Chicago – Hard To Say I’m Sorry
About The Song The band’s lead singer, Peter Cetera and Foster got together an wrote Hard To Say I’m Sorry, a song initially required for a film as Chicago’s trumpeter,…
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Earth, Wind & Fire – September
About The Song Do you remember the 21st night of September? These famous lyrics have probably rung through your ears before, that is, if you’ve ever been to a wedding,…
Nat King Cole – Autumn Leaves
About The Song It’s a tale of two torch songs. The original, written in French as “Les Feuilles Mortes” (literally, “Dead Leaves”) was a dark lament of lost love and…
Berlin – Take My Breath Away
About The Song “Take My Breath Away” is hardly the first soundtrack ballad to get to #1. But even so it feels like the start of something, a harbinger of…
Dion – The Wanderer
About The Song “The Wanderer” is a song written by Ernie Maresca and originally recorded by Dion. The song, with a 12-bar blues-base verse and an eight-bar bridge, tells the…
Frank Sinatra – New York, New York
About The Song For many listeners, Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York” is an iconic blend of singer and song. It’s also one that’s taken newfound resonance in New York…
Ben E King – Stand By Me
About The Song As is the case with all the great pop songs, you can identify Stand By Me by its opening few notes. Mike Stoller’s simple bassline, built around…
Keith Whitley – When You Say Nothing at All
About The Song When Keith Whitley released his “L. A. To Miami” album, he could have kicked off his career with a couple of No. 1 records. However, George Strait…
Johnny Cash – I Walk the Line
About The Song In 1956, Johnny Cash’s “I Walk The Line” ranked atop the Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart – his first No. 1 hit after three attempts with only…
Bill Withers – Ain’t No Sunshine
About The Song At 32, Bill Withers, originally from rural Slab Fork, West Virginia, was something of a latecomer to a world dominated by twentysomething performers. He had spent nine…
Chuck Berry – Johnny B Goode
About The Song For one week in 1972 John Lennon and Yoko One were guest hosts of The Mike Douglas Show on US TV. Their sojourn’s most memorable incident involved…
Del Shannon – Runaway
About The Song Del Shannon Runaway Memories returns to the early years of rock-n-roll with the classic “Runaway” story. Few songs in popular music are so enduring and haunting as…
Sam Cooke – Bring It On Home to Me
About The Song “Bring It On Home to Me” is a song by American soul singer Sam Cooke, released on May 8, 1962, by RCA Victor. Produced by Hugo &…
Bill Haley & His Comets – Rock Around The Clock
About The Song On April 12, 1954— Bill Haley and His Comets recorded “(We’re Gonna) Rock Around The Clock.” If rock and roll was a social and cultural revolution, then…
The Ronettes – Be My Baby
About The Song In 1961, The Ronettes, the New York City girl group made up of Veronica (Ronnie) Bennett, her sister Estelle Bennett, and their cousin Nedra Talley, were signed…
Scott McKenzie – San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)
About The Song “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)” is an American pop music song, written by John Phillips, and sung by Scott McKenzie. It was…
Brian Hyland – Sealed With A Kiss
About The Song Among some of the favorite golden oldies are the songs of the handsome Brian Hyland. His music is said to have defined the “puppy-love” bubble-gum sound of…
Mary Hopkin – Those Were The Days
About The Song The origins of the melody appear to be strongly claimed by the Russians, and Russian gypsies consider it their song. The name of this song seems to…
Neil Sedaka – Oh! Carol
About The Song “Oh! Carol” was co-written with Howard Greenfield, a longtime collaborator of Sedaka. In the aforementioned book, the story is that Sedaka and Greenfield were neighbors as kids;…
Conway Twitty & Joni Lee – Don’t Cry Joni
About The Song “Don’t Cry Joni” is probably the best collaboration Conway Twitty ever did. He recorded it with no other than his then sixteen-year-old daughter Joni Lee. The song…