Song

“Apache” is a song written by Jerry Lordan and first recorded by Bert Weedon. Lordan played the song on ukulele to The Shadows while on tour, and liking the song, the group released their own version which topped the UK Singles Chart for five weeks in mid 1960.  The Shadows’ guitarist Hank Marvin developed the song’s distinctiveContinue Reading

“Space Oddity” is a song that was written and recorded by English singer-songwriter David Bowie. It was first released on 11 July 1969 by Philips Records as a 7-inch single, then as the opening track of his second studio album David Bowie. After the commercial failure of his self-titled debutContinue Reading

“Be My Baby” is a song by American girl group the Ronettes that was released as a single in August 1963 and later appeared as a track on their 1964 album Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes featuring Veronica. The song was written by Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, and Phil Spector. SpectorContinue Reading

Bacharach’s earlier instrumental compositions written in his teenage years. Tune however is free adaptation of Rubenstein’s melody in F so cannot be really credited to Bacharach. He himself said he thought it was in the public domain. “I wrote the song with my dad when I was at college. AndContinue Reading

No one could touch her. Her voice was one of the most ravishing instruments ever recorded. Her life and her career? Well, they were a bit checkered, but Patsy Cline sang like a goddess, and “Crazy” was her masterpiece. Hers and Owen Bradley’s. The connection between Cline and the now-legendaryContinue Reading

A good song has the power to change one career after another. in 1967, Jerry Jeff Walker, a 25-year-old former psy-chedelic rocker, was reinventing himself as a country singer/songwriter. His transformation began in earnest that year, when he wrote the luminous “Mr. Bojangles”—based on a real-life encounter. During a visitContinue Reading

Legend has it that Your Cheatin’ Heart came to Hank Williams when he was thinking about his first wife while driving around with his second; she wrote down the lyrics for him in the passenger seat. After polishing it with Rose, Williams recorded “Your Cheatin’ Heart” during the last sessionsContinue Reading

Between the late 1890s and 1970s New York City’s music publishing district was known as “Tin Pan Alley”—a reference to the continuous sound of pianos emanating from nearly every open window nearby, allegedly causing a remark that it sounded like the banging of tin pans. And it is easy toContinue Reading

“Embraceable You” was one of the hit songs of the Gershwins’ Girl Crazy, which opened on Broadway October 14, 1930 (just about one year after the onset of the Great Depression), and ran for 272 performances. The show subsequently appeared in two movie versions and was featured in the veryContinue Reading