Elvis Presley’s iconic ditty “Blue Suede Shoes” has become a definitive version of the rock and roll standard. But in 1955, one year prior to the song burning up the charts, it was Carl Perkins’ ...
It’s a peculiar experience, as a theater critic, to watch a show that’s just not for me, while appreciating the talent onstage and understanding its appeal to others. “Million Dollar Quartet Christmas ...
FBI investigations into a song’s potential obscenity only work when the FBI can understand what the singer is saying, and in the case of the 1963 Kingsmen classic that one critic dubbed the “Rosetta ...
MISHAWAKA ― It was 88 degrees, but it felt even hotter with the sun warming up Everwise Freed Field at Penn High School. The Kingsmen were finishing their first two-a-day practice of the 2025 season, ...
In 1957, Richard Berry released a song he had written two years earlier with his band, the Pharaohs. “Louie Louie” was a song about a sailor pining for his girlfriend in Jamaica. After its release, ...
Back in the 1950s, four Los Angeles musicians were widely acclaimed as the finest performers of chamber music in America. They called themselves the Hollywood String Quartet, because they spent their ...
A series of unlikely train robberies. A mysterious deck of cards. A fleet of deadly airships. An accidental mage. Choose from four stories, in any order, and discover how they intertwine in this ...
Squire Parsons, a West Virginia native and member of the Southern Gospel Hall of Fame died Monday at age 77. Parsons, who was born in Newton, in Roane County, West Virginia, began his Gospel career in ...
Ohio men accused of gift card fraud scheme arrested in Parkersburg, W.Va., police say Three Toledo, Ohio, men accused in a fraudulent gift card scheme were arrested in Parkersburg, W.Va., police ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Southern Gospel Music icon, West Virginia native, Squire Parsons died of a heart attack Monday. He was 77. Parsons grew up in the Roane County community of Newton. He went to ...
“Sweet Beulah Land” is one of the top Southern Gospel requested songs of all time. Squire Parsons, the man who wrote and recorded the song in 1979, died Monday following a cardiac arrest that had left ...
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