Lionel Richie – Say You, Say Me
user About The Song At the end of November 1985, Phil Collins climbed to the pole position on the Billboard Hot 100 with…
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Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons – Who Loves You
About The Song In this song, Four Seasons frontman Frankie Valli is addressing a girl who is clearly in a funk. He’s…
The Temptations – Papa Was A Rolling Stone
About The Song “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone” is a song originally performed by Motown recording act the Undisputed Truth in 1972,…
Brenda Lee – I’m Sorry
About The Song “I’m Sorry” was a 1960 hit song by American singer Brenda Lee. Ronnie Self and Dub Allbritten penned it,…
Billy Joel – Uptown Girl
About The Song This song was released on September 29, 1983, on his ninth studio album, An Innocent Man (1983). “Uptown Girl”…
The Tokens – The Lion Sleeps Tonight
About The Song The song that topped the Billboard pop chart on December 18, 1961, was an instant classic that went on…
Paul Anka – Puppy Love
About The Song Puppy Love is an intense feeling of desire, passion, and excitement towards someone without giving you an idea of…
The Platters – Twilight Time
About The Song “Twilight Time” drifted onto U.S. airwaves in April 1958, a velvet-soft ballad that showed The Platters could make romance…
Carly Simon – You’re So Vain
About The Song “You’re So Vain” is a song written and performed by American singer and songwriter Carly Simon and released in…
Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons – Big Girls Don’t Cry
About The Song In October 1962, the brilliantly inventive, vocal-based Big Girls Don’t Cry followed the group’s blistering hit single Sherry –…
Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons – Walk Like A Man
About The Song The Four Seasons’ two previous monster hits, “Sherry” and “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” had used that falsetto as a…
Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons – December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)
About The Song Released, fittingly, on 1 December 1975, December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night) marked a distinct shift in styles for…
Billy Joel – Piano Man
About The Song This is the first song and title track to Joel’s breakthrough album, which he released after signing with Columbia…
Nat King Cole – Autumn Leaves
About The Song It’s a tale of two torch songs. The original, written in French as “Les Feuilles Mortes” (literally, “Dead Leaves”)…
Diana Ross & Lionel Richie – Endless Love
About The Song – This track began as a request by Franco Zeffirelli to write an instrumental theme for a film. Lionel…
Frank Sinatra – New York, New York
About The Song For many listeners, Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York” is an iconic blend of singer and song. It’s also…
The Drifters – Under the Boardwalk
About The Song “Under the Boardwalk” is a pop song written by Kenny Young and Arthur Resnick and recorded by the Drifters…
Bee Gees – Massachusetts
About The Song Released in 1967, ‘Massachusetts’ became the first of the Bee Gees five No.1 songs in the UK, reached No.…
Ray Charles – Hit The Road Jack
About The Song Certain songs feel like they’ve always existed, to the point where it’s strange to imagine them as being new,…
Thurston Harris – Little Bitty Pretty One
About The Song It starts off so simple. Just a bunch of guys humming in harmony over an infectious backbeat, and that…