Sixty years ago today, Dottie West released a song co-written with her husband that became her biggest hit of the '60s.

Children who grew up in the Chicago area had access to an abundance of television programs that were created here just for them.

Soul music in 1963 spoke to the times, but it also laid the groundwork for the future of R&B, pop, rock and roll, funk, and eventually hip-hop.

With Brigitte Calls Me Baby’s growing profile, the band has quickly ascended, capitalizing on a curious interest in their retro-rock sound that coos like the newborn baby of New Order, The Killers, ...