Buddy Holly and Jerry Allison wrote the million-selling classic "That'll Be The Day" after seeing the film "The Searchers" in which the main character, John Wayne, responds to every optimistic prophecy with the immortal words - "Well that'll be the day!"

Although most history books record that Paul McCartney took the name "Eleanor  Rigby" from a gravestone in Sr. Peter's Church in Woolton, Liverpool, it was probably simply a combination of the names of the actress Eleanor Bron (who starred in the film "Help") and the London wine wholesalers Rigby & Evans
(Contributed by Lesley-Ann Liddane)

One of the most optimistic Christmas songs of all time, "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas", started out as one of the most pessimistic. Hugh Martin, who wrote the lyrics, had intended the opening line to be: "Have yourself a merry little Christmas, It may be your last!". Luckily, singer Judy Garland persuaded him to make it a little less gloomy - saying - "If I sing those lyrics, people will think I'm a monster!"
(Contributed by Terry Driscoll)

Remember the title track from Sergeant Pepper - "It was twenty years ago today/Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play"? Of course you do. But the first draft actually read - "He showed them how to please a crowd/The man's a leader than has made them proud". Second thoughts are sometimes best after all!

When Tony Romeo penned his now-immortal "I Think I Love You", it was a slow dreamy ballad. When he finally heard the Partridge Family's uptempo recording, he hated the song so much, he prayed their version would flop so that it could be recorded by another act the way he had written it. It didn't flop. and eventually, he confessed that he preferred it.

More songs have been written about New York than any other place in the USA, But after that? Well in order of popularity, it is Texas, California, Hawaii, Kentucky, Washington, Virginia, Mississippi, Arizona and Tennessee.