Like your soul music sweet, with strings, bells, horns, or just a sunshine mood? Most of these songs in my sweet soul playlist fit one or more of those descriptions, tracing the development of pop-soul from the mid-Sixties through the mid-Seventies. Better still, Sweet Soul Serenade offers you the opportunity to listen to the songs and buy them right here!

The most in-depth look at doo-wop on the internet, complete with a series of articles about the genre's history, artists, songs, and more. Want to know more about this classic vocal group style, where it came from, and why it's so beloved? Learn more here about doo-wop music and its history.

You know about the swiveling hips, the Cadillacs, the Jungle Room, and the peanut-butter-and-banana sandwiches, but how much do you know about the seemingly trivial (but actually quite fascinating) minutiae lurking behind the headlines? This collection of little-known facts paints a broader portrait of the King: find out the stories behind the songs, the women you never knew he had an eye on, and the inner life only his close associates had access to. Here are 30 things you probably didn't know about Elvis.

Berry Gordy may have had to form a Corporation to give the Jackson 5 its first (and arguably most enduring, and certainly most sampled) hit, but in the process Gladys Knight, already denied her place in history for helping bring the group to the label, got robbed again. Read more about Michael's introduction to the world here.