Alfonso Ribeiro's "Carlton Dance" was inspired by Bruce Springsteen and Courteney Cox' dance moves in the "Dancing In The Dark" video.
"Amarillo By Morning" got its title from a Fed Ex commercial that promised to deliver packages the next day to places like Amarillo. It's George Strait's most famous song, but was written and originally released by Terry Stafford nine years earlier.
"Grenade" was a term used on the show Jersey Shore to mean an ugly girl. Bruno Mars says his hit song with that title was written before the show started.
Grazing In The Grass by The Friends Of Distinction was the first big hit to use the phrase "dig it" in the lyric. Their version of the song (the original is an instrumental by Hugh Masekela) was released in 1969.
"Heaven Is A Place On Earth" writer Ellen Shipley got the idea for the song from a gas station greeting card that said "Heaven On Earth."
Corinne Bailey Rae's 2006 hit "Put Your Records On" borrows the opening line ("Three little birds sat on my window") from the Bob Marley song "Three Little Birds." Both songs have the same message: Don't worry, because every little thing's going to be alright.
When a waitress wouldn't take him home, Jack wrote what would become one of the Eagles most enduring hits.
The country sweetheart opines about the demands of touring and talks about writing songs with her famous father.
Rickie Lee Jones on songwriting, social media, and how she's handling Trump.
Phone booths are nearly extinct, but they provided storylines for some of the most profound songs of the pre-cell phone era.
Dan cracked the Top 40 with "Ritual," then went to India and spent 2 hours with the Dalai Lama.
Roger reveals the songwriting formula Clive Davis told him, and if "Eight Miles High" is really about drugs.