music history

With everyone talking about Miley Cyrus's performance at this year's MTV VMA's, it is a nice break to look back at some past winners.  Today, August 30, we go back to 2004 in music history. It doesn't seem like these hits could be nine plus years old:

Ritchie Valens, born in California in 1941,  was a Latin rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist with late 1950's hits like, "Donna" and "La Bamba".  He died tragically in a plane crash in 1959 along with Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper. In ...

On this day, August 28, 1993, singer, songwriter, pianist, Billy Joel scored the number one album in the U.S. with "River Of Dreams".  The album would remain at number one for three weeks.  Joel explained that many of the songs came to him while he was sleeping, leading to the name of the album.  The artist who created the cover was not only a supermodel but was also Joel's second wife,

Ben Affleck has been named as the next Batman, with the film due out in July 2015.  Batman fans are voicing their concern about the choice but then again, there is the ongoing debate of who the best Batman is.  Today we turn our attentioin to "Batman Forever" starring Val Kilmer as the superhero, but the focus is on Seal. ...

Today in music history we go back to 1988, when the most played songs of the first hundred years were announced.  The jukebox heroes weren't the members of the rock band, Foreigner that would have been too, cool.  The award went to two singers who had a couple of decades on the group.

Faith Hill had her first crossover hit in 1998 with "This Kiss" from her album titled, "Faith".  The single soared to number one on the country charts and rose into the Top 10 on the U.S. Pop and Adult Contemporary charts.  This was the beginning of her pop star status.

I remember this song like it was yesterday, even though it was twenty-two years ago.  What?!  Is that possible?  Today, in music history we go back to 1991, when Canadian pop/rock star, Bryan Adams, started the fourth week of a sixteen week consecutive run at number one in the U.K., with

The music of AC/DC rocks several generations and people still get pumped whenever the amps are kicking out the tunes.  Today in music history, August 9, 1980, AC/DC scored their first number one album in the U.K. with "Back In Black".

Pop-rock group, Dexys Midnight Runners, of Birmingham, England, had one of the biggest U.S singles in 1983.  "Come On Eileen" was the number five song of that year but began it's success in the year prior.

Lisa Loeb's mega hit is over nineteen years old but still gets heavy radio play.  "Stay (I Miss You)", started a three week run as the number one song in the United States on this day, August 6, 1994.  It is good to know people.  Her friend and actor, Ethan Hawke, shared the single with Ben Stiller, the director of his then upcoming movie, "Reality Bites", also starring Winona