Jan 5, 2019 · “Last Date” is the name of a 1960 instrumental song written and performed by Floyd Cramer. It entered the Top 40 music charts in October 1960, a time when John F. Kennedy and …

Aug 14, 2025 · The Chess/Etta James version of “At Last” was released first on her album of that name in 1960, followed by the single in early 1961. Besides the title song, the album also contained other …

Oct 2, 2013 · Cover of 1963 Skeeter Davis album, “The End of The World” (earlier format). Click for recent CD or digital versions at Amazon.

Dec 9, 1990 · “Memory,” in short, provides a lot of reminiscent latitude, accounting no doubt for the song’s popular appeal. Song History “Memory,” it turns out, was a last-minute creation for the Cats …

Jul 22, 2024 · That last phrase carrying a little suggestive sexual innuendo, and perhaps the reason the song was banned in Boston (after all, this was the 1950s). Yet when songwriter Boudleaux Bryant …

Apr 19, 2018 · “100 Years” is a song for the ages; its lyrics and composition aptly capture the wistfulness of life flying by – and the progression of life stages. And the spare but perfectly-suited …

In the spring of 1992, a song by the Irish rock group U2 entitled “One” was riding at the top of the modern music charts in the U.S., the U.K., and a number other countries. The song was the third …

Apr 8, 1995 · One of the defining rock ‘n roll songs of the 1960s — a song notable for its role in advancing a new sound that changed pop music — is the Ronettes’ 1963 blockbuster, “Be My Baby.” …

Did one rock ’n roll song of the mid-1960s provide a kind of social dividing line — a musical bright line separating old and new? Did one song lay down, in a popular way, a kind of generational and values …

Dec 10, 2010 · It was early fall 1962 when Bob Dylan’s song, “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall,” was first heard by a New York café audience. Those were anxious times in America, with the Cold War in high …