Is there a music genre less respected than novelty music? Well, disco, but we weep not for the dead. The novelty song, which for our purposes here is defined as "a comical or nonsensical song," is ...

In the late 1950s and through the mid-1960s there was a flurry of corny songs, many with nonsense word refrains.

In the ’80s and ’90s, nothing was a bigger cultural tastemaker than MTV. Long before it became the home to endless reality shows, it played nothing but music videos 24 hours a day. If you wanted to ...

Richard Perry, a prominent record producer who helped craft dozens of hits with a polished pop sound throughout the 1970s and ’80s, such as Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain,” died Tuesday in Los Angeles.

Today, Jones is hailed by fans and critics alike as the greatest singer in the history of country music. As a result, it would be easy to believe that he sent stacks of singles and albums to the top ...