Cee-Lo Helps Bring 500 Greatest Sing-Along Songs to Life for Kids Charity

Last year Atlanta music manager Josh Rifkind brought Rolling Stone's Top 500 Songs Of All Time to life over the course of an epic 10-night concert. This year he's staging the 500 Greatest Sing-Along Songs, with all the proceeds again benefiting the 500 Songs For Kids Foundation. The event — which wraps tomorrow at Smith's Olde Bar in Atlanta — will conclude with Gnarls Barkley's Cee-Lo singing "Hey Jude," the Number 1 song on the bill. Other performers include Butch Walker on "Sister Christian," Arrested Development on "Livin' On A Prayer," Artist to Watch Brett Dennen on Feist's "1234" (see video, above) and Cracker, who performed their 1993 hit "Low." The 500 Kids Foundation brings live music to children in hospitals and special needs camps. "I started Songs For Kids Foundation because I thought I could have a profound impact on someone and something far bigger than myself," Rifkind says. "It's been unbelievable so far this year, and it's amazing to watch 1,500 musicians getting together for such an important cause. We're through 400 bands so far, 100 more to go!"

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Song Stories

“Is It True”

Brenda Lee | 1964

As the British Invasion reached its peak in 1964, Brenda Lee went from Nashville to London to record one of her hardest-rocking hits, her perky vocal backed by a stuttering, squalling guitar. That guitar was played by session musician Jimmy Page, yet to skyrocket to fame with first the Yardbirds and then Led Zeppelin. "She said to me, 'I've come here to make a record with the British sound,'" remembered producer Mickie Most. "She felt she wouldn't get the same sound in Nashville because they're only just catching up on the British beat group sound of about six months ago."

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