The decade between 1952 and the early 1960s was the peak period for the style of music we now call doo wop, after which it got dissolved into soul music, girl groups, and within pop music in general.

Anthony Liguori Jr. is known to the faithful as “Deacon Elvis” at Corpus Christi Church in Hasbrouck Heights, NJ.

Richard Sterban toured with Elvis as a member of vocal group JD Sumner and the Stamps, before achieving country music fame ...

Elvis at 90: Decade-by-decade milestones in the life — and afterlife — of the King What was Elvis Presley's most successful ...

THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR CURRENT GOSPEL SONGS ACROSS ALL GENRES, RANKED BY STREAMING ACTIVITY DATA BY ONLINE MUSIC SOURCES TRACKED BY LUMINATE, RADIO AIRPLAY AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS AS MEASURED BY ...

When Elvis Presley stormed the pop-music world with “Hound Dog” in ... Herbert Brewster, a seminal and radically progressive gospel composer and minister whose black Baptist church in ...

“Any person playing this kind of music was so fortunate that we had a guy to open the door like Elvis,” he said much later. In the near-total absence of breathing witnesses, it’s one of ...

Longtime readers of the New York Times know that opinion columnist Nicholas Kristof can be prone to outlandish claims. Years ago he promoted the amusing idea that the biblical Jesus favored big ...

"But more importantly than that, I remember when we were talking to Elvis one day ... his history of encounters with Presley before the music icon's 1977 death at the age of 42.

Determining which song was Elvis’ biggest hit is a tricky thing. Over the course of a career that began with 1954’s Sun single “That’s All Right,” (which sold around 20,000 copies ...