“I Can’t Stop Loving You” is a popular song written and composed by country singer, songwriter and musician Don Gibson, who first recorded it on December 30, 1957, for RCA Victor Records. It was released in 1958 as the B-side of Oh, Lonesome Me, becoming a double-sided country hit single. Continue reading
Hurry Sundown, was origionally a song by Earl Robinson and Edgar Y. (Yip) Harburg(the author of Over the Rainbow) but made popular by Peter, Paul and Mary Continue reading
“How Much Is That Doggie in the Window?” is a popular novelty song written by Bob Merrill and Ingrid Reuterskiöld in 1952. The best-known version of the song was recorded by Patti Page on December 18, 1952 and released by Mercury Records as catalog number 70070, with the flip side being “My Jealous Eyes”. It reached #1 on both the Billboard and Cash Box charts in 1953. Continue reading
“Hound Dog” is a twelve-bar blues written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and originally recorded by Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton in 1952. Other early versions illustrate the differences among blues, country, and rock and roll in the mid-1950s. Continue reading
Historia de un Amor (Spanish for “a love story”) is a song about a man’s old love written by Panamanian songwriter Carlos Eleta Almarán. It was written after the death of his brother’s wife. It is also in the soundtrack of a 1956 Mexican movie of the same name starring Libertad Lamarque. Continue reading