Bill Medley wrote a moderate hit for the Righteous Brothers in 1963. Three years later, Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels made it a smash.
Bill Medley
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Ken Shane
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The Royalettes were the first to record a classic that was a bigger hit for others.
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Ken Shane
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In 1965 the Righteous Brothers had a year that has seldom been equaled in the annals of popular music.
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Brian Boone
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Carly Simon’s song from Working Girl was the first Oscar-winning song in a decade not to be a smash hit, and also it was by the iconic Carly Simon. What gives?
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Brian Boone
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When duos split up, there’s usually only one breakout star who goes on to any semblance of a successful solo career, with the public casting its vote with its dollars…
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Popdose Staff
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There’s no denying the stone-cold classics found in this week’s edition of AM Gold.
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Popdose Staff
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There was no immediate warning about whether audience members in the first five rows might be spattered with stray bits of clay, but on Monday the producers of the musical…
Kelly Stitzel
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Kelly Stitzel returns us to 1988 in her latest look at the Best Original Song nominees of Oscars past.
Ken Shane
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The Jayhawks, Music From the North Country: The Jayhawks Anthology – Deluxe Edition (Sony Legacy) In the grand history of pop music, there haven’t been all that many voices that…
Dave Steed
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This is it — the Holy Grail of Á¢€Ëœ80s music finally makes its appearance at Bottom Feeders. Enjoy another week of artists whose names begin with the letter M, as…
Dw. Dunphy
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Introducing an occasional series wherein we take a look at some of the most massive-sounding songs in pop history. A funny thing happened around 1971, or maybe 1972 — it…
Jeff Vrabel
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The great thing about breakup songs is that you have absolutely no control over what they are; they just happen to be playing in the background, clamped into the CD…
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