The Festival of British Popular Songs 1956 was a song contest organised by BBC Television and the inaugural edition of the Festival of British Popular Songs...
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1956, as the BBC had created their own contest, the Festival of British Popular Songs, aspects of which influenced the 1957 contest. The Festival of British...
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send an entry for this event in favour of organising their own contest, the Festival of British Popular Songs. Two of the performers, Switzerland's Lys Assia...
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to as British culture; Northern Ireland, though not geographically part of Great Britain, may still be considered as having a place within British culture...
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The Ian Campbell Folk Group were one of the most popular and respected folk groups of the British folk revival of the 1960s. The group made many appearances...
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Best Original Song for "Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)", sung by Day. It premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on April 29, 1956. An American...
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Cultural Politics of Jazz in Britain, chapter one "New Orleans jazz, protest (Aldermaston) and carnival (Beaulieu [Jazz Festival 1956–60])". Durham NC:...
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the Royal Festival Hall, in London. 31 December – Flanders and Swann launch their two-man revue At the Drop of a Hat. See UK No.1 Hits of 1956 Arthur Bliss...
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Discography Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. Songs for Swingin' Lovers! at AllMusic Larkin, Colin (2006). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University...
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Sanremo Music Festival (Italian: Festival di Sanremo [ˈfɛstival di sanˈrɛːmo, festiˈval -]), officially the Italian Song Festival (Italian: Festival della canzone...
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English folk music (redirect from English folk songs)
include industrial work songs. Awareness that older kinds of song were being abandoned prompted renewed interest in collecting folk songs during the 1830s and...
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Lonnie Donegan (redirect from King of Skiffle)
Lonnie Donegan, was a British skiffle singer, songwriter and musician, referred to as the "King of Skiffle", who influenced 1960s British pop and rock musicians...
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were restarted after the war and the Todd Family Wall of Death was featured at the Festival of Britain in 1951, with Frank Senior, George, Jack, Bob and Frank...
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festivals. Shanties had antecedents in the working chants of British and other national maritime traditions. They were notably influenced by songs of...
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version is the July 1956 recording by Elvis Presley, which ranked number 19 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2004, but...
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"BAFTA Awards: Film in 1956". BAFTA. 1956. Retrieved 16 September 2016. "Official Selection 1955: All the Selection". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from...
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Peggy Seeger (redirect from Period Pieces: Women's Songs for Men and Women)
satirical songs in a mixture of theatre, comedy and song, which eventually created a series of annual productions called "The Festival of Fools" (named...
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of Indian culture, and films weave them in to tell the story. Songs are used to express emotions that spoken dialogue might struggle to convey. Songs...
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Cultural views on the midriff and navel (redirect from Navel in popular culture)
Egyptian literature. Song of Songs 7:2 states: "Your navel is a rounded bowl." The verse preceding the line mentioning the navel (Song of Songs 7:1) states, "your...
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Drunken Sailor (category 19th-century songs)
Sailor" was revived as a popular song among non-sailors in the 20th century and grew to become one of the best-known songs of the shanty repertoire among...
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Sudhir Phadke (category Recipients of the Rashtrapati Award)
icon of the Marathi film industry and Marathi Sugam Sangeet with a legacy spanning five decades. Apart from Marathi, Phadke sang and composed songs in several...
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Stewart Granger (category British Army personnel of World War II)
star in Britain (3rd most popular British star) 1947 – 5th most popular British star in Britain 1948 – 5th most popular British star in Britain. 1949 –...
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Dr. Rajkumar filmography (redirect from Filmography of rajkumar)
Koogadali for the film which became widely popular during the time and is considered one of his best songs. Rajkumar has been credited for having sung...
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Flanders and Swann (redirect from A Transport of Delight)
performed their songs, interspersed with comic monologues, in their long-running two-man revues At the Drop of a Hat (1956-1959) and At the Drop of Another Hat...
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Kenneth More (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
1954 – 5th most popular British star 1955 – 5th most popular British star 1956 – most popular international star 1957 – 2nd most popular international star...
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Australian-born British singer and actor (born 1872) 5 August – Joseph Holbrooke, composer (born 1878) 26 August – Ralph Vaughan Williams, British composer (born...
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Matt Monro (category Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 1964)
released in November 1956, was "Ev'rybody Falls in Love with Someone", a song which had just won the BBC Festival of Popular Songs. Monro gained some radio...
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Raj Kapoor (redirect from The greatest showman of Indian cinema)
His film Jagte Raho (1956) also won the Crystal Globe award at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The Government of India honoured him with...
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Manna Dey (redirect from List of songs recorded by Manna Dey)
sang eighty-three Hindi songs in three years from 1953 to 1955 and his demand increased such that he sang 45 songs in the year 1956. His career reached in...
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special effects are described and pictured in a 1956 Popular Mechanics article. The scenes of the crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by steamship took place off...
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