And music was beginning to sound different.
Fourteen songs cannot possibly tell the entire story of that extraordinary year.
But together, they offer a window into a period when an older musical tradition was meeting something new—and when a generation was beginning to find its own sound.
The people who heard those songs for the first time could not have known exactly what was coming.
They simply turned up the radio, dropped a coin into a jukebox, placed a record on the turntable, and listened.
What they heard would become the soundtrack of a changing America.
And more than seventy years later, those sounds are still with us.
