Hi there, this is Jeff Edgers. 50 years ago, the Rolling Stones headlined a free concert that

ended in chaos, violence, and death. It was called Altamont. I spent the last eight months reporting on it

to try to understand what it meant and why everything went so wrong. I talked to everybody I could,

from Keith Richards to the guy who built the three-foot stage.

You can listen to the story now on the All-told podcast.

Get it at Washington Post.com slash podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts.

Hey, history lovers.

I'm Mike Rosenwald with RetroPod, a show about the past, rediscovered.

In 1955, Ethel Ennis released her first album.

It was called Lullabies for Losers.

The album put the Baltimore jazz singer on the fast track to fame.

Ennis' husband told the Baltimore son that none other than jazz legend, Billy Holiday, called her to tell her she was the real deal and would be famous.

Ennis' silky, soulful voice won her record contracts and European concert tours.

She performed with big names like Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis.

But Ennis never became a megastar.

She turned down a life of international celebrity,

all because she couldn't bear to leave home, to leave Baltimore.

Ethel Ennis was born in Baltimore on November 28, 1932. Her father was a barber and her mother,

a homemaker. On the weekends, Ennis' mother played piano at church. For a while, Ennis followed in

her mother's footsteps and became a church pianist herself. But by her teens, Ennis discovered

rhythm and blues music. That didn't go over well with her conservative parents, though. They

thought it was a passing phase.

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