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Christmas was always a time for novelty songs especially during the seventies and in 1975 a song made the chart which...

It's incredible how some songs have a dance crazy attached to them which were never originally intended, the prime...

We hear so often about a songwriter knocking out a song in just a matter of minutes and this week's choice is no...

Tom Jones, like Elvis Presley, was not a songwriter, but both were masters of showcasing other people's tunes because...

On week-ending 6th April 1974, there was something unique about the top three UK singles that week. There was Emma by...

The Specials featuring Rico were the first to do it, Queen Latifah and Del La Soul, together, did it 11 years later,...

This week, I look at a song that began life in Italy - as a love song which never charted in the UK. The song has...

Nelson Mandela is certainly the most famous South African to be exiled but a close second has to be a singer who was...

  In 1968 one particular band were outselling acts like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Monkees with one...

"I think something that set me apart was that I could have been a conventional songwriter, with piano and voice. I'm...

Last month we lost the great jazz musician Al Jarreau, but as I noted in his obituary, the general public would not...

If you are of a certain age, you'll remember the time when TV adverts were memorable mainly because of a particular...

Back in the late 1970s, a Birmingham rock band called City Boy finally hit the big time after three years of hard...

If you want to hear a good story in song, look no further than Squeeze. The prolific songwriting duo of the band's...

Funny how is a common way of opening a sentence. Those two words also feature in the titles of five UK hit singles -...