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Getty Images Roundtree’s legacy extended beyond the 1970s classics.   Richard Roundtree, the iconic actor renowned for portraying the suave private detective in the groundbreaking “Shaft” film...

by Gena R. Greher, UMass Lowell Easy on the ear, perhaps. But the label of “easy listening” often attached to the songs of Burt Bacharach...

A late popular deejay used to say that “music is the soundtrack of our lives.” On the surface that might not sound like it...

Carla Thomas MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Johnny Cash, influential blues guitarist Albert King and soul singer Carla Thomas are among the 13 new inductees of the Memphis Music Hall of Fame.

In this Jan. 15, 1992, file photo, Bobby "Blue" Bland, left, receives his award for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame from B.B. King during induction ceremonies in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File) by Adrian Sainz MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Full, sweet and melodious at one moment, powerful and primal in another, the iconic singing voice of the late Bobby "Blue" Bland was remembered by fans, friends and colleagues on Monday. The Rev. Jesse Jackson told The Associated Press on Monday that he and his wife went to a Bland concert on the day they were married in 1962. Jackson called Bland a dear friend who was a "legendary, smooth balladeer."