"They carried everything." Smith and Webley said classic R&B music in the late '50s and early '60s was "really kind of an underground" thing in Grand Rapids, but served as the focal point for ...

R&B legend Ron Isley says that he knows "right away when it's a special song, if you feel it's going to be a hit song." For more than half a century, Isley has been writing and performing some of ...

In the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, soul and R&B music dominated the charts in America ... He sounds the same way he did in the ...

To the casual pop music fan, it’s easy to lump the Platters with the Coasters, the Drifters, the Penguins, the Clovers and other early R&B and doo-wop groups of the ‘50s. That’s partly ...

When most people think of R&B protest, however, they think of artists like Nina Simone, Curtis Mayfield, James Brown and Stevie Wonder—those post '50s musicians who courageously deployed music ...