“In 2004,Rolling Stonemagazine ranked Bo Diddley’s original song at #133 on their list of the ‘500 Greatest Songs of All Time’. In 2010, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences acknowledged it with a Grammy Hall of Fame Award, which ‘honor[s] recordings of lasting qualita...
the hit songs of The Ronettes, including “Be MY Baby”, “Do I Love You”, “(The Best Part of) Breaking Up”, “Walking In The Rain”, and “Baby
as if they stomped the gas on a junker that's a quart or two low on oil – and then just ... kept ... going. Left with enough songs for three vinyl sides – but not four – Winter struggled to decide which
as if they stomped the gas on a junker that's a quart or two low on oil – and then just ... kept ... going. Left with enough songs for three vinyl sides – but not four – Winter struggled to decide which
“We didn’t start getting serious with the band until much later in life. We went to a bar in Doylestown – Maxwell’s On Main – to have a drink on open mic night. They asked us to play. We thought of two songs we knew. After we played them, people were asking for a third...
From the wiki: “‘Bus Stop’ was written by UK songwriter and future 10cc member Graham Gouldman, who also penned major hits for The Yardbirds (‘For Your Love‘) and Herman’s Hermits (‘No Milk Today’). In a 1976 interview Gouldman said the idea for the song had come while he ...
“It’s great to be playing shows,” said the veteran bluesman. “When we play new songs live, they start as the studio version and then we add to them and modify them. We’ll be playing a bunch of songs off the brand-new record. And, we’ll play some standards – songs by B....
By high school was writing songs and playing in rock bands, including one with the unusual name of Cyrus Erie (inspired, like Buffalo Springfield, by a name on a tractor). The vibrant Cleveland rock scene of the time — which also spawned Joe Walsh, later of...
Bet you didn't know somebody else recorded these songs before they got popular. Rod Stewart, "The First Cut Is the Deepest" (1976) EMI / Warner Bros. Rod Stewart, "The First Cut Is the Deepest" (1976) Cat Stevens wrote "The First Cut Is the Deepest" prior to the start of his rec...
Still, there are connections with what came before. "The Wheel," which didn't make its live band debut until 1976, features the same weeping pedal steel Garcia used on bothWorkingman's DeadandAmerican Beauty. But more often, Garcia seems to be taking the songs back from the main band, ...