Percy Sledge, the R&B belter whose biggest hit, “When a Man Loves a Woman,” became a cornerstone of soul music, died Tuesday. He was 73. Sledge died in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, said Stephanie Price of ...

Morning Edition's series One-Hit Wonders / Second-Best Songs focuses on musicians or bands whose careers in the United States are defined by a single monster hit, and explains why their catalogs have ...

Percy Sledge’s very first recording was far and away his biggest, but what a recording it was. The yearning, churchy ballad “When a Man Loves a Woman” was a Number One smash in 1966, and the song has ...