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Marilyn Monroe performs the musical number, “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend,&rdqu

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Elvis Presley, 1959

Johnny Cash & Elvis Presley, 1956

tcm: Mad About Musicals: An American In Paris (’51) By Anthony Miglieri In THAT’S ENT

Pauline Oliveros. Electronic music pioneer since the 1950s, although her main instrument is an accor

20/04/17 - Another poster pastiching an old magazine ad, this time a 1950s one.  The (horribly

Teens selecting music on a jukebox (1950s)

Debbie Reynolds, Gene Kelly / publicity still for Singin’ in the Rain (1952), directed by

timwhitaker: Hear all on Mighty Radio. Chess Records, originally a 1950s and 60s pillar in the recor

Cyd Charisse and Gene Kelly in Singin’ in the Rain directed by Stanley Donen and Gene Kell

Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel / production still from George Sidney’s Kiss Me Kate (1953)

Cyd Charisse / publicity still for Roy Rowland’s Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956)

kelagon: malformalady: Before the availability of the tape recorder and during the 1950s, when vinyl

Timmy Everett, Susan Luckey / photo from the national touring company production of The Music Man, 1

twixnmix: Sallie Blair (1934–1992) was an African-American jazz singer from Baltimore. She be

Pages from Paul McCartney’s notebook (c. 1950s)Practicing his signature? 

iowacitypast: Musician on stage at the Iowa Memorial Union, The University of Iowa, 1950sCreator: Ke

A girl dances to shamisen music as classmates watch, Takarazuka, Japan, 1950sPh. J. Baylor Roberts

A girl dances to shamisen music as classmates watch, Takarazuka, Japan, 1950sPh. J. Baylor Roberts

Billy House - photos from 1940s & 1950sPhoto #1 from the musical, romance film, Thrill of a

Photograph by Isamu Noguchi of street musicians in Kathamndu, Nepal, ca. mid- 1950sThe Noguchi Museu

1950sunlimited: Junior College students dancing to music from a portable radio, 1947  Balboa Beach,

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