This nearly 6-minute song from 1975 was deemed too risky for radio. Now it has over 2.6 billion Spotify streams.

There are other musical elements which help spread the Christmas cheer, from lyrical melodies to strident brass parts. Most ...

The Weather Girls made the yuletide gay with this 1983 bop that's just as horny as their signature hit "It's Raining Men." ...

Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" was previously the only holiday song to ever top the 'Billboard' Global 200 ...

We take a look at the arias, movements, songs and dances whose fame has outshone the larger works in which they first appeared ...

"There were so many Christmas songs and all us Jewish kids had was a song 'Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel'," said Sandler on 'SNL' in 1994.

Born JoAnne Deborah Byron in 1947 into a family of strivers in Queens, she split her time between her mother’s home in New ...

Rob Reiner began and ended his career with the 'Spinal Tap' films, making the funniest, most emotionally honest movies about ...

There’s surely a thick book to be written about the influence of Javanese gamelan on western classical music. Debussy ...

Yet when it comes to that perennial Christmas favourite, Mozart’s ‘Sleigh Ride’, the words ‘pot and kettle’ spring to mind. A ...

The 1960s offered a soundtrack for a decade of immense change, producing tunes that have managed to stick in our heads for decades. These songs are more than just oldies; they are cultural artifacts ...

Setting the record straight. This time of year, if I listen to Christmas music, I'm going back to the classics, and of course, Dolly Parton's beautiful "Hard Candy Christmas" will forever be at the ...