"Say You, Say Me" - Single by Lionel Richie from the album Dancing on the Ceiling B-side "Can't Slow Down" Released: October 29, 1985 Songwriter: Lionel Richie Producers: Lionel Richie, James Anthony Carmichael For the 1985 film White Nights, a ballet drama starring Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gregory Hines, director Taylor Hackford asked Richie to write a title theme. Unable to compose a song with "White Nights" in the title, Richie […]

"Blue Suede Shoes" - Single by Elvis Presley from the album Elvis Presley. B-side: "Tutti Frutti" Released: September 8, 1956 Recorded: January 30, 1956 During the 1940s and 1950s, it was common to record and release cover versions of hit songs, often in different styles or genres. RCA Victor wanted to promote Elvis Presley as a rock-and-roll artist, and believed a Presley cover of "Blue Suede Shoes" could outsell the […]

"Wine, Beer, Whiskey" - Single by Little Big Town from the album Nightfall, released on June 1, 2020. Songwriters: Tofer Brown, Karen Fairchild, Sean McConnell, Kimberley Schlapman, Phillip Sweet, Jimi Westbrook. Little Big Town penned this song with Tofer Brown and Sean McConnell during a profitable writing session that birthed three tunes, including "Problem Child." The foot-stomping drinking anthem came as a fun moment of levity for the band and […]

"What She Wants Tonight" - Single by Luke Bryan from the album Born Here Live Here Die Here. Released October 24, 2019. Bryan released the single on October 24, 2019. It was included on his seventh studio album, Born Here, Live Here, Die Here. The song's producers are Jeff Stevens and his son, Jody Stevens. Bryan wrote the song along with Ross Copperman, Jon Nite, and Hillary Lindsey, three writers […]

"That'll Be The Day" is a single from the album with the same title from 1957. This Buddy Holly single charted #1 in US and UK. Holly had been kicking around his home town in Lubbock, Texas trying to write a hit song for his small rockabilly band since he had attended an Elvis Presley gig at his High School some time in 1955. His band in those days consisted […]

Ma Baker is a Boney M single from the album Love for Sale from 1977. The single charted #2 in UK and only 96 in US. "Ma Baker" is a typical Boney M song, based on a real person. Kate Barker, born Arizona Clark, married her husband George in 1892 and bore him four sons who became gangsters in the fashion of Bonny & Clyde and John Dillinger. "Ma Baker" […]

"Made in Heaven" - Single by Freddie Mercury from the album Mr. Bad Guy. B-side "She Blows Hot and Cold" Released: 1 July 1985 Recorded: 1984 "Made in Heaven" is the third single recorded by Freddie Mercury, and his fourth release as a solo artist. Originally featured in Mercury's first solo album, Mr. Bad Guy, the song was slightly modified and published as a 45 rpm single paired with "She […]