Michael Jackson was the first singer ever to top the Billboard Hot 100 who was younger than the Hot 100 itself. Jackson was born in August 1958, a few weeks after Billboard launched the Hot 100. (The ...
Barbara Alston, who sang “Da Doo Ron Ron” and contributed lead vocals for several hit songs by the Crystals, one of the most beloved “girl groups” of the early 1960s, died Feb. 16 at a hospital in ...