The Number Ones is a new column where I'll review every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.
“Tom Dooley” was a folk song based on the murder of a woman named Laura Foster in 1866. It was recorded by The Kingston Trio in 1958 and rose all the way to number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Their ...
The most interesting thing about the Coen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis — and, as far as I can tell, the most accurate — was the way the Coens depicted the early-’60s Greenwich Village folk scene as ...