It normally takes listeners only a few spins to realise that a song isn't for them, but sometimes even the most reviled and loved songs can see a second wind.

The Chambers Brothers created a wild musical hybrid with "Time Has Come Today". They had to use some savvy to break it to a wide audience.

Paul McCartney remembered an old Nat King Cole song. That inspired him to write The Beatles' classic "Mother Nature's Son".

Simon & Garfunkel officially split up 45 years ago, but you wouldn’t know it looking at the marquees in Connecticut this year. In April, you could see "The Simon & Garfunkel Story” at New Haven’s ...