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Denver wrote this song with his friends Bill and Taffy Danoff, who were married at the time (Taffy later became Taffy Nivert). Denver was in Washington, DC to perform with the Danoffs, and after the show they went back to the couple's home where they played him what they had of this song (John almost didn't make it - he got in a car accident on the way over and was taken to a hospital for a thumb injury). Denver helped them complete the song, and the next night they sang it together on stage. Denver knew he had a hit song on his hands, and brought the Danoffs to New York where they recorded the song together - you can hear Bill and Taffy on background vocals. The country roads in this song are in West Virginia, but Denver had never even been to West Virginia. Bill and Taffy Danoff started writing the song while driving to Maryland - they'd never been to West Virginia either! Danoff got his inspiration from postcards sent to him by a friend who DID live there, and from listening to the powerful AM station WWVA out of Wheeling, West Virginia, which he picked up in Massachusetts when he was growing up. Bill Danoff told NPR in 2011: "I just thought the idea that I was hearing something so exotic to me from someplace as far away. West Virginia might as well have been in Europe, for all I knew."

When Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson team up, the world expects nothing less than greatness. Thankfully, we were never proven wrong, especially with their 1971 hit, “Good Hearted Woman”. Can you guess where the idea for the song came from? Well, Jennings and Nelson found themselves on tour together at a stop in Forth Worth, Texas in 1969. Jennings was casually flipping through the television channels when he came across a commercial that promoted Tina Turner, a starlet and singer that was just hitting her stride following her headlining tour in Las Vegas with her husband, Ike Turner. The commercial called her, specifically, “a good hearted woman loving two-timing men.” Jennings had a spark of inspiration and immediately went directly to Nelson to talk about it. Where was ol’ Willie? In the middle of a poker game, actually, and his wife, Connie, wrote the lines down as the two country music outlaws bounced ideas back and forth. The song became the title track of Jennings’ 1972 album, Good Hearted Woman, and the pair has performed the duet many times for eager crowds. In fact, Tina Turner herself even performed a rendition of it on her later album, Soul Deep.

youtube.com/@patrickmusiclive This reflective piece is the fourth single from Zac Brown Band's first major-label studio album, The Foundation. The band's lead singer Zac Brown penned the song with his usual songwriting partner, Wyatt Durrette. The song's lyric is about the shared custody of a child. The narrator is a divorced father who still loves his son and ponders about the situation on his long fortnightly drive down Highway 20 to see him. Highway 20 is a major east–west Interstate road in the southeastern United States that runs 1,535 miles (2,470 km) between Texas and South Carolina. When this song drove from #11 to #9 on the Country chart, the Zac Brown Band became the first group to send four songs from a debut album into the top 10 since Rascal Flatts netted their fourth top 10 hit in 2002. This was the third single taken from The Foundation to top Country Songs. The previous major label debut album to yield at least three #1s on the Country chart was Carrie Underwood's 2005 long player, Some Hearts. This was the second song with a highway number in its title to reach #1 on the Country chart. The previous one was "Highway 40 Blues" by Ricky Skaggs, which travelled to the peak position on the week ending July 9, 1983. Wyatt Durrette told The Boot about the inspiration for this song: "'Highway 20 Ride' is a song I started writing when I was probably a year into making the drive from Atlanta to Augusta, Georgia [to see my son]. I had gone through a divorce. She moved back to where she was from in South Carolina, and the halfway point was Augusta. I was bartending and took every other weekend off to spend time with him. It was a very painful time in my life, not having enough time together and having to bring him back. I worried about how he will perceive me as a father. Am I doing the right thing? I was going through all the things everybody goes through in that situation. That song started on Interstate 20 in Georgia. I brought [what I had started] to Zac. He was there as a friend. He went through it with me on my end. He is also a son of the same situation - a divorce - with his father. He saw the other side, so it wasn't a hard song for him to help me write. He sings it with a lot of passion. He was there as a child, and he was there when I was going through it.

youtube.com/@patrickmusiclive In this song, Elvis sings about how he was hurt by a girl who showed interest in him and then left for another guy. This girl has a little sister, and now he is taking an interest in her, but hopes she doesn't leave him the same way. This was written by the Brill Building songwriters Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman. They also wrote the 1959 hit "A Teenager In Love," which also deals with a young man who is baffled by women. This was released as a single with another Doc Pomus / Mort Shuman composition: "(Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame," which made #4 US on September 18, 1961, two weeks before "Little Sister" peaked at #5. Although "Marie" was the bigger chart hit, "Little Sister" had a lot more staying power, becoming one of Elvis' classics. Artists to cover this song include Ry Cooder, Link Wray and Jimmy Barnes. Dwight Yoakam released his version in 1987, taking it to #7 on the Country chart.

youtube.com/@patrickmusiclive On May 6, 1965, The Rolling Stones played to about 3,000 people at Jack Russell Stadium in Clearwater, Florida while on their first US tour. According to an article in the St. Petersburg Times, about 200 young fans got in an altercation with a line of police officers at the show, and The Stones made it through just four songs as chaos ensued. That night, Keith Richards woke up in his hotel room with the guitar riff and lyric "Can't get no satisfaction" in his head. He recorded it on a portable tape deck, went back to sleep, and brought it to the studio that week. The tape contained his guitar riff followed by the sounds of him snoring. Richards was staying at the Fort Harrison Hotel (known at the time as the Jack Tar Harrison Hotel) when he rolled out of bed with the idea for this song. The hotel still exists. In 1975, it was bought by the Church of Scientology and frequently hosts religious retreats. The guitar riff is similar to Martha & the Vandellas "Dancing in the Street." Richards thought that is where he got the idea, and was worried that it was too similar. This was released in the United States on June 6, 1965, just a month after Keith Richards woke up with the guitar riff in his head. In the UK, it wasn't issued until August 20, since The Stones did not want to release it in England until they were there to support it. While they were touring in America, they became very popular in England, so they kept recording singles in the States to keep their momentum until they could return for a tour.

youtube.com/@patrickmusiclive One of Lightfoot's most personal songs, this is about the breakup of his first marriage - a common theme in many of his songs. In the liner notes of his boxed set Songbook, he describes it as "A song about the failure of marriage." Written in 1969, the song has been recorded more than 100 times, first by Lightfoot himself for Sit Down Young Stranger. The album was not a commercial success, but after the song reached #5 on the US singles chart in 1971, the album was renamed after the song and re-released, reaching #12 in the pop charts. >> This song was used in the Canadian feature film Paperback Hero in 1975. Other recordings include those by Carroll Baker, Glen Campbell, The Bells, Johnny Mathis, Liza Minelli, Barbra Streisand and Andy Williams. Instrumental arrangements have been recorded by Herb Alpert, John Arpin, James Last, The Boss Brass and others. >>

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This is the Marshall Tucker Band's biggest hit on the Pop charts, and remains their best-remembered song. In spite of its up tempo, it's rather sad. Written by Toy Caldwell, the song is about a man who has lived on the road from town to town and affair to affair. Here, he's been with a woman who's been good to him and who he actually loves, but he can't stay with her because the call of the road is too strong.

For fans of folk and Americana music, the song “Wagon Wheel” is likely an all-time favorite. Originally, legendary songwriter Bob Dylan wrote the chorus in 1973 and then Old Crow Medicine Show frontman Ketch Secor added verses 25 years later. Old Crow’s final version of the song went platinum in April 2013 and it has nearly 70 million views on YouTube today, alone. Headin’ down south to the land of the pines / I’m thumbin’ my way into North Caroline / Starin’ up the road and pray to God I see headlights / I made it down the coast in seventeen hours / Pickin’ me a bouquet of dogwood flowers / And I’m a-hopin’ for Raleigh, I can see my baby tonight,” Secor sings to open the song. The meaning of the song lyrics, which describes a journey by a hitchhiker going south along the United States east coast—from New England to Virginia—embody the nomadic artistic sensibility. The journeyman is hoping to see his love by the end of the long road.

A short acoustic rendition of the wonderful country song made popular by Darius Rucker.

With the line "heavy metal thunder," this became the first popular song to use the phrase "heavy metal," which became a term for hard rock. William Burroughs is credited with coining the phrase, as he used it in his 1961 novel The Soft Machine, describing his character Uranian Willy as "the Heavy Metal Kid." Burroughs told The Paris Review: "I felt that heavy metal was sort of the ultimate expression of addiction, that there's something actually metallic in addiction, that the final stage reached is not so much vegetable as mineral." This was used in the 1969 movie Easy Rider, a counterculture classic starring Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda as bikers who ride from Los Angeles to New Orleans. Another Steppenwolf song, "The Pusher," was also used in the film. When the movie was in production, this was simply a placeholder, since Fonda wanted Crosby, Stills and Nash to do the soundtrack. It became clear that the song belonged in the movie, and it stayed. Partly because of it's use in Easy Rider, this has become the song most associated with motorcycles.

This poignant song about two ex-lovers recalling happier times was written by Troy Seals and Donnie Fritts and was first recorded by Waylon Jennings. It was the only track on the Honky Tonk Heroes album not penned by Billy Joe Shaver. It reached #28 on the country chart. Many artists covered this, including Dobie Gray, Rita Coolidge, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, and The Rolling Stones. In 2013, studio session musician Norbert Putnam added Elvis Presley to the list, though his version was never finished. Putnam, who played bass on 122 Elvis songs, remembers the singer falling in love with the track, but it proved too painful a reminder of his recent divorce from Priscilla Presley. What followed was an uncharacteristically tough session at Stax in 1973.

The ancient Egyptians were a dance-loving people. Dancers were commonly depicted on murals, tomb paintings and temple engravings. Ideographs show a man dancing to represent joy and happiness. Pictorial representations and written records from as early as 3000 B.C. are offered as evidence that dance has a long history in the Nile kingdom. According to the “International Encyclopedia of Dance”, “dance was part of the Egyptian ethos and featured prominently in religious ritual and ceremony on social occasions and in Egyptian funerary practices regarding the afterlife.”The study of ancient Egyptian dance is based mostly on identifying dance scenes from monuments, temples and tombs and translating and interpreting the inscriptions and texts that accompanied them. [Source: “ International Encyclopedia of Dance”, editor Jeane Cohen]

This great hit from the 60s was the shortest song on the radio at the time. I loved it and I still do.

This is my favorite Sing-Along Christian Worship Song...which I'm doing in this instance...singing along with the original song, my vocals are out front in the mix...I loaded the original song into my studio....

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Miss Kitty was a character on the hit television program GUNSMOKE. She was played by Amanda Blake.She and Matt and Doc blessed our lives and were wholesome role models for us..RIP Amanda Blake & thank you...

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