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 “The End of the World” is a pop music hit by Skeeter Davis that enjoyed international success in the 1960s. The record was released by RCA Records in December 1962 and reached its greatest success in March 1963, peaking at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart, #2 on the…

About The Song This holiday classic about a yuletide dance party was written by Johnny Marks, a very prolific Christmas songwriter who was Jewish. His other songs include “Holly Jolly Christmas” and “Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer.” “Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree” has lyrics that are rather dated, but that hasn’t dulled the appeal of…

About The Song Doo-wop is a subgenre of rhythm and blues music that originated in the African-American community in the United States in the early 1950s. It is characterized by its vocal harmonies, often with a lead singer and a backing chorus, and its use of nonsense syllables as accompaniment. Doo-wop songs often deal with…