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...

the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), selected its entry through a national final, the second edition of Festival of British Popular Songs and,...

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...

variety shows of today, music hall involved a mixture of popular songs, comedy, speciality acts and variety entertainment. Music hall songs include "I'm...

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...

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...

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...

Discography Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. Songs for Swingin' Lovers! at AllMusic Larkin, Colin (2006). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University...

November 2002) was a British skiffle singer, songwriter and musician, referred to as the "King of Skiffle", who influenced 1960s British pop and rock musicians...

include industrial work songs. Awareness that older kinds of song were being abandoned prompted renewed interest in collecting folk songs during the 1830s and...

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...

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 –...

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...

Sanremo Music Festival (Italian: Festival di Sanremo [ˈfɛstival di sanˈrɛːmo, festiˈval -]), officially the Italian Song Festival (Italian: Festival della canzone...

Cultural Politics of Jazz in Britain, chapter one "New Orleans jazz, protest (Aldermaston) and carnival (Beaulieu [Jazz Festival 1956–60])". Durham NC:...

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...

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...

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...

Appalachian variants of centuries old British and Irish songs, including dozens of Child Ballads. In adulthood, she shared these songs with wide audiences...

satirical songs in a mixture of theatre, comedy and song, which eventually created a series of annual productions called "The Festival of Fools" (named...

2023) was a Kenyan-born British singer-songwriter and musician. His music is an eclectic mix of folk music and popular songs, the latter variously in...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Cheung Kwok-wing (12 September 1956 – 1 April 2003), born Cheung Fat-chung, was a Hong Kong singer and actor. One of the most influential cultural icons...

craze of the era. In this period Lime Street was established as her favoured haunt. A. L. Lloyd recorded it in 1956 on the album English Drinking Songs, describing...

has a rich tradition of folk songs, with lyrics rooted in vibrant tradition spirituality, mysticism, devotion. Such folk songs revolve around other themes...