Bobby Brown Busted

Bobby Brown was arrested early this morning in Atlanta on drug and traffic charges. The thirty-three-year-old singer and husband of Whitney Houston was charged with possession of less than an ounce of marijuana, speeding and having no driver's license or insurance card.

Brown will be transferred to a jail in neighboring DeKalb County, where he allegedly has outstanding charges against him. In 2000, he served jail time for violating probation on a 1996 drunk-driving charge.

Meanwhile, Brown's former group, New Edition -- Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins, Ronnie DeVoe, Johnny Gill and Ralph Tresvant -- is carrying on without him. New Edition signed a recording contract with Sean "P. Diddy" Combs's Bad Boy Entertainment. They expect to release a new album next year, to coincide with their twentieth anniversary.

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Song Stories

“Tonight's the Night”

The Shirelles | 1960

The lead cut and title track from this girl group's debut album, "Tonight's the Night" was written by 19-year-old bandmember Shirley Owens, who sings lead, and producer Luther Dixon. The band from Passaic, New Jersey met in high school, first calling themselves the Pequellos. The song's frank thoughts about sexual and emotional surrender was racy for the time, but that didn't stop the Chiffons from cutting a similar version immediately after the original came out. "We were the first female group to write some of our own material," band member Beverly Lee recalls. "We did have some say-so in our writing."

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