The song is on Anderson’s Bill Anderson Sings Country Heart Songs, and became his first single to land at the top of the charts. “Mama Sang A Song” spent a total of six non-consecutive weeks in the No ...

What’s being described as the master tapes of the Beatles performing live in Hamburg, Germany, in 1962 not long before Beatlemania exploded worldwide is going to auction April 1 and is being offered ...

Filming The Music Man became a family affair for Shirley Jones, who was secretly pregnant with her second son, Patrick. “Robert Preston and my mom are on that footbridge singing,” recalls Shirley’s ...

Presenting the opera "The Coronation of Poppea," Monteverdi's 1643 masterpiece about sex and power in imperial Rome, is a very different sort of undertaking from staging something by Mozart or Verdi.

From 1962 to ’66, Bob Dylan reigned as one of the most influential figures in popular music. He released such landmark albums as “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan” and “Highway 61 Revisited,” in between ...

Scott Siegel's nostalgic "Broadway by the Year" series winds up the season by turning back the pages to 1962, a year that celebrated the birth of free Shakespeare in the park. Folk music was topping ...

Imagine a world before YouTube effects pedal demos? It's hard, we know. Gibson Electonic's 1962 showcase for the FZ-1 fuzz, and arguably the world's first pedal, came on a vinyl record and showed off ...

Over the course of the next few weeks, Backbeat will be counting down the twenty most fabled moments in Denver music history. Today, a look back at when a Ray Charles concert at Red Rocks in 1962 ...