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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...
In the old days of variety entertainers turned their hands to acting, presenting, singing and comedy and if you could...
Just like Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven and Queen's Brighton Rock, this week's suggestion was an album track which...
Bing Crosby's White Christmas was the first to do it and Gene Autry's Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer was the second,...
I don't believe any decade can be matched for its musical diversity than the 1970s, it seemed that anything goes given...
Some song writers have a knack of painting a beautiful picture in their songs which many can recognise. Bob Dylan did...
In the music industry he couldn't've have been spoken of highly enough, but in the public's eyes he really could be...