Category: Rock and Roll

About The Song Marvin Hamlisch and Carole Bayer Sager wrote this song, which was the theme for the James Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me. Unlike all previous Bond songs, this one isn’t named after the movie, and the film isn’t even mentioned in the chorus – the only mention of the movie…

About The Song “Annie’s Song” was released as a single from John Denver’s album Back Home Again. It went on to become his second No. 1 song in the United States, dominating that spot for two weeks in July 1974.  The song also reached No. 1 on the Easy Listening chart as well as…

About The Song In 1961, Dion DiMucci, the prototypical doo-wop star, topped the charts with “Runaround Sue,” an extremely fun but also deeply mean-spirited song about a girl. DiMucci co-wrote the song, and while 1961 was a different time, it’s full of what we would now call slut-shaming: “She took my love, then ran around…

You’ll never find, as long as you live Someone who loves you tender like I do You’ll never find, no matter where you search Someone who cares about you the way I do Whoa, I’m not braggin’ on myself, babyBut I’m the one who loves youAnd there’s no one else! No… one else You’ll never…

Get up, get up, get up, get up! Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up!Oh, baby now let’s get down tonight Ooh baby, I’m hot just like an ovenI need some lovin’And baby, I can’t hold it much longerIt’s getting stronger and stronger And when I get that feelingI want sexual healingSexual healing, oh…

Aw, Cracklin’ Rosie, get on board We’re gonna ride Till there ain’t no more to go Taking it slow And Lord, don’t you know We’ll have me a time with a poor man’s lady Hitchin’ on a twilight trainAin’t nothing here that I care to take alongMaybe a songTo sing when I wantNo need to…

About The Song “I Don’t Want to Talk About It” was only six years old when it reached number one in the UK singles chart, yet already it felt like a song from a lifetime before — which was precisely why it reached number one. The song had been written by Danny Whitten, who recorded…

About The Song When Tina Turner passed away on Wednesday after a half-century career full of legendary anthems, many remembered her as the “Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll.” But the chart-topping hit for which she will perhaps be most remembered isn’t a rock song—and that fact almost got in the way of the song…

About The Song This was written by songwriters Linda Creed and Michael Masser. Creed was recovering from breast cancer when they wrote the song in 1977. Originally recorded by George Benson, his version went to #24 in the US. In 1985, the song was revived by Whitney Houston, and on May 17, 1986, it…

About The Song “Desperado” is a soft rock ballad by the American rock band the Eagles. The track was written by Glenn Frey and Don Henley, and appeared on the 1973 album Desperado as well as numerous compilation albums. Although it was never released as a single, it became one of Eagles’ best-known songs. It ranked No. 494 on Rolling Stone‘s 2004 list of…