Shel Silverstein — beloved children's book author and novelty hit songwriter extraordinaire — would have turned 96 today.

In 1969, Johnny Cash released “A Boy Named Sue”. A quirky song, Cash includes “A Boy Named Sue” on his live At San Quentin album. “A Boy Named Sue” is song of revenge on an absentee father who named ...

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Iconic songwriter and Country Music Hall of Fame member Bobby Bare turns 85 on April 7th and will follow that milestone 10 days later with a brand-new album, Great American Saturday Night. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In an interview with Songfacts, Silverstein's nephew Mitch Meyers said his uncle was inspired by musicians. "I think that he was ...

Shel Silverstein’s reputation rests on his children’s books, but he also had a long, illustrious songwriting career in Nashville. No one performed his ribald, irreverent songs more than the ...

By September 1979, Marianne Faithfull's unlikely comeback was already in the works. The former '60s pop princess had spent May through July recording Broken English at London's Ma ...

Shel Silverstein possessed several divergent artistic talents. He was a prize-winning cartoonist whose funnies regularly appeared in Playboy magazine during the sixties and seventies. Silverstein, of ...