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The Beatles song "She Came In Through The Bathroom Window" (Lennon - McCartney) is on the 1969 LP "Abbey Road" as part of a three-tune medley. Paul McCartney has said that it was inspired by fans hanging around the studios and the group's homes. One of

"Cocktails For Two" (Arthur Johnston - Sam Coslow) first appeared in the 1934 film "Murder At The Vanities" when it was sung by Rosalind Russell's father-in-law Carl Brisson (Pedersen). Co-composer Arthur Johnston also wrote the music for "Pennies From

The second single from the top ten LP "The Second Barbra Streisand Album" was "My Coloring Book" (Fred Ebb - John Kander). The song was recorded in November of 1962. The single was re-recorded for the album. Wikipedia: "At the time of his death, Ebb was

Barbra Streisand sings an early demo of "The Way We Were" (Alan Bergman - Marilyn Bergman - Marvin Hamlisch) that must have been recorded here on the sly by someone who should not have done that. Despite obvious sound problems this does show off her

Smokey Robinson wrote "When I'm Gone" and produced it for "The Queen Of Motown" the late Mary Wells as the follow up to "My Guy". After it was recorded in 1964 Mary apparently decided to leave Motown saying that she wasn't receiving her just royalties and

According to co-writer Luke Laird he and Natalie Hemby were meeting with a music executive when the exec asked about a tune they wrote called "Fine Tune" but it was mistakenly referred to as "Pontoon". This comment got the creative juices flowing and the

Otis Redding wrote and recorded "I Can't Turn You Loose" as a B side in 1965. The issue out performed the A side when it reached number eleven on the R&B chart. The track was the on the LP "History Of Otis Redding". Booker T. Jones on keyboards, Al

Multi-talented Shorty (Frederick) Long issued "Devil With The Blue Dress" (Shorty Long - William Stevenson) as his debut Motown single in 1964. The song didn't chart. Shorty played drums, harmonica, organ, piano and trumpet. Mitch Ryder (William

This surprised me, there was a 1939 film called “Some Like It Hot”! Not to be confused with the Billy Wilder classic this was later retitled "Rhythm Romance". The movie starred Bob (Leslie) Hope and Shirley Ross (Bernice Gaunt) and together they

The late Harley Allen sings "The Little Girl" in a live performance at Nashville's Bluebird Cafe. Country music and tissues often go hand in hand. It was Grammy winner Harley who was the vocalist on "I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow" on the "O Brother Where

It was Lou Pardini of the group Chicago who co-wrote "Just To See Her" (Jimmy George - Lou Pardini). This was from his album released in 1996. Smokey Robinson's 1987 LP "One Heartbeat" features "Just To See Her" . The single reached the Billboard number

The first single issued by singer, pianist Johnny Ace (Alexander) was "My Song" (D. James) in 1952. Backed by The Beale Streeters the recording topped the R&B chart. It is widely thought that the writer was actually Duke Records owner David James

Even I can dance to Don Covay (Randolph) and "Seesaw" (Steve Cropper - Don Covay). The original hit number five R&B and number forty-four on the Top One Hundred in 1965. The next year it was a track on the LP of the same name. In 1957 Don was

"Warm Ride" (Barry - Robin and Maurice Gibb) was written especially for Rare Earth even though the trio started recording the demo for the 1977 "Saturday Night Fever" sessions. This then unreleased demo is from that time and features Barry Gibb as lead

Ian (Tyson) and Sylvia (Fricker) were first to record "Hey, What About Me" (Scott McKenzie) on the album "Play One More" in 1966. The songwriter, Scott Mckenzie aka Philip Bondheim, is the same artist who hit the next year with the monster recording of

The 1975 top forty album "Frampton" introduced "Nassau/Baby, I Love Your Way" (Peter Frampton). This was his first solo effort after Peter Frampton left Steve Marriott and Humble Pie. The track is edited. A concert version was issued on the next year's

The man played harmonica, keyboards, mandolin and guitar. Songwriter Todd Cerney performed "I'll Still Be Loving You" (Todd Cerney - Pam Rose - Mary Ann Kennedy - Pat Bunch) in December of 2010 at Huntsville, Alabama's Von Braun Civic Center during Jim

Puerto Rico's Bobby (Felix) Capo emigrated to New York in the forties and joined Xavier Cugat's Orchestra. In 1955 Bobby recorded "Me Lo Dijo Adela" (Otilio Portal) translated as "Say It To Me Sweetly". In 1955 Georgia Gibbs (Frieda Lipschitz) released

Ann Peebles, her partner and later her husband Don Bryant and DJ Bernie Miller wrote "I Can't Stand The Rain" for the 1973 Ann Peebles album of the same name. Willie Mitchell produced the session. The single reached number six on the R&B chart and

A prominent member of Nashville's A Team; in 1960 Floyd Cramer wrote and played "Last Date" using his slip note style. The instrumental reached number two on the Top One Hundred and number eleven Country. "Last Date" was kept out of the top spot by Elvis

Walter Gross directs the orchestra for the Phil Brito (Colombrito) recording of "Five Minutes More" (Sammy Cahn - Jule Styne) from the 1946 Buster Crabbe film "The Sweethearts Of Sigma Chi". At the time the song was also released by Tex Beneke, Bob

Many moons ago there was a television program called "Playboy's Penthouse" and this is where Cy Coleman (Seymour Kaufman) sat a the piano and sang "Witchcraft" (Cy Coleman - Carolyn Leigh). When he was six years old Cy was a child prodigy who gave a piano

It was Louis Jordan and His Tympani Five (various line-ups) that first recorded "Ain't That Just Like A Woman (They'll Do It Everytime)" (Demetrius - Moore) in 1946 The single topped the R&B chart while peaking at number seventeen on the pop listing.

Bassist Kenny Passarelli has played with The Elton John Band, Dan Fogelberg, Hall and Oates, Stephen Stills and Joe Walsh when he was a member of Barnstorm (Joe Walsh, Rocke Grace, Kenny Passarelli and Joe Vitale). In 2016 Kenny performed "Rocky Mountain

The 1933 movie musical comedy "Sitting Pretty" introduced "Did You Ever See A Dream Walking" (Harry Revel - Mack Gordon). The song was sung at the end of the film by Art Jarrett and Ginger Rogers in an expensive production number. This clip from the

The Clovers (John Bailey, Matthew McQuarter, Billy Mitchell, Charlie White and Harold Winley) first recorded one of their last Atlantic sides, "Wishing For Your Love" (Sampson Horton) with Jesse Stone's (aka Charles Calhoun) Orchestra in 1957. The

Here is the Barbara Wyrick, the co-author's version of "Tell Me A Lie' (Barbara Wyrick - Mickey Buckins) released in 1977 from the Muscle Shoals produced album "A Taste Of". Some of the musicians involved included Mac McAnally, Lenny LeBlanc and Roger

From the 1958 album "Matt Dennis Plays And Sings Matt Dennis" Matt does the lounge thing for "Let's Get Away From It All" (Matt Dennis - Tom Adair). Matt sang and played piano for Horace Heidt's Orchestra before forming his band with vocalist Dick Haymes.

Supposedly recorded at Paul McCartney's Liverpool home in the late fifties this is "I'll Follow The Sun" (Lennon - McCartney). Stu Sutcliffe was with the group while the drummer was Paul's brother Michael prior to either Pete Best and Ringo Starr joining

Some knew him as Naomi Neville, Allen Orange, Clarence Toussaint and Al Tousan. New Orleans iconic producer, pianist, arranger, singer, songwriter Allen Toussaint sings his composition "Happiness" with the vocal backing of Bonnie Raitt and Etta James.

Anita Pointer started writing "Fairytale" (Anita and Bonnie Pointer) as the result of a breakup with a married California radio announcer. The song was introduced to the public at an April 1974 Pointer Sisters concert at the San Francisco Opera House.

The late Andrea True's (Truden) original "More, More, More" was recorded as a demo track in 1975 when the porn star was in Jamaica. Andrea had a bit part in the 1973 film "The Way We Were". Her several stage names included Catherine Warren, Inger Kissin,

Here is the original 1962 version of The Beach Boys' "Surfer Girl" (Brian Wilson) which was recorded by Hite Morgan and released on the Canadix label after their first release of "Surfin'. The use of brushes on the drums and the lack of electric guitar

The 1946 Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour movie "Road To Utopia" was actually shot three years earlier. When it was released the motion picture introduced the Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke hit "Personality". The composing duo wrote all the

I had so much respect for this man's talent, his personality, humour and his diverse music. Roger Miller's 1966 LP "Words and Music" lead single "Husbands And Wives" reached number five Country, number two on the Adult Contemporary charts as well as

Valerie Simpson from the composing and producing team of Ashford and Simpson presented this as a demo to Diana Ross. "Remember Me" (Ashford - Simpson). It's said this was recorded in one take including the backing of Valerie, Nick, Joshie Armstead and The

The Romantics (lead vocalist Jimmy Marinos, Rich Cole, Wally Palmar and Mike Skill) 1980 self-titled debut LP included "What I Like About You" (Jimmy Marinos - Wally Palmar - Mike Skill). The band played the song regularly in concert, prior to recording,

Band leader and trumpeter Ralph Marterie was first to record the beautiful "Pretend" (Dan Belloc - Lew Douglas - Cliff Parman - Frank Levere) in 1952. The instrumental peaked at number sixteen on Billboard. It was Nat King Cole who had the definitive

Red (Clyde) Foley and The Sunshine Boys Quartet (Fred Daniel, Ace Richman, JD Sumner and Fred Wallace) reached number five on the Country chart with "Peace In The Valley" (Thomas A. Dorsey) in 1951. It was composed for Mahalia Jackson but Red had the hit.

In 1950 Pat Boone's father-in-law Red (Clyde) Foley topped both the Country and pop charts with the Owen Bradley produced "Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy" (Harry Stone - Jack Stapp). Red was the first country performer to record in Nashville, Tennessee.

Here is the demo of The Outfield's (lead vocalist Tony Lewis, Alan Jackman and John Spinks) "Since You've Been Gone" (J. Spinks) as once posted on the group's website. Composer John Spinks passed away in July, 2014. His partner said "The hardest day for

Ray Parker wrote "You Got The Love" when he was eighteen years. old. To this date I had no idea the man had such guitar skills. This is his instrumental version of the hit. Ray toured as guitarist with the Spinners, wrote with Marvin Gaye, was a studio

Ben Casey was an ABC television hit in the early to mid sixties. Vince Edwards (Zoine) was the star while Sam (Shalom) Jaffe co-starred and uttered the phrase "man, woman, birth, death, infinity" during the opening. The theme music for this Bing Crosby

In 1973 Bob Dylan recorded the chorus and melody of "Wagon Wheel" titled "Rock Me, Mama" as a demo for the movie "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid". To quote Mr. Zimmerman "I did record it, it’s on one of my old bootleg records. I recorded it with Roger

Producer Phil Spector and the composers were unhappy with The Crystals session on "Uptown" (Cynthia Wiell - Barry Mann). Phil brought in Eva Boyd as vocalist and after multiple takes she walked out. According to Cynthia: "Before Little Eva did 'The

A Christmas Day baby, Barbara Mandrell released "Years" (Kye Fleming - Dennis Morgan) from her 1979 album "Just For The Record". The single topped the Country chart and reached number thirty-eight on the Adult Contemporary chart. Barbara plays accordion,

Rivers Cuomo sings "Buddy Holly" (Rivers Cuomo) from "Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo". Rivers was convinced by producer Ric Ocasek to include a studio version on his group's initial album. When Rivers was a child his father nicknamed him

The Billy Reid Orchestra with his wife Dorothy Squires as vocalist recorded "A Tree In The Meadow (I'll Love You Till I Die)" (Billy Reid) in January of 1948. Note the track is edited to include the vocal. During the thirties the Billy Reid Orchestra was

The 1947 Broadway hit and Tony winning "Finian's Rainbow" introduced "Old Devil Moon" (Burton Lane - E. Y. Harnurg) sung by Ella Logan (Georgina Allan) and Donald Richards. There were a few revivals of the show along with a 1968 motion picture starring

Here is musician, songwriter, singer and record producer Ray Kennedy singing "Everytime I Think Of You" (Ray Kennedy - Jack Conrad) in a benefit concert with an attractive female trio and Malik Pointer, Ruth of the Pointer Sisters son. There was a time

In 1972 Jerry Peters released the LP "Blueprint For Discovery" and the version of his "Going In Circles" (Jerry Peters - Anita Poree) that may force you to make a mixed drink and start smoking again. I urge you to listen to his take available on YouTube.

Personal favourite and uniquely talented successful writer, cartoonist and story teller Shel Silverstein wrote "The Unicorn", "Sylvia's Mother", "Corner Of The Rolling Stone", "Marie Laveau" and some of the best country songs ever including "A Boy Named

Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn wrote "I Fall In Love Too Easily" for the 1945 Oscar winning Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly musical comedy movie "Anchors Away". The Chairman of the Board sang the song as heard in this clip from the soundtrack.

Jerry Butler and The Impressions (Curtis Mayfield, Sam Gooden, brothers Arthur and Richard Brooks) reached number eleven on the Billboard pop and number three R&B charts in 1958 with "For Your Precious Love" (Arthur Brooks - Richard Brooks - Jerry

Mark Weitz and Ed King of Thee Sixpence came up with an instrumental that eventually became the chart topping "Incense And Peppermints". Wikipedia "Thee Sixpence members expressed a dislike for the song lyrics (which John S. Carter wrote, relying on a

Loleatta Holloway recorded "Our Love" (Chuck Jackson - Marvin Yancy) on her 1973 debut album "Loleatta". This was produced by her husband, Floyd Smith. Natalie Cole goes through some vocal exercises on her cover of "Our Love" from the 1977 album

At the time of the home recording of "Misunderstanding" the title had not been assigned and the track was simply labelled "D Minor Swing" by Phil Collins. The lyrics were written by Phil later. The tune was meant for Phil's debut solo album but eventually

Here is the demo recording of the Phil Collins hit "In The Air Tonight". It's been revealed that Phil wrote this while grieving his 1980 divorce. The first solo single from Phil Collins was "In The Air Tonight". This was the lead single from the 1981 LP

The standard "Just Friends" (Sam M. Lewis - John Klenner) was introduced to the world by Red (William) McKenzie and His Orchestra in 1931. For some reason the single went virtually unrecognized. Red was a talent scout and an actual jazz comb player in the

Country singer and songwriter Merle Kilgore composed "More And More". "The Tall Texan" featured Sonny James on the fiddle on this 1954 Dallas made recording. Merle has co-written "Ring Of Fire", "The Folk Singer" and "Wolverton Mountain". About three

When she was just eighteen years old in 1961, attending her first year at university in Nashville, when Carla Thomas recorded "Gee Whiz (Look At His Eyes)" (Carla Thomas) in just one take. The single from her album of the same name hit number five R&B

"Never Tear Us Apart" (Andrew Farriss - Michael Hutchence) started out as a blues piece as witnessed in this demo. Kirk Pengilly is on saxophone. This is from the INXS twenty-fifth anniversary release of "Kicks". Australia's INXS (lead vocalist Michael

Johnny Marvin and his ukulele with a small orchestra conducted by Nat Shilkret were first to record the vaudeville classic "'Deed I Do" (Fred Rose - Walter Hirsch) in 1926. For a quarter of the century Johnny recorded under various monikers: Honey Duke,

Geoffrey Turton sang with Britain's Rockin' Berries and The Fortunes during the sixties. As a solo Geoff changed his name to "Jefferson" and was the first to issue "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" (Tony Macaulay - Barry Mason). Geoff found success in

British actor, singer and songwriter Anthony Newley recorded several releases of "What Kind Of Fool Am I" (Anthony Newley - Leslie Bricusse). This is simply one of the many. Anthony sang the song in the musical "Stop The World, I Want To Get Off" and won

Scotty Emerick wrote "As Good As I Once Was" with Toby Keith. Scotty performs this with the appropriate audience yells at the 2012 Key West Songwriters Festival. Scotty has written dozens of songs with Toby Keith and has played with Toby overseas and on

Marion Cletus "Chuck" Cannon Jr. was born and raised in South Carolina and moved to Nashville to attend Belmont University. Within just a few years he was signed to a songwriting contract. As his career progressed he and Toby Keith starting working

Beale Avenue has been a tourist attraction for the city of Memphis for over a century. The area is now filled with great food, music and if you take the time, great characters. In 1916 William Christopher Handy wrote "Beale Street Blues" and that

Produced by Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman, this is the original "Fox on The Run" from the 1974 U.K./European RCA label edition of "Desolation Boulevard" by Sweet (Brian Connolly, Steve Priest, Andy Scott and Mick Tucker). Eventually this became the first

"It's A Man's World" (James Brown - Betty Jean Newsome) was recorded in Chicago in 1964. Lead vocalist Betty Jean Newsome was a backing singer and dancer for James Brown. Recorded in just two takes at the NYC studio in 1966 "It's A Man's, Man's World"

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band perform "Light Of Day'" (Bruce Springsteen) during a May, 1988 concert at New York City's Madison Square Garden. Bruce wrote the song specifically for the movie. "Light Of Day" was introduced by Michael J. Fox

Former lead singer for Boy Howdy, Jeffrey Steele (LeVasseur) and former lead guitarist for NRBQ, Al Anderson wrote "Unbelievable". Jeffrey sings his version of the Country hit. Wikipedia "Jeffrey Steele wrote a song, 'When Johnny Comes Marching Home'

Composer, son of a cantor, actor, pianist and Academy Award winner Sammy Fain (Feinberg) sings "You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me" (Sammy Fain - Irving Kahal - Pierre Norman) written for the 1930 film "The Big Pond". Maurice Chevalier sang "You

Robert Tepper performed at the Chinese food/music room Genghis Cohen in Los Angeles in 2012. Robert co-authored "Into The Night". Robert wrote and sang "No Easy Way Out" that hit the top forty after it was used in the 1985 movie "Rocky lV". Mr. Tepper

OBE songwriter extraordinaire, pianist, guitarist and Emmy winner Albert Hammond contributed to "I Need To Be In Love" (Richard Carpenter - Albert Hammond - John Bettis). This track is from the 2012 LP "Legend ll". There is a tonnage of Albert Hammond

The songwriting dream team of Diane Warren and Albert Hammond wrote "I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love". Diane has won a ton of ASCAP Awards, a Golden Globe, Grammy, Billboard Music Award and an Emmy. Albert is in The Songwriter's Hall Of Fame,

In 1912 Charles "Luckey" Roberts composed the ragtime "Ripples Of The Night". The tune was extremely fast and needed a master to play it, Luckey did that with very large and wide hands. James Price Johnson was considered such a master but even he couldn't

Extraordinary musician, producer, songwriter, guitarist for Sam Cooke and lead singer of The Valentinos, Bobby Womack included "If You Think You're Lonely Now" on the 1981 LP "The Poet". As a 1982 single the song peaked at number three on the Soul chart,

The Van Passel Brothers (Eddy and Danny) recorded an unreleased demo of "If We Can Start All Over" in 1993. Following in excess a decade regarding plagiarism the Brussels Supreme Court ruled that at least three quarters of "If We Can Start All Over" can

The tunes "Thrills That I Can't Forget", "I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes" and "The Great Speckled Bird" provide the basis for "Wild Side Of Life". Jimmie Heap and His Melody Masters (vocalist Houston "Perk" Williams, Horace Barnett, Arlie Carter,

Martin Gore was the principal songwriter and founding member for England's Depeche Mode. He went into the studio with this first take of "Enjoy The Silence" recorded at his home studio in 1989. Fellow Depeche Mode member Alan Wilder insisted on recording

The 1930 Fred and Adele Astaire musical "Smiles" included "You’re Driving Me Crazy!" (Walter Donaldson). The song was issued before the musical came into being. Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees were first to release the song to the public. This is

"Sweet Love" (Gary Bias - Louis A. Johnson - Anita Baker) is performed by co-composer Gary Bias and The Jackson Garrett Band on April 17, 2011 at The Annenberg Theater in Palm Springs, California. Gary is the long time saxophonist for Earth Wind and Fire.

In 1966 The Beatles released "Eleanor Rigby" from the LP "Revolver". According to Paul McCartney ""I was sitting at the piano when I thought of it. The first few bars just came to me, and I got this name in my head ... "Daisy Hawkins picks up the rice in