Charlie Daniels, whose biggest hit, “The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” became an international smash in 1979, died of a stroke on July 6, 2020. He was 83.
John Prine, the man responsible for some of the most articulate and moving songs of the last 50 years, died due to complications related to COVID-19 on April 7, 2020. He was 73.
On April 10, 1976, Shad O’Shea & the 18-Wheelers’ “Colorado Call” bubbled under the Billboard Hot 100. The CB radio craze inspired the lyrics—Citizen Band radios, which were actually simpler [...]
Kenny Rogers, the prolific country singer whose career spanned nearly six decades, passed away from natural causes on March 20, 2020, at the age of 81.
In the pantheon of sports anthems drawn from rock songs, Gary Glitter’s “Rock and Roll Part 2” (nicknamed “The Hey Song”) joined the strains of Steam’s “Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye” and [...]