. . . “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” is a folk song written by American singer-songwriter Pete Seeger in 1955. Inspired lyrically by the traditional Cossack folk song “Koloda-Duda”, Seeger borrowed an Irish melody for the music and published the first three verses in Sing Out! magazine.  Additional verses were added in May 1960 by Joe Hickerson, who turned it into a circular song.  Its […]

. These Mondays are going by way too fast! . . . “We Will Rock You” is a song by the British rock band Queen from their 1977 album News of the World, written by guitarist Brian May.  Rolling Stone ranked it number 330 of “The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time” in 2004,  and the RIAA it placed at number 146 […]

. . . “Islands in the Stream” is a song written by the Bee Gees and recorded by American country music artists Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton. It was released in August 1983 as the first single from Rogers’s fifteenth studio album Eyes That See in the Dark. The Bee Gees released a live version in 1998 and a studio version in 2001. […]