Mr. Moore and Dave Prater stormed the R&B and pop charts with indelible hits like “Soul Man” and “Hold On, I’m Comin’.” ...

Sam Moore told Dave Prater that he would "never speak to him again" after the height of their success. The late 'Soul Man' ...

By Richard Sandomir In late 1967, the music journalist Stanley Booth was on assignment to write about the Memphis soul sound for The Saturday Evening Post when he watched Otis Redding and the ...

Otis Redding and Glenn Miller. Check to see your tray tables are in the upright position, but no need to worry about turbulence. On a personal note, I have no clue what makes a plane fly.

Today in Music History for Jan. 22: ...

On a sidewalk near the Lorraine Motel, where Dr. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, I met Jaqueline Smith, a long-term resident of the motel until she was forcibly evicted in 1988. For 36 years, ...

It’s a cruel twist in an already tragic story that the biggest song in Otis Redding’s entire catalog ... a month after his death in a plane crash at the age of just 26. Of course, it was ...

Stax’s biggest star had been killed in a plane crash in 1967. Lost alongside Otis Redding were linchpin members of The Bar-Kays, the band that played on numerous Stax classics as well as their ...

The group sang backup for a variety of soul singers like Otis Redding, Lou Rawls, The Drifters and Dionne ... north to the Midwestern U.S. aboard a Royal Canadian Air Force plane. Canadian officials ...