Music History Today: April 24, 2022

April 24, 2004: Maroon 5 peaked at Number 5 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart with "This Love."

"This Love" was the second single from Maroon 5's 2002 debut album, Songs About Jane. In an interview with MTV News in August 2002, Levine revealed that he wrote the song the day his girlfriend moved away after they broke up.

Music History Today: March 15, 2022

March 15, 1976: KISS released their album Destroyer, featuring "Detroit Rock City" and "Beth."

The pressure was on Kiss for their fifth release, and the band knew it. Their breakthrough, Alive!, was going to be hard to top, so instead of trying to recreate a concert setting in the studio, they went the opposite route.

 

Music History Today: March 13, 2022

March 13, 1965: The Mary Poppins soundtrack, featuring Dick Van Dyke and Julie Andrews, became the bestselling LP on the Billboard Hot 200 album chart.

Prior to their 14-song score for Mary Poppins, songwriting brothers Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman were best-known for the Top Ten hits "Tall Paul" by Annette Funicello and "You're Sixteen" by Johnny Burnette. Mary Poppins changed all that.

Music History Today: November 13, 2021

November 13, 1965: The Sound of Music soundtrack, featuring Julie Andrews, hit number 1 in America.

The legendary Broadway musical writing team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II produced their final show together, The Sound of Music, nine months before Hammerstein passed away of cancer.

Music History Today: October 1, 2021

October 1, 1988: "Talkin' Bout a Revolution" by Tracy Chapman entered the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.

Chapman wrote “Talkin’ ‘Bout A Revolution,” and she released it as the second single from her 1988 self-titled debut album. The song paints a picture of discontent and hope: 

Tracy Chapman