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With lyrics by Gene Lockhart and music by the concert pianist Ernest Seitz, who had conceived the refrain when he was 12 we get "The World is Waiting for the Sunrise". Embarrassed about writing popular music, Seitz used the pseudonym "Raymond Roberts"

Cole Porters wrote the music and lyrics for the 1934 Broadway musical "Anything Goes". In the show it was sung by Ethel Merman. "You're the Top" and "I Get a Kick Out of You" were also in the show. Initially the show was called "Crazy Week" as a working

"Last Kiss" is a song released by Wayne Cochran in 1961 but it didn't achieve any kind of success. Wayne Cochran went into the ministry, in later years; he doesn't talk about his rock and roll years anymore. J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers had their

The tearjerker, "Daddy What If" was written by the musical side of Shel Silverstein. This renaissance man has given us many wonderful songs, cartoons and articles. Here he performs it live on "The Johnny Cash Show". The first recorded release is from

"It Doesn't Matter Anymore" was written by Paul Anka. The hit was recorded by Buddy Holly in 1958. The song was a posthumous success in early 1959 shortly after Buddy Holly was killed in a plane crash on February 3, 1959. The single was a two-sided