According to Rita Coolidge, she didn’t realize that something was amiss with “Layla” until she heard it later on the radio.

Rita Coolidge is an American recording artist. During the 1970s and 1980s, her songs were on Billboard magazine's pop, country, adult contemporary, and jazz charts, and she won two Grammy Awards ...

Melba Montgomery, folksy master of country music duets, dies at 86 With a distinctive drawl and commanding vocals, Ms. Montgomery made her name in Nashville as a singer and songwriter of ...

- Rita Coolidge and I went to the old Nashville Fairgrounds Coliseum to see Jackie Wilson. I was 17. - Brenda had had enough of her band following her around while she tried to date.

Coolidge’s version of events has been supported by Derek & The Dominos keyboard player Bobby Whitlock. In a 2011 interview with Where’s Eric!, he said: “Jim took the melody from Rita’s song and didn’t ...

One of the people affected bythis news is Rita Coolidge, the actor’s ex-wife. Keep reading to know more about what she has ...

Rita was born on May 1, 1945, in Lafayette, Tennessee, a small town near Nashville. She grew up in a musical family, with her father Dick Coolidge serving as a minister and her mother Charlotte ...

RITA Coolidge is an iconic American singer who defies classification, racking up hits on Billboard’s country, pop, contemporary and jazz charts. Between 1973 and 1980, she was married to anot… ...

While Kristofferson’s other relationships had tangible links to showbiz, with Frances Beer a budding actress and Rita Coolidge a musician, his meeting with Meyers was much more up to chance.

News Spokane 50 years ago in Expo history: Sonny and Cher could never, one S-R music critic argued in his rave review of the fair’s Rita Coolidge and Kris Kristofferson performance Sun., June 23 ...

Book Review Drums & Demons: The Tragic Journey of Jim Gordon By Joel Selvin Diversion Books: 288 pages, $29 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org ...

Famed rock ‘n’ roll session drummer Jim Gordon has died at age 77. Gordon backed Eric Clapton and The Beach Boys before being diagnosed with schizophrenia and going to prison for killing his ...