PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- The Pew Center for the Arts & Heritage is helping tell the story of how gospel music helped influence the sound of rock as well as how the Grammy award-winning group Dixie ...

When Paul Simon wanted to evoke the jubilant sound of gospel music for “Loves Me Like a Rock,” he called on the Dixie Hummingbirds. Their back-up vocals, which featured dazzling, razor-sharp ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Stevie Wonder has helped celebrate the 90th anniversary of a legendary Philadelphia gospel group. Philly.com reports the African American Museum in Philadelphia hosted a ...

Ira B. Tucker, lead singer of the Dixie Hummingbirds, performed a style of gospel music that erased boundaries between music and movement, praise and performance, style and spirit. For 70 years Tucker ...

The Dixie Hummingbirds, along with the Swan Silvertones and the Soul Stirrers, were the foremost popularizers of the a cappella style of gospel music that brought the spiritual music of traditional ...

James B. Davis was only 12 years old when he founded the Dixie Hummingbirds gospel singers in 1928. But it didn’t take long for him to figure out that survival required more than a great sound. During ...

Ira Tucker, a little man with a giant vocal range and acrobatic stage antics who as lead singer of the Dixie Hummingbirds helped propel gospel music toward a harder-edged, more emotive style, died ...

On Tuesday, a new state historic marker was unveiled in Philadelphia, at 23rd and Girard Avenue, outside the former home of James B. Davis. He founded the Dixie Hummingbirds, one of the most ...

For 70 years Tucker and the Hummingbirds gave high-energy, emotion-drenched shows designed to please the Lord and wow audiences. He was 83 The group influenced a long list of R & B artists and could ...

Editors Note: Bruce Warren is the associate general manager for programming at WXPN, which produced this documentary, and NPR is the project's distributor. Hosted by Grammy-winning gospel singer CeCe ...

James B. Davis, 90, a singer and songwriter who at age 12 founded the Dixie Hummingbirds, an electrifying gospel group credited with inspiring such entertainers as James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the ...