Beau grew up in listening to music with his grandmother in Little Rock, Arkansas. She enjoyed music from the 1950s, artists such as Lefty Frizzell, Hank Williams Senior and Jimmy Driftwood.

Mike Stoller and Jerry Leiber had never set foot in Kansas City when they wrote a song in 1952 about the city's "crazy way of loving." Recorded that year by boogie-woogie pianist and blues singer ...

As for Kansas City songs that are more pleasing to the ear, the Leiber-and-Stoller story is well known: Two 19-year-old New York guys who had never set foot in Kansas City compose a rock ’n ...

But, as the Les Humphries Singers’ recording shows, the Leiber-Stoller composition is hardly the only song titled “Kansas City.” Among others are the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic from the Broadway ...