Accordingly, the track has become a staple of weddings and movie love scenes. But it's no portrait of bliss: “When a man loves a woman,” Sledge sings, “If she is bad, he can't see it / She ...

The great Percy Sledge record “When a Man Loves a Woman” was released 49 years ago on Thursday. Credited to songwriters Andrew Wright and Calvin Lewis, it was recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound ...

An instant standard, the late Percy Sledge's debut single and greatest hit, "When a Man Loves a Woman," has been covered again and again over the past half-century: as a heartsick country tune ...