This is FRESH AIR. Some so-called one hit wonders are just that, artists who really didn't have more than one record in them. But others were talents who continued to record interesting music and ...

In 1958, singer Jody Reynolds had his one and only Top 40 pop hit with a haunting tune called “Endless Sleep.” Written by Reynolds while he was living and working in Yuma, Arizona, the song came into ...

Jody Reynolds, the 1950s rockabilly singer and songwriter whose one and only Top 10 hit, “Endless Sleep,” was the first of a wave of melodramatic “teen tragedy” tales, died of liver cancer Nov. 7 in ...