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 ...

Johnny Rivers placed 17 songs in the Top 40 from 1964 to 1977, and was versatile enough to do folk songs, blues, covers of old time rock 'n' roll and some origional material. Rivers has been a ...

What’s Johnny Rivers — the Brooklyn-born, Baton Rouge, La.-reared rocker who put 32 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 from 1964 to 1977 — doing headlining the Ventura County Blues Festival on Saturday?

Back in 1964, when the Beatles and other British bands were invading America's airwaves, Johnny Rivers released the now classic "Live at the Whisky a Go Go," a rocking album that contained a ...

OROVILLE — He might not be a 007, but after four decades of recording music, Johnny Rivers proved on Nov. 30 that he still knows how to make an entrance: Under a blue spotlight to the tune of “Secret ...

Johnny Rivers sits in a booth at the retro-themed Mel’s Diner in Hollywood and marvels at the pace at which not just his career but pop music in general moved when he was getting started half a ...