There is no platonic definition of a good cover version of a well-loved song. A good cover can be an enthusiastic celebration of the original, a rendition that highlights the very things that stir ...

You can go in many directions when compiling a list of the all-time best country music songs. Which criteria do you use? Record sales, most streamed, most googled, number of weeks on the country ...

The universal language of music has united generations of lovers since the beginning of time. Falling in and out of love, grasping at unrequited love, mourning love lost and succumbing to deep love ...

Breaking up is hard to do, but music may just make getting over your ex a little easier. The best breakup songs provide a source of comfort to those dealing with the many stages of heartbreak. But ...

The Marvelettes from Inkster, Michigan recorded for Motown Records. Their first big hit was “Please, Mr. Postman.” They are one of the girl groups featured in “But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?” which ...

Every songwriter approaches his or her craft differently, and there are, ostensibly, as many ways to write a song as there are songs in existence. But one word you'll often hear songwriters use is ...

Cover songs—modern music is practically built off of them. Artists interpreting other artists’ work has been around since the dawn of compositions, and they’ve been particularly popular here in the ...

Born on January 6, 1944 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Katherine Elaine Anderson first began her career as a background singer for friends Gladys Horton and Georgia Dobbins for the 1961 Inkster High School ...

Singer Katherine Anderson Schaffner, who helped Motown Records achieve its first No. 1 pop hit with her group the Marvelettes, died Tuesday night at Corewell Health Dearborn. She was 79. Schaffner, ...

Former Marvelettes singer Brenda Watty leads New College students and California Gov. Gavin Newsom in a song before their meeting Wednesday in Sarasota ...

Welcome to 1982: the year that invented pop music as we know it today. One of the most experimental, innovative, insanely abundant music years ever. Hip-hop takes over with “The Message” and “Planet ...