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Marilyn Monroe stole the show when she sang the song of the day, "Happy Birthday," to President John F. Kennedy on May 19, 1963.

Music is central to the character of the long-running animated show Bob's Burgers.The 107 songs collected on a new double album showcase the warmth and progressive ideals behind the fart jokes.

When businesses shut down and people began to isolate themselves due to the coronavirus back in March, a local musician found a way to keep his peers’ connected and their creativity flowing by creating weekly songwriting challenges. We’ll hear from some of the participants and the songs they made during “Songwriter Quarantine.”

Jose Feliciano sang the "Star Spangled Banner" on October 7, 1968 at game five of the World Series between the Detroit Tigers and St. Louis Cardinals, to mixed reviews.

Bob Dylan walked out of a dress rehearsal of the Ed Sullivan Show on May 12, 1963 when CBS lawyers prohibited him from singing the song of the day, "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues."

When businesses shut down and people began to isolate themselves due to the coronavirus back in March, a local musician found a way to keep his peers’ connected and their creativity flowing by creating weekly songwriting challenges. We’ll hear from some of the participants and the songs they made during “Songwriter Quarantine.”

Three heavily hyped new bands have little in common, except being led by women. How important is that?

Leonard Cohen's long-time muse, Marianne Ihlen, passed away on July 28, 2016, three months before he did. He wrote the Song of the Day, "So Long, Marianne" in 1967.

The Song of the Day is paying tribute to the singers, songwriters and musicians who died in 2023. Harry Belafonte died April 25, 2023 in New York City of congestive heart failure. He was 96. "Day-O" was chosen as The Song of the Day tribute because it was Belafonte's signature song.

Choices and fate combined on February 3, 1959, ending the lives of three talented singers. Our Song of the Day features "Peggy Sue," co-written by Buddy Holly, who along with "The Big Bopper" and Ritchie Valens died in a plane crash on this day in 1959.