A song that gets extensive radio play is almost guaranteed to be a hit. However, not every song that becomes a hit–even those that go to No. 1–will be remembered in the decades to come. In fact, ...

“I’m a songwriter. I was looking for words,” songwriter Bill Danoff once said about writing “Take Me Home, Country Roads”. “The words that I loved in that song were Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah ...