At your next party or BBQ, ask your friends to list a few--say five-- of the best selling acts in music history. Odds are, Abba won’t be on the list, even though one of their biggest hits, 1976’s “Fernando,” has sold over 10 million copies --a rare achievement,...

  Three weeks ago, Neil Diamond was awarded the Songwriters Hall Of Fame top distinction, the Johnny Mercer Award, its Lifetime Achievement honor. Diamond wrote the inspiring and uplifting “Coming to America” almost 40 years ago, for the movie "The Jazz Singer,” and...

For Memorial Day: One of the finest renditions of "The Star-Spangled Banner," sung by Whitney Houston for Super Bowl XXV, 1991, in Tampa, FL.  

It’s hard to believe that Boomers considered “peace, love and understanding” a viable worldview vs. today, where the choices are far more bellicose. Often, we look to artists to help us focus, to organize our world and express it in a way we can understand, knowing...

Philadelphia boy Daryl Hall and partner John Oates, who’ve been around since the 70s, are still selling out arenas, their new song is top 15 on the Adult Contemporary and Pop radio charts, and, thanks to MTV’s "Daryl's House,” Hall is a household name to a new...

  Taylor Swift, Goddess of Everything, has teamed up with Zayn Malik, one of the world’s biggest pop stars (formerly with legendary boy band One Direction), for a song that is on the soundtrack of “50 Shades Darker” the not-yet-released sequel to “50 Shades of Grey.”...