This website contains an audio time sweep of all the rock and roll hits from 1955 through 2011 that reached number one on the Billboard rock and roll music charts and its numerous counterpart charts through July 1958, then solely on the Billboard Hot 100 charts thereafter. Samples are played...
In addition to co-writing nearly all of the band's greatest songs - from 1960s-era hits like "To Love Somebody" and "Massachusetts," to their record-breaking disco and funk songs of the 1970s for the Saturday Night Fever (1977) soundtrack - Robin's high, precise harmonies with his ...
Had never even heard of this flick until the 2000's, which indicates how under-the-radar this thing was back in 1984. Came and went virtually without a trace and took a couple of decades before a very small but vocal cult of viewers began to post online about this slab of cheese that...
John Raitt, who plays the singing Trucker Gil, was a well-known leading man in musical theater. He played the lead in the movie version of The Pajama Game (1957) as well as touring throughout his life in many road show productions of Broadway musical hits, including, of course, "Oklahom...
Check out our roundup of 25 Scorching Rock Hits From the Summer of 1984 below. Van Halen, “Panama” No self-respecting 1984 backyard barbecue would have been complete without Van Halen blasting through the speakers. The band – which, coincidentally, got its start playing backyard barbecues –...
Check out our roundup of 25 Scorching Rock Hits From the Summer of 1984 below. Van Halen, “Panama” No self-respecting 1984 backyard barbecue would have been complete without Van Halen blasting through the speakers. The band – which, coincidentally, got its start playing backyard barbecues –...
Chuck Berrywas such a master of the rock 45 that his definitive statement has to be this greatest hits album. There’s no filler or deep cuts in sight: Every track is a touchstone, from the debut single “Maybelline” to the Merseybeat nod on “I Wanna Be Your Driver.” If rock’n...
Check out our roundup of 25 Scorching Rock Hits From the Summer of 1984 below. Van Halen, “Panama” No self-respecting 1984 backyard barbecue would have been complete without Van Halen blasting through the speakers. The band – which, coincidentally, got its start playing backyard barbecues –...
Stone Temple Pilots were known for playing hard rock, but the mellower “Interstate Love Song” from 1994’sPurplebecame one of their absolute biggest hits. Bassist Robert DeLeo came up with the idea for the song, which was originally written in the Brazilian bossa nova style. He added a ...
Check out our roundup of 25 Scorching Rock Hits From the Summer of 1984 below. Van Halen, “Panama” No self-respecting 1984 backyard barbecue would have been complete without Van Halen blasting through the speakers. The band – which, coincidentally, got its start playing backyard barbecues –...