A tale printed in Reader's Digest leaped off the page for songwriter L. Russell Brown. He shared the romantic Civil War-era story with his songwriting partner Irwin Levine, and together they wrote one ...
Tony Orlando’s “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree” spent 11 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart in 1973. The song became a cultural phenomenon, so much so that radio stations were ...
It could've been a Ringo Starr song. When Irwin Levine and L. Russell Brown -- the same songwriting pair responsible for Tony Orlando & Dawn's mind-boggling piece of shit "Knock Three Times" -- wrote ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Pam Windsor lives in Nashville, Tennessee and writes about music. Mar 22, 2024, 02:26pm EDT Mar 24, 2024, 01:08pm EDT ...