USA

1. home
2. Country
3. USA

Page 2
• 

  SONGWRITER

  Terraplane Blues: first song to compare car problems with intimate relationship

  USA

  , Blues, 1930s
• 

  SONGWRITER

  Mambo Italiano: Bob Merrill's meaningless lyrics composed on restaurant napkin

  USA

  , Latin, Popular Song, 1950s
• 

  SONGWRITER

  Yakety Yak: teenager's answer to household chores in a hit song

  USA

  , Rock, 1950s
• 

  FILM

  Hedwig’s Theme: magical mood cast by the celesta melody

  USA

  , Film Score, Soundtrack, 21st Century Classical, 2000s, 2010s
• 

  Music Theory

  Popular songs showing the submediant chord in all diatonic modes

  England,

  USA

  , Rock, 1960s, 1970s
• 

  SONGWRITER

  Muskrat Love: the polarizing song of America

  USA

  , Popular Song, Rock, 1970s
• 

  SONGWRITER

  Makin' Whoopee: cautionary song warning against the trappings of marriage

  USA

  , Popular Song, 1920s, 1930s
• 

  Music Theory

  6 songs combining harmonic minor and Aeolian mode

  England, Germany, Puerto Rico,

  USA

  , Latin, Popular Song, Rock, 1960s, 1980s, 1990s
• 

  SONGWRITER

  Mexicali Blues: debut song by the Grateful Dead's psychedelic poet

  USA

  , Rock, 1970s
• 

  SONGWRITER

  Livin' la Vida Loca: why is Ricky Martin's best song so catchy?

  Puerto Rico,

  USA

  , Latin, Popular Song, 1990s
• 

  SONGWRITER

  Three Little Fishies: origin of the cautionary children's song

  USA

  , Children's song, Popular Song, 1930s 1 comment
• 

  SONGWRITER

  Pancho and Lefty: gangster song that saved Townes Van Zandt from a speeding ticket

  USA

  , Folk, 1970s
• 

  SONGWRITER

  Oye Como Va: meaning and origin of the best-known cha-cha-chá song

  USA

  , Latin, Popular Song, Rock, 1960s, 1970s
• 

  SONGWRITER

  La Bamba: meaning and tragedy behind the best-known son jarocho

  Mexico,

  USA

  , Folk, Latin, Popular Song, 1960s, 1980s
• 

  Music Theory

  6 songs to unpack Ionian mode and the major scale

  England,

  USA

  , Blues, Folk, Popular Song, Rock, 1930s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
• 

  SONGWRITER

  Sugaree: Jerry Garcia's song referencing his lyricist's criminal past

  USA

  , Rock, 1970s
• 

  SONGWRITER

  Lawdy Miss Clawdy: how Lloyd Price's first hit mixes blues and classics

  USA

  , Rock, 1950s
• 

  SONGWRITER

  Marie Laveau: ballad of the legendary Voodoo Queen

  USA

  , Folk, Rock, 1970s
• 

  SONGWRITER

  Caldonia: the song that spawned the term rock and roll

  USA

  , Popular Song, Rock, 1940s
• 

  SONGWRITER

  Statesboro Blues: no one can sing the blues like Blind Willie McTell

  USA

  , Blues, 1920s, 1930s
• 

  SONGWRITER

  Hushabye: folk roots of famous rock and roll lullaby

  USA

  , Lullaby, Rock, 1950s, 1960s
• 

  SONGWRITER

  Mairzy Doats lyrics inspired by 15th century nursery rhyme

  USA

  , Popular Song, 1940s
• 

  SONGWRITER

  Coal Miner's Daughter was forced to remove a third of the lyrics from her autobiographical song

  USA

  , Folk, 1960s, 1970s
• 

  SONGWRITER

  Incense and Peppermints: a tangled story of song production

  USA

  , Rock, 1960s
• 

  SONGWRITER

  Wabash Cannonball: the ballad of the railway Flying Dutchman

  USA

  , Folk, Popular Song, 1930s
• 

  SONGWRITER

  Last Train to Clarksville: a duo of songwriters behind the first Monkees hit

  USA

  , Rock, 1960s
• 

  SONGWRITER

  Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy: the reveille that defined a generation

  USA

  , Popular Song, 1940s
• 

  ORCHESTRA

  Lully's Passacaglia of Armide revised by Bear McCreary in Outlander score

  France,

  USA

  , Opera, Passacaglia, Soundtrack, Baroque, 2010s
• 

  SONGWRITER

  In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida: Iron Butterfly's longest song anticipated metal genres

  USA

  , Popular Song, Rock, 1960s 2 comments
• 

  SONGWRITER

  Minnie the Moocher: essential step in the history of scat singing by Cab Calloway

  USA

  , Jazz, Popular Song, 1930s
• «
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• »