"Sloop John B" is a traditional West Indian folk song, and it was a huge hit for The Beach Boys in 1966. They tweaked the lyric, "This is the worst trip since I've been born" to "...I've ever been on" as a wink to acid culture.
The Fratellis song "Chelsea Dagger" was named for their lead singer's wife - it was her burlesque name.
Rihanna was Pitbull's first choice to sing on "Timber," but she wasn't available at the time so he enlisted his RCA labelmate Kesha instead.
Sam Smith's "Writing's On The Wall" was the first ever James Bond theme song to reach #1 in the UK.
"The Lion Sleeps Tonight" is an English version of a Zulu hunting song from the 1930s.
"Walking In Memphis" isn't so much about Memphis, as it is The Hollywood Cafe in Mississippi, where Marc Cohn encountered an old woman named Murial playing piano.
Into the vaults for this talk with Bolton from the '80s when he was a focused on writing songs for other artists.
The man who brought us "Red Skies" and "Saved By Zero" is now an organic farmer in France.
The lead singer of Everclear, Art is also their primary songwriter.
The renown rock singer talks about "The House of the Rising Sun" and "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood."
Doors expert Jim Cherry, author of The Doors Examined, talks about some of their defining songs and exposes some Jim Morrison myths.
