"Old Time Rock and Roll" is a song written by George Jackson and Thomas E. Jones III, and recorded by Bob Seger for his 1978 album Stranger in Town. It was also released as a single in 1979. It is ...
One of Kenny Rogers' biggest hits, this four-minute story-in-a-song is one of his most poignant and well-written songs. Released in November 1979, it surprisingly failed to top the US charts (it pe...
One of Canada's finest singer-songwriters ever. Gordon Lightfoot, who turned 78 recently, is still active today. This title track from his 1974 album "Sundown" received a lot of radio play at the t...
This was the Supremes' first hit in the UK, in the year when Motown started to make its first inroads into our charts. It peaked at 3 in the UK. It was the first of 12 Number One hits in the USA fo...
One of my favourite Elvis singles, this one was kept off the Number One spot in the UK by Paul Anka's "Diana". How dare that effort outsell this underrated rock 'n' roll classic?