single stories

49 years ago today, David Bowie released a single from his self-titled album, except it wasn’t actually from the album, since it was so long that he ended up splitting the song more or less in half and re-recording it...

53 years ago today, Percy Sledge arrived atop the Billboard Hot 100 with his first single, which is a heck of a way to kick off your music career. Percy Sledge’s story is one of those that you’d write off...

50 years ago today, Led Zeppelin entered a studio in New York City to record a song which would end up on their second studio album and subsequently be covered by everyone from Nirvana to Sly and Robbie to Alvin...

48 years ago today, a song which was ultimately destined to appear on THE RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS was released as a single, although you may be surprised to discover that it wasn’t...

35 years ago this month, New Order broke the silence between their second and third studio albums for the second time to release a single which borrowed its title from a Robert Altman film. Written by New Order (Bernard Sumner...

It was April 1969 when Led Zeppelin's debut single reached it's chart peak in America.

It’s Tax Day, of course, which provides us with the opportunity to spotlight a Ry Cooder song which – while not formally released as a single – scored enough airplay through placement on promo compilations that we’re calling it a...

49 years ago today, Van Morrison just barely crawled into the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 with the first single from his MOONDANCE album. Written by Morrison, “Come Running,” which he produced with Lewis Merenstein at A&R Recording...

Since it’s April Fool’s Day, we thought long and hard about what we could write about today, and since we didn’t want to get murdered in our sleep, we decided to shelve our initial plans to trumpet the release of...