The controversial song became an unexpected smash, even though the band behind it admitted it wasn't representative of the music they wanted to make.

Few songs captured the sound of the summer of 1973 quite like "Brother Louie." Performed by the New York rock band Stories, the song climbed to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in August 1973, becoming ...

A multi-racial British soul-funk band writes a song about an interracial couple. It's a hit in the UK, but it goes nowhere in America. Then a white American rock band records the same song, and it's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1973, Brother Louie by Stories climbed to No. 1 and then, seemingly, disappeared along with the band behind it. But the song ...