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Instrumental track don't tend to sell as well as classic vocal songs. There are a few exceptions of course, Acker...
There have been a number of songs written about various dance crazes with the twist being the most notable, this...
Purple Ange, who has requested this week's song, told me, "I was trying to put together a Dutch playlist for a...
When it comes to protest songs, some of the biggest ambassadors would be people like Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan and...
One of the oldest songs to get to number one in the UK was Two Little Boys which became the last chart-topper of the...
There are probably more radio stations concentrating on 1980s music shows than on any other decade. Twitter and...
This week's suggestion began as folk ballad and only became as famous as it did thanks to it being accidently used in...
A favourite topic of conversation, not only amongst music fans, but people in general is, 'what is your favourite song...
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about a man who had a huge American following but was very overlooked in the UK, this...
This week's song owes its success, but only in America, to one half of a legendary duo and one quarter of an even more...
Once upon a time there were two kids who met in high school, later in life they formed a duo, had one modest American...
Songs written about a loved one is always going to be personal to the person who wrote it or to anyone in a similar...
If Scott McKenzie's San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear some Flowers In Your Hair) and Procol Harum's A Whiter Shade of...
In America, only one song by the same artists has reached the top spot twice in separate chart runs, that was Chubby...
Michael Jackson clearly had a very vivid imagination as can be clearly seen in the hit single Smooth Criminal and the...