Otherwise, Rivers, now 65, is best known for improbable hit cover versions of songs such as "Memphis," "Maybelline," "Baby, I Need Your Lovin'" "Tracks of My Tears" and "Rockin' Pneumonia and the ...

In 1964 Johnny Rivers performed his current hit “Maybelline” for a crowd of young people on the TV dance show American Bandstand. After the three minute song, host Dick Clark asked Rivers when ...

By May, Rivers’ version of “Memphis” was a hit, and he followed with a string of successes including another Berry cover, “Maybelline,” then “Seventh Son,” “Secret Agent Man” and ...

What’s Johnny Rivers — the Brooklyn-born, Baton Rouge, La.-reared rocker who put 32 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 from 1964 to 1977 — doing headlining the Ventura County Blues Festival on ...

You don't interview Johnny Rivers so much as listen to his stories. Perhaps that's to be expected. After all, Rivers has spoken to hundreds of journalists over the past 50 years, and it's a safe ...