A titan of ’50s and ’60s popular music — rivaled only by Elvis Presley, who once opened for him — reflects on reconciling his religious upbringing with mainstream stardom, his now-controversial covering of songs by Black artists and being one of the last people put under contract to a Hollywood studio before the studio system’s collapse.

Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg and produced by Matthew Whitehurst.

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