The writer of “Oh! Susanna” was both the first professional songwriter in America, and the first to be exploited by music publishers Stephen Foster was both America’s first professional songwriter, ...

The answer to the question haunting every Beach Boys fan -- Why was "Smile" abandoned in 1967? -- comes relatively late in David Leaf's paean to Brian Wilson, "Beautiful Dreamer." Wilson, seated at ...

I couldn't get the tune of "Beautiful Dreamer" out of my head the other day and kept humming it. I tried to remember the words but kept repeating the same verses without getting the essence of the ...