Plenty of songs were made by accident, and during the 1960s there were a few that were never meant to be hits but ended up taking the No. 1, 2, and 3 spots on the Billboard Hot 100.

While story songs have become less prevalent in country music in recent years, they were all the rage in the ’90s. Reba McEntire’s cover of “The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia” is a ...

4 songs we're claiming ... defiant tale of two best friends exacting revenge on an abusive spouse. On the surface, the song is a story of ... One of Linda Ronstadt's most enduring hits, ...

Internet’s most mysterious song found after 17 years and it’s an ’80s rock hit. Story by Kapil Kajal ... The story of “The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet” begins in the 1980s.

Of the songs that Spotify, a streaming service, reckons will “take over the summer”, half are under three minutes. Yet The Economist’s analysis of almost 1,200 number-one hits suggests ...

Everyone’s a superhero/ Everyone’s a Captain Kirk. Although the artist is a one-hit wonder, two versions of this song actually made their way to U.S. pop radio in the 1980s.

4. "Tiny Dancer," Elton John From: Madman Across the Water (1971) "Tiny Dancer" is like the aforementioned "Layla" in that it struggled in being a bit too long for a hit single. When "Tiny Dancer ...

How Jimmy Webb and Glen Campbell's island anthem 'Galveston' became a hit Cities 100 times Galveston's size have never inspired a song this good By Chris Gray , Gulf Coast Reporter July 20, 2024 ...