American Songwriter

Behind the Song That Changed Everything: The Night Norman Greenbaum Wrote His First (And Only) Hit

The musical variety show—which also gave Dolly Parton her first big career break —almost always featured Wagoner and other ...
The Guardian

‘I was working as a cook when it went to No 1’: how Norman Greenbaum made Spirit in the Sky

‘My label said a four-minute single with lyrics about Jesus would never get played on radio. But, in 1969, the song sold two million copies. It’s now been No 1 in three different decades’ Spirit in ...