Sometimes, the greatest songs are written outside of one's comfort zone. These hit 1970s songs were written while on the open road.

Some songs are just so good, they can generate hit-making status for more than one musical artist or group. Here are 25 notable examples. Listed in alphabetical order.

One-hit wonder songs through the years have covered everything from lost love to walking 5,000 miles to be with the one. Like much of popular music, most one-hit wonders involve falling in love in ...

A 1968 hit track that is widely considered iconic was voted “the worst song of the sixties” by Rolling Stone's readers. The ...

Country legend Tim McGraw's hit song "Live Like You Were Dying" came out in the summer of 2004, and quickly became the No. 1 country hit for the entire year according to Billboard. It's a song ...

Even when an artist is gone, their music can live on forever. For example, Angie Stone gave us many great R&B songs that people will be enjoying for years to come. This raises an interesting question: ...

In what’s now become a yearly tradition every December, I’m ranking #1 hits from topical anniversary dates. This winter we’ll be doing 1975, 1985, 1995, 2005, and 2015, and I’ll be ranking every chart ...

WHAT IS the “song of the summer”? For more than a century, music fans and critics have considered which anthems capture the season of barbecues and suntans. In 1910 the New York Tribune wondered ...