Nostalgia

April Showers Bring May Flowers, and ‘Maggie May’ Deflowered Rod Stewart

This song is about the woman who deflowered Stewart when he was 16. In the January 2007 issue of Q…

8 years ago

How The Beatles Made A Hit Song Without Touching Any Instruments

The Beatles' Revolver is an album many consider not just to be the band's greatest, but the greatest record ever…

8 years ago

There Goes My Heart, Into the Void of Sadness That Is Roy Orbison’s “Only The Lonely”

While this is one of the sadder songs ever recorded, projecting the misery onto Roy Orbison would be a mistake.…

8 years ago

Frank Sinatra’s “My Way,” is the Only Way To Sing About Death

This originated as the French song called "Comme D'Habitude" (translation: "As Usual"), written by the composers Jacques Revaux and Gilles…

8 years ago

Freddy Fender’s Blues Ballad That Everyone Wasted Days and Nights Listening To

Freddy Fender wrote and recorded "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights", a blues ballad, for Duncan Records in 1959, during the…

8 years ago

Louis Armstrong Has Everyone, Not Just Dolly, Glowin’ and Swayin’

In 1964, Armstrong knocked The Beatles off the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart with "Hello, Dolly!", which gave…

8 years ago

DYR Today, August 3

“Born Today” Karlie Kloss (23) Jourdan Dunn (25) Charlotte Casiraghi (29) Ryan Lochte (31) Mamie Gummer (32) Hannah Simone (35)…

8 years ago

Thank You for Making 2015 Our Best Year Yet!

Thank you for a wonderful year. Well, another year has gone by and it has been quite exciting one here…

9 years ago