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...seemed to buck this trend. Bill Haley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard and the early Elvis Presley recorded with their touring bands, and their records captured the same energetic sounds they presented on stage. Some old-line music marketers...

In this article: Mitch Miller, The Beatles, Motown, United States, Phil Spector, The Beatles: Rock Band, Billboard, Come on-a My House, and Northfield, Minnesota

...James, Albert King and Albert Collins. By his late teens, Lee was playing rhythm guitar in a regional band called The Glaciers that covered Elvis Presley, Little Richard and Chuck Berry material. Through the 1960s, Lee's interest turned to...

In this article: Bryan Lee, New Orleans, Bourbon Street, Chicago blues, WLAC AM, Justin Time, Albert Collins, Little Richard, and Elvis Presley

...to smash barriers between gospel and secular music and in turn helped influence early rock `n' roll entertainers like Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley, died Aug. 30 at a Harlem nursing home of complications from pneumonia. With songs such as...

In this article: Nat Hentoff, Washington, New York City, Down Beat, Roy Eldridge, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and Elvis Presley

..."Witchy Woman," and "Papa Was A Rolling Stone." Nash thus joined Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, and Rick Nelson as 1950s rock pioneers each having his last Hot 100 top 10 success in late 1972. It is a common misconception that the song was...

In this article: I Can See Clearly Now, Jimmy Cliff, Johnny Nash, Bob Marley, Cool Runnings, On The Rocks, Papa Was A Rolling Stone, Nights in White Satin, I'll Be Around, and Witchy Woman

...into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame were honored. They included Chuck Berry, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley. 1990: Kim Basinger signed papers giving her title to...

In this article: Virgin, Mariah Carey, Kim Basinger, Tax, American Music Award, Paul McCartney, Richard Hatch, Fats Domino, and Ben Affleck

...talks religion, bootlegs and the Sixties In the current Rolling Stone, Bob Dylan discusses his new album Together Through Life and American icons from Chuck Berry to Walt Whitman to Elvis Presley. This is just the most recent of many...

In this article: Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, Marlon Brando, Self-help, Together Through Life, Elvis Presley, and Rolling Stone

...memorable in pop music." The band's earliest influences include Elvis Presley, Little Richard and Chuck Berry, whose songs they covered more often than any other artist's in performances throughout their career. During their co-residency...

In this article: The Beatles, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, George Martin, Ringo Starr, Brian Epstein, Rock, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and United Kingdom

...in 1947. Brown sold the copyright to his evergreen Christmas song for $35 and, although Elvis Presley, Bruce Springsteen, Otis Redding, Chuck Berry and others subsequently recorded the tune, he never earned another nickel from it. Ho, ho,...

In this article: Christmas music, Charles Brown, Bruce Springsteen, Frank Sinatra, Dionne Warwick, Thanksgiving, San Francisco Chronicle, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and Little Drummer Boy

...in New York City. The first group of inductees, inducted on January 23, 1986, included Little Richard, Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, Ray Charles, Chuck Berry, Sam Cooke, The Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, and Jerry Lee Lewis. Currently, groups...

In this article: Cleveland, Ohio, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, New York City, I. M. Pei, Lake Erie, Jann Wenner, Memphis, Little Richard, and Elvis Presley