You’d be forgiven for thinking Hazy Shade of Winter was a Bangles original. By the time the 1980s rolled around, most people who knew the original artists well, Simon & Garfunkel, probably thought of it as a deep cut from their Bookends album. It has been released in 1966 as a single, though, and it … Read more
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 Marianne … Read more
She’ll only come out at night…” For decades, we all thought we knew exactly who the “Maneater” was. But years after the song topped the charts, John Oates and Daryl Hall started telling a different story, one involving corporate greed and New York City. Is the song really a social commentary, or is this a … 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