Van Morrison comes up with songs many different ways, sometimes a lyric or title idea sparks a song, and other…
10cc. He also wrote "Heart Full Of Soul" for the Yardbirds. Gouldman was inspired by the Animals "The House Of…
The Bee Gees were three brothers - Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb. They wrote this after getting in a few…
If Gadsden native Jim Connor hadn't bothered to clean out a guitar case before selling it, his classic song “Grandma's…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gdqj0V231E "Everybody Plays the Fool" is the title of a popular song written by J.R. Bailey, Rudy Clark and Ken…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUyyfC7rsQY "Kind of a Drag" was written by Jim Holvey, who was a friend of the band's from Chicago. It…
https://youtu.be/Gpu_PV3BTfI Helen Reddy wrote this when she couldn't find enough songs to include on her first album, I Don't Know…
The song was first recorded by American pop music singer Bobby Vee. Released as a single in late 1962, it…
The song "With A Girl Like You" by The Troggs takes me right back to 1966. Reg Presley says of…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=munErg-ykYU This was written by the songwriting team of Don and Dick Addrisi. As The Addrisi Brothers, they went on…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSVTOMkJdqs The Gibb brothers wrote both this and "Too Much Heaven" (another American #1), in an afternoon off from making…
Anne Murray recorded this after watching its composer, Gene MacLellan, perform it on Canadian TV. It was the second song…