“The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” is a song with more pop-media references than can be mentioned here. Also, as noted later in the article, Gil Scott-Heron was more of a poet than he was a songwriter...
“Oh Happy Day” is verily a Christian tune, in fact dating back a couple of centuries before the Edwin Hawkins Singers released it. And even though lyrically it may not be the simplest song to memorize, overall...
As love songs often tend to go, this one (“By the Time I Get to Phoenix”) was inspired by a real-life romance which its writer, Jimmy Webb, was involved in. However, unlike the song, in...
