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 ...

Starting in the 1960s, Dan Penn composed a streak of Southern soul classics: Percy Sledge's “Out of Left Field,” Aretha Franklin's "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man" and James and Bobby Purify’s “I’m Your ...

Percy Sledge, the voice behind R&B classic “When a Man Loves a Woman” and other hits, has died at his Baton Rouge, LA home, reports Billboard. He was 73: During the mid-sixties, Sledge worked as a ...

Percy Sledge, singer of “When a Man Loves a Woman,” the 1966 No. 1 hit that became a soul-music classic, was remembered Tuesday as a kind and charismatic man who lit up rooms and concert stages with ...

Percy Sledge, a former blue-collar hospital nurse turned world-famous R&B crooner, will forever be associated with "When a Man Loves a Woman," a pleading, soulful ballad he sings with wrenching ...

AMERICAN R&B legend, Percy Sledge, who recorded the classic 1966 soul ballad When a Man Loves a Woman, has been confirmed dead. His death was confirmed by Artists International Management on Tuesday.