What’s 2023’s song of the summer? It might be too early to say. But we do know that it will be, in the words of Washington Post music critic Chris Richards, a song “capable of changing the nation’s ...

What is a summer song? Is it a song about the season itself or is it a song that played in the background during all the good times in the sun? The answer, of course, is that a summer song can be both ...

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- When rocker Eddie Cochran released "Summertime Blues" in August 1958, the concept of "the song of summer" was born. It had a catchy melody with a chugging beat and lyrics that ...

Earlier this summer, actors at Magnolia Arts Center had been selected to stage “Smokey Joe’s Cafe,” a musical revue featuring dozens of hits from the 1950s and early ’60s. But something happened to ...

Few songs have become as closely associated with their respective eras as Creedence Clearwater Revival’s famous roots rock protest song, “Fortunate Son”. Released in 1969, this clear and loud ...

We've seen artists from The Beach Boys, to Prince, to the Black Eyed Peas giving us some of the toe-tapping, sing-along summer hits that we just... The unforgettable summer songs that have us singing ...