Posts by Steve Lubet

Among their big hits in the early 1960s, The Drifters charted three songs with prepositions beginning the titles: "Up on the Roof," "On Broadway," and "Under the Boardwalk." The group ...

"Whisky in the Jar" is a traditional Irish song of unknown origin, one of many celebrating bandits and (in this case implicitly) resistance to the British. Folk versions were popularized ...

I considered using these songs for Saturday posts, but I couldn't find enough interesting covers, so here is the third compilation of random one-offs. I'm not saying there are no ...

"Please Don't Talk about Me When I'm Gone" was written in 1930 by Sammy Stept and Sidney Clare, the latter of whom was best known for comic songs such as ...

"The Wellerman" is an Antipodean sea shanty, referring to the supply ships of Australia's Wellerman Brothers, who provisioned the remote whaling station at Otago on New Zealand's South Island in ...

Following up on last week's "Unchained Melody," here are some songs with variations on "chains" actually in the lyrics. For some, I have opted for live covers rather than audio ...

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Rethinking State Constitutional Law  The UMKC Law Review is pleased to announce a call for submissions relating to state constitutional-law issues. In 1977, as the Burger Court was moving federal…

"Unchained Melody" has mostly been associated with the Righteous Brothers, who released it in 1965, but it was actually written for the 1955 prison film Unchained, in which it was sung ...

"Shout" was improvised by the Isley Brothers at a concert in 1958 when lead singer Ronald saw that the crowd wanted him to extend the closing number.  They recorded and ...

"Honey Don't" was written and recorded by Carl Perkins in 1956. Released as the B-side of "Blue Suede Shoes" (also written by Perkins, perhaps at the suggestion of Johhny Cash ...