“Dream,” with music and lyrics by Johnny Mercer, has been covered by dozens of artists. The song was introduced in 1945 by the Pied Pipers, and hit number 1. Not long after, Frank Sinatra released a version. Other well-known covers were done by Roy Orbison, Ella Fitzgerald, The Skylarks, and Michael Bublé. The first time
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This seasonal song, describing the days between Christmas and January 6th—the traditional day of the Epiphany (now celebrated in US Catholic dioceses the first Sunday following January 1st )—has been dismissed by many as a cheerful, nonsensical ditty. However, there’s plenty going on here… For one thing, unlike most other popular songs, and surely unlike
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I.G.Y. was the lead single—peaking at #26 in Billboard on 27 November 1982—from Donald Fagen’s gold album “The Nightfly,” that entered Billboard‘s album charts on 30 October 1982. On the liner notes, Fagen said that: “The songs on this album represent certain fantasies that might have been entertained by a young man growing up in
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Taken from Joni Mitchell’s “Ladies of the Canyon” album, her own version of “Big Yellow Taxi” peaked at only number 67 on Billboard Magazine’s Hot 100, while a simultaneous release by The Neighborhood scored better, at number 29. However, the album did go gold, so there was plenty of radio airplay of the single. As
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More than 35 years ago, on September 30, 1968, during the very zenith of the free love 60′s, Motown Records released its single—catalog number 1135. This record would reach number one on November 30th, and stay at the top of the charts for two weeks. Written by ace tunesmiths Pam Sawyer, R. Dean Taylor, Frank
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