COMPLETE 2025 SHOW SONG LIST
"Louie Louie," like most good songs, has somewhat nonsensical lyrics. Unlike most good songs, though, it was investigated by the FBI because they were worried about it promoting obscenity.
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Despite featuring actual instruments, performers, singers, and talent, The Monkees were never a real band. Much like Big Time Rush and Hannah Montana, they were made for TV.
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Due to the failure of his debut album, Marvin Gaye decided to take up as a studio musician—during which time he played drums on the song "Please Mr. Postman".
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Everyone rejected this song at first, with its demo being called “abysmal.” But The Turtles loved it and kept working on it for eight months until it became the song we know today, "Happy Together".
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"Sugar, Sugar" was originally meant for The Monkees, but when they fought back, insisting they have some control over what music they played, Don Kirshner moved on and used the The Archies, a cartoon band, who wouldn’t argue, given they were cartoons. The song went on to be a bigger hit than almost any Monkees song ever. From one fake band to the other!
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"California Girls" was recorded during Brian Wilson’s first ever acid trip. To combat the stress and fear he had, he went to his piano, started thinking about music from cowboy movies, and just banged the song out “pretty fast.”
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One night, Cher woke up to hear Sonny Bono playing some boring-ass song ("I Got You Babe), went down to tell him it wouldn’t be a hit (despite it being written for her), and then went back to bed. Years later, it would become one of their most popular songs and even led to greater interest in their back catalog. Eh, no one ever said Cher had good taste.
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While the best-known version of the song "House of the Rising Sun" seems to imply that the main character’s woes are related to a casino and money, the original version was more bleak—it was about a woman working as a sex worker, and not having a great time of it. The House was a brothel.
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Buddy changed his last name to Holly from Holley after it was misspelled on a recording contract and he determined he liked it better.
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"God Bless the USA" was originally released on Lee Greenwood's1983 album You've Got a Good Love Comin'. One story is that Greenwood wrote it to honor the Americans who were killed when Korean Airlines Flight 007 was shot down, but he has also stated that it was a song "I wanted to write my whole life."
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On July 9, 1955 "Rock Around the Clock" became the first rock and roll recording to hit the top of Billboard's Pop charts, a feat it repeated on charts around the world. The song stayed at this place for eight weeks.
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The song's story arc tracked Berry's real-life rise from a humble unknown to a world-famous superstar in "Johnny B. Goode".
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Marty Robbins wrote this song while flying over El Paso in, he reported, the same amount of time it takes to sing—four minutes and 19 seconds.
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