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  • Caldonia Movie Poster

    Caldonia: the song that spawned the term rock and roll

    Caldonia is a 1945 song released by Louis Jordan, an American songwriter and saxophonist whose popularity in the 1940s...
  • Blind Willie McTell LP cover

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

    Bob Dylan's track Blind Willie McTell is perhaps the best tribute to this outstanding traveling street artist who has...
  • Misty Mountain Hop LP cover

    Misty Mountain Hop: Led Zeppelin's contribution to pot legalization

    Misty Mountain Hop is an iconic 1971 Led Zeppelin song the title of which is associated with the mountains described by...
  • Kishori Amonkar in Mumbai, 2008

    Kishori Amonkar reclaimed her lost voice with Ayurveda

    Kishori Amonkar was one of the most respected classical vocalists of the Hindustani tradition who intensively developed...
  • Die Hülsenbeckschen Kinder by Philipp Otto Runge

    Kinderszenen and Schumann's metronome mystery

    Kinderszenen or Scenes from Childhood is a set of short piano pieces written by Robert Schumann in 1838. Although these...
  • All the Pretty Little Horses LP cover

    Hushabye: folk roots of famous rock and roll lullaby

    Hushabye is the first successful song recorded by the American rock band The Mystics to spend nine weeks on the national...
  • Mairzy Doats by The Merry Macs

    Mairzy Doats lyrics inspired by 15th century nursery rhyme

    Mairzy Doats is a notable nursery rhyme song written in the 1940s when parody and humor songs were in high demand. The...

  • Dum Maro Dum: psychedelic Hindi lyrics in Western arrangement that influenced generations

    Dum Maro Dum is a popular Hindi song written by Anand Bakshi and composed by Rahul Dev Burman for the 1971 Bollywood...
  • Coal Miner's Daughter Exclusive Edition Marbled Blue Vinyl LP

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

    Coal Miner's Daughter is an autobiographical song by the influential country-genre songwriter Loretta Lynn in which she...
  • L' Arlesienne by Adrien Marie

    La Marcho di Rei: L'Arlesienne opening theme harks back to Provencal Christmas carol

    The origin of the iconic theme in the energetic opening of Georges Bizet's L'Arlésienne is still unclear. Presumably,...
  • Strawberry Alarm Clock

    Incense and Peppermints: a tangled story of song production

    Incense and Peppermints is an essential psychedelic rock song released in 1967 by the LA-based band Strawberry Alarm...
  • Rocky Mountain Rocket in 1942

    Wabash Cannonball: the ballad of the railway Flying Dutchman

    Wabash Cannonball, also known as The Great Rock Island Route, is an influential American folk song the first known...
  • Monkees LP cover

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

    Last Train to Clarksville is the debut single released by The Monkees in 1966 which would be their most successful song...
  • Bhimsen Joshi

    First musical steps of Bhimsen Joshi

    Bhimsen Joshi was a highly regarded vocalist who organically combined all aspects of Indian classical music, be it...
  • Xerxes by Ian MacGregor Morris

    Ombra mai fu: Handel's best-known melody of failed Serse opera

    The highly acclaimed instrumental composition known as Handel's Largo comes from the opening aria of his 1738 opera...
  • Сompay Segundo

    Guajira Guantanamera: song meaning and origin of the lyrics

    Guantanamera is a demonym—a word that identifies a group of people in relation to a particular place—in this case, used...
  • Buck Privates Film Poster

    Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy: the reveille that defined a generation

    Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy is an iconic World War II tune written by Don Raye and Hughie Prince for the military musical...
  • Roman numerals indicating chords of minor and major scales

    Authentic cadence exemplified by The Beatles songs

    In theory, a cadence refers to a harmonic turnaround that appears at the end of a musical phrase, and the role it plays...
  • Goodbye Yellow Brick Road LP cover

    Bennie and the Jets: the opening piano chord and disastrous recording sessions in Jamaica

    Bennie and the Jets is inarguably one of Elton John's most popular songs first released on the Goodbye Yellow Brick Road...
  • Armide at the Palais-Royal Opera House by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin

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

    The passacaglia is a slow dance that originated in Spain at the very beginning of the Baroque era, initially performed a...

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