If you take a walk past 1010 Main Street in Downtown Boise and look up, you can still see the name of this historic hotel on the side of the building. The historic hotel opened in 1910 with 38 hotel rooms. No one stayed there since it and the theater below it closed in the 60s....
The songs of Sam Cooke are forever intertwined with the soulful music of the '50s and '60s. Cooke developed his musical abilities as a gospel singer before crossing over and basically inventing soul music. A string of timeless hits like "Wonderful World," "Twistin' the Night Away," and "...
Sergio Mendes, the highly influential Brazilian jazz musician credited with helping to make bossa nova music popular worldwide, died at 83. Mendes signed with A&M Records in the '60s, promptly scoring a Top 50 hit, “Mas Que Nada.” He later recorded covers of songs by the Beatles, Simon...