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It’s officially Awards Season again and, rather predictably, everyone’s abuzz over the Academy Awards’ Best Original Song nominees — but what of the Golden Globes Best Original Song selections , we ask? No, really. Wait, come back! Though often thought of as Oscar’s little sister — and a somewhat reliable predictor of who will win Academy Award gold — the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s annual accolade has a style all its own, and nowhere is this style more evident than in its strange history of Best Original Song nominees. What follows is a [...]

Filed under: The Hit List Getty Images Attention, artists: If Bruce Springsteen ever offers to write a song for you, don't get too excited -- especially if it winds up being a really good one. Because while the Boss has written several songs for other performers, he's been known to both giveth and taketh away. He's not the only one to flip-flop on song destinations. Here are several hit songs that were intended [...]

A day before the Grammys in February, Whitney Houston died suddenly and producers hastily pulled together a tribute segment for the late singer. And with the Billboard Music Awards just around the corner — the event is being broadcast live this Sunday, May 20, from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas at 8 p.m. EST — we can't help but wonder if there will be some sort of similar acknowledgment in store for Donna Summer , who lost her battle to lung [...]

This week the music world lost two legendary performers: Donna Summer and Chuck Brown . And given that other greats such as Etta James , Whitney Houston and Adam Yauch of Beastie Boys have already passed away in recent months, we can't help feeling that 2012 will sadly go down as the Year Of Death. See how this, and other events such as [...]

Like any great diva of a certain age (the '70s to the '80s), Donna Summer provided the soundtrack to many memorable moments of my early life in Kissimmee, Florida. One of my most vivid Summer moments, though, happened in another place and time (to quote the title of her 1989 album, the one featuring her No. 7 comeback hit "This Time I Know It's for Real") -- last year, to be precise, more than three decades after her disco heyday. I was with a friend at Sircuit, a bar in Melbourne, Australia, when the DJ cranked up the best song [...]

Oh, 2009. What music to my ears! It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...and one of the greatest years in Pop music since-well, since 2007. Sorting out this list was truly difficult. All I want to do is reach out my arms and squeeze all of these little albums together for one, snugly show of musical appreciation. Honestly, fabulous year in music. It's totally not fair to list you all in descending order based on quality, but hey...people love that shit. Just remember: You're all winners in my book! Well, except [...]