The Beatles were often pitched against The Beach Boys, but Paul McCartney always maintained an appreciation for the ...

At first listen, a Monkees hit sounded like the perfect teen pop hit: catchy, upbeat, and impossible to get out of your head.

America's biggest song of 1966 wasn't a rock anthem or a protest song. It was a patriotic military tribute that sold millions ...

The song helped define American music.

If 1965 was the year when pop and rock music started to take its first baby steps toward adulthood, as more artists began to explore albums as defining statements rather than collections of hit ...

Solo artist and The Police frontman Sting once picked out the song he wishes he could have written, sharing his admiration ...

The song "The Ballad of the Green Berets," sung by Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler, hit No. 1 on the U.S. music charts on this day in history, March 5, 1966. Unlike many songs that would emerge from the ...

This Grammy-winning country jam spent a whopping nine weeks at the top of the Hot Country Singles chart in 1966. It was one of the most influential countrypolitan songs of the era. Today, “Almost ...

Ready to have your mind blown? Fans of 1960s tunes probably know all about the following three 1966 songs, but did you know just how mind-blowing their lyrics are? Some tidbits about these songs might ...

The Beatles and Frank Sinatra were from disparate universes: The Beatles sang “A Day in a Life”; Sinatra sang “That’s Life.” The Fab Four floated down rivers with tangerine trees and marmalade skies.

The Beach Boys are known for a number of hits featuring their signature upbeat surf-rock sound, but there's one slowed-down number that has become a timeless love song. The band's 1966 ballad "God ...