's dozen appearances on the Hot 100.
From gravelly-voiced icons such as Louis Armstrong, to super-smooth singers the likes of Frank Sinatra, these are the 25 best male jazz singers of all time.
Jazz played in a concert hall or a club is, for many, the pinnacle of the art form. Here are the 50 best live jazz albums of all time.
In September 1963, Rick revived Glenn Miller's World War II hit 'Fools Rush In' for his next successful 45.
'Ella Fitzgerald: Just One Of Those Things' and 'Count Basie: Through His Own Eyes' will be issued by Eagle Vision.
Sinatra’s Concert For The Americas performance was filmed for a TV special, confirming The Chairman as the master of spectacular, must-see events.
One of the world’s pre-eminent songwriters, Jimmy Webb can be said to have spearheaded an Americana equivalent of The Great American Songbook.
Signed by Frank Sinatra to Reprise, Lopez is forever associated with his hit version of Pete Seeger's 'If I Had A Hammer.'
The incredible life and times of the great American singer and guitarist, as remembered by the man himself.
On July 27, 1940, a 24-year-old Frank Sinatra created a chart first in the US, in a career that would go on to be full of them.
The histories of the most iconic recording studios – Sun, Motown, Abbey Road – have made them almost as famous as the musicians who have recorded there.
Johnny Hodges was a brilliant saxophonist who graced many of Duke Ellington's recordings.
There has been no shortage of songs about the Moon, from romantic ballads to conspiracy theory-fuelled considerations and zeitgeist-capturing hits.
