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Waiting on a Friend Single: The Rolling Stones Album: Tattoo You B-side : "Little T&A" Released: November 1981 Recorded: 1972/1973 and 1981 Songwriters: Jagger/Richards The lazy ballad "Waiting On a Friend" is the closing track on the Rolling Stones album Tattoo You . C onsisting of outtakes and leftovers from other sessions, it was the final Rolling Stones album to reach the top position of the US charts, ending the band's string of number-ones that dated back to 1971's Sticky Fingers .

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Bohemian Rhapsody Single: Queen Album: A Night at the Opera B-side: I'm in Love with My Car Released: October 31, 1975 Recorded: August–September 1975 Songwriter: Freddie Mercury "Bohemian Rhapsody" is a song by the British rock band  Queen . It was written by Freddie Mercury for the band's 1975 album A Night at the Opera . It is a six-minute suite with several sections without a chorus: an intro, a ballad segment, an operatic passage, a hard rock part, and a reflective coda.  Read more:  Wikipedia First release: 1975 The song title Bohemian Rhapsody is a parody. Franz Liszt composed the "Hungarian Rhapsody," and "Bohemia" is a kingdom near Hungary. "Bohemian" is also an adjective for something unusual. This tune definitely defies convention. Bohemian: persons with an unconventional lifestyle, often in the company of like-minded people and with few permanent ties. It involves musical, artistic, literary, or spiritual pursuits.  Wiki...

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Come a Little Bit Closer Single: Jay and the Americans Album: Come a Little Bit Closer B-side: Goodbye Boys, Goodbye Released: 1964 Recorded: 1964 Songwriter: Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart, Wes Farrell "Come a Little Bit Closer" is a song by the 1960s rock and roll band Jay and the Americans. It reached number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1964, making it the band's highest-charting single." 

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Rocket '88 B-side: Come Back Where You Belong Released: April 1951 Recorded: March 1951 Label: Chess Songwriter: Jackie Brenston (credited), Ike Turner (uncredited) Producer: Sam Phillips The roots of rock and roll are in the rhythm and blues (then called " race music ") and country music (then called " hillbilly music .")  According to the writer Robert Palmer:  "Rock 'n' roll was an inevitable outgrowth of the social and musical interactions between blacks and whites in the South and Southwest. Its roots are a complex tangle; bedrock black church music influenced blues. Rural blues-influenced white folk songs and the black popular music of the Northern ghettos; blues, black pop-influenced jazz, and so on. But the most critical process was the influence of black music on white . Read more: " Present Tense . Duke University Press. pp. 13–38.

Surfin' Bird Single by The Trashmen From the album Surfin' Bird B-side: King of the Surf Released: November 13, 1963 Recorded: 1963 Songwriters: Al Frazier, Carl White, Sonny Harris, Turner Wilson Jr. "Surfin' Bird is a medley made up of the choruses of two R&B classics by the '60s doo-wop group The Rivingtons : "The Bird Is the Word" and "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow." The brainchild of Trashmen drummer Steve Wahrer, the song was a quirky and consumable hit. It entered the Billboard Hot 100 on December 28, 1963.

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Clarence "Frogman" Henry Ain't Got No Home Songwriter: Clarence "Frogman" Henry Written: 1955 Recorded: 1956 In the United States, "Ain't Got No Home" by  Clarence "Frogman" Henry   reached number 3 on one of the Billboard R&B charts and number 20 on the Billboard Top 100 pop chart.  It ranks 98 on the N.M.E. magazine's list of  100 Best Songs of the 1950 s . Henry's contribution has been recognized by the  Rockabilly Hall of Fame . In April 2007, Henry was inducted into the  Louisiana Music Hall of Fame .

Sing It Again Rod Compilation album: Rod Stewart Released: August 10, 1973 Producer: Rod Stewart I bought the album, Sing It Again, Rod   soon after we arrived in Kaiserslautern, Germany. It was the first LP I purchased. I used my school lunch money. Records cost $4.50 at the Post Exchange, the department store on the military base. One of my favorite songs on it was "Handbags and Gladrags," written by the lead singer of Manfred Mann , Mike d'Abo. He describes the song as " saying to a teenage girl that the way to happiness is not through being trendy. There are deeper values. "