Yet another song about yet another L.A. woman, this one making no excuses for the city's seedy underbelly.

A remarkably upbeat song using Napoleon's more remarkable defeat at Waterloo as a metaphor, ABBA scored their first major award with this song.

Bobbie Gentry has written one of the most talked about songs of the century. The mystery endures: what DID Billie Joe throw off the Tallahatchie Bridge?

Last Comment

• Orville from MsIt has always been clear to Mississippians the reason the young lady lost her appetite was because she was pregnant by Bobbie Joe and that’s why she left town after he committed suicide because of the old gay guy abusing him after he got him drunk. Nothing else to see here. Just shows how families can go off the rails after such an event.

Mendocino County in the '60s was memorialized in this song by a band influenced by the Beatles - pick one.

Basin Street in New Orleans was jumping with jazz when Louis Armstrong recorded a song about it.