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The Grass Roots: “Let’s Live for Today”

The Grass Roots released "Let's Live For Today" in the summer of 1967  and it became their first Top 10…

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Simon & Garfunkel: “The Sound of Silence”

https://youtu.be/4zLfCnGVeL4 The first recording was an acoustic version on Simon & Garfunkel's first album, Wednesday Morning, 3 AM, which was…

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DYR Today, October 2

“Born Today” Samantha Barks (26) Kristina and Karissa Shannon (27) Dia Frampton (29) Camilla Belle (30) John Morris (32) Brianna…

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John Denver: “Grandma’s Feather Bed”

If Gadsden native Jim Connor hadn't bothered to clean out a guitar case before selling it, his classic song “Grandma's…

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The Temptations: “Papa Was A Rolling Stone”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaZ8uGo5dt8 This was written by the Motown songwriters Barrett Strong and Norman Whitfield, and produced by Whitfield. It was first…

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The Lovin’ Spoonful: “Summer In The City”

The song was a collaboration between John Sebastian, The Lovin Spoonful's bassist Steve Boone, and the frontman's brother (and non-group…

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The Four Seasons: “Rag Doll”

Group member and chief songwriter Bob Gaudio wrote this. He was driving his car to the studio in New York…

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Elvis Presley: ‘An American Trilogy’

"An American Trilogy" is a song arranged by country songwriter Mickey Newbury and made popular by Elvis Presley, who began…

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Gordon Lightfoot: ‘The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald’

This song by Gordon Lightfoot is a factual retelling of a shipwreck on Lake Superior in November, 1975 that claimed…

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Neil Diamond : “Cracklin’ Rosie”

Cracklin' Rosie" is a bottle of wine. Diamond got the idea for the song from a folk story of an…

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DYR Today, August 14

Today in 1965, "I Got You Babe" moved into the #1 slot for Sonny & Cher. SEE WHAT ELSE HAPPENED…

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Interesting Facts about Tom Jones’s “Green Green Grass Of Home”

This Country song about a condemned prisoner who longs to escape to the green, green grass of home was inspired…

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