Two of Elvis Presley’s songs from his movies were originally jokes meant for another band. One of the tunes was overshadowed by a song on the same record. The other tune appeared on a No. 1 hit album.

Typecasting country artists as flipping between sounding sad and nostalgic paints a limited picture that leaves out the ever-presence of humor within the genre. By the 1960s, Nashville reigned as ...

Who knows what the world of country music would sound like today if it weren't for these three songs from 1969?

Back in the 1960s, the psych-rock period of the mid to late sixties was one of the most productive in rock history, with ...

Some of the most hilarious moments in our lives come to us not from stand-up comedians or corny puns, but from the unexpected: a toddler delivering a perfectly timed deadpan joke, a friend dropping a ...

Punk would come into existence in the mid-1970s. But in the 1960s, a few proto-punk tunes predicted the future of the genre.