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 ...
Reaching number 2 on the Billboard charts with his version of that classic Chuck Berry song, Rivers was propelled into the national spotlight in 1964. Looking to repeat that success, Rivers' next hit ...
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, ...
WILKES-BARRE — Johnny Rivers has sold more than 30 million records, achieving 17 Gold records and 29 chart hits. Some of his greatest hits include “Memphis,” “Secret Agent Man,” “Poor Side of Town,” ...
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 ...