Thursday is the milestone 70th anniversary of a music icon recording two of his signature songs that would top the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. After graduating from high school in 1953, an ...

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Country music as a genre is broader than some may believe. It has grown to feature a redefined picture of the classic country superstar, from Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Tracy Chapman, and Willie ...

The Cars track, "Just What I Needed," first gained attention as a demo on the radio before being released as a hit single and ...

The singer jumped on a craze that swept America, then raced to write and record his song before other versions beat him to ...

Jim Gilstrap, the R&B singer best known for working with Stevie Wonder and performing the "Good Times" theme song, has died ...

In the first hit of his posthumous career, the folk legend was inspired to release the song by the recent death of his father. Upon his death at the age of just 30 years old in September 1973, Jim ...

On this day (June 27) in 1913, James Elton Baker was born on a farm near Marshall, Arkansas. He is best remembered by his stage name, Elton Britt. After launching his solo career in the early 1940s, ...

It’s a story often told in the annals of rock music history. A band that desperately needs a hit comes up with one at the most opportune moment. And they do so with a song that was something of an ...

A hit 1980s singer is dead at age 75, her family announced Thursday. Bonnie Tyler, best known for the songs “Total Eclipse of the Heart” and “Holding Out for a Hero,” died Wednesday after spending ...