Today in Music History for Dec. 21: In 1672, Benjamin Schmolck, German Lutheran clergyman and prolific hymn writer, was born. Though a busy pastor, he found time to pen 900 hymns, the best remembered ...

Presley’s raw, final televised performance of “Unchained Melody" in 1977, just weeks before his untimely death, is widely regarded as one of his most emotional and heartbreaking performances of all ...