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  • A Night In Brazil CD cover

    Garota De Ipanema: world's best-known bossa nova tune came to Jobim in a bar

    Garota De Ipanema is one of the best-known songs in the bossa nova genre, a dance style that originated in the 1950s as...
  • Shyama Shastri

    Progressive rhythms and sacred themes of Shyama Shastri songs

    Syama Sastri was one of the most influential Indian composers of the 18th century whose extensive contributions to the...

  • Things We Said Today: the only Beatles song featuring Phrygian mode

    Things We Said Today is one of the tracks written by Paul McCartney for The Beatles's 1964 A Hard Day's Night, although...
  • Lynyrd Skynyrd CD cover

    Gimme Three Steps: the bar where Lynyrd Skynyrd's frontman almost got shot

    Gimme Three Steps is the best-known track from the 1973 debut album by American rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. The...
  • Concerning Hobbits from The Fellowship of the Ring

    Concerning Hobbits: portraying home with the penny whistle

    Concerning Hobbits is a two-minute tune originally composed by Canadian composer Howard Shore for Peter Jackson's 2001...
  • The Dream by Betty Swanwick as LP cover for Selling England by the Pound

    Firth of Fifth: impressionistic Genesis song as a prog-rock masterpiece

    Firth of Fifth is a ten-minute track released by Genesis on the 1973 album Selling England by the Pound and is...
  • Elvis Crespo CD cover

    Suavemente: meaning of Elvis Crespo's best song

    Suavemente is one of the best-known songs in the merengue genre—a dance style that originated in the Dominican Republic...
  • Cum On Feel the Noize single cover

    Cum On Feel the Noize: Slade's instant hit recipe

    Cum On Feel the Noize is a 1973 single by the English glam rock band Slade that topped the charts a week after its...
  • Oboe Concerto

    Marcello's Oboe Concerto arranged by Bach and mistakenly attributed to Vivaldi

    Concerto in D minor for oboe, strings, and continuo, also known as Marcello's Oboe Concerto, can rightfully be called a...
  • 1938 Hudson Terraplane with Mull

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

    Terraplane Blues is the first single released by Robert Johnson—a traveling blues performer deeply revered by many rock...
  • Rosemary Clooney CD cover

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

    Mambo Italiano is a timeless hit in the mambo genre written by American songwriter Bob Merrill in the 1950s on a...
  • Radha Krishna (Manini Radha) by Raja Ravi Varma

    Hare Krishna Mantra: meaning and purpose of best-known Hindu chant

    The Hare Krishna mantra is a highly popular religious chant in India, the original lyrics of which can be traced back to...
  • A Hard Day's Night LP cover

    9 Beatles songs that combine harmonic major with Ionian mode

    The polyphonic structure of Western classical music distinguishes it from other musical traditions such as Indian...
  • Led Zeppelin CD cover

    D'yer Mak'er: meaning of Led Zeppelin's most controversial song

    D'yer Mak'er, released on Led Zeppelin's 1973 album Houses of the Holy, remains the most controversial track the band...
  • The Meeting of Dido and Aeneas by Nathaniel Dance Holla

    Dido's Lament: sadness and simplicity of Purcell's best-known song

    When I Am Laid In Earth or Dido's Lament is probably one of the saddest songs of the Baroque era, written by the English...
  • Larks' Tongues in Aspic by Tantra Designs

    Larks' Tongues in Aspic: the classic theme behind best prog-album opener

    Larks' Tongues in Aspic is a pentalogy of instrumental suites recorded by several generations of musicians for the...
  • Ozuna's Odisea CD cover

    El Farsante and 7 more songs by Ozuna in Dorian and Aeolian modes

    Few could have imagined that a career in music could have such an outstanding start as the one of Puerto Rican urbano...
  • Yakety Yak by the Coasters

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

    Yakety Yak is one of the best-known songs written by American songwriting partners Jerome Leiber and Michael Stoller...
  • Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter with his owl Hedwig

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

    Hedwig's Theme, also known as the main theme of all eight Harry Potter films, was the first piece written by John...
  • Burnin' LP

    I Shot the Sheriff: Burnin' spliff nearly destroyed Bob Marley's original recording

    I Shot The Sheriff is one of Bob Marley's best-known songs first released on the 1973 album Burnin' and popularized a...

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