Category: Rock and Roll

About The Song Released 65 years ago in 1957, the popular recording from Lewis and Sun Records was featured in the film, Jamboree, that same year. While Lewis made it a hit on the piano with his rockabilly voice and earth-rattling talent, the track was written by Otis Blackwell and Jack Hammer. Amazingly, the song sold…

About The Song “Let Me Be There” is a song performed by Olivia Newton-John. It was written by John Rostill and originally released by Newton-John in 1973. The song became one of her signature tunes and a commercial success. “Let Me Be There” won the Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance in 1974,…

About The Song In the ’60s the musical tastes of the younger generations was changing the entire music industry. Beginning in the ’50s teens had developed buying power and this swayed which records were purchased. At the same time Rock & Roll was fast becoming the most popular genre of music on the planet. To…

  About The Song The band’s lead singer, Peter Cetera and Foster got together an wrote Hard To Say I’m Sorry, a song initially required for a film as Chicago’s trumpeter, Lee Loughnane recalled, “The film was in the process of being created when we presented the song to them.” The film was called Summer Lovers a…

About The Song You Got It was the first collaboration between Jeff Lynne and Roy Orbison (and Tom Petty). It was written during the Christmas season of 1987 and recorded in April of 1988 with Jeff, Tom and Phil Jones providing the backing track. The song, released the following year, would go on to be an…

About The Song – “Take It Easy” was written by Glenn Frey and Jackson Browne and was the first single released by the Eagles. They wrote the song together in just a few hours, with Frey contributing the music and Browne writing the lyrics. – The song was inspired by a bumper sticker that read…

“The Wanderer” is a song written by Ernie Maresca and originally recorded by Dion. The song, with a 12-bar blues-base verse and an eight-bar bridge, tells the story of a travelling man and his many loves. The song is ranked #243 on the Rolling Stone magazine’s list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.…

About The Song As is the case with all the great pop songs, you can identify Stand By Me by its opening few notes. Mike Stoller’s simple bassline, built around a 50s doo-wop chord progression, is decorated with little more than the faint ting of a triangle and the scrape of a gourd guiro –…

  About The Song Richard and Karen Carpenter had a spectacular 1970. It started slowly, with their interpretation of The Beatles’ “Ticket To Ride” stalling at No.54 in the US. But by the summer, they were ruling the Hot 100, spending a month at No.1 with the Bacharach & David composition “(They Long To Be)…

About The Song “Dancing Queen” by ABBA is a 1976 Eurodisco song that was written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, and it was released on their album Arrival. The song is one of ABBA’s most popular songs, and it has been covered by many artists over the years. [Image of ABBA – Dancing Queen…