A Rare Three Way Performance From Dolly Episode 13 On 16 January 1988, Dolly brought together three performers from very different corners of American entertainment for one wonderfully unexpected musical…
A Country Superstar Walks Into Letterman’s Wild World From Tokyo In November 1985, Kenny Rogers stepped into the wonderfully unpredictable world of David Letterman, but this was no ordinary Late…
A Night Of Memories, Hits And A Career Spanning More Than Four Decades On 24 November 2016, David Essex brought his I’ll Be Missing You Tour to the Regent Theatre…
A Night Of Memories: David Essex Returns To Liverpool With More Than Fifty Years Of Songs On Saturday, September 19, 2026, the lights came up at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall for…
When Pat Boone Outpaced Elvis: NME’s Surprise Poll Reflects the 1957 Music Landscape It sounds almost impossible now, but on October 4, 1957, a British music poll placed Pat Boone…
ROY ORBISON – “ONLY THE LONELY”: THE RECORD THAT GAVE A LONELY VOICE TO EVERY HEARTBREAK In 1960, Roy Orbison stood at the beginning of the transformation that would make…
DOLLY PARTON & REBA McENTIRE – “HOW BLUE”: WHEN THE WOMAN WHO INSPIRED REBA SANG ONE OF HER DEFINING SONGS In 2006, the stage of CMT Giants: Reba McEntire became…
ELVIS PRESLEY – “BLUE SUEDE SHOES”: THE NIGHT A YOUNG ELVIS BROUGHT ROCK ’N’ ROLL ABOARD THE USS HANCOCK On April 3, 1956, Elvis Presley stepped onto the deck of…
EMMYLOU HARRIS – AT THE RYMAN: THE NIGHT THE MOTHER CHURCH FOUND ITS VOICE AGAIN In the spring of 1991, Emmylou Harris walked onto a stage that had spent years…
DAVID ESSEX – “OH WHAT A CIRCUS”: THE SONG THAT TURNED “EVITA” INTO A ROCK STAR MOMENT On May 5, 1979, David Essex appeared on the Spanish television music programme…
REBA McENTIRE – “CONSIDER ME GONE”: THE MOMENT A WOMAN STOPS ASKING TO BE HEARD In 2009, Reba McEntire returned with a song that did something remarkably simple and powerful:…
EMMYLOU HARRIS – AT THE RYMAN: THE NIGHT THE MOTHER CHURCH FOUND ITS VOICE AGAIN In the spring of 1991, Emmylou Harris walked onto a stage that had spent years…
DAVID ESSEX – “THE SMILE”: A SECRET LANGUAGE BETWEEN TWO PEOPLE WHO ALREADY KNOW In the spring of 1983, David Essex returned with a song that sounded lighter and more…
DAVID ESSEX – “GONNA MAKE YOU A STAR”: FIFTY YEARS LATER, THE DREAM WAS STILL SHINING IN GLASGOW On September 3, 2026, the lights came up at Glasgow Royal Concert…
THE FIVEPENNY PIECE – “KEEP YOUR HAND ON YOUR HA’PENNY”: A CHEEKY PIECE OF OLD LANCASHIRE HUMOUR There was a time when a song did not need a spectacular chorus…
ELVIS PRESLEY – “BLUE SUEDE SHOES”: THE NIGHT A YOUNG ELVIS BROUGHT ROCK ’N’ ROLL ABOARD THE USS HANCOCK On April 3, 1956, Elvis Presley stepped onto the deck of…
ANNE MURRAY & KENNY ROGERS: “IF I EVER FALL IN LOVE AGAIN” AND THE QUIET BEAUTY OF TWO PERFECTLY MATCHED VOICES By 1989, Anne Murray and Kenny Rogers had already…
DOLLY PARTON & KENNY ROGERS: “I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU” BECAME A SONG ABOUT FRIENDSHIP AT DOLLYWOOD In 2010, as Dollywood celebrated its 25th anniversary, Dolly Parton gathered some of…
DOLLY PARTON – “BUT YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU”: THE HEARTBREAK OF LOVING SOMEONE WHILE THE ROAD KEEPS CALLING By the time Dolly Parton recorded “But You Know I Love…
EVERYTHING’S BEAUTIFUL (IN ITS OWN WAY): WHEN DOLLY PARTON AND WILLIE NELSON FOUND BEAUTY IN THE IMPERFECT WORLD There are country duets built around romance, heartbreak, or the sheer pleasure…
THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED: THREE YOUNG LIVES THAT NEVER HAD THE CHANCE TO FINISH THEIR SONGS Some nights in music history are remembered for the records they created. February…
ELVIS PRESLEY & FATS DOMINO: WHEN THE “KING” STOOD BESIDE THE MAN HE HAD ALWAYS ADMIRED There was no rivalry in the way history sometimes remembers the birth of rock…
SAMMY DAVIS JR. TURNED “I’VE GOTTA BE ME” INTO A PERSONAL ANTHEM AFTER IT WAS ALMOST HIDDEN ON THE B-SIDE In 1968, Sammy Davis Jr. recorded a song that seemed…
DOLLY PARTON & KENNY ROGERS: “ISLANDS IN THE STREAM” WHEN THEIR FAMOUS CHEMISTRY CAME HOME TO DOLLY’S OWN SHOW There are performances of “Islands in the Stream” that feel like…
DOLLY, RANDY & ANNE MURRAY: A BEAUTIFUL 1976 MOMENT WHEN FAMILY AND FRIENDSHIP MET ON DOLLY’S FIRST TELEVISION SHOW There is something wonderfully unpolished and intimate about watching Dolly Parton,…
BEFORE THERE WAS “ELVIS THE KING,” THERE WAS JUST A YOUNG MAN SINGING “MY HAPPINESS” FOR HIS MOTHER On a summer day in July 1953, an 18-year-old Elvis Presley walked…
“THE GREATEST MAN I NEVER KNEW” FOUND THE HEARTBREAK IN ALL THE WORDS A FATHER AND DAUGHTER NEVER SAID Some country songs hurt because of what happened. “The Greatest Man…
ELVIS PRESLEY’S “I’M MOVIN’ ON” FOUND THE KING BACK IN MEMPHIS, SINGING A COUNTRY CLASSIC WITH SOMETHING TO PROVE There is a striking irony in Elvis Presley’s “I’m Movin’ On.”…
DOLLY PARTON & KENNY ROGERS: “THE GREATEST GIFT OF ALL” TURNED THEIR FAMOUS CHEMISTRY INTO A CHRISTMAS MEMORY By Christmas 1984, Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers had already become one…
DOLLY PARTON’S “ROMEO” TURNED A COUNTRY LOVE SONG INTO ONE OF HER MOST PLAYFUL MUSICAL MOMENTS There are plenty of love songs in country music, but very few begin by…
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