The gospel great earned plenty of awards and accolades. His legacy has also had quieter impacts on individual believers like ...
MIAMI — Sam Moore, the towering tenor of the Sam & Dave soul music duo whose mid-1960s hits “Soul Man” and “Hold On, I’m ...
Sam Moore, who has died aged 89, was one half of Sam & Dave, the duo who in the late 1960s had such imperishable hits as Soul Man and Hold On, I’m Coming.
Perhaps more than any other act, their songs illustrated the debt owed by ... What became a call-and-response duet, familiar to both from seeing gospel preachers work a congregation, went down ...
1966 may have been the white-hot peak of popular modernism, but 66 the album saw an elegiac mood overtaking the Modfather, with songs like ... grief into cybernetic gospel via the medium ...
He worked full time at the Ziemer Funeral ... Elvis Presley and three of Frank Sinatra. Others included Madonna, George Michael, Lou Rawls, Michael Jackson, Beyoncé, Cab Calloway, David Byrne, George ...
Determining which song was Elvis’ biggest hit is a tricky thing. Over the course of a career that began with 1954’s Sun single “That’s All Right,” (which sold around 20,000 copies ...
That's when young Elvis first entered the doors of Sam Phillips' Memphis Recording Service at 706 Union (home of Sun Records) to croon two songs onto acetate disc: "My Happiness" and "That's When ...