Strip-club music used to be really different. Long before God gave us Miami bass, strippers used to have to get down to horny big-band jazz instrumentals, apparently. You’ve heard “The Stripper” even ...

David Rose was one of the most popular and distinctive mainstream instrumental pop composers of the '40s,'50s and '60s, writing a number of pieces that became part of the nation's collective memory.

In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Strip-club music ...