With a big band orchestra, singers and swing dancers, IN THE MOOD, is the retro 1940's musical that brings to the stage the music that moved a nation's spirit and helped win a war. More than a concert ...

Somehow, the 1940s are almost a century away. The decade, which saw the world go to war for a second time and the fall of the German Nazis, was also an exhilarating time for music. In some ways, it ...

You've heard it said that "Before Elvis there was nothing", but Elvis himself would be the first to say rock and roll was on ...

One of the cast members in Port Tobacco Players' new show is a real dog. The La Plata theater's energetic production of "The 1940s Radio Hour" includes a cast of high-volume singers and an ...

For more than two decades, the In The Mood music revue has traveled around the country recreating a magical period in popular American music. The swing music and big band sounds of the 1940s helped ...

The Lake Havasu City Library will host a range of free programs this November for all ages, from swing music to science crafts.

Frank Sinatra poses with an NBC microphone for a portrait to publicize one of his many 1940s radio programs. On July 27, 1940, Billboard magazine published its first “music popularity chart” listing ...

I was looking through my music collection and I realized that I really don't have very much music from the 1940s and early 50s (i.e. pre-Elvis, pre-Rock Around the Clock). Here's some stuff that I ...

NMAH copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Stemming from the tradition of rallying troops and frightening enemies, mounted bands played a unique and distinctive role in ...

His memorable concert Friday at the University of Chicago was joined by the “Galactic Friends,” as Fortner calls this septet, ...