Way Back 2026

Metallica Breaks "Delilah"
Ban, Françoise, Ella and
Astrud Sing for Supergirl

Metallica has disregarded the rules at Principality Stadium in Cardiff by performing Welshman Tom Jones' 1968 hit "Delilah" during a concert. The song was banned from the stadium a few years ago due to its violent lyrics ('I felt the knife in my hand and she laughed no more...') but those wild rockers, who do what the want when they wanna, played it anyway, then donated $26,000 to the Cardiff Foodbank. The show ... MORE ››

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Jan and Dean

Jan and Dean kept chasing that "Little Old Lady" and ended up in the number one position on the Top 100 Car Songs of the '50s and '60s! See the full list ... MORE ››

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FEATURING DENNIS YOST

Classics IV

Little did Dennis Yost realize, at the age of seven when his family moved from Detroit, Michigan to Jacksonville, Florida, that he would become one of the top stars of the southern music scene of the '60s. He and Walter Eaton met while attending Andrew Jackson High School; each was a member of a competing band, though the names are misleading as neither group has any connection to more popular acts you may have heard on the radio at some point: Dennis was a drummer for The Echoes who sometimes sang and Wally was a singer for ... MORE ››



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The Birds and the Bees
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Jewel Akens

Just keep trying! Jewel Akens did and he was finally rewarded with a hit song. The Houston-born singer (named as he was because his mother had been hoping for a girl) spent his teenage years (the '50s) in Los Angeles; around 1958 he met Jerry Stone (real first name Albert) of doo wop group The Fascinators, whose "Shivers and Shakes" had been ... MORE ››