Years ago, while having a late-night conversation with a friend, I mentioned how much I loved the song, “When a Man Loves a Woman.” My parents owned the single, and growing up I played it every chance ...

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, 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 73 ...

Percy Sledge, the Alabama-born soul balladeer whose emotional, pleading style propelled “When a Man Loves a Woman” to the top of the pop and rhythm-and-blues and charts in 1966 and made the song one ...

But what a hit it was for Sledge, who died Tuesday at his Baton Rouge home at the age of 74. It soared to No. 1 on both the pop and R&B charts in 1966, and he rode it to a music career that lasted ...

Sound engineer Jimmy Johnson knew he had captured something special on tape as Percy Sledge finished singing "When a Man Loves a Woman" in a recording studio in 1965. Sledge, who died Tuesday, grew up ...

Singer Percy Sledge, perhaps best known for his hit "When A Man Loves A Woman," has died, Artists International Management Inc., his talent agency, said. Sledge died of natural causes a little after ...

NUEVA ORLEANS-Percy Sledge, quien pasó de ser celador de hospital y cantante de tiempo parcial a un artista de fama internacional gracias a su desgarradora interpretación del clásico “When a Man Loves ...

Percy Sledge, who recorded the classic ballad, 'When a Man Loves a Woman," died today in Baton Rouge. Not long after that first recording went No. 1, Sledge began to move to Macon where he worked with ...

Singer Percy Sledge, perhaps best known for his hit "When A Man Loves A Woman," has died, Artists International Management Inc., his talent agency, said. Sledge died of natural causes a little after ...

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 ...

Singer Percy Sledge, perhaps best known for his hit "When A Man Loves A Woman," has died at his home in Baton Rouge, La., Artists International Management Inc., his talent agency, said. The coroner ...