Category: Music

Spotify’s Huge Milestone

Just recently, Spotify became the first music-streaming service to hit an amazing milestone, 100 million active users! This was confirmed to The Telegraph the other day and is quite astonishing when you think about it. The investment bank GP Bullhound values Spotify at $8.5 billion and with numbers like it has, we’re not surprised. Spotify […]

Great Songs on the Silver Screen – Part Two

We’ve been talking about great songs used on the Silver Screen. We consider these hits to be filed under the ‘Great Songs on the Silver Screen.’ Let’s take a look at part two… Mike Nichols produced the 70 classic “The Graduate” and used Simon and Garfunkel’s “The Sound of Silence”, and “Mrs. Robinson.” The music […]

A Hall of Famer With Many Names – Cat Stevens

It is highly unlikely you know who Steven Demetre Georgiou is, and we suspect you don’t know who Yusuf Islam is as well. That’s okay because we’re talking about the same person, only you know him as Cat Stevens, born in London in 1948. Cat Stevens became a music sensation in the early 70s, releasing […]

Our Favorite 5th Dimension Songs – Part One

The 5th Dimension was a soulful oldies group from the 60s and 70s that dominated the music world with energy, love, and great music. Marilyn McCoo, Billy Davis, Jr., Ron Townson, Florence LaRue, and LaMonte McLemore began as the Versatiles in 1965, but got smart and changed their name and was signed by recording start […]