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First time playing a Filipino song with a stranger

This was the first time I performed a Filipino song with someone I had just met — and it turned into a beautiful moment. We ...
American Songwriter

6 Songs Classic Rock Fans Would Give Anything to Hear For the First Time Again

Many Jimi Hendrix fans could agree that the 1967 release of “Purple Haze”, as well as Are You Experienced as a whole, turned them onto the late great guitarist. The track is Hendrix at his ...
American Songwriter

4 Songs From 1975 That Were Euphoric To Listen to for the First Time

“Rhinestone Cowboy” by Glen Campbell was released in May 1975 and quickly became one of the most successful country and symphonic pop songs of the year. It was a crossover hit that made it all the way ...

The Rolling Stones Hit A Billboard Chart For The First Time With A Sudden Smash

Satisfaction Skank” by The Rolling Stones and Fatboy Slim debuts inside the top 10 on Billboard's Dance Digital Song Sales ...
Taste of Country

This Is the First Song Alabama Ever Performed Together

Alabama's Randy Owen and Jeff Cook told a great Merle Haggard story ahead of CMT Giants: Alabama. In a sense, they told two of them. The pair — along with the late Jeff Cook — started a group called ...
Rolling Out

Billboard’s top 40 loses all rap songs for first time

Hip-hop has officially exited the upper echelon of the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the first time in more than three decades. The top 40 of the iconic chart currently contains zero rap songs, marking ...