On Jan. 2, 1971, George Harrison became the first former Beatle to hit number one on the U.S. album chart, with "All Things Must Pass." In 1974, singer Tex Ritter died of a heart attack in Nashville ...

January has delivered countless iconic songs that set the stage for the year. These chart-toppers have stood the test of ...

The 80s also saw the blues transform like never before, with Stevie Ray Vaughan drawing in hard rockers and purists alike and ...

Today’s roundup of musical history highlights a golden-haired troubadour with a grin as wide as the Rocky Mountains.

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Stacker consulted the Billboard Hot 100 to rank the longest-running #1 songs by the number of weeks they spent at the top ...

I am a Southerner and an American, I am a farmer, an engineer, a father and husband, a Christian, a politician and former ...

Former President Jimmy Carter has died at the age of 100. The 39th president of the United States was a Georgia peanut farmer ...

In 1961, 19-year-old Robert Allen Zimmerman dropped out of college in his native Minnesota, made a pilgrimage to New York ...

Nothing says “80s” quite like these one-hit wonders’ cover version of “Tainted Love”. That song was a huge hit for the synth-pop duo in 1981. Surprisingly enough, the song’s origins go way back to ...

Before Dylan went electric, a moment memorialized in the new movie "A Complete Unknown," he played his first concert in ...

From Hooked on Classics to country compilations, K-Tel was a '70s and '80s music business success, synonymous with popular ...