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…
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Willie Nelson – Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain
About The Song Willie Nelson’s Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain is one of his hallmark covers which landed him…
Albert Hammond – It Never Rains in Southern California
About The Song The sweet and soft sounds of Albert Hammond in this live “It Never Rains In California” performance…
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…
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…
Chubby Checker – The Twist
About The Song Ernest Evans, known famously as Chubby Checker, was an American singer who signed with Cameo-Parkway Records in…
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…
Billy Joel – Piano Man
About The Song This is the first song and title track to Joel’s breakthrough album, which he released after signing…
Chicago – Hard To Say I’m Sorry
About The Song The band’s lead singer, Peter Cetera and Foster got together an wrote Hard To Say I’m Sorry,…
Earth, Wind & Fire – September
About The Song Do you remember the 21st night of September? These famous lyrics have probably rung through your ears…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
Dion – The Wanderer
About The Song “The Wanderer” is a song written by Ernie Maresca and originally recorded by Dion. The song, with…
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.…
Stand By Me by Ben E King
About The Song As is the case with all the great pop songs, you can identify Stand By Me by…
Willie Nelson – Always On My Mind
About This Song The song “Always On My Mind” is not only considered a classic in country music but as…
Keith Whitley – When You Say Nothing at All
About The Song When Keith Whitley released his “L. A. To Miami” album, he could have kicked off his career…
Johnny Cash – I Walk the Line
About The Song In 1956, Johnny Cash’s “I Walk The Line” ranked atop the Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart –…