Category: Rock and Roll

About The Song Few had heard of the Four Tops before this song was released in the summer of 1964, but the public quickly became acquainted. The quartet’s debut single sold over a million copies – a feat equally impressive in today’s iTunes era – and landed just outside the Top 10. Songwriters and producers…

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…

About The Song “Queen of Hearts” was written by Hank DeVito, who was primarily known for his pedal steel guitar work for The Hot Band, Emmylou Harris’ backing group. The song tells the tale of a woman who fell in love with an unreliable lover. Though she knows it’s a bad move, it’s already impossible for…

About The Song Frankie Valli (born Francis Casteluccio) had been hard at work trying to become a star for the better part of a decade before the Four Seasons achieved their breakthrough. They had come together as a group in several stages over the previous four years, changing their name in 1961 from the…

About The Song Written by Steve Dorff, Harry Lloyd, Larry Herbstritt, and Gloria Sklerov, “I Just Fall in Love Again” tells the tale of a woman who found a man with some serious charm that every time they touch, she can’t help but fall in love with him again. “And oh, I just fall in…