50 Years Ago: Beatles Invasion!
What made the Beatles so popular among young people, and so misunderstood by adults?
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Tag Archives: Music
The Blessing of Music
Watch this joyful community as they pour into church, grab scores of Handel’s Messiah, and celebrate the blessing of music.
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Beatlemania: No Passing Fad
The Beatles were more than just a passing phase, and the The Saturday Evening Post staff was hot on the trail.
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Play it Again, Saw Lady
Hear “Saw Lady” Natalia Paruz play in this video.
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Classic Covers: Alan Foster
When we came across this 1923 painting of these youngsters singing their hearts out, we had to learn more about artist, Alan Foster.
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From Our Archives: I Call On Perry Como
From 1960, Pete Martin’s intimate portrait of the fabulous singing barber who parlayed an amiable, easygoing manner into a successful TV show.
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Why Perry Como Matters
Zac Bissonnette reexamines one of the most underrated singers of the Great American Songbook on his 100th birthday.
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All first-class music dealers keep them.
This advertisement from an 1899 issue of the Post features Washburn Guitars. After finding it, I wanted to learn in what year Washburns went out of business. This is what I found: http://www.washburn.com/. Still producing guitars and banjos, 113 years later.
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Cartoons: Musical Interlude
From radio to stage to family rooms, our cartoonists have memorable musical performances for you.
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The Rock Revolution in the Dick Clark Days
When Dick Clark told the Post, “I don’t think some people’s attitudes about rock ‘n’ roll can stop a way of life,” he was including the record labels that ignored the new music—until it was too late.
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Dick Clark: Rock’s Clean-Cut Champion
“l am always puzzled why anybody should dislike me because I am associated with young people, and because I defend teenagers’ musical likes and dislikes.” Dick Clark, November 1929 – April 2012
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Classic Covers: Music Critics
Even the bust of Beethoven is cringing. And he was deaf! Favorite Post covers show us that music is in the ear of the beholder.
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Classic Covers: Music of the Sixties
Do you remember the sixties? We do!
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Young Sousa And The Musician Shortage
John Philip Sousa rose to national prominence thanks to talent, support, ambition… and an era of incredible opportunity for musicians.
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The Rise, Fall, and Rise of the Recording Industry
America’s tinkerers and entrepreneurs took a business machine and turned it into a billion-dollar entertainment industry.
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1969: The Post Listens To “The Soul Sound”
“The biggest thing in pop music today is a blend of folk, rock, and church music known as soul. It’s spiritual home is Memphis, back where the blues really began.”
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Sexy, Simply, Sad: How Mitch Miller Defined Pop Music in the 1950s
1956: “Mitch ‘The Beard’ Miller produces more hit records than any other man in the business.” The Post explained the secret of his success.
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