Neil Diamond – Holly Holy
user About The Song How might you follow your first gold-selling single, after seven years of striving for that summit? Neil Diamond had the answer: with another gold-selling single. A generation…
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Willie Nelson & Ray Charles – Seven Spanish Angels
About The Song Willie Nelson’s Seven Spanish Angels is a duet song with American musician Ray Charles. The song was penned by Troy Seals and Eddie Setser and was originally…
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Born On The Bayou
About The Song Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman John Fogerty, who wrote the song, had never actually been to a bayou when he wrote the song – he researched it in…
Neil Diamond & Barbra Streisand – You Don’t Bring Me Flowers
About The Song Streisand and Neil Diamond’s duet on “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers” debuted at No. 48 and went all the way to No. 1 on the Billboard pop…
Neil Diamond – Hello Again
About The Song “Hello Again” is a song written by Neil Diamond and Alan Lindgren that appeared in the 1980 movie, The Jazz Singer, and was performed by Diamond on…
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Green River
About The Song Creedence Clearwater Revival are one of the most anachronistic outfits of all time, but this does not mean they’re dated. One of the finest bands of the…
Neil Diamond – America
About The Song Diamond’s dreams of movie stardom go all the way back to the early Seventies when he unsuccessfully auditioned to play Lenny Bruce in Bob Fosse’s Lenny, a…
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Proud Mary
About The Song “Proud Mary” features the very best of Creedence Clearwater Revival – a swampy roots rock sound carried by a muddied baritone and the undeniably singable rollin’, rollin’,…
Neil Diamond – Song Sung Blue
About The Song It’s a peculiar gift: To sing about sadness without sounding the slightest bit sad. The first time Neil Diamond got to #1, he did it with the…
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…
The Mamas & The Papas – Dedicated To The One I Love
About The Song “Dedicated To The One I Love” is a song written by Lowman Pauling and Ralph Bass. Pauling was the guitarist of the “5” Royales, the group that…
Bobby Darin – If I Were A Carpenter
About The Song “If I Were a Carpenter” is a folk song written by Tim Hardin in the 1960s, and re-recorded with commercial success by various artists. The lyrics are…
Bobby Darin – Splish Splash
About The Song “Splish Splash” is a 1958 novelty rock song performed and co-written by Bobby Darin. This song was written quickly, but it wasn’t written by Darin alone. Peter…
Bobby Darin – Mack The Knife
About The Song Today’s feature song is familiar to many. The best part is it has been covered by artists numbering into the hundreds and it has a history that…
Bobby Darin – Beyond the Sea
About The Song “Beyond the Sea” is a 1946 contemporary pop song with music taken from the song “La Mer” by Charles Trenet and lyrics by Jack Lawrence. Trenet had…
Ritchie Valens – Donna
About The Song “Donna” is a song written by Ritchie Valens, featuring a I IV V chord progression. The song was released in 1958 on Del-Fi Records. Written as a…
Ritchie Valens – We Belong Together
About The Song “We Belong Together” is a classic love song performed by Ritchie Valens, capturing the sentiments of young romance and longing in a time when rock and roll…
Ritchie Valens – La Bamba
About The Song It’s hard to think of American rock’n’roller Ritchie Valens without remembering the tragic early death that befell him. He was taken at just 17 in the 1959…
The Mamas & The Papas – Monday Monday
About The Song Writing a hit record is like catching lightning in a bottle, and sometimes, you don’t know that you caught it until after the fact. Such was the…
Barbra Streisand – The Way We Were
About The Song On February 2, 1974, a sweet, soft ballad by a 31-year-old Barbra Streisand knocks Beatle Ringo Starr down a notch on the Billboard Hot 100. Streisand’s “The…