Prelude to The Top 500 Songs of the Rock Era*: "Hey Ya!" by OutKast

Inside The Rock Era is featuring some of the great songs that didn't quite make The Top 500* in our special Prelude*.

Here's one of the best songs from the last ten years or so...

Calendar* Correction: Johnnie Taylor

Several websites erroneously say Johnnie Taylor was born on May 5 in 1937 or 1938.  They haven't kept up to date.  While Taylor frequently said he was born in 1937 or 1938, after he died in 1999, his birth certificate was read and the official date of his birth was revealed.  Taylor was born in 1934, according to the book Encyclopedia of Arkansas Music by Ali Welky and Mike Keckhaver, and MTV.)  

Calendar* Correction: Election of Bruce Springsteen and Frank Sinatra into New Jersey Hall of Fame

Several websites claim that Frank Sinatra and Bruce Springsteen were inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame on May 5, 2008.  The poor website owners apparently were confused when they saw newspaper reports on May 6 announcing the inductions.  As most people know, newspapers are printed overnight, and contain news that happened the previous day.  

Sinatra and Springsteen were inducted on May 5, according to United Press International, the newspaper The New York Daily News, as well as Rolling Stone magazine, at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark.