The early 1960s teetered between tradition and transformation — sock hops and rotary phones on one side, space missions and civil rights movements on the other. Black-and-white TVs buzzed with Kennedy ...

But the Countrypolitan sound was starting to develop a decade earlier by the early ’60s with more produced, pop-leaning songs from Nelson-penned Patsy Cline hit “Crazy” and Conway Twitty’s transition ...

Repeat something enough times, with enough confidence, and before long it’s bound to be taken as fact. Take, for example, the widely held notion that the Pontiac GTO was the original muscle car. There ...