It barely cracked the R&B chart in 1972. Now it plays at every Super Bowl.

Ray Charles spent his entire career refusing to be limited to one genre. From his first “Roll With My Baby” single, out in 1952, until he passed away in 2004, Charles expertly proved that he was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The '50s and '60s were an incredibly formative time for country music, with many famous performers making the transition between ...

Free Expression: A Minnesota assassination gives rise to the usual wave of opportunism from both sides of the spectrum. As is common in U.S. parishes, my church closed out Sunday Mass this pre-July 4 ...

Katharine Lee Bates, an English professor at Wellesley College, wrote the lyrics as a poem in 1893 after a train trip to Colorado Springs. The view from atop Pikes Peak gave her the line "purple ...