Classic Tracks: Elvis Presley, ‘Burning Love’
It's one of Elvis' best-known songs, but "Burning Love" nearly wasn't recorded by The King.
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It's one of Elvis' best-known songs, but "Burning Love" nearly wasn't recorded by The King.
Country music legend Merle Haggard recounts how he came to record the massive hit, "Mama Tried."
“Right Time of the Night,” released in 1976, was all about firsts—and it was no easy gig for producer Jim Ed Norman.
“When we first recorded ‘Riders on the Storm,’ it was a nice, light song—but when we got into mixing it is when it all...
In August 1958, George Tomsco was facing a dilemma that many high school graduates face: what should he do with the rest of his...
Sometimes, a so-called "career record" can affect more than one career.
Nashville still had the door closed for us in country, so we figured, ‘What the hell, we’ll do exactly what we want,’ says producer...
“Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way,” is on Waylon Jennings’ Dreaming My Dreams, the only record he made with legendary engineer/producer Cowboy...
Fortunately, nice guys don't always finish last. Sometimes they reach the top of the hill and stay there for quite some time.
Kenny Rogers' recording of the Don Schlitz-penned song The Gambler turned a simple record into an entire industry.
Kim Fowley and the Runaways recorded “Cherry Bomb” in a store room on purpose—or so he said.
Janis Joplin got her start in folk music, surprisingly enough.
John Fogerty’s “Centerfield” is the only song formally “inducted” into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.—it plays there ’round the clock.
Jack Endino jumpstarted his producing career with EPs for Soundgarden, Green River and Mudhoney, and its debut single, “Touch Me I’m Sick."
John Lennon's top-10 hit, “Watching the Wheels,” was among producer Jack Douglas' favorite songs on 'Double Fantasy.'
You know the movie and you know the classic track, but do you know how the song really came to be?
Posthumously released, Jim Croce's “Time in a Bottle” reached the top slot on the pop charts in December 1973.
When Warren Zevon emerged in the midst of L.A.'s vibrant singer/songwriter scene in the mid-'70s, he was like a breath of...well, strange air.
Mix takes a deep dive into the recording of R.E.M.'s 'So. Central Rain' with producer Mitch Easter.
Although Steve Winwood was just shy of 19 when he formed the group Traffic in the spring of 1967, he was already a veteran...
In the summer of 1987, the Grateful Dead made it into the Top 10 with the only hit single of their 30-year career: “Touch...
Producer/engineer Bill Szymczyk talks about the recording of Joe Walsh’s 1978 hit, “Life’s Been Good”
When it came out in late 1973, "Smokin' in the Boys Room" immediately became the rallying anthem for many high school students.
The Traveling Wilburys were perhaps popular music's most unusual George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty and Roy Orbison wrote all the material
Take a deep dive into the recording of the Dobie Gray classic, oft-covered 1973 hit “Drift Away.”
There was something audacious about it: a group from Scotland calling itself The Average White Band. If the funk don't fly, then the honky...
"When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful..." That's the memorable opening to "The Logical Song" by Supertramp.
Midnight Oil's “Beds Are Burning” was powerful on every level: musically, politically, sonically, even visually.
He Stopped Loving Her Today: It's the saddest song, and the most mournful voice, and the most histrionic production and the cruelest punchline in...
“Walk This Way” likely would not have come to be if Aerosmith hadn’t gotten itchy in the studio and decided to go to the...
Two albums into his career, Ziggy Marley took a gamble on working with a producer team that had never made records for anyone other...
The story of the recording of this Classic Track begins far from Texas, in Switzerland at the Montreux Jazz Festival in July 1982.
The road to becoming a rock 'n' roll icon is stranger for some than others. Take John Kay the voice and face of the...
"Remember the old Roland CompuRhythm box? I turned to the Rock and Roll 1 preset, sat down at a Korg organ that happened...
Engineer Russ Gary talks about the recording of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Fortunate Son” in 1969.
Eddie Money burst onto the scene at an interesting time, with New Wave, Blue Collar Rock, Country Rock and more all in full-flower. Money...
Formed in 1974 by four musicians from Rockford, Ill., Cheap Trick possessed experience, musical chops and most of all, songs.
A simple, four-chord tune laid to tape with no overdubs, "Time Is TIght" is a consummate work of soul minimalism.
There have been dance fads as long as people have danced to novelty records -- but few have had the enduring appeal of Chubby...
It was the last track of the last session of the album...and it was the perfect way to end it.
Ray Charles' best-known hit was first improvised on-stage to fill time at the end of a gig...and became legendary.
"Let's Get It On" embraces love and lust, the spiritual and the carnal fused together in an uplifting union. Recording it was not as...