It's the first time he’s ever performed Nelson’s 1972 comeback hit, and he even sang the line that name checked himself ...

Ricky Nelson was a 1950s and 60s pop star. Imagine Bieber times 10. A generation of America watched him grow up on a primitive version of "reality TV." Nelson played his final concert in ...

Considering his place in pop culture from 1957 through the early ‘60s — with 17 top-10 singles and more than 100 million records sold — Ricky Nelson has gotten the short shrift in rock ...

What was the first record you did as Ricky Nelson’s guitarist ... So you made Los Angeles your home in the ’60s and kept busy as one of the famous “Wrecking Crew,” meaning you must ...

Eric Hilliard “Ricky” Nelson was born on May 8 ... new songs instead of his old hits from the 1950s and ’60s. Rick Nelson also had his demons. By the late 1970s, he had gone through divorce ...

And yet Ricky Nelson seldom gets his due as one of the ... and sold some 35 million recordings from the late ’50s to the mid-’60s. He was largely unable, however, to move from teen idol ...

the top spot belonged to Ricky Nelson‘s “Poor Little Fool.” Related Sophie Turner Shows Support for Ex-Husband Joe Jonas' New Album Over 60 years later, the song – along with Nelson’s ...

Upton, a native of Geraldine, also was on stage for the final show of Ricky Nelson, the 50s TV star and 60s pop star who played his final gig at Upton's club in Guntersville before his plane crashed.

He landed seven more records on the charts before the end of the year and, by the time his ballad "Poor Little Fool" hit No. 1 the following summer, with Elvis in the Army, Ricky Nelson was the ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Ricky Nelson at one time was adamant. The handsome youngest son of "Ozzie and Harriet'' TV fame was all grown up. His name -- darn it -- was RICK! And then Carl Perkins happened.