The name may not sound familiar, but you’ve no doubt heard her song — “Rescue Me” pops up all the time in Rom-Coms. R&B singer, Fontella Bass, who wrote and performed 1965’s hit “Rescue Me” died on ...

Fontella Bass, a gospel, blues and soul singer known to most of the music world as a one-hit wonder for “Rescue Me,” died Wednesday of complications from an earlier heart attack. She was 72. She had ...

FAYETTEVILLE, Tennessee - For last three weeks of his life, until he passed away on Oct. 17, 2013 the day before his 73rd birthday, Carlton Brady was singing Southern Gospel anthems with his beloved ...

Bass died on Dec. 27, 2012. We'll listen back to a Fresh Air interview from March 1995, in which she spoke about performing at funeral homes as a girl in St. Louis and how secular music wasn't allowed ...