This hit from early 1966 isn’t quite the spontaneous fun party it sounds like.
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49–School’s Out
Alice Cooper’s biggest hit was inspired by two things: Old movies and the last three minutes of the school day.
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48–Under the Covers, Part 3
It’s been a while since we took a look at a bunch of songs that you may not realize are covers of other artists’ work.
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47–Remembering Aretha Franklin
Aretha Franklin died on August 16, 2018. This week’s show takes a look back at the life and music career of the Queen of Soul.
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46–Mellow Yellow
Donovan struck lucky a couple of times with this song: first, it was the beginning of people looking into the deeper meaning behind absolutely every lyric. Second, the song got a weird boost from a practical joke being played by an underground newspaper out of Berkeley.
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45–Rapture
Disco was on its way out, to be replaced by Hip-Hop or New Wave, depending on the clubs you frequented. Blondie’s last major hit in the US was a track that departed from their previous style and broke a few barriers along the way.
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41–Summertime Blues
The song that cemented Eddie Cochran’s place in the Rock and Roll firmament was written in about an hour by a 19 year old Cochran and his manager.
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39–Under the Boardwalk
One of The Drifters’ bigger hits might have been a sequel to one of their earlier songs, but it was definitely a prequel to one of their later songs.
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36–Sultans of Swing
Mark Knopfler sees a band performing to a nearly-empty house in a South London pub, and turned the experience into Dire Straits’ breakout single.
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35–(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
By early 1965, the Rolling Stones had scored a couple of hits, but they were still Just Another British Band Covering a Bunch of American R&B Songs. Then one night Keith Richards literally wrote something in his sleep, and it became the start of something that turned them into a worldwide phenomenon.
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