The Monkees‘ “A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You” was one of two hit songs Neil Diamond gave to The Monkees. During an interview, Diamond said the success of one of his songs opened the door for The ...
Will Hoge tried. He really did. Two years ago, when the singer-songwriter released his tenth studio album, Small Town Dreams, he decided to – against his better instincts, perhaps – give mainstream ...
Don Kirshner served as The Monkees‘ music supervisor during the early years of the band’s career. Kirshner decided The Monkees’ “A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You” should be a single. Subsequently, ...
No matter how many years pass, these songs have made their mark on our collective consciousness, seemingly for good. And no, it doesn't matter that they are not "real" songs and only existed within ...
This weekend will bring in the first day of spring for 2022 and Weezer have got your soundtrack to mark the occasion. As promised, Weezer are making good on the idea to release four EPs over a ...
The track was released in 1964 along with the B-side “Goodbye boys, Goodbye.” The song secured a comeback for the group who hadn’t had a hit in some time. It wound up peaking at No. 3 on the Billboard ...
Off Bega’s debut album, A Little Bit of Mambo, the song topped the charts across Europe and reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and sold 3.3 million copies in the U.S., and was nominated for a ...
Semisonic frontman Dan Wilson wrote some of the catchiest pop rock melodies of the late ‘90s, not the least of which was 1998’s seemingly omnipresent smash single “Closing Time.” Since the band’s last ...
If it isn’t clear by now, JP Saxe is damn talented when it comes to expressing so much emotion with so few words. This skillful, almost surgical songwriting is seen on his platinum-selling “If The ...