Goodbye Davey Jones
Last year Tunesmate highlighted that The Monkees celebrated 45 years hitting one number with “I’m A Believer“. Today, Davey Jones, the electric frontman of The Monkees, has died at the age of 66. Let’s...
Monthly Archive: February 2012
Let’s Stay Together
Al Green’s international hit Let’s Stay Together hit number one 40 years ago. In 2011 Seal did a worthy tribute of the tune on his Soul 2 effort, however Reverend Green’s version can’t be...
Chris Cornell Covers Whitney
Chris Cornell, the lead singer of Sound Garden and Audio Slave, recently performed a tribute to the late great Whitey Houston. The rocker belts out his cover of “I Will Always Love You” the...
Say It Right
While Nelly Furtado became known first for her song “I’m Like A Bird,” which hit number 9 back in 2001, it would be a number of years later before she would top Billboard‘s Hot...
When It Truly Was a Spice World
How much did the Spice Girls dominate popular music in the United Kingdom from 1996-1998? Well, their first six singles all went to number one, their seventh single went to number two, and their...
Duke Of Earl
Chicago-born singer and record producer Gene Chandler had a string of singles hit Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart in the 1960s and 1970s, including several that cracked the Top 40, but only one of them...
Once Upon A Time … Not So Long Ago …
Exactly 25 years ago yesterday, Valentine’s Day was greeted, appropriately enough, with a new number 1 song on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart that would tell the story of Tommy and Gina, who were “down on [their]...
Michael McDonald
Perhaps one of the more recognizable voices in popular music over the last 40 years belongs to St. Louis-born Michael McDonald, who turns 60 today. McDonald gained particular notoriety in the 1970s, first to...
Where Do Broken Hearts Go
By now, you’ve likely heard the news that Whitney Houston has died at the age of 48. In the 1980s and 1990s, Houston was one of the most successful artists in the music industry,...
