Stealers Wheel was on top in 1973 with their new song “Stuck in the Middle with You,” but behind the scenes the Scottish band was already coming apart.
The Kingsmen’s “Louie Louie” became a 1960s rock classic, but garbled vocals sparked obscene-lyrics rumors, parental outrage, and an FBI investigation that still could not determine what Jack Ely sang.
Some songs make you want to book a flight, fill the gas tank, or disappear down a highway just to see what happens. The best travel songs aren’t always about perfect vacations. Sometimes they are about escape, restlessness, heartbreak, freedom, home, or the feeling that life might finally change once the scenery does.
AJ Croce was only days away from his second birthday when his father, Jim Croce, passed in a plane crash—but that was only the beginning of AJ’s difficult story.
