TikTok has both personalized and revolutionized how music is shared daily. Here are eight artists who brought your "For You" page to life — and made it big in 2023. Aliyahs Interlude If anyone's an It Girl, it's Aliyah Bah. Known as Aliyah's Interlude online, the TikTok influencer qu...
though he later said, “It’s just a look back at the period in every boy’s life where he has pinups.” Daltrey sang the song with what he called “complete innocence,” and the band promoted it with a series of risqué postcards, causing a mild controversy that helped assure its To...
An uncredited troubadour sang “Mona Lisa” in Captain Carey, U.S.A., which starred Alan Ladd, but Nat “King” Cole had the biggest hit with it. His version topped Billboard’s Records Most Played by Disk Jockeys chart for eight weeks and became one of his signature hits. Sammy Fain...
When I rushed from Cleeve to Shepperton with stage tapes that had taken forty-eight hours to prepare, having had no sleep at all, and Roger announced he had waited long enough and was about to go home, I flipped. It wasn’t Roger’s fault, but I lashed out at him, trying to give...
Born in Chicago in 1933, Jones would cite the hymns his mother sang around the house as the first music he could remember. But he looked back sadly on his childhood, once telling Oprah Winfrey that “There are two kinds of people: those who have nurturing parents ...
The song she is most closely associated with is “We’ll Meet Again,” which she often sang as she visited army bases throughout the war. Roger Waters, in his inimitable ironic fashion, mentions Vera Lynn and “We’ll Meet Again” while implying that his character in "The Wall" will, ...
Born in Chicago in 1933, Jones would cite the hymns his mother sang around the house as the first music he could remember. But he looked back sadly on his childhood, once telling Oprah Winfrey that “There are two kinds of people: those who have nurturing parents or car...
When brother and I were young and in school, bedtime was at eight o’clock. No matter what we were doing, the activity stopped. Baths had been taken, clothes laid out for the next morning and teeth were brushed. I remember one evening I was reading a Nancy Drew book and I wasn’t ...
Eventually returning to Canada, he performed with the Singin' Swingin' Eight and the Gino Silvi Singers, before venturing out on his own with his first two singles in 1962. "(Remember Me) I'm the One" earned him his first radio hit, climbing to No. 3 on CHUM radio in 1962. ...
(I also recall a line Tom Lehrer sang in “The Vatican Rag”: “Two-four-six-eight, time to transsubstantiate!”) Reply Marion in Toronto June 19, 2023 at 6:15 pm Well Randy, guess this is no shock as you’ve known for a long time that I’ve a doctorate in history of ...