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 ...

Greg McDonald, a Palm Springs resident whose chance encounter with Elvis Presley started his journey from the air conditioning business to life as a prominent entertainment promoter, died Friday ...

One story sure to come out is the "competition'' between Ricky Nelson, who essentially was the first teen idol, and Elvis Presley. "My dad was a thorn in Elvis' side pretty much his whole life ...

“I never bought a Ricky Nelson record, I bought a James Burton record,” Keith Richards explained when inducting Burton into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001. As one can glean from the ...

And what a recording career it was. From 1957 to 1962 only Elvis Presley had more top 40 hits and sold more records than Ricky Nelson. I love Nelson’s music from that time and always have.

To me, that denotes someone pretending they are the Everly Brothers or pretending they are Elvis or Ricky Nelson. That’s really not what we’re doing with this show.” Because many of the ...