The 1950s saw Little Richard electrify early rock & roll with wild piano riffs and hits like Tutti Frutti, while Johnny Rivers carried that momentum into the 1960s, blending rock, blues, and pop ...

Johnny Rivers opened the famed nightspot the Whisky a Go Go 50 years ago on Jan. 15, A month later, as the Fab Four made their big splash in America on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” the singer ...

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 ...

Johnny Rivers placed 17 songs in the Top 40 from 1964 to 1977, and was versatile enough to do folk songs, blues, covers of old time rock 'n' roll and some origional material.

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 Country Blues Festival on ...

Johnny Rivers may have been one of the first roots rockers. His initial hits in the early ’60s were covers of Chuck Berry songs like “Memphis” and “Maybelline,” then only 5 years old.

It’s 8:30 a.m. on April 8, and the legendary Johnny Rivers is on the phone from California. That evening, the Rock and Roll Hall induction ceremony will take place in Brooklyn, N.Y., and Chea… ...