A distinctive, dynamic R&B vocalist who seemed on the verge of major stardom through the 1960s, Jackie Shane disappeared soon after — so completely that many fans and former associates assumed her ...

Two of Elvis Presley’s songs from his movies were originally jokes meant for another band. One of the tunes was overshadowed by a song on the same record. The other tune appeared on a No. 1 hit album.

Bad blood between two key figures in 1960s R&B and soul music turned out to be good fortune for another, helping transform Rick Hall’s tiny recording studio in out-of-the-way Muscle Shoals, Ala., into ...

Arthur Conley, 57, a 1960s R&B; singer best known for the 1967 hit “Sweet Soul Music” whose lyrics salute some of his vocal heroes, including manager and mentor Otis Redding, died Monday at his home ...

Within the narrow confines of 1960s R&B, Paul Cebar throws a lot at the wall. And most of his shtick sticks. “Fine Rude Thing” lives up to its title from the pickup to the first measure, with Cebar ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) – Rhythm and blues singer Billy Scott has died in North Carolina at age 70. Bill Kopald with the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame said Scott died from pancreatic and liver cancer ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) — A Broadway musical telling the story of a 1960s R&B group is coming to Albuquerque in late April. ...

The local news carried alarming reports of a massive riot in Motor City, which started when a police raid on an after-hours bar turned into a tense standoff with patrons and bystanders. Governor ...

The transgender subject of Michael Mabbott and Lucah Rosenberg-Lee’s absorbing documentary was a rising soul music star … who vanished into thin air. Born in 1940 Nashville to an unmarried teenage ...