Some songs stay with the world for decades, even centuries, after their writing. But those songs, which come to us before the music business took its modern form, often have a murky background. One ...

At 2:15 p.m. on Monday, when tornado sirens rang out in Moore, Okla., teachers at the AgapeLand Learning Center rushed their 15 students into the bathrooms — the safest place in their brick building.

A song loved by generations throughout the world, “You Are My Sunshine” has special resonance in Louisiana. Statewide affection for the love song-lament largely goes to the late Louisiana Gov. Jimmie ...

Johnny Cash was born on February 26, 1932, in Kingsland, Arkansas, into a poor farming family during the Great Depression. He worked in the U.S. Air Force, where he started writing songs, and later ...

“You Are My Sunshine: Jimmie Davis and the Biography of a Song,” by Robert Mann, Louisiana State University Press, 216 pages “You Are My Sunshine" is one of the most popular songs in the world. It has ...

Glurge: A dying baby was brought back from the brink by the sound of her brother's singing 'You Are My Sunshine.'" Like any good mother, when Karen found out that another baby was on the way, she did ...