One of the many signature songs of Elvis Presley is “Blue Suede Shoes”. Though, like many of his signature songs, it was a cover. Originally written and performed by Carl Perkins in 1956, Elvis ...
“Million Dollar Quartet” is a jukebox musical phenomenon that, unlike a lot of other pop musical bios, doesn’t follow the life story of a single star or band but instead tackles four famous rockers at ...
From the 1955 pressing of Chuck Berry’s hit song “Maybellene,” to Elvis Presley’s first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1956 and the tragic 1959 plane crash that took the lives of musicians ...
Sonny Curtis, the frontman of Buddy Holly’s band The Crickets who wrote classic songs including the theme for “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” has died. He was 88. Curtis died Friday “after a sudden ...
Sonny Curtis, who wrote such classics as “I Fought the Law,” “Walk Right Back” and the theme for the “Mary Tyler Moore” show, “Love Is All Around,” died Friday after a sudden illness, according to a ...
In addition to “Love Is All Around,” the Texan wrote “I Fought the Law,” “Walk Right Back” and “More Than I Can Say,” hits for The Clash, The Everly Brothers and Leo Sayer, respectively. By Mike ...
SWARTHMORE — In the heart of the borough of Swarthmore, an old Italian shoe store at 102 Park Ave., is beginning its next chapter as a gathering place for readers, neighbors, and friends. Celia ...
A defining image of the horrors of slavery has emerged as the latest flashpoint in the Trump administration’s quest to root out what Trump has called “divisive, race-centered ideology” from the nation ...
A popular musical is coming back to The Trinkle Main Stage. As WFIR’s Denise Allen Membreno tells us Million Dollar Quartet documents a monumental recording session at Sun Records. Million Dollar ...
The Duluth Playhouse opens its 2025-2026 season on Friday evening with Million Dollar Quartet. The Tony-winning musical tells the story of a day that lives in music history: December 4, 1956. Four of ...
VIRGINIA, USA — The Virginia Department of Education has issued an urgent grant conditions requirement for certain funding for career and technical education. The department is asking superintendents ...