It was the era of the Big Swing Bands and Pop music... Remember the jukebox filled with all of the hit records from Bob Horn's Bandstand? Now you can hear all this great music! Just click the jukebox to listen and without putting a nickel in!
Harvey Sheldon keeps our special memories alive for a celebration of the timeless American songbook and the hits of the 1950's as played on Bob Horn's Bandstand. It was while on Bandstand that Harvey Sheldon - co-creator of the " Bunny Hop " - had the concept of having kids dance to the current hit records. Our most poignant 1950's memories are here for your entertainment.
Listen and dance to the pop music of; The Four Lads, Frank Sinatra, The Four Aces, Eddie Fisher, Jo Stafford, Rosemary Clooney, Nat King Cole,Judy Garland, Al Martino, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. & Perry Como. Dance to the Mambo and Cha Cha Cha of Perez Prado and the big swing bands of Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller and more!
Philly was a major influence in the Golden Age of Music. In the 1940's 50's and the early years of rock and roll, a number of South Philadelphia-born popular vocalists made Philadelphia and popular music virtually synonymous, including Eddie Fisher, Lillian Roth, Kitty Kallen, Al Martino, Mario Lanza, Jeanette MacDonald, The Four Aces, of Pop music and to rock artists of Chubby Checker, Frankie Avalon, Gogi Grant and Bobby Rydell.
The number of talented artists that hailed from in and around Philly through those early years is staggering.
The list includes Buddy Greco, Buddy Defranco, Nelson Eddy, Jeanette MacDonald, Gerry Mulligan, Stan Getz, Red Rodney, Pearl Bailey, Bill Haley,
The Four Aces, Eddie Fisher, Charlie Ventura, Lillian Roth, Frankie Avalon, Chubby Checker, Gloria Mann, Kitty Kallen, Mario Lanza, Bobby Rydell, Leroy Lovett, Ethel Waters, Solomon Burke, Dinah Washington, the Nicholas Brothers, Dick Lee, Georgie Shaw, Danny & The Juniors, Irving Berlin, Len Barry, Elliot Lawrence, Gogi Grant, Bob Manning, Sandy Stewart, Jimmy Darren, Jim Croce, Cinderalla, Joan Jett, Patti La Belle, John Coltrane, Todd Rundgran, The Music of the Mambo and the Cha Cha Cha dance craze of Philly, and Lee Morgan.