Johnny Rivers’ concert Friday at Easton’s State Theatre brings up two questions. The first is why isn’t he in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? With 14 Top 30 hits – a dozen of which he played in his 90 ...

Like several pop-rock singers from the late 1950s and early 1960s — including Pat Boone and Elvis Presley — Johnny Rivers first became a hit covering material previously released by artists of other ...

In the first three installments of this interview series with rock icon Johnny Rivers, we discussed his hit Secret Agent Man, the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival and the famous Whiskey A Go Go club. Here, ...

It must be autumn and harvest season, because my ears are full of corn. Hybrid corn. That's right, at the moment I have not one but two songs stuck in my head, welded together by the miracle of ...

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 Cheap Trick, ...

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