Chicago – Hard To Say I’m Sorry
user 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…
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…
Diana Ross & Lionel Richie – Endless Love
About The Song – This track began as a request by Franco Zeffirelli to write an instrumental theme for a film. Lionel Richie used some unreleased ideas written for The…
Neil Diamond – Sweet Caroline
About The Song To fans across the world, it is one of the emblematic songs of the 60s, a rousing, catchy love song to a girl known simply as Sweet…
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…
Gordon Lightfoot – If You Could Read My Mind
About The Song The heartfelt song stormed to the top of the charts in 1971, earning Lightfoot a gold record and his first No. 1 hit in the U.S. For…
Brenda Lee – Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree
About The Song This holiday classic about a yuletide dance party was written by Johnny Marks, a very prolific Christmas songwriter who was Jewish. His other songs include “Holly Jolly…
KC & The Sunshine Band – Give It Up
About The Song “Give It Up” is a song by American disco and funk band KC and the Sunshine Band, although it was simply credited as KC in many markets,…
Eagles – Desperado
About The Song “Desperado,” written by Glenn Frey and Don Henley, was one of the Eagles’ greatest hits and was the title track of their 1973 album. The ‘Desperado’ lyrics…
The Temptations – Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)
About The Song The song is about a guy who is madly in love with a girl, but they’re only together in his imagination. Every day, he watches her walk…
Whitney Houston – I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)
About The Song – George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam wrote this song. They met when they both performed at the wedding of Seattle socialite Susan Boeing and began playing clubs…
Dean Martin – Everybody Loves Somebody
About The Song “Everybody Loves Somebody” is a song written in 1947 by Irving Taylor and pianist Ken Lane, and made famous by Dean Martin who recorded and released his…
Bobbie Gentry – Ode to Billy Joe
About The Song This song tells the story of the fictional Billie Joe McAllister, who kills himself by jumping off the Tallahatchie Bridge. There really is a Tallahatchie Bridge in…
Dionne Warwick – That’s What Friends Are For
About The Song On January 18, 1986, “That’s What Friends Are For” by Dionne & Friends hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The uplifting song, that reminded…
Carly Simon – Nobody Does It Better
About The Song Marvin Hamlisch and Carole Bayer Sager wrote this song, which was the theme for the James Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me. Unlike all previous Bond…
John Denver – Annie’s Song
About The Song “Annie’s Song” was released as a single from John Denver’s album Back Home Again. It went on to become his second No. 1 song in the United…