July 18, 2012 On This Day in 1980 the album 'Move It On Over', by George Thorogood & The Destroyers, featuring the title track and the only song that has ever rhymed "skull" and "love", 'Who Do You Love', was certified Gold.
July 18, 2012 One of the people who's thrown their name in to possibly be a new 'American Idol' judge is Aretha Franklin. On the last hour of the 'Today' show on Monday, Kathie Lee Gifford BASHED that idea.
July 17, 2012 On This Day in 1995 the amazing album 'Tapestry', by the amazing Carole King, featuring the amazing hits 'I Feel the Earth Move' and 'It's Too Late', peaked at 10-TIMES PLATINUM!
July 17, 2012 Country music lost a legend yesterday. Kitty Wells, who is considered the first female country superstar, passed away at the age of 92.
Her song "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky-Tonk Angels" was the first Number One country hit by a female artist back in 1952. She recorded some 50 albums and had 25 Top 10 country hits.
July 16, 2012 It's weirdly addictive to look at the tour riders that musicians give to concert venues with their DEMANDS. Yeah, mostly it's food and drinks, but it's those bizarre, random, OTHER requests that make the riders great.
July 16, 2012 On Saturday night, Bruce Springsteen held a concert for around 80,000 fans in Hyde Park in London. The concert was supposed to end at 10:30 P.M. but Bruce kept going and called Paul McCartney on stage to perform with him. Apparently, not everybody in London wanted to hear the music.
July 16, 2012 Carly Rae Jepsen's 'Call Me Maybe' is THE hit of the summer. It's so popular that there are literally thousands of covers of the song all over YouTube, rock stars are performing the song in concert and people are making videos like this one...
July 13, 2012 Yesterday, The Rolling Stones celebrated the 50th anniversary of their first concert at London's Marquee Club in 1962. In honor of that, UltimateClassicRock.com has put out a list of The Top 100 Rolling Stones Songs. See the Top 10 on the next page!
July 12, 2012 On This Day in 1993, 'Moods' by Neil Diamond, featuring 'Song Sung Blue', 'Porcupine Pie', 'Canta Libre' and 'Play Me', went Platinum
It’s not exactly what you think. We swear, this one is a little different. Among the array of Carly Rae Jespen’s ‘Call Me Maybe‘ cover songs, this one from our childhood friend — the Cookie Monster — has got to be one of the better ones. Why? Well, he decided to hold onto only the beat and some of the lyrics, yet change most of them to suit something he wants dearly. No, he doesn’t want your number. He wants your cookies.
It’s time again to play, ‘What Classic Song is Landon Thinking Of’?’ This one is super easy compared to last week’s song.
July 2, 2012 A 'Star Wars' version of Gotye's 'Somebody That I Used to Know' has racked up over two million views on YouTube over the weekend.
