Carpenters – Rainy Days And Mondays
About The Song “Rainy Days and Mondays” is a song by the American music duo The Carpenters. It was released in 1971 as the lead single from their album “Carpenters.”…
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Carpenters – Only Yesterday
About The Song – Richard Carpenter wrote this with lyricist John Bettis. They were sure the song wouldn’t be a hit, and lost a $1,000 bet to their recording engineer…
The Carpenters – Yesterday Once More
About The Song The Carpenters’ “Yesterday Once More” can transport you back to the time and place you first heard it, no matter how long ago. Released in 1973 off…
Carpenters – Top of The World
About The Song “Top of the World” is a 1972 song written by Richard Carpenter and John Bettis and recorded by the Carpenters. It was released in 1973 as a…
Carpenters – We’ve Only Just Begun
About The Song In October 1970, The Carpenters released “We’ve Only Just Begun”. The song started as a commercial for Crocker National Bank. Written by a young Paul Williams and…
Carpenters – I Won’t Last A Day Without You
About The Song Released on April 13, 1974, ‘I Won’t Last A Day Without You,’ was the Carpenters’ 14th single to make the Billboard Hot 100. In 1974, on what…
Carpenters – I Need To Be In Love
About The Song “I Need to Be in Love” is a song written by Richard Carpenter, Albert Hammond and John Bettis. It was released as a single on May 21,…
Carpenters – (They Long to Be) Close to You
About The Song Richard and Karen Carpenter had a spectacular 1970. It started slowly, with their interpretation of The Beatles’ “Ticket To Ride” stalling at No.54 in the US. But…
Carpenters – Superstar
About The Song Bonnie Bramlett and Leon Russell’s evocative 1969 composition “Superstar” had a lot of history even before Richard and Karen Carpenter recorded their version in early 1971. But…
Roy Orbison – Oh, Pretty Woman
About The Song The song was written for Orbison’s first wife, Claudette Frady. One day, she left for the store — by “walking down the street” — and by the…
Roy Orbison – Only the Lonely
About The Song By the late 1950s, Roy Orbison was living in a small apartment in Nashville with his wife and baby, and he often used his car as a…
Roy Orbison – California Blue
About The Song “California Blue” is a heartfelt song by Roy Orbison, a legendary American singer-songwriter known for his emotive voice and profound lyrics. Released in 1989 as part of…
Roy Orbison – You Got It
About The Song You Got It was the first collaboration between Jeff Lynne and Roy Orbison (and Tom Petty). It was written during the Christmas season of 1987 and recorded…
Roy Orbison – I Drove All Night
About The Song “I Drove All Night” is a song written and composed by American songwriters Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly and originally intended for Roy Orbison. Orbison recorded the…
Roy Orbison – Crying
About The Song Orbison claimed to have written this as the result of an encounter he had with an old flame with whom he was still in love. He refused…
Simon & Garfunkel – The Sound of Silence
About The Song The first recording was an acoustic version on Simon & Garfunkel’s first album, Wednesday Morning, 3 AM, which was billed as “exciting new sounds in the folk…
Elvis Presley – Heartbreak Hotel
About The Song Would You Like to Check in with Elvis at the “Heartbreak Hotel?” A news about the suicide of a lonely man who jumped from a hotel window…
Elvis Presley – All Shook Up
About The Song Elvis recorded “All Shook Up” at Radio Recorders in Hollywood on January 12, 1957. In a 1991 interview, Otis Blackwell said that on this song, as on…
Elvis Presley – It’s Now Or Never
About The Song When Elvis Presley recorded “It’s Now or Never” in 1960, he answered a challenge Frank Sinatra had issued three years earlier. In June 1957, a Hollywood reporter…
Elvis Presley – In The Ghetto
About The Song Mac Davis had a pretty productive and varied career in entertainment. He had great success as a crossover country artist, with #1 pop and country smash “Baby…