When the Rolling Stones recorded As Tears Go By, as iconic a Stones song as they come, they were actually covering their on song. It was written by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Andrew Loog Oldham in the early 1960s. However, The group was then mainly focused on blue-based music. They wrote the song for … Read more
It is common practice for songwriters to make up stories about the inspirations behind the songs they write, often years after the fact. They do this to change the image of the song to make it more friendly to changing attitudes, or to change their own image. For example, I don’t believe for a second … Read more
Lobo often shows up on lists of one hit wonders even though the artist actually had a string of hits between 1971 and 1973 and continued cracking the Top 40 into 1974. Perhaps the misperception is due to I’d Love You to Want Me being such a big hit, selling a million copies earning gold disc … Read more
Originally written by Scott English and Laurence Weiss, Bend Me, Shape Me was a no. 5 hit in 1967 for the band The American Breed, out of Chicago. It was one of three top forty hits for the band, along with Step Out of Your Mind and Green Light. The song was originally recorded by the Cleveland … Read more
The legendary Chuck Berry, known as the “Father of Rock and Roll” had many songs on the charts but, his only number one his was a cover of a novelty song, 1972’s My Ding-A-Ling. It spent 17 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent two weeks at no. 1 in October of that year. … Read more
The song One Vision appeared on Queen’s 12th studio album, 1985’s A Kind of Magic and became the lead single from that record. It was also notably featured in the 1986 movie Iron Eagle. The initial idea for the song was conceived by Queen’s drummer, Roger Taylor, but the entire band wrote the song together and … Read more
So many nights, I sit by my window, wondering who was it, who sang this here song. It’s painfully slow. It has that typical seventies, written on a piano with factory-stamped background ‘orchestra’ accompaniment. It’s kind of pretty, but you just want it to stop after the first chorus. Or, who knows? Maybe you love … Read more