The beautiful song, by Cat Stevens, "Morning Has Broken" is well known, but you may be surprised to know that he did not write the lyrics. Cat Stevens was one of the most successful singer-songwriters of the 1970s, thanks to hits like "Wild World," "Moon Shadow," "Peace Train," "Oh Very Young," but the beautiful lyrics to "Morning has Broken" was actually taken from a a Christian hymn first published in 1931. English author Eleanor Farjeon was inspired by the village of Alfriston in East Sussex, then set the words to a traditional Scottish Gaelic tune, "Bunessan". Did you know he did not write the lyrics to this song?

Released in 1973, "Blinded By The Light" was one of Bruce Springsteen's biggest hits, and even became a bigger hit for Manfred Mann's Earth Band in 1976, and the title of a 2019 movie about a U.K. Pakistani man obsessed with all things Springsteen. But that song wasn't even supposed to be. After music producer Clive Davis listened to the as-yet-unreleased first record of the novice Springsteen, he had some feedback. There were "no hits," he told the musician. "Nothing that could be played on the radio." So Springsteen rushed home to Asbury Park and churned out two more tracks, one being "Blinded by the Light," which he wrote on his bed with the help of a good old-fashioned rhyming dictionary, in a few hours. Which of these have you experienced?