In 1950s Las Vegas, Louis Prima and Keely Smith were king and queen of the nightclub act, drawing Jack Kennedy, Howard Hughes, and the Sinatra Rat Pack. Prima had already captured 1930s New York, cut a swath through Hollywood, and ridden the Big Band wave when Smith became his fourth wife and the ideal stage foil for his flagrant sensuality. As their hits—"Jump, Jive, an' Wail" and "Just a Gigolo"—return to vogue, DAVID KAMP has the saga of a couple who found the beat, but lost the rhythm.

It became known, and ultimately reviled, as Disco. But the music that surged out of gay underground New York clubs such as the Loft and 12 West in the early 70s was the sound of those who wanted to dance, dance, dance—blotting out everything but their bodies and the beat. LISA ROBINSON hears from Donna Summer, Ian Schrager, Gloria Gaynor, and others who helped create the strobe-lit, sex-driven, amyl-nitrite-fueled scene, the phenomena of Studio 54 and Saturday Night Fever, and the songs that reverberated into a new millennium

After half a century, and several shelves of books about the revolutionary music label. Motown’s story is still obscured by rumors and misconceptions. Founder Berry Gordy Jr. joins a groundbreaking chorus— Smokey Robinson, Martha Reeves, Lionel Richie. Stevie Wonder, Suzanne de Passe, and other legends—to give LISA ROBINSON an oral history of the Detroit hitmaking machine, the cultural and racial breakthroughs it inspired, and life at “Hitsville," as well as a true account of Gordy’s relationship with Diana Ross and the rise of the Supremes