President Obama included "So Very Hard To Go" on his summer Spotify playlist during his last year in office.

Billy Joel wrote "We Didn't Start The Fire" after a 21-year-old told him, "everyone knows that nothing happened in the '50s."

Sly & the Family Stone's "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" was a huge hit in 1970 and found new life when Janet Jackson sampled the bass riff on her 1989 hit "Rhythm Nation."

The Australian band Jet took their name from the 1973 song of the same by Paul McCartney and Wings.

Train wrote the 2011 song "Brand New Book" for the TV show The Biggest Loser - part of the song was used in the opening credits.

Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together" was the best-selling song of the 2000s in the US.

"Amarillo By Morning" got its title from a Fed Ex commercial that promised to deliver packages the next day to places like Amarillo. It's George Strait's most famous song, but was written and originally released by Terry Stafford nine years earlier.
Gary Lewis and the Playboys had seven Top 10 hits despite competition from The Beatles. Gary talks about the hits, his famous father, and getting drafted.
The renown Texas songwriter has been at it for 40 years, with tales to tell about The Flatlanders and The Clash - that's Joe's Tex-Mex on "Should I Stay or Should I Go?"
We've heard of artists putting their hearts into their music, but some take it literally.
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Country songs with titles so bizarre they can't possibly be real... or can they?
The man who brought us "Red Skies" and "Saved By Zero" is now an organic farmer in France.