2021-01-17 14:37
Bob Dylan's track Blind Willie McTell is perhaps the best tribute to this outstanding traveling street artist who has recorded about five dozen songs under various nicknames over several dec… Read More
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2021-01-16 15:05
Misty Mountain Hop is an iconic 1971 Led Zeppelin song the title of which is associated with the mountains described by J. R. R. Tolkien in The Hobbit. Such parallels are by no means … Read More
2021-01-14 15:10
Kishori Amonkar was one of the most respected classical vocalists of the Hindustani tradition who intensively developed the Khyal genre—short songs designed to vary the raga melody. Si… Read More
2021-01-10 15:22
Kinderszenen or Scenes from Childhood is a set of short piano pieces written by Robert Schumann in 1838. Although these pieces are composed in simple musical forms associated with songs, the… Read More
2021-01-08 10:01
Hushabye is the first successful song recorded by the American rock band The Mystics to spend nine weeks on the national chart soon after its release in 1959. It was written Read More
2021-01-03 14:15
Mairzy Doats is a notable nursery rhyme song written in the 1940s when parody and humor songs were in high demand. The lyrics were composed by Milton Drake who had been impressed by the Read More
2020-12-31 13:05
Dum Maro Dum is a popular Hindi song written by Anand Bakshi and composed by Rahul Dev Burman for the 1971 Bollywood film Hare Rama Hare Krishna. In stark contrast to the standard melodramas… Read More
2020-12-27 14:37
Coal Miner's Daughter is an autobiographical song by the influential country-genre songwriter Loretta Lynn in which she describes the hard household chores of her mother raising eight childr… Read More
2020-12-24 09:11
The origin of the iconic theme in the energetic opening of Georges Bizet's L'Arlésienne is still unclear. Presumably, the composer interpreted the melody of the Christmas Read More
2020-12-20 14:11
Incense and Peppermints is an essential psychedelic rock song released in 1967 by the LA-based band Strawberry Alarm Clock. After topping the Billboard Hot 100 for one week, the song became… Read More
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