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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...