The shift from the single to the album in the 1950s and 1960s represented a shift from music for dancing to music for listening. As a res...

Earlier this month I posted a blog entry on Continuum’s 33 & 1/3 series of books examining classic albums of the rock era. A couple of ...

After two weeks at #1, Marty Robbins’ “El Paso” (see my entry for January 4) was displaced at the top of the pops by Johnny Preston’s “Runni...