Joni James, a popular singer in the 1950s who scored several pre-rock hits including “Why Don’t You Believe Me?” and “How Important Can It Be?” and continued to chart throughout the decade, has died.

The 1950s brought a warmth to American living rooms that no television screen could match. Families gathered around their radios, the glow of the dial matched by the glow of unforgettable voices. From ...

Eddie Fisher, one of the most popular singers of the 1950s who made headlines with marriages to - and divorces from - some of the most famous Hollywood actresses of that era, has died. He was 82.

Teresa Brewer, a singer who found fame as a novelty vocalist in 1950 with the chart-topping “Music! Music! Music!” but reinvented herself as a jazz stylist who performed with some of the genre’s ...

Patti Page, the honey-voiced alto whose hits such as “Tennessee Waltz,” “Old Cape Cod” and “How Much Is That Doggie in the Window?” made her one of the most successful pop singers of the 1950s, died ...