When a nation is confronted with grief and doubt and uncertainty, its culture can sometimes fold inward — to the simple, the comforting, the seemingly pure. And maybe that’s what happened late in 1963 ...

Back in 1963 there was an improbable hit song by a French sister, The Singing Nun, called “Dominique”. But she couldn’t hold a candle to a another singing nun, a 25 year old Sicilian named Sister ...

Now, that is nothing like the tale in the film The Singing Nun made in 1966 and starring the squeaky-clean Debbie Reynolds, who died last week (and who herself was a No 1 hit wonder in 1957 with the ...

In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. When a nation is ...