The owner of Sun Records, Sam Phillips,had been looking for a white performer who could sing black rhythm and blues.

VOA: special.2010.04.04

And at the conclusion of the reading the bell is tolled at midnight and we then sing "Joy to the World."

VOA: special.2009.12.21

Ira Gershwin reportedly said: "I never knew how good our songs were until I heard Ella Fitzgerald sing them.

VOA: special.2010.07.04

These artists fear that they will get in trouble with the government if they sing about political issues.

VOA: special.2009.11.25

He loved it when the church's religious leader would sing this music and drop to his knees with emotional shouts and screams.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

This recording shows how she continued to sing "Mack the Knife" when she did not remember the words.

VOA: special.2010.07.04

She decided to find three MCs in her neighborhood in Englewood,New Jersey, and have them sing together.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

When he heard Woody sing, Lomax knew he had found a true singer of American folk music.

VOA: special.2010.06.20

Future generations may sing about the "hero on the Hudson" - the pilot who saved his passengers when he crash-landed on a river.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

More than any other union, they used music in their campaigns, urging members to "sing and fight."

VOA: special.2009.09.07

Two other traditions for welcoming the New Year are a midnight kiss and an attempt to sing a song that almost no one knows.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

They may sing the songs in the country and western style the way Hank wrote them.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

Marian Anderson did sing. And 75,000 voices - black and white - joined with hers.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

The fathers,played by William Larsen and Hugh Thomas, sing about this in "Never Say No."

VOA: special.2010.05.24