The Drifters – Save the Last Dance for Me
About The Song Put Pomus and Shuman together with Lieber and Stoller. Add the Drifters. And you end up with a classic. Save the Last Dance for Me by the…
The Temptations – My Girl
About The Song “My Girl” is a soul music song recorded by the Temptations for the Gordy (Motown) record label. Written and produced by the Miracles members Smokey Robinson and…
Thurston Harris – Little Bitty Pretty One
About The Song It starts off so simple. Just a bunch of guys humming in harmony over an infectious backbeat, and that was the only hook “Little Bitty Pretty One”…
Ray Charles – Hit The Road Jack
About The Song Certain songs feel like they’ve always existed, to the point where it’s strange to imagine them as being new, as being songs that people would hear on…
The Drifters – Under the Boardwalk
About The Song “Under the Boardwalk” is a pop song written by Kenny Young and Arthur Resnick and recorded by the Drifters in 1964. It charted at number four on…
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…
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…
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…
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 with Columbia Records. His first album was released by Family…
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 styles for Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons, as the…
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 as a kind of parlor trick, building entire tracks around…
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 Sherry – both taken from their debut album, Sherry & 11…
Carly Simon – You’re So Vain
About The Song “You’re So Vain” is a song written and performed by American singer and songwriter Carly Simon and released in November 1972. It is one of the songs…
The Platters – Twilight Time
About The Song “Twilight Time” is a song with lyrics by songwriter Buck Ram (the seminal force behind The Platters, who were originally named “The Buck Ram Platters”) and music…
Paul Anka – Puppy Love
About The Song Puppy Love is an intense feeling of desire, passion, and excitement towards someone without giving you an idea of having a long term commitment to him/her. It…
The Tokens – The Lion Sleeps Tonight
About The Song The song that topped the Billboard pop chart on December 18, 1961, was an instant classic that went on to become one of the most successful pop…
Billy Joel – Uptown Girl
About The Song This song was released on September 29, 1983, on his ninth studio album, An Innocent Man (1983). “Uptown Girl” peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot…
Brenda Lee – I’m Sorry
About The Song “I’m Sorry” was a 1960 hit song by American singer Brenda Lee. Ronnie Self and Dub Allbritten penned it, and Brenda sang the song when she was…
Bill Haley & His Comets – Rock Around The Clock
About The Song On April 12, 1954— Bill Haley and His Comets recorded “(We’re Gonna) Rock Around The Clock.” If rock and roll was a social and cultural revolution, then…
Keith Whitley – Don’t Close Your Eyes
About The Song Keith Whitley released “Don’t Close Your Eyes” as the third single of his album of the same name in 1988. It shot straight to No. 1 on…