For our series One-Hit Wonders/Second-Best Songs, NPR Music Senior Director Lauren Onkey recommends "Out of Left Field" by Percy Sledge. He's known mostly for his 1966 hit, "When a Man Loves a Woman." ...

Percy Sledge’s music endures because it speaks directly to the human heart. His voice carries a timeless emotional weight, turning life’s most personal moments into universal expressions of ...

Sledge and Bolton eventually teamed up to perform the song together. Michael Bolton/Percy Sledge: When A Man Loves A Woman Listen to more of Sledge's classic songs below.

The world bid farewell to R&B legend Percy Sledge, who passed away on Tuesday. He is best known for his song "When a Man Loves a Woman." ...

Those later songs cracked the R&B top 10, but it was “When a Man Loves A Woman” that enabled Sledge to quit his job as a hospital orderly and become a full-time singer on the R&B circuit.

Despite having other hits Sledge became known for "When a Man Loves a Woman." It was the first No. 1 hit from Muscle Shoals, and the first gold record for Atlantic Records.

Now, think how you felt the next million times that Percy Sledge's When a Man Loves a Woman entered your consciousness in the 49 years since it hit the top of Billboard' s Hot 100 singles chart in ...

When a Man Loves a Woman, described by Rod Stewart as one of the greatest songs he had ever heard, owed its power to Sledge’s soaring, unrestrained vocals.

Percy Sledge, who died last week at the age of 74, recorded “When a Man Loves a Woman” in 1966 and launched himself as a tearful balladeer. Its simple chord structure, featuring a descending bassline ...