"Should I Stay or Should I Go?" by The Clash features some Spanish lines by the Texas singer Joe Ely.
A perfume called Wonderstruck was named after a line in Taylor Swift's song "Enchanted": "I'm wonderstruck, blushing all the way home."
The love is growing in the '70s hit "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" because rosemary is the name of an herb.
Vincent Price did the spooky narration on "Thriller." He was paid a flat fee of $20,000, turning down a percentage of the royalties that would have paid him far more.
The TV show Cheers was nearly canceled after its first season, but the theme song, "Where Everybody Knows Your Name," was very popular. To satisfy viewer demand, the theme was made into a full song and released as a single.
The horn flourish at the beginning of "Jump Around" comes from Bob and Earl's "Harlem Shuffle"; the squeal throughout the song might be a Prince sample.
How well do you know this shock-rock harbinger who's been publicly executed hundreds of times?
Graham Nash tells the stories behind some of his famous songs and photos, and is asked about "yacht rock" for the first time.
U2, Carly Simon, Joanna Newsom, Brian Wilson and Fiona Apple have all gone to Van Dyke Parks to make their songs exceptional.
Soul music legend Bill Withers on how life experience and the company you keep leads to classic songs like "Lean On Me."
He wrote "She Blinded Me With Science" so he could direct a video about a home for deranged scientists.
A big list of musical marriages and family relations ranging from the simple to the truly dysfunctional.