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Juilliard graduate Morton Stevens (Suckno) composed the theme to the CBS television hit "Hawaii Five-0". This track is from the 1970 soundtrack release with The CBS Orchestra. The original series with Jack Lord aired from 1968 to 1980. The 2010 version is

"On the Street Where You Live" (Loewe - Lerner) is from the 1956 Broadway musical, My Fair Lady. John Michael King sang the classic in the original production. It was Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe who also had success with Brigadoon, Paint Your

"Je T'aime… Moi Non Plus" ("I Love You … Me Neither") was written by Serge Gainsbourg and sung for and with his then girlfriend Brigitte Bardot in 1967, but that version was not released until 1986. Wikipedia: "They recorded an arrangement of "Je t'aime"

Anne Loree composed "Insensitive" on the 1998 album "Beyond Cinderella". The Edmonton native wrote the song while working as a server in Calgary. Canadian national treasure Jann Arden (Richards) issued the 1994 album "Living Under June" and here you'll

"Catch a Wave" (Brian Wilson - Mike Love) debuted on the group's 1963 album "Surfer Girl" and wasn't issued as a single. In 1964 Jan (Berry) and Dean (Torrence) reworked the lyric and hit with "Sidewalk Surfin'" (Brian Wilson - Roger Christian) reaching

The Beach Boys (Brian Wilson, Al Jardine, Mike Love, Carl and Dennis Wilson) supplied the world with some simply great music. Just one example is "Don't Worry Baby" (Wilson - Christian) with Brian Wilson on lead vocal. Released in 1964 it peaked at number

The Beach Boys recorded "California Girls" (Brian Wilson - Mike Love) with lead vocals by Mike Love on the 1965 album "Summer Days (and Summer Nights)". The single, influenced by Brian's LSD experimenting, reached number three on Billboard and featured

"Little Honda" (Brian Wilson and Mike Love) appears on The Beach Boys 1964 album All Summer Long. The album peaked at number four on the strength of the earlier released single "I Get Around". The opening track on side two was the hit "Wendy". It was

According to Wikipedia writer Jenny Lou Carson was first to issue "Jealous Heart" in 1944. Jenny Lou Carson (Virginia Overstake), the first woman to write a number one country tune, wrote "Jealous Heart" specifically for singing cowboy Tex (Woodward)

Neil Diamond's last successful release on the Bang label was "Kentucky Woman". The single produced by Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich reached number twenty-two in 1967. According to experts this is a rare stereo issue. British band Deep Purple's (Ritchie

James Brown and the Famous Flames aka Nat Kendrick and the Swans with the original "(Do the) Mashed Potatoes" (Dessie Rosier). The composer was actually James Brown but contractual obligations made the ruse necessary. Nat Kendrick was the drummer for the

The 1969 Oscar winning motion picture "Midnight Cowboy" starred Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight. The theme by John Barry (Prendergast) and his Orchestra was performed in the movie. Piano duo (Arthur) Ferrante and (Louis) Teicher started playing together

"The Theme From The Apartment" began life as the Charles Williams (Isaac Cozerbreit) instrumental "Jealous Lover". This British composer's work was first used in the 1949 film "The Romantic Age". This is (Arthur) Ferrante and (Louis) Teicher's Don Costa

The Beatles "Gotta Get You Into My Life" (Lennon - McCartney) is from the 1976 "Revolver" album. Credited to both Lennon and McCartney it was pretty well a solo writing effort from lead singer Paul. The single was released a decade later and it peaked at

Singer, songwriter, Gramm winner and NASCAR driver Marty Robbins (Robinson) was first to release "Sing the Blues" (M. Endsley) and rightly had it top the Country chart while peaking at number seventeen on the Top One Hundred in 1956. The Academy of

In 1931 Lloyd Keating And His Music (Ben Selvin and his Orchestra) with vocalist Jerry Solow issued the first recording of "I Don't Why (I Just Do)" (Roy Turk - Fred Ahlert). This was an unusal release because it was double tracked. One was instrumental

Bob Carisle and Randy Thomas wrote "Butterfly Kisses" for Bob's daughter Brooke's sixteenth birthday. The 1997 top ten single is on the album "Shades Of Grace" and won the Grammy as Best Country Song. A contemporary Christian singer Bob had appeared as

Danny Kaye's (Kaminsky) 1951 movie "Hans Christian Andersen" introduced the Frank Loesser composed "Anywhere I Wander". The singer, musician, actor, comedian and dancer was part owner of the Seattle mariners. Danny was a Golden Globe winner, a Kennedy

The talented Bill Withers recorded his composition "Lean On Me" on his second album "Still Bill". In 1972 the single topped both the Billboard Top One Hundred and the Soul chart while peaking at number four of the Easy Listening chart. A number of the

Johnny Mandel and Paul Francis Webster wrote "The Shadow Of Your Smile" for the 1965 film "The Sandpiper" starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and Charles Bronson. This won the Academy Award For Best Original Song the next year. Here is a cut from

Adapted from an Alexander Borodin melody in his 1890 opera "Prince Igor" the 1953 musical "Kismet" had Doretta Morrow and Richard Kiley sing "Stranger In Paradise" (Wright - Forrest). Doretta had already appeared in "The King And I" but this was Richard's

In 1968 Tommy James and the Shondells released "Mony, Mony" (T. James - B. Bloom - R. Cordell - B. Gentry). The single peaked at number three and comes from the album of the same name. According to Tommy: "True story: I had the track done before I had a

The Stevie Wonder (Morris) 1973 album "Innervisions" contains the track "Higher Ground". The single featured Stevie on all the instruments and topped the R&B chart while peaking at number four on the Billboard Top One Hundred. The Red Hot Chili

Pee Wee King (Julius Kuczynski) "Bonaparte's Retreat" (King) is based on a traditional folk song concerning Napoleon's retreat from Russia. The Pee Wee King single has nothing to do with 1812 and it still peaked at number ten on the Country chart. Later

Gilbert Becaud (Silly) composed the music for "Seul Sur Son Etoile" (Alone On His Star) (Becaud) in 1966. A year later the English lyric for "It Must Be Him" was written by Mack David. The great Becaud is responsible for "Let It Be Me", "What Now My

NYC radio personality Jim Lowe wrote and recorded "Gambler's Guitar" in 1953. It went nowhere but three years later Jim had major success with "Green Door". Later in 1953 Mercury label mate Rusty (Farrell) Draper hit with "Gambler's Guitar". The single

German-Austrian composer, pianist Peter Kreuder wrote the music for two hundred films, operas and musicals.. One of those works was titled "Musik! Musik! Musik! (Ich Brauche Keine Millionen)" (Peter Kreuder - Hans Frits Beckmann) aka "I Don't Need

Quincy Jones co-produced "Beat It" with artist Michael Jackson for one of the best selling albums ever, the 1982 release "Thriller". The chart topping single won Grammys for Record Of the Tear and Best Vocal Male Rock performance the next year. Eddie Van

The second chart topping single from the "Thriller" album was "Billie Jean". Throughout the globe this was one of the best selling singles of 1983. The lead vocal was done in one take although that cannot be said for other aspect of the production. Here

Often a back-up singer for the likes of The Pointer Sisters, Carpenters, Madonna, Boz Scaggs and Donna Summer, Grammy winner Siedah Garrett co-authored "Man In the Mirror". She also recorded the duet "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" with Michael Jackson on

Produced by the composers The Jackson Five's "I'll Be There" (Gordy - Davis - Hutch) peaked at number one in 1970. This is from the group's "Third Album". Michael and Jermaine shared lead on what became Motown's most successful issue up to that time.