WASHINGTON (AP) — Two groups with ties to the 1950s R&B group The Clovers who had been fighting over the use of the band's name have come to an agreement. Lawyers for the two groups filed a ...

Lloyd Price, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer behind the groundbreaking 1950s pop/R&B hits “Personality” and “Stagger Lee,” died on May 3 at the age of 88.

Zola Taylor, who broke gender barriers as the first female member of the 1950s R&B group The Platters and later became entangled in a public soap opera as one of three women claiming to be pop ...

(CBS/AP) Herb Reed, the last surviving original member of the 1950s R&B vocal group the Platters, has died in Boston at the age of 83. The group's hits like "Only You" and "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes ...

Blue Rhythms: Six Lives in Rhythm and Blues By Chip Deffaa University of Illinois Press, 301 pages, $29.95 Prior to the rapid, mid-1950s rise of rock ‘n’ roll, the driving sound of rhythm and ...

The 1950s. The dawning of a new era in popular music. The birth of rock & roll. James Brown and Chuck Berry. Elvis Presley ...

Guitar great Steve Cropper pays tribute to the 1950s R&B/doo-wop act the 5 Royales (inset) on his new album, with the help of artists such as B.B. King. Courtesy Neal Peters Collection Album of ...

Billy Mitchell, a former singer with the rhythm-and-blues group the Clovers, who was best known for his rollicking rendition of "Love Potion No. 9," died Tuesday at a hospital in Washington, D.C ...

Zola Taylor, who broke gender barriers as the first female member of the 1950s R&B group The Platters and later became entangled in a public soap opera as one of three women claiming to be pop ...

Superstars on the 1950s R&B scene, Billy Ward’s Dominoes launched the careers of two amazing singers: Clyde McPhatter, who later fronted the earliest incarnation of the Drifters on such hits as ...