Thursday, February 23, 2017

The Most Successful Songwriters in Rock History

Neatorama: Popular music in the early 1950s was all about cardigan sweaters and sanitized tunes. But then a pair of upstart songwriters taught teenagers how to let down their hair. Here's how two Jewish kids from the East Coast brought black music to white America.

2 comments:

Jeff Meyerson said...

I knew that.

SMOKEY JOE'S CAFE did a great job with their music. We've seen it 4 or 5 times.

Karin said...

Heard of them. Didn't know quite how prolific and influential they were.