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This week's choice will be unfamiliar to many readers as the song was never a UK hit, received very little airplay and...

This week's choice is an old standard made famous by a rockabilly singer who earned his nickname from the way he sang....

Many songs have been inspired by a film, for example, John Hartford wrote Gentle on my Mind after seeing the 1965 film...

The true definition of a 'turntable hit' is a song that received substantial radio airplay but failed to make the...

When I saw this week's suggestion, I thought, really? Why? Then I looked to see who had such a suggestion and noticed...

For the very determined, if someone says you can't do something or something will never happen, they will go out of...

Bryan Ferry, like Rod Stewart, were just two people from a very elite list of singers who managed to concurrently...

In any survey of the top drummers in the world, Keith Moon would always be assured a place in the top five. The Who's...

Only five songs with a mode of transport in the title have reached number two, Johnny Duncan was the first, and the...

So many bands of the 60s were inspired by the blues and the bluesmen that came some 20 years before them. Manfred...

How many times have you heard a song and thought, ooh, that's a bit near the mark, or how did they get away with that?...

I don't know about you, but when I listen to the lyrics of Where Do You Go to My Lovely, I think of a certain French...

  One of the most popular shows running in the West End since 2005 is the jukebox musical The Jersey Boys, which...

It's not so rare that a song accidentally becomes a hit, but it is rare that when that song does become a hit there is...

Like last week's Single of the Week, Ideal World by The Christians, this week's choice is by a band that had already...