In December 1962 America’s #1 album wasn’t by Elvis, or Ray Charles, or Peter, Paul & Mary. It wasn’t even music. All the excitement was over a comedy album, a parody of then-President John F. Kennedy and his family, fittingly titled “The First Family.” Q: “Sir? When will we send …

A Massachusetts judge has denied actor Kevin Spacey’s request to skip his arraignment in a Nantucket court next week on sexual assault charges. According to a court filing obtained by CBS News, Spacey also indicated he would plead not guilty. The Oscar winner is charged with felony indecent assault and …

SAN FRANCISCO — After polling thousands of Bay Area radio listeners, San Francisco’s KOIT radio station announced it was returning the controversial “Baby It’s Cold Outside” holiday song to its daily playlist. CBS San Francisco reports that following a national outcry against the song, KOIT Program Director Brian Figula opted …

In 40 years of making music, Elvis Costello has often collaborated across genres like with fellow Liverpudlian Paul McCartney, Burt Bacharach, and Questlove and the Roots. He continues that tradition of collaboration with his new album, “Look Now,” which Rolling Stone said “finds him squaring his restless artistic impulses with …

For her latest project, singer, actress and activist Janelle Monáe is encouraging millennials to vote. She calls it a tribute to her grandmother, who didn’t always have that right growing up in the segregated South. Monáe is on a mission to make sure everyone with a voice has the ability …

NEW YORK — Playwright Neil Simon, a master of comedy whose laugh-filled hits such as “The Odd Couple,” ”Barefoot in the Park” and his “Brighton Beach” trilogy dominated Broadway for decades, has died. He was 91.  Simon died early Sunday of complications from pneumonia surrounded by family at New York Presbyterian …

LOS ANGELES — “Respect” is more than just a soul track, and it’s more than just a scorching anthem. The hit was transformative.  Aretha Franklin spelled it out for everyone everywhere — a song that was for the times, but one that remained as timeless as ever. “Everybody wanted respect. Who …

The motion picture academy is facing backlash over major changes meant to boost TV ratings on Hollywood’s biggest night. The academy said Wednesday it will hold the show earlier in the year to shorten the awards season and shorten the telecast of the ceremony to three hours.  But it’s the …

Comedian and director Bo Burnham was one of YouTube’s first viral stars. In 2006, when he was 16, Burnham began posting videos of his satirical songs from his bedroom. He went on to perform standup comedy around the country, star in his own TV show and film four comedy specials, …

And now a page from our “Sunday Morning” Almanac: June 3rd, 1968, 50 years ago today … the day pop artist Andy Warhol was confronted by a radical feminist named Valerie Solanas. Just the year before, Solanas had published the “S.C.U.M. Manifesto,” which called, among other things, for “thrill-seeking women” to …