Booker T. Jones, who backed Sam & Dave on many of their classics, recalls the late soul legend: "I will miss this beautiful ...

There's nothing quite like a thrilling "overnight success" story. But when it comes to soul superstar Otis Redding, his meteoric rise to the top ended almost as quickly as it started.

And I said, 'We’ve got to do a better job explaining it. Little Richard, Otis Redding, Chuck Berry — these artists were the cornerstones of rock and roll. If you look at the sounds over the ...

Brenton Wood, the soul singer behind 1967 hit single “The Oogum Boogum Song” and who formed his own record label in the Seventies, has died at the age of 83. Wood’s death was confirmed by ...

The Official UK Singles Chart reflects the UK’s biggest songs of the week, based on audio and video streams, downloads, CDs and vinyl, compiled by the Official Charts Company. The UK Top 40 is ...

Listen to songs like his 2023-released "Who Hurt You ... Then it was, 'sing us some Beyoncé, sing some Otis Redding and Temptations, the Kings of Leon' — they wanted me to play music I loved ...

The Billboard Hot 100 singles chart measures the most popular songs every week from Friday to Thursday based on the combination of their sales, online streams (audio and video), and radio airplay.

But then, also like some of us, perhaps you look back on the wealth of phenomenal songs the year gave us, and suddenly it’s: Come back, ’24, all is forgiven. Whether it was an unusually great ...

On Dec. 21, 1964, The Temptations released what is now considered to be one of the greatest love songs ever recorded ... ‘My Girl’ for the first time," Otis Williams, the group’s sole ...

By Richard Sandomir In late 1967, the music journalist Stanley Booth was on assignment to write about the Memphis soul sound for The Saturday Evening Post when he watched Otis Redding and the ...

Phil Walden, Otis Redding’s former manager and president ... Carter asked Gillespie to play his song “Salt Peanuts,” and Gillespie obliged, on the condition that that the president sing ...