. Bridge Over Troubled Water is the fifth and final studio album by American folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel. The album was released on January 26, 1970, through Columbia Records. Following the duo’s soundtrack for The Graduate, Art Garfunkel took an acting role in the film Catch-22, while Paul Simon worked on the songs, writing all tracks except Felice and Boudleaux Bryant‘s “Bye Bye Love” (previously a hit […]

. . “A Whiter Shade of Pale” is a song by the English rock band Procol Harum that was issued as their debut single on 12 May 1967. The single reached number 1 in the UK Singles Chart on 8 June and stayed there for six weeks.   Without much promotion, it reached number 5 on the US Billboard Hot 100.  […]

. . Jackson said that “Billie Jean” was based on groupies he and his brothers encountered while they performed as the Jackson 5.  “They would hang around backstage doors, and any band that would come to town they would have a relationship with, and I think I wrote this out of experience  with my brothers when I was […]

. . . The Age of Aquarius is the fourth album by the American pop group the 5th Dimension, released in 1969. It was the group’s biggest commercial success in the United States, peaking at number two on the Billboard pop albums chart and the R&B albums chart.

. . As one of the most famous protest songs of the Vietnam War era, “Fortunate Son” revives this timeless message with the snarl and swagger of the 1960s righteous rock and roll. As John Fogerty put it: Julie Nixon was hanging around with David Eisenhower, and you just had the feeling that none of […]

. . . “Away in a Manger” is a beloved Christmas carol with a mysterious American origin, falsely attributed for years to Martin Luther, but research shows it emerged in the U.S. in the mid-1800s, possibly by a German Lutheran in Pennsylvania, with its first two stanzas appearing in American songbooks before gaining popularity, and a […]

. . . “Sister Susie sitting on a thistle.” 😂

I went to a private school as a child. It was small…the year I graduated there were only 54 students in the entire school…2 in my graduating class…myself, and Tommy Hicks. The 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grades were all in the same classroom. It was the homeroom of Mrs. Hopewell, our math teacher […]

“The Greatest Love of All” is a song written by Michael Masser, who composed the music, and Linda Creed, who wrote the lyrics. It was originally recorded in 1977 by George Benson, who made the song a substantial hit, peaking at number two on the US Hot Soul Singles chart that year, the first R&B chart top-ten hit for Arista Records. […]