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Sometimes you like a song at first, but the more you hear it, the less you can tolerate it. The great ones are different. They express the thoughts…preserve the moments…and capture the imagination. Winner: “I Can’t Make You Love Me.” Loser: “MacArthur Park.”
Song: "Rock Around the Clock"
Here are two minutes and eight seconds that forever changed the music world. It’s sometimes said that “Rock Around the...
Read MoreSong: "I Walk the Line"
Seems like you can almost hear a train in the rhythm of many of Johnny Cash’s songs. That distinctive sound is one of the...
Read MoreAlbum: "Thriller"
Remember music videos? Okay, music videos are still being made, so let me put it another way: Remember when music videos mattered?...
Read MoreSong: "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"
This is a testament to what inclusion in a movie can do for a song. “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” was written...
Read MoreAlbum: Tapestry
Carole King isn’t one of the great singers of our times. Nor is she one of the great entertainers. But she is one of the great...
Read MoreSong: "El Paso"
American music used to include a genre called “Country and Western.” Maybe you’ve heard of it. Somewhere in the...
Read MoreSong: "Piano Man"
Despite Billy Joel’s long and successful career, his numerous top ten hits and best-selling albums, if you’re asked to think of...
Read MoreSong: “Crazy”
Hugh Nelson wrote this song in 1961 for a country singer named Billy Walker. Two good things then happened. Hugh decided he’d prefer...
Read MoreSong: "Louie Louie"
What? This…this…filthy song listed as a Great American Thing? You may think you know what the lyrics are. You can read some...
Read MoreSong: "Let's Stay Together"
We’re going to call him Rev. Al Green, because that’s who he is today. He was still just Al in 1972, when he recorded...
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