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

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 ...

The song helped define American music.

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

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

The folk music revival reached its peak in the mid-1960s, thanks to songs by Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and several other notable musicians, as well as the Newport Folk Festival. Now, the “true” peak of ...

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 ...

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 ...