BELOIT, Wis. (AP) -- Singer Betty Everett, whose recording of ``The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)'' made Billboard's Top 10 in 1964, has died at 61. Everett, a Mississippi native, lived in ...

It couldn't happen today. In May 1979, Linda Ronstadt appeared on "Saturday Night Live," but decided not to perform her then-current single (a cover of Elvis Costello's "Alison," from her September ...

Betty Everett was born 70 years ago today and moved to Chicago from Greenwood, Miss., as a teenager to pursue a career in music. In 1963 she began recording for legendary Chicago record label Vee-Jay ...

When my wife told me Sunday morning about the plane crash that killed Aaliyah, the kind of unthinkable news that always takes a minute to sort out, one of the images that flashed into my head was of ...

When Aretha Franklin left Columbia Records in 1966, she was struggling commercially. The label had her singing jazz and other material, including an attempt to cash in on the “The Shoop-Shoop Song,” ...