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With “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” the Bee Gees stepped beyond the long shadow of disco and delivered a poised, aching ballad that showed their songwriting...
With “Something,” George Harrison emerged from the Lennon-McCartney shadow to deliver one of the Beatles’ most enduring love songs—and the only Harrison-written Beatles single to reach...
Released in 1971, “Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)” captured The Temptations in a softer, more romantic mode and became one of Eddie Kendricks’ defining...
Dolly Parton launched the Buddy Program in Sevier County to combat local dropout rates by rewarding students who stayed in school and graduated together. The initiative...
With its dry wit, bright melody, and portrait of a man hiding heartbreak in plain sight, “Flowers on the Wall” showed how country storytelling could be...
Co-written by Naomi Judd, Paul Overstreet and John Barlow Jarvis, the title track of The Judds’ 1990 farewell album grew into the mother-daughter duo’s defining statement...
With one biting story song written by Tom T. Hall, Jeannie C. Riley brought country storytelling, pop immediacy, and a challenge to small-town hypocrisy crashing together...
More than a hit single, Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” became a soulful meditation on war, pain, community and the urgent need for compassion.
Ashford & Simpson reshaped “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” from a brisk Motown duet into a dramatic solo statement, giving Diana Ross a defining early triumph...
Written in a rush of obsession and captured with explosive immediacy, The Knack’s “My Sharona” turned raw chemistry into one of rock radio’s most unforgettable singles.