Creedence Clearwater Revival – Proud Mary
user 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…
Jimmy Buffett – Come Monday
About The Song When Jimmy Buffett got that Monday morning feeling in 1974, he couldn’t have been happier. The Mississippi troubadour was already more than four years into a stubbornly…
Earl Thomas Conley – Holding Her and Loving You
About The Song In 1975 when Earl Thomas Conley and his future record producer Nelson Larkin still lived in Huntsville, Alabama, they frequently headed over to Muscle Shoals to hang…
Buddy Holly – Crying, Waiting, Hoping
About The Song “Crying, Waiting, Hoping” is a song written by Buddy Holly. It was released in 1959 as the B-side to “Peggy Sue Got Married”. Three versions of Holly’s…
Buddy Holly – It Doesn’t Matter Anymore
About The Song Written for Buddy Holly by his friend Paul Anka, It Doesn’t Matter Anymore would give the Lubbock-born singer a posthumous No.1 in the UK… According to Sullivan,…
Buddy Holly – Everyday
About The Song ‘Everyday’ first released in 1957, is our special tribute to Buddy Holly who sadly lost his life in a plane crash on February 3rd, 1959. Rock and…
Donna Fargo – The Happiest Girl In the Whole USA
About The Song “The Happiest Girl In The Whole U.S.A.” was a huge hit song for Donna Fargo. The story behind this song is quite interesting. Fargo, named Yvonne Vaughan…
Lee Greenwood – God Bless the USA
About The Song Lee Greenwood actually wrote his signature song “God Bless the USA” one night in the back of his tour bus in 1983. The country music icon confirmed…