Editing Traditional pop (section)

==Advent of rock and roll==
With the growing popularity of [[rock and roll]] in the 1950s, much of what [[baby boomers]] considered to be their parents' music, traditional pop, was pushed aside.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/02/magazine/the-song-is-ended.html|title=The Song Is Ended|last=Green|first=Jesse|work=The New York Times Magazine|date=June 2, 1996}}</ref> Popular music sung by such performers as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee and their contemporaries was relegated in the 1960s and 1970s to television, where they remained very popular, and to Las Vegas club acts and elevator music. Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra continued to have many hit singles and albums until the late 1960s, however. [[Nashville sound|Nashville country music]] borrowed heavily from traditional pop sounds in the late 1950s as [[Music Row]] sought to limit the growing influence of rock and roll on the genre;<ref name=Dawidoff>{{cite book |last=Dawidoff |first= Nicholas|date= 1997|title=In the Country of Country |location=Great Britain |publisher=Faber and Faber |pages= 48–50|isbn=0-571-19174-6}}</ref> it remained popular until both the [[British Invasion]], the deaths of two of Nashville's biggest country stars ([[Patsy Cline]] and [[Jim Reeves]]) in separate airplane crashes, and the growing influence of [[Bakersfield sound|West Coast country music]] pushed it aside beginning in 1964.

In 1983, [[Linda Ronstadt]], a popular female vocalist of the rock era,<ref name="Rocks Venus">{{cite web | title=Rolling Stone | work=Rock's Venus| url=http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/intrs78.htm | access-date=May 4, 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070808092455/http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/intrs78.htm <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = August 8, 2007}}</ref><ref name="The Daily News">{{cite web | work=The Daily News | title=Work's out fine, best female voice in rock and roll| url=http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/c821114.htm | access-date=May 4, 2007}}</ref> elected to change direction.<ref name="lindaronstadt">{{cite magazine | magazine=Time | title=The Linda Ronstadt Interview | url=http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/arttm83.htm | access-date=April 9, 2007}}</ref> She collaborated with legendary arranger-conductor [[Nelson Riddle]] and released a successful album of standards from the 1940s and 1950s, ''[[What's New (Linda Ronstadt album)|What's New]]''. It reached No. 3 on the [[Billboard charts|''Billboard'' pop chart]], won a [[Grammy Awards|Grammy]], and inspired Ronstadt to team up with Riddle for two more albums: 1984's ''Lush Life'' and 1986's ''For Sentimental Reasons''.<ref name="gamblepaysoff">{{cite web | title=Family Week | work=Linda Ronstadt: The Gamble Pays off Big | url=http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/artfam84.htm | access-date=April 9, 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061022112831/http://www.ronstadt-linda.com/artfam84.htm <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = October 22, 2006}}</ref> The gamble paid off, as all three albums became hits, the international concert tours were a success and Riddle picked up a few more Grammys in the process. Ronstadt's determination to produce these albums exposed a new generation to the sounds of the pre-[[swing music|swing]] and swing eras.<ref name="lindaronstadtwithnelson">{{cite web | title=Jerry Jazz Musician | work=The Peter Levinson Interview| date=19 April 2002| url=http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/mainHTML.cfm?page=levinson.html | access-date=May 4, 2007}}</ref>

Since then, other rock/pop stars have occasionally found success recording traditional pop music. Notable albums include [[Rod Stewart]]'s ''[[It Had to Be You: The Great American Songbook]]'', [[Willie Nelson]]'s ''[[Stardust (Willie Nelson album)|Stardust]]'', [[Chaka Khan]]'s ''[[Echoes of an Era]]'' and [[Carly Simon]]'s ''[[Torch (Carly Simon album)|Torch]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/torch-mw0000193526|title=Torch - Carly Simon &#124; Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=October 27, 2019}}</ref>