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 ...

Percy Sledge's most identifiable song is such for a reason: His searing vocal and Spooner Oldham's smoldering organ on "When a Man Loves a Woman" are conflicting forces that produce a majestic build ...

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 ...

One of the few problems in crafting a soul standard such as “When a Man Loves a Woman” is convincing a devout public that you’ve recorded other hits. So it goes for Percy Sledge. In a singing career ...

I doubt that there are very many adults who don’t know Percy Sledge’s biggest hit “When A Man Loves A Woman.” It is a classic among classics. Not so many, though, know that his 1996 CD “Blue Night” ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS — Percy Sledge's "When a Man Loves a Woman," a desperate, soulful ode to the lengths a man will go to for the woman he loves, was his only big hit, but it had staying power. When he ...

NEW ORLEANS — Percy Sledge, who soared from part-time singer and hospital orderly to lasting fame with his aching, forlorn performance on the classic When a Man Loves a Woman, died Tuesday in ...

Percy Sledge, who soared from part-time singer and hospital orderly to lasting fame with his aching, forlorn performance on the classic “When a Man Loves a Woman,” died Tuesday in Louisiana. He was 74 ...

During the mid-sixties, Sledge worked as a hospital nurse while touring to get his music career off the ground. By Joe Lynch, Billboard Percy Sledge - H 2015 Percy Sledge, the R&B powerhouse who ...