Jerry Lee Lewis – Great Balls Of Fire
About The Song Released 65 years ago in 1957, the popular recording from Lewis and Sun Records was featured in the film, Jamboree, that same year. While Lewis made it…
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Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons – Big Girls Don’t Cry
About The Song In October 1962, the brilliantly inventive, vocal-based Big Girls Don’t Cry followed the group’s blistering hit single Sherry – both taken from their debut album, Sherry & 11…
Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons – Walk Like A Man
About The Song The Four Seasons’ two previous monster hits, “Sherry” and “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” had used that falsetto as a kind of parlor trick, building entire tracks around…
Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons – December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)
About The Song Released, fittingly, on 1 December 1975, December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night) marked a distinct shift in styles for Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons, as the…
Frankie Valli – Can’t Take My Eyes Off You
About The Song “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You” is a 1967 song written by Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio. It was recorded as a single by Frankie Valli. The…
Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons – Rag Doll
About The Song I’m not enough of a music historian to know who the first group to borrow that “Be My Baby” intro was, but it may very well have…
Frankie Valli – My Eyes Adored You
About The Song “My Eyes Adored You” is a 1974 song written by Bob Crewe and Kenny Nolan. It was originally recorded by The Four Seasons in early 1974. After…
Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons – Sherry
About The Song Frankie Valli (born Francis Casteluccio) had been hard at work trying to become a star for the better part of a decade before the Four Seasons achieved…
Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons – Who Loves You
About The Song In this song, Four Seasons frontman Frankie Valli is addressing a girl who is clearly in a funk. He’s asking her to think about who really loves…
Otis Redding – (Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay
About The Song “Dock of the Bay” was based on a few thoughts and lines Redding came up with during some time he spent sitting and watching the ocean in…
Otis Redding – I’ve Been Loving You Too Long
About The Song “I’ve Been Loving You Too Long” (originally “I’ve Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)“) is a soul music ballad written by Otis Redding and Jerry…
Bobby Vinton – Mr Lonely
About The Song “Mr. Lonely” is a song co-written and recorded by American singer Bobby Vinton. The song was first released on Vinton’s 1962 album Roses Are Red. The fourth…
Bobby Vinton – There! I’ve Said It Again
About The Song “There! I’ve Said It Again” is a popular song written and published by Redd Evans and David Mann in 1941. In early 1945, Vaughn Monroe and his…
Bobby Vinton – Blue Velvet
About The Song Written and composed by Bernie Wayne and Lee Morris in 1950, “Blue Velvet” is a top 20 hit for Tony Bennett in its original 1951 version. The…
Bobby Vinton – Roses Are Red (My Love)
About The Song Composed by Al Byron and Paul Evans, “Roses Are Red (My Love)” was recorded by Bobby Vinton and was his first hit. The song was released in…
Marvin Gaye – Let’s Get It On
About The Song In 1973, Marvin Gaye released “Let’s Get It On,” his thirteenth studio album (August 1973). It became the second of Marvin’s three US pop chart-toppers. One of…
Marvin Gaye – Sexual Healing
About The Song “Sexual Healing” is one of American singer Marvin Gaye’s most infamous tracks. Released as the second track on his seventeenth studio album “Midnight Love”, which was released…
Everly Brothers – All I Have To Do Is Dream
About The Song Hey, it’s not a mortal sin to dream for a perfect man or woman. Also, we experienced that stage wherein we fantasized over someone. Maybe, he/she is…
The Everly Brothers – When Will I Be Loved
About The Song When Will I Be Loved was a song written by Phil Everly. He wrote this in his car, parked outside an A&W root beer stand. He took…
The Everly Brothers – On The Wings Of A Nightingale
About The Song “On the Wings of a Nightingale” is a song written by Paul McCartney and recorded by the Everly Brothers in 1984 for their album EB 84, which…