Pop quiz: Is this song about a purple monster who eats people? Or someone who eats purple people? THAT is the question, with all due respect to Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Like other songs, including “(How ...

The old Patti Page song How Much Is That Doggie in the Window? takes on a different meaning in a country where dogs are sold not only to guard a sweetheart, as the song goes, or as a friend. Only last ...

In the 1950s, as rock and roll was beginning to take hold as the dominant musical genre, scaring parents with its rebellious attitudes and hip-shaking dance moves, other musicians took a few aspects ...