Grammy-winner Billy Vera spent years working in the Speciality Records vaults and remains close to label founder Art Rupe. Enjoy this interview and this book excerpt.
Henry Mancini was born in Cleveland, Ohio on April 16th, 1924. Soon after his birth, his family moved to West Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, where he would be raised.
How did a middle-class white kid break into New Orleans’ feverish 1950s R&B scene and enjoy a wildly eclectic six-decade career? As a new release puts it: things happen that way