First published on June 17, 2020 William “Mickey” Stevenson was one of the key creative masterminds behind Motown’s success from...

First published August 3, 2020 Joseph Tarsia was a young man working in Philadelphia as a service technician, visiting various...

First published on December 11, 2020 At the age of thirty-three, on December 11th 1964, Sam Cooke was shot and...

First published on July 29, 2020 Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson had staff positions at Motown, where they wrote and...

First published - July 6, 2020 Otis Redding’s first release was a song entitled “These Arms Of Mine” recorded in...

First published - on August 26, 2020, up-dated November 30, 2024Family patriarch Roebuck “Pops” Staples was born near Winona in...

First published on August 23, 2020 William Bell was born William Yarbrough in 1939 in Memphis. Judy Clay was born...

First published on August 21, 2020 Johnnie Taylor was born in Crawfordsville, Arkansas, but grew up in West Memphis, Arkansas....

Jerry Wexler is remembered for many things within the music industry, but perhaps the most significant of all is his...

First published 12 August 2020 Strangely, one of the best Soul albums ever was released in the UK in 1968....