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Jan 22, 2024 at 12:26 AM
INFORMATION FOR SONGS IN THE TOP 7000 Part IV

 Hello Everybody,

 Welcome to the Top 4000.

 A recording act from the borough of Staten Island in New York City,New York,USA had a song that in 1969 peaked at #9 on the US Billboard Hot 100,having their one and only entry in the Top 7000 at position #3999.
 
  The band from Edinburgh,Scotland group at #3988 is making their fourth of six (6) appearances in the countdown.They allegedly got their name by by throwing a dart at a map of the United States.The dart landed on the map in the state of Arkansas,but since "Arkansas Rollers" did not sound quite right,and might also lead to problems with pronunciation,they tried again and this time the dart landed near the community of Bay City,Michigan.The group's line-up featured numerous changes over the years,but the classic line-up during its heyday included guitarists "Eric Faulkner" and "Stuart Wood", singer "Les McKeown",bassist "Alan Longmuir", and drummer "Derek Longmuir".

   The song at position #3982 by this Philadelphia Virgo born September 18,
1939 was the #1 song for the entire year of 1959 on Radio Station CHUM from
Toronto.On Saturday,September 5,1959 he sang this song on the "Dick Clark Show".

  On March 27,1976 the song at position #3981 began a six week run at #1 in
the UK.The song was also the winning song of the Eurovision Song Contest
1976 in The Hague,Netherlands.The lyrics and music were written by Tony
Hiller,Lee Sheriden and Martin Lee,the latter two being members of the band.
This was the third consecutive occasion on which a group had won the contest.

  The New Jersey recording act at #3980 has six (6) songs in the Top 7000.The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997.

  The song at position #3978 on March 6,2006 became #1 in Australia (ARIA charts).It spent five (5) weeks at the top and was the song that ARIA ranked as the #2 song for the entire year of 2006.This song debuted at #3 on the Australian ARIA singles chart on February 20 in 2006, before climbing to #2 and then hitting #1 the following week.The song spent four (4) consecutive weeks at #1 before being succeeded by Youth Group's "Forever Young".A week later,it had returned to the summit for a 5th week.The song stayed in the Top 10 of the Australian charts for 22 consecutive weeks,giving it the title of the longest Top 10 charting single ever by an Australian artist (beating Silverchair's "Tomorrow" in 1994-1995,which spent a total of 19 consecutive weeks in the Top 10). Following on from the Australian success,the song was released in New Zealand the week beginning May 29, 2006,debuting at #17 on the national New Zealand charts and quickly jumping into the Top 3 in its second week.When the song became so popular critics started to claim that it was an unclean and an overtly suggestive song.They were quickly met with fans worldwide saying otherwise.On January 14, 2007,the song was certified double platinum in Australia,selling over 140,000 copies.The song eventually accumulated 39 weeks in the Australian ARIA Top 50 Singles Chart: finally leaving the chart on February 11, 2007, almost a year after its debut.

  On October 28,1967 the song at position #3965 by this New Jersey group
went to #1 for a week in Canada.The song peaked at #4 in the USA.This was
the group's highest charted record with Eddie Brigati singing lead
vocals.The song featured the haunting sounds of an accordion in the
background,as well as a trumpet,piano, drums,and strings.This gives the
feeling of cabaret music.The song came out of the experience with
Transcendental meditation that the Rascals were involved in.

   The San Francisco Bay area recording act at position #3923 has thirteen
(13) songs in the Top 7000 with one (1) of them in the Top 1000.The song at
position #3923 is an example of 'swamp rock',a genre associated with John
Fogerty and Tony Joe White.The guitar setting for the intro is over-driven
with amp vibrato on a slow setting;Fogerty uses a Gibson semi-acoustic with
humbuckers (which was stolen from his car soon after recording this
track).The E7 chord gives the song a strong Southern blues feel.To many,the
vocal performance on this track represents a pinnacle in John Fogerty's
singing,the performance as a whole is regarded as one of CCR's finest
hours. This song opens most of CCR's concerts,and is known as the band's
signature song.

  An alternative rock band with members Ben Gibbard,Chris Walla,Nick Harmer
and Jason McGerr,formed in 1997 in Bellingham,Washington,USA  have the song
at position #3914.Ben Gibbard took the band name from the title of the song
written by Neil Innes and Vivian Stanshall and performed by their group,the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.The song's name was in turn taken from an invented pulp fiction crime magazine The Uses of Literacy, devised by Richard Hoggart as part of his 1957 study of working class culture. In a 2011 interview,Gibbard stated, "The name was never supposed to be something that someone was going to reference 15 years on.So yeah,I would absolutely go back and give it a more obvious name.
  This group has one other song in the top 7000.

  Born Bjork Guomundsdottir Icelandic pronunciation:(/bjork/pj3:rk]
in Reykjavik,Iceland on November 21st,1965 is the recording act who
sings the song at position #3910.This is her second of
her only two solo entries in the top 7000.She has previously appeared in
the countdown with the "Sugar Cubes". Now in the third decade of her solo
career,the artist at position #3910 has developed an eclectic musical style
that incorporates aspects of dance,rock,jazz,electronic,classical and
avant-garde music.

 Welcome to the Top 3900.

  The song at #3884 will appear again in the Top 3000 with part of the recording act at #3884 doing the same song.

  At position #3883 is Englishman Phil Collins with one of his hits from 1983. Let's see if he cares.

  The song at position #3874 is a cover version of a 1999 song. The original version by a singer from Munich,Germany is in the Top 300."Bob The Builder" is a British children's stop motion television character created by Keith Chapman. Bob appears as a building contractor specialising in masonry in a stop motion animated programme with his colleague Wendy,various neighbours and friends,and their gang of anthropomorphised work-vehicles and equipment (all made of clay).The show is broadcast in many countries,but originates from the United Kingdom where Bob is voiced by British actor Neil Morrissey.The show was later created using CGI animation starting with the spin-off series Ready Steady Build.
  In each episode,Bob and his gang help with renovations,construction,and repairs and with other projects as needed.The show emphasizes conflict resolution,co-operation,socialization and various learning skills.

   Three sisters out of Oakland,California with one of their hits from 1984 holds down the #3870 position.On July 7,1984 the song peaked at #3 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and remained there for two weeks.

  Three sexy London ladies (Siobhin Donaghy, Mutya Buena and Keisha Buchanan) place their first of three songs in the top 7000 at position #3853.In August of 2002 this song peaked at #1 on the Official Chart Company in the UK.

  A Glasgow,Scotland rock band places its second and final song in the Top 7000 at position #3829.

From New Orleans the girl group at #3821 on June 6,1964 began a three week run at #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100.The group consisted of Barbara Ann Hawkins,Rosa Lee Hawkins,Joan Marie Johnson and Athelgra Neville Gabriel.In 1969 in New Orleans Rosa Hawkins began a successful modeling career.Both Rosa and Barbara also worked as make-up artists.They continued to tour and make personal appearances.In 1987,the song at position #3821 appeared in the "Full Metal Jacket" soundtrack.On August 29, 2005,Hurricane Katrina swept through Louisiana,flooding and flattening most of New Orleans and displacing Barbara and Rosa Hawkins,who subsequently relocated to Florida.Joan Johnson relocated to Texas.In April 2007,The "Louisiana Music Hall Of Fame" honored The group for their contributions to Louisiana music by inducting them into The "Louisiana Music Hall Of Fame.The group continues to perform and make personal appearances. The current line-up consists of the same Hawkins sisters along with Athelgra Neville,sister of the singing Neville Brothers.

The song at position #3814 was written by Pete Seger where he adds six words to Chapter 3 Verses 1-8 from the Book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible:.The song at position #3814 recorded by this southern California folk band spent three (3) weeks at #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 between December 4 & December 25 in 1965.The six words added by Seger were "A time for peace",(then he adds the six words) "I swear it's not too late."
  The song in the #3810 position by this New Jersey based rock band is a cut off of the album titled "Slippery When Wet" which was the #1 album for the entire year of 1987 according to both Cash Box (US) and Billboard (US) Magazines.
  The song in the #3810 position was written by Jon Bon Jovi,Desmond Child and Richie Sambora about a nameless woman who has jilted her lover. The song in the #3810 position was originally written for the Canadian rock band "Loverboy".The track was released as the first single from the hard rock album "Slippery When Wet".
   In 2009 it was named the 20th greatest hard rock song of all time by VH1. 

  The song at position #3808 by an Englishman spent six (6) weeks at #1 in Australia beginning December 9,1961

  The song at position #3805 was written by Chuck Berry.The song peaked at #2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks beginning July 11th,1964.

  The song at position #3802 was Cash Box Magazine's (USA) #1 single for the entire year of 1961.

  Welcome to the Top 3800.


Born on December 30,1931 in Dry Ridge,Kentucky,U.S.A,(Died:September 19,2004 in Nashville,Tennessee,USA) is the singer at position #3795.This is her second of two songs in the Top 7000.The song was also the song that Billboard Magazine ranked as the #3 song for the entire year of 1963.

  At position #3773 this Alabama singer (born in Muscle Shoals on December 7,1924/died: June 2,2002) who also wrote the song had a hit with this song that peaked at #5 on the Billboard Singles Chart. But around the same time in 1955 when this song was on the charts another version of the same song by three (3) sisters from New Milford,New Jersey was also on the charts.That version peaked at #3 on the Billboard singles chart and is higher up in the countdown. The singer of the song at position #3773 attended high school in Tennessee and formed his first band there.The song at position #3773 reached No. 16 on the UK Singles Chart in December of 1955.The Alabama singer-songwriter later became a disc jockey in Kentucky.He was inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame for his contribution to this music genre.

Born on October 14,1926 in Birmingham,Alabama (died:July 15,1982) is the artist who performs this instrumental at position #3772.On December 21,1957 this song began a two week run at #1 on the Cash Box (US) Magazine's singles chart.

  The song at #3770 was originally written and recorded by a singer who was born on March 14,1931 in Lake Charles,Louisiana.John Phillip Baptiste and George Khoury who wrote this 1959 recording saw it peak at #1 on the U.S. Billboard R&B chart and #2 on the US Billboard Hot 100.The song would be covered twenty-five (25) years later by a British Supergroup and peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100.That version by the British supergroup is yet to come in the countdown.Tom Waits gave the song a darker twist for the soundtrack to the 1989 Harold Becker film "Sea of Love" starring "Al Pacino" and "Ellen Barkin",and Waits included it on his 2006 collection "Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards". The song has made the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 just one other time,when Del Shannon took it to #33 in 1981.

  Born Charles Eugene Boone in Jacksonville,Florida on June 1,1934 and a descendant of pioneer Daniel Boone. The recording act at position #3761 places his first of eleven (11) songs in the Top 7000. Two (2) of the eleven (11) songs are in the Top 1000. According to US Billboard Magazine this artist was the second biggest charting artist of the late 1950s,behind only Elvis Presley but ahead of Ricky Nelson and The Platters,and was ranked at No. 9:behind The Rolling Stones and Paul McCartney but ahead of artists such as Aretha Franklin and The Beach Boys:in its listing of the Top 100 Top 40 Artists 1955-1995.

At position #3750 this Newport Beach,California native makes his second of four entries in the Top 7000.

    Formed in Leighton Buzzard,Bedfordshire, England,UK in 1979,is the band at position #3749.They were originally known as "Art Nouveau",a four-piece avant-garde instrumental group,with Nick Beggs on bass guitar,Steve Askew on lead guitar,Stuart Croxford Neale on keyboards and Jeremy "Jez" Strode on drums. Later Limahl (Chris Hamill) joined the band and the name of the band was changed coined by phonetically writing out a baby's first sounds,which gave them 'GagaGooGoo' - and with a minor alteration,to it's present name.The band's song at position #3749 topped the UK singles chart for two weeks beginning February 13,1983.

  Born Ciara Princess Harris on October 25, 1985 in the capital city of
Austin. This female artist out of the lonestar state artist at position
#3724 has five (5) songs in the Top 7000. But none are solo acts.Just like
this song she is part of a duet at #5330 she is part of three other duets in the countdown;one with Ludacris,one with Missy Elliot & one with Petey Pablo.In one song she is part of a trio.The other members of that trio are Fat Joe & Missy Elliot.One of her duets is in the Top 1000.

   Born Jewel Kitcher on May 23,1974 in Payson,Utah (raised in Homer,Alaska);the recording act at position #3718 has six (6) songs in the top 7000 with one of them in the top 500.

  The UK recording act at position #3714 was at #1 in the UK with this song at position #3714 for the week of July 31,2004.The song describes the persona trying to cope with his girlfriend breaking up with him.It was released as the second single from the group's album "A Grand Don't Come For Free".The song went to number one in the United Kingdom six days after its release.The song also went straight to number one in Ireland staying there for three consecutive weeks.In Australia,the song was ranked #19 on Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2004.

 Welcome to the Top 3700.

  The group from Sheffield,England at position #3699 topped The UK charts for the week of October 29,2005.The band currently consists of Alex Turner (lead vocals, guitar),Jamie Cook (guitar),Nick O'Malley (bass guitar, backing vocals),Matt Helders (drums,backing vocals) and John Ashton as a touring member (keyboard,guitar,backing vocals).Former members included Andy Nicholson (bass guitar,backing vocals) and Glyn Jones (lead vocals,guitar).The song at position #3699 was released on October 17,2005 in the UK,it rode the wave of popularity behind the band after a series of sellout gigs across the country,culminating with a gig in front of 2,000 people at the London Astoria.It debuted at Number One on the UK Singles Chart.The release of the song and its rise to number one further increased the ever-growing hype surrounding the band,and it was two weeks before they reached the cover of NME magazine.The single was released during a sell-out UK tour,although the band were playing at significantly smaller venues to those at which they would perform only months later.

  On September 26,1958 the song at position #3692 by this female from Bloomfield,New Jersey,USA (born on December 12,1938) began a six (6) week run at #1 in the UK.In the spring of 1958 this singer had hit #4 in the USA (#1 for six (6) weeks in the UK) with her breakout hit,a rock ballad version of the standard "Who's Sorry Now?".The similarly-styled follow-up"I'm Sorry I Made You Cry" had barely reached the Top 40 in the USA and the artist at position #3692 recalls:"I knew I had to come up with a smash hit on the third record.It was crucial.I listened to every publisher's song in New York,but nothing was hitting me."Eventually Don Kirshner of Aldon Music had Greenfield and Sedaka,who were staff writers for Aldon,visit the singer at her home to pitch their songs;after listening to a number of ballads-which both the singer at #3692 and her visitor Bobby Darin felt were too sophisticated to appeal to the teen market-she asked if the songwriters had "something a little more lively" and Greenfield asked Sedaka to play "Stupid Cupid",an uptempo number intended for the Shepherd Sisters.Greenfield dismissed Sedaka's objection that as a "classy lady" this singer would be insulted to be pitched such a puerile song saying:"What have we got to lose,she hates everything we wrote,doesn't she "Play it already!" After hearing only a few lines the singer at #3692 recalls:"I started jumping up and down and I said,'That's it! You guys got my next record!"

There was another version of the song at position #3683 that was on the US charts at exactly the same time as the song at position #3683.That other version is higher in the countdown.The version at #3683 was co-written by Bernie Lowe.Lowe was born on November 22,1917 (died on September 1,1993 in Wyncote,Pennsylvania,a suburb of Philadelphia) founded Philadelphia,Pennsylvania's Cameo Records in 1956,and Cameo was later expanded into the Cameo-Parkway Records label.

  A rock group from New Market,Ontario,Canada has the song at #3682.On April 5th,1986 it began a two week run in the #1 spot in Canada.On October 11th of the same year the song peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 (USA).The song features backing vocals by rock singer Bryan Adams.In March 2009,the band at position #3682 and members of the NHL alumni visited Canadian Forces stationed in Kandahar,Afghanistan.The visit included live performances and footage was shown on an episode of Entertainment Tonight Canada.

This New York City recording act make their one and only appearance in the Top 7000 at position #3671.

  At the same time that the song at position #3668 was on the charts there was another version of the song on the charts.That song was the song that Billboard Magazine ranked as the #7 song for the entire year of 1955.That version is at a higher position in the Top 7000.The group who sings the song at position #3668 Originally formed in their native Louisville,Kentucky as the Crazy Sounds,the group moved to Cleveland,where legendary disc jockey Alan Freed renamed them with the name they used when they recorded the song at position #3668 (after his own nickname,"Moondog").Freed helped to promote the group during their early years and,in a common practice of the day,often took a co-writer credit as compensation for his efforts.Lead singer Harvey Fuqua served as the group's leader and chief writer.Vocals were split between Bobby "Lester" Dallas and Fuqua,and sometimes,in the group's occasional duet leads, both.The other members were tenor Alexander "Pete" Graves and bass Prentiss Barnes,with Billy Johnson on guitar.The group recorded one single for Freed's Champagne label in late 1952,and then for Chicago's Chance label in 1953 and 1954.After a moderately-successful release of the Lester-led version of Doris Day's "Secret Love" on Chance, the Moonglows signed to independent Chicago powerhouse Chess Records in mid-1954.
  Although many Rhythm & Blues collectors decry the cover version (yet to come in the countdown),which kept the group off the Pop charts,most overlook that the version at position #3668 stole lyrics from a 1951 Dominoes tune,"That's What You're Doing To Me." The bridge in both songs is almost identical: "Lord, won't you tell me/Why do I love that woman so?/ She doesn't want me/But I'll never let her go." Also of note,in 1988 country quartet the Forester Sisters reached #8 on the Billboard Hot Country chart with their remake of the song.
  This group's singing style is revered by aficionados as "blow" harmony, based on the technical method used by the backgrounds singers.This style can be heard in many other groups of the era and beyond,perhaps most notably the Chi-Lites (particularly on their hit "Oh Girl").

This New Haven,Cpnnecticutt recording act place their first of two entries in the Top 7000 at position #3654.

  The song at position #3639 began a four (4) week run at #1 on the ARIA (Australia) charts beginning March 2,1992 and was the song that ARIA ranked as the fourteenth (14th) best song for the entire year of 1992.Unlike most of his previous songs, this song combines subtle melodies with gentle vocals to bring forward the issues of environmental conservation and world poverty.The lyrics juxtapose the many marvels and feats of human civilization with the death of the natural world,constantly emphasizing the passing of time:'Time is not a friend, 'cos friends we're out of time'.The recording features an unaccredited George Harrison on lead guitar.

This Seattle based rock band place their first of two entries in the Top 7000 at position #3631.

  Born on May 29th,1961 in Leavenworth,Kansas is the singer who holds the song at position #3609.This is her second of two appearances in the top 7000. This singer is known for her mixture of "confessional lyrics, pop-based folk-rock, and raspy, smoky vocals.She has also been an iconic gay and lesbian activist since her public coming out in January 1993.She has received fifteen Grammy Award nominations,winning two, and an Academy Award. In September 2011,she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

 Welcome to the Top 3600.


  The singer from Birmingham,England at position #3597 spent four (4) weeks at the top of the US Billboard Hot 100 beginning July 30,1988 with the song at position #3597.

  Appearing alongside the "Pet Shop Boys" at #3591 this UK pop/rock singer makes her second of five (5) appearances in the Top 7000.You last heard from her at #6546.

  At position #3589 is the first of two entries for this Phoenix,Arizona.Based rock band.Both songs reached #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100.
  The lyrics to  the song at position #3589 were written by Arizona-born John Lang who co-wrote the songs on all of this group's albums. The music was composed by Richard Page and Steve George while on tour with Adam Ant.
 The title of the song means "Lord, have mercy" in Greek and is a part of many liturgical rites in Eastern and Western Christianity.

  At position #3584 is a song performed by a New York City recording artist.The song peaked at #5 on the US Billboard weekly single chart and #2 on the Cash Box Magazine's weekly single chart both in the USA in 1984.The same year the song went to #1 in Norway.

  A song performed by American surf rock band surf rock band formed in Minneapolis,Minnesota in 1962 has the song at position #3579.The song was released in 1963 and reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100.It is a combination of two R&B hits by the Rivingtons: "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow" and "The Bird's the Word".

On August 10,1963 when the song at Position #3576 went to #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100. The singer of the song was only thirteen (13) years old. He was the youngest solo recording act ever to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. A record he holds to this date.

   An Australian rock band Icehouse formed in Sydney in 1977,initially known in Australia for their pub-rock style has their one and only song in the Top 7000 at position #3571 from 1988.

  This US/UK group has the song at position #3566 with one of their hits from 1978.In a 2009 interview,vocalist Lou Gramm of this group explained the origin behind the song:this was a song that was written in about late 1977 just before the album of the same name came out. ...A lot of people think it's about being intoxicated or being high.When we were recording that song before we had the title,the New York Rangers hockey team was playing the Philadelphia Flyers and one of the big Flyers guys bumped into the Rangers' all-star goalie (John Davidson) and knocked him down and they had to take him out of the game because he was experiencing (title of the song). According to the New York Rangers website, the incident actually took place in April 1978 during a hockey game between the Rangers and the Buffalo Sabres.The game announcers repeatedly used the phrase (the title of the song) which then inspired the group to use it as the song's title. The song at position #3566 is a single by the group from their second album of the same name.The song reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978,and was a top 10 song in Canada.This song is featured in "Guitar Hero Van Halen".  

  The song at #3560 is a remake of a song done thirteen years earlier and that version went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and is yet to come in the countdown.

  The English singer at position #3514 makes his one and only entry in the Top 7000.


 Welcome to the Second half.

  From Niagara Falls,New York the brother & sister recording act at #3498 spent one week at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.The song was #1 the week before president John F.Kennedy was assassinated. Carol LoTempio and Antonino LoTempio recorded a standard song that Larry Clinton and His Orchestra and band vocalist Bea Wain had popularized in 1939,the brother and sister version at position #3498 won the 1964 Grammy Award for Best Rock and Roll Recording.

   The song at position #3489 is by an Italian dance and pop group who found success in 1994 with this song.Although she did not sing on most of the act's hit,Corona is fronted by Brazilian performer Olga Souza.The song is a cover of a song that was released ten (10) years earlier.The version that was released ten (10) years earlier and that original version is still to come in the countdown.The version at #3489 stayed at number one (1) on the Italian music chart for thirteen consecutive weeks.However,the song was not released elsewhere until the following year.A remixed version of the song became a number 2 hit in the United Kingdom in September of 1994.Like other 1990s Eurodance/Hi-NRG songs that eventually became American hits as well,such as "Get Ready For This","Twilight Zone" and "Tribal Dance" by "2 Unlimited" and "Strike It Up", "I Don't Know Anybody Else" and "Everybody Everybody" by Black Box,this song did not catch on in the United States until well after its success had peaked in Europe.By spring 1995, however,the song was all over US radio and clubs,eventually reaching #11 on the Billboard Hot 100.

  Born on March 25,1969 in Norwich,England is the artist who recorded the song at position #3481.This is her one and only appearance in the top 7000. On May 18th,1991 the song began a two (2) week run at #2 on the US Billboard Hot 100.In 2004,the artist at position #3481 was listed 66th on the Q Magazine (UK) list of the top 100 most influential people in music and in 2006 she won the UK music industry's Woman of the Year Award.

  The song at #3471 is a cover of a song done twelve (12) and five (5) years earlier. The version from 1958 was Cash Box Magazine's #2 song for the entire year of 1958. The 1958 version of the song is in the Top 1000.Carl Sigman composed the lyrics to the song at position #3471 in 1951 to a wordless 1911 composition entitled "Melody in A Major," written by Charles Dawes,later Vice President of the United States under Calvin Coolidge.It is the only #1 pop single to have been co-written by a U.S. Vice President.

    Born Eugene Booker McDaniels on February 12,1935 in Kansas City,Missouri-raised in Omaha,Nebraska (died July 29, 2011 in Kittery Point,Maine),an African-American singer and songwriter has the song at position #3468.This song peaked at #3 on the US Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks beginning May 8th,1961.This singer wrote the song "Feel Like Makin' Love" for "Roberta Flack".This is his second and final appearance in the top 6500.

  For the week of January 29,1969 the song at position #3459 was #1 in the UK.It was the third (3rd) biggest song in the UK for the entire year of 1969.This composition suggests a relaxing sea setting,with cymbals imitating the sound of waves and a dreamy solo from Green's guitar.It contains only two chords,Emaj7 and F#m,and could be seen as an early ambient work. It is often assumed that Green used his Les Paul but he said it was his Fender Stratocaster,as there is subtle use of the vibrato bar.The Les Paul that Green used in this group has a nasal tone like that achieved in the in-between positions of a Stratocaster,and heard in the song.Green had been working on the piece for some time before the addition to the band of 18 year old guitarist Danny Kirwan.Slide guitarist Jeremy Spencer was not generally inclined to work with Green,who had felt unable to realise the overall effect that he wanted.With Kirwan's input,Green completed the piece and it was recorded just two months after Kirwan joined,without Spencer present.Kirwan's instrumental "Jigsaw Puzzle Blues" was chosen for the B-side in most territories.It has been suggested that the piece is associated with the metaphorical use of the word albatross to mean a wearisome burden.The use of the word "Albatross" to mean an encumbrance around somebody's neck is an allusion to Coleridge's poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (1798).It is unclear whether Fleetwood Mac intended the title to reference this meaning or if it refers to the bird;but the title of the UK compilation album it appears on,The Pious Bird of Good Omen,alludes to and quotes from the Coleridge poem.This composition is one of only a few tracks by the original lineup of Fleetwood Mac that is included on their later "greatest hits" and "best of" compilations. Many of their compilations only focus on hits from the 1970s and 1980s.

  On May 11,1959 the song at position #3449 managed to go to the top of the singles chart on Radio Station CHUM from Toronto,Canada and stay there for three weeks.On May 18,1959 the song managed to reach #1 south of the border on the Billboard Hot 100 and stay there for two weeks.The singer of the song was born January 5,1929 in Charlotte,North Carolina and died on October 26, 1994 in Spencer,North Carolina.The song at position #3449 was written in 1951 and was one of the first credited collaborations by the team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.In 2001,his recording of this song was given a Grammy Hall of Fame Award.His recording has also been named as one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.

  On November 3,1986 the song at position #3418 began a seven (7) week run at #1 in Australia.It was the #1 song in Australia for the entire year of 1986.The song also was awarded the 1987 Aria Award for "Single of the Year".The song at position 3418 is a song written by Andy Qunta,Keith Reid,Maggie Ryder and Chris Thompson for the singer at position #3418,which he recorded for his sixteenth album "Whispering Jack" released in 1986.Reid,who wrote the lyrics,told the magazine "Songfacts": "It's an anti-war song in a way,but it was more of a 'make your voice heard' kind of thing.Wake up to your own power." It is also one of this singer's biggest international successes,reaching the top 10 in many European countries.

  On May 7,1979 the song at position #3416 by this UK group began an eight (8) week run at the top of the singles chart in Australia.It was also the #1 song for the entire year of 1979 in Australia.

  The song at position #3407 topped the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks beginning April 25,1970.This song was written with the same design as "I Want You Back",and was first heard on American Bandstand in February 1970.This song knocked The Beatles song "Let It Be" out of the number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1970.

  The song by this Dublin,Ireland boy band consisting of Mark Feehily,Shane Filan,Kian Egan,Nicky Byrne and Brian McFadden at position #3406is a cover of a song done by a Long Islander eighteen (18) years earlier.That version can be found in the Top 1000.The song is about actress/model Christie Brinkley.

  Some musicologists consider the song at position #3404 to be the first rock & roll record ever. There is another version of this song by a Toronto band in the Top 1000.The version by the Toronto band was popular around the same time as the version at position #3404.The version at position #3404 spent seven (7) weeks at #1 on the Cash Box Magazine's Singles Chart in 1954.The version by the Toronto based band in 1954 also spent seven (7) weeks at #1 on the Cash Box Magazine's Singles Chart and seven (7) weeks at #1 on the Billboard's Singles chart.The recording act at position #3404 is a 1950s US doo-wop group:Carl (lead) and Claude Feaster (baritone), Jimmy Keyes (first tenor),Floyd "Buddy" McRae (second tenor) and Ricky Edwards (bass).They formed in 1951 in the Bronx,New York,but were not discovered until three years later,when they were spotted singing in a subway station,a performance that ultimately landed them a recording contract with Atlantic Records' Cat Records label.In 2004,this song ranked at #215 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time.


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    Born Annerley Emma Gordon on November 12,1967 in Sheffield,South Yorkshire,England is the singer who has the song at position #3393.In 1999 the song peaked at #2 in the UK,#4 in Australia and #14 in Canada.This is her one and only appearance in the top 7000.

    The song at position #3384 is a cover of a song released nine years earlier from the movie "Looking For Mr.Goodbar" starring "Diane Keaton".As a matter of fact the original version is only forty-tyhree (43) positions higher on the countdown.The recording at position #3384 topped the UK charts for four weeks in September 1986, becoming the third (3rd) biggest record of the year in the process.The featured guest vocalist on the recording was jazz singer Sarah Jane Morris.

   At position #3380 & position #3379 you see the UK duo of Robson & Jerome with their fourth (4th) and fifth (5th) of seven recordings in the Top 7000.

    The song at position #3367 is a cover of a song done 34 years earlier.That original version is in the Top 300.The version at position #3367 was part of the soundtrack to the movie Shrek.

  This disco group from Munich,Germany consisting of Linda G. Thompson,Penny McLean,Ramona Wulf,Jackie Carter,Zenda Jacks and Rhonda Heath at position #3352 make their second and final appearance in the top 7000.This song peaked at #1 on Cash Box (US) Magazine's singles chart for the week of June 19th in 1976.

  Born in Jakarta,Indonesia on July 21st,1955 is the singer who has the song at position #3349. He spent many of his childhood years moving around the world residing in the Netherlands,the United States,Singapore,Luxembourg,Belgium and Germany.The song
At #3349 peaked at #3 on the US Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks beginning September 3rd,1983.This is the singer's one and only appearance in the top 7000.

    The song at #3344 would be covered twenty (20) years later.The cover version for this song is in the Top 300.The recording act who performs the song at position #3344 was born on October 5,1952 in Munich,Germany.The song at position #3344 is the electronic instrumental theme from the 1984 film Beverly Hills Cop.The title of the song comes from the movie's main character's name,Axel Foley (played by Eddie Murphy).In addition to the Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack,the song also appears on Faltermeyer's 1988 album Harold F. as a bonus track.Reportedly Faltermeyer was against including it,but MCA insisted,as it was his most recognizable track.

    On June 11th,1960 the song at #3339 began a three (3) week run at the top of the Australian singles chart. This song was the #2 song for the entire year of 1960 according to "Jimmy Barnes" in his book "The BOOK".This song also reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States in 1963 and in the top 10 in Britain in 1960.The distinctive sound of the original recording was achieved by the use of an instrument of the singer's own design called the "wobble board",actually a two by three foot piece of Masonite.The lyrics of the song have also been compared to a poem by Australian poet Richard H. Kendall whose work includes a poem called "On Preston Bar" which features a pet wallaby called "Tymie". In the poem Tymie seeks to escape from his master,Mr Roberts. The singer of the song at position #3339 offered four unknown backing musicians 10 percent of the royalties for the song,but they decided to take a recording fee of 28 pounds between them because they thought the song would be a flop.

   Born in Coalinga,California on November 12,1917 (died:July 16,2008) the singer at position #3313 began a three (3) week run at #1 on the Billboard Singles Chart on March 3rd,1954.The singer of the song at position #3313 was also viewed as a pioneer of modern musical parody,having won a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album in 1961 (with husband Paul Weston)for their album Jonathan and Darlene Edwards in Paris.She was also the first woman to have a No 1 on the UK Singles Chart.

  This Hollis,Oklahoma native at position #3312 makes his one and only entry in the TOP 700.He occupies that position with his 1964 hit that
was a cover of a 1962 Elvis Presley song.The song peaked at #3 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and #3 in Canada.
  He also had a Country hit in 1973 with "Amarillo By Morning".
Born on December 30,1931 in Dry Ridge,Kentucky,U.S.A,(Died:September 19,2004 in Nashville,Tennessee,USA) is the singer at position #3300.This is her second of two songs in the Top 6500.The song was also the song that Billboard Magazine ranked as the #3 song for the entire year of 1963.


Welcome to the Top 3300.


  This Toledo,Ohio native who was born on May 7th,1931 is the singer of the song at position #3298. At the same time the song at position #3298 was on the charts there was another version of this song on the US Billboard charts.That version hit the top of the Billboard singles chart.That version by a female from Paulsboro,New Jersey is at a higher position in the Top 7000 of this list.The singer at position #3298 altogether,she recorded nearly 600 song titles.For her contribution to the recording industry,she has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1708 Vine Street.In 2007 she was inducted into the Hit Parade Hall of Fame.The singer died on October 17, 2007,at her home in New Rochelle,New York,of Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP),a rare degenerative brain disease.She was 76.

The song at position #3286 by this singer born on June 7,1990 in Mullumbimby,New South Wales,Australia,places the first of four songs in the Top 7000.

   This one hit wonder at position #3284 is by a duo that formed at the University of Wisconsin in Madison in the late 1950s.The group was primarily composed of Jim Sundquist (from Kingsford,Michigan),and Phil Humphrey (from Milwaukee,Wisconsin).When the duo formed Humphrey lived in Stoughton,Wisconsin with his wife and daughter. Sundquist and Humphrey shared the same birthday November 26,1937.They called themselves "the Fendermen", because they both played Fender guitars and they connected them both to the same amplifier.The song at position #3284 is a classic country song written by Jimmie Rodgers and first recorded by him in 1930. The song at position #3284 peaked at #5 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and #2 on Radio Station CHUM from Toronto in July of 1960.This is the duo's one and only song in the top 7000.

  The song at position #3282 is a cover of a song that went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 one year earlier.That song is in the Top 500.The song at position #3282 reached #3 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 charts.This remake blended Latin influences,including a mixture of classic Spanish guitar and flamenco,with American pop sounds and the recording act at position #3282 saying "Light my fire light my fire light my fire" over and over again.The single helped to spur the worldwide success of the album, Feliciano!,which was nominated for multiple Grammy awards in 1969.

On March 11,1974 the song at position #3274 began a seven (7) week run at #1 on the Australian single charts.Further in Australia (David Kent) this was the #1 song for the entire year of 1974.The singer of the song at position #3274 was born Bernard William Jewry on September 27,1942 in Muswell Hill,North London,UK.

  In Los Angeles after seeing the streets signs of "Hollywood" & "Argyle" Gary Paxton (formermember of Skip & Flip)created the group known as the "Hollywood Argyles" who recorded the song in the #3259 position. The song in the #3259 position is based on the comic strip character of the same name. On July 11th,1960 this song reached #1 on the Billboard (US) Hot 100.The lead vocalist on the track was Norm Davis.He was paid a one-time fee of $25 for his work on the single.He later became a poet and poetry teacher in Rochester,New York.


This Spanish singer at position #3255 does a set to the tune of the Ninth Symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven,as arranged by Waldo de los Rios, who specialized in arranging classical music to contemporary rhythms.He does Beethoven's "Ode To Joy".The single was enormously popular in many countries in 1970,reaching number 1 on music charts in Australia,Canada,Germany and Switzerland.This is the singer'ss one an only entry in the Top 7000.

The British singer at position #3253 makes his one and only entry in the Top 7000.The song released in 1979 peaked at #1 on both the US Billboard Hot 100 and Canada's RPM chart.


  On December 24,1966 this Australian band at position #3219 began a six week run at #1 with their one and only entry in the Top 7000.The song was written by band members George Young and Harry Vanda.

  The New York City group at position #3205 has placed four songs in the Top 7000 but this is the only one to peak at #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100.It spent two weeks at #1 beginning November 3,1962.The song was produced by Phil Spector and written by Gene Pitney.

  The recording act at position #3204 is a pop-rock group from South Carolina.The song at position #3204 is from an album titled "Cracked Rear View" which was both Cash Box (US) and Billboard (US) Magazine's #1 album for the entire year of 1995 and it was ranked by Billboard Magazine as the #7 album for the entire decade of the 1990s.In Canada Nanda Lwin (from Canoe) ranked the album according to the Canoe album charts (Canada) as the 86th biggest album between 1977 and 2002.
   The lyrics to this song tell the story of a patient man in love with a woman who is an irresponsible alcoholic.He keeps trying to save her and salvage the relationship, even as he sees the toll it is taking on him and the probable futility of his attempts to keep it together.Darius Rucker said he wrote the song about one of his own past relationships,but swapped the gender roles:that in real life,he was the irresponsible one and his girlfriend was the long-suffering partner who tried to keep things together.
  Darius Rucker acknowledged that he originally wrote the song as a country song.

 Welcome to the Top 3200.

  The song at #3191 is the same melody as a very popular 1963 Beach Boy song that is in the Top 1000.This song at position #3191 reached #2 on the Billboard single charts and Rolling Stone Magazine ranked the song at #272 on their list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2004.

  The song at #3186 went to #1 for the week of March 29,1975 on the US Billboard Hot 100. The song was remade by four prominent female singers and the song went to #1 again twenty-six years later for five (5) weeks beginning on June 2,2001.The 2001 version of this song is in the Top 1000.The song is most famous for its sexually suggestive chorus of  "voulez-vous coucher avec moi (ce soir)?".The singer at position #3186's version of the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2003.
  The song was written by Bob Crewe (who co-wrote many of the hits recorded by The Four Seasons) and Kenny Nolan.The songwriting pair had previously collaborated on the hit Frankie Valli song "My Eyes Adored You". The song came about after Crewe made first-hand observations in New Orleans.First recorded by Nolan's group Eleventh Hour in 1974 on Eleventh Hour's Greatest Hits LP,the singer at position #3186's producer Allen Toussaint decided to record it as the main track for the album "Nightbirds". The record was produced by Toussaint,with instrumental backing from "The Meters".

  The song at position #3180 is both Cash Box and Billboard Magazine's #2 song for the entire year of 1968.The song spent seven (7) weeks at the top of the Cash Box Magazine's singles chart from February 10 to March 30 in 1968.It is also the only number-one hit by a French artist to top the Billboard Hot 100 in the USA.Although this song is an instrumental,the song's music was composed by Andre Popp,and the lyrics were written by Pierre Cour,in 1967.Brian Blackburn later wrote English-language lyrics for it.The song was first performed in French by Greek-German singer Vicky Leandros (appearing as Vicky) as the Luxembourgian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1967.
   The song describes the pleasure and pain of love in terms of colours (blue and grey) and elements (water and wind).The English lyrics ("Blue,blue, my world is blue ") focus on colours only (blue, grey, red, green, and black),using them to describe elements of lost love.An odd twist in the lyric uses the word "gone" in the same pattern used to introduce each colour,just like in Fred Ebb and John Kander's "My Coloring Book"; "colour him gone".

  The song at #3161 by this New Jersey band was radio station WMCA from New York City's #1 song for the entire year of 1968.The song managed to spend five (5) weeks at #1 on radio station WMCA and five (5) weeks at #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and six weeks at #1 on rival New York City radio station WABC.North of the border the song managed to spend a week at #1.The song was written by group members Felix Cavaliere and Eddie Brigati and featuring a lead vocal from Cavaliere,it is an upbeat but impassioned plea for tolerance and freedom:
All the world over, so easy to see!
People everywhere, just wanna be free.
Listen, please listen! That's the way it should be-
Peace in the valley, people got to be free.
   The song was perceived by some as related to the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy earlier that year,it was recorded before the latter's death.In fact it was partly a reaction to an ugly encounter wherein the long-haired group was threatened by a group of rednecks after their tour vehicle broke down in Fort Pierce,Florida.The song is clearly a product of its times;however,two decades later writer Dave Marsh included it as number 237 in his book "Heart of Rock and Soul:The 1001 Greatest Singles of All Time",saying in reference to,and paraphrase of,the song's lyric,"Ask me my opinion,my opinion will be: Dated,but NEVER out of date."
   Since this song came out,the group who sings the song at position #3161 would only perform at concerts that featured an African American act,however,if those conditions were not met,the group canceled several shows in protest.

  The rock group Chicago has #3157 with one of their hits from 1974.This song was written by Lee Loughnane from the group "Chicago" and recorded for their album  "Chicago VII" (1974),with Peter Cetera singing lead vocals.The second single released from that album,it reached #6 in July of 1974 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.This song was the first Loughnane composition to be released by the band.Loughnane was the last original Chicago member to receive a songwriting credit.It's their call.

  Born Jack Giovanni Domenico Scafone Jr.. on January 28,1936 in Windsor,Ontario,Canada the artist who has the song at position #3153.He moved to Highland Park,Michigan,USA in 1946.The song at position #3153 peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 on August 18th,1958. He was inducted into Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2011 and has been called "undeniably the greatest Canadian rock and roll singer of all time"

The Melbourne,Australia based punk rock and psychobilly band which formed in 1994 has the song at position #3148.THe band is comprised of Chris Cheney (vocals, guitar), Scott Owen (double bass, vocals) and Andy Strachan (drums).The band makes it only appearance in the top 7000.

   The song at position #3137 by this Australian band from 1987 originally went to #1 for four (4) weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 on May 31,1980.The 1980 version that has the lead singer a former Miss Minneapolis is in the Top 2000.The version at position #3137 unlike the 1980 version did not have the early eighties' electronica.It had more of later eighties' rock,including a guitar solo in the middle.Between December 22,1986 and February 9,1987 the song at position #3137 was at the top of the Australian Singles chart.
 
    The Orlando,Florida boy band at position #3124 has thirteen (13) songs in the Top 7000.According to the US Billboard 200,They have sold over 100 million records worldwide,making them the best-selling boy band of all time, and one of the world's best-selling music artists.They are the first group since Led Zeppelin to have their first ten albums reach the top 10 on the Billboard 200,and the only boy band to do so.


  An Atlanta,Georgia native occupies the #3112 position with a song that peaked at #2 on Canada RPM chart on January 11,1999.The song also peaked at #7 on the US Billboard Hot 100 on January 16,1999. 


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  The song at position #3099 was ranked by Cash Box Magazine (USA) as the #1 song for the entire year of 1966 in the USA.According to John Phillips in a Bravo documentary,and Michelle Phillips in an NPR piece,the song at position #3099 was written in 1963 while they were living in New York.He dreamed about the song and woke her up to help him write it.At the time,the Phillipses were members of the folk group The New Journeymen which evolved into The group that sang the song at position #3099.They earned their first record contract after being introduced to Lou Adler,the head of Dunhill Records,by the singer Barry McGuire. In thanks to Adler,they sang the backing vocals to the song on McGuire's album This Precious Time.The group then recorded their own version,using the same instrumental backing track to which they added new vocals and an alto flute solo by Bud Shank.McGuire's original vocal can be briefly heard on the left channel at the beginning of the record,having not been completely wiped.The single was released in late 1965 but it was not an immediate breakthrough.After gaining little attention in Los Angeles upon its release,Michelle Phillips remembers that it took a radio station in Boston to break the song nationwide.By early 1966, the song peaked at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and stayed on the charts for 17 weeks.The song is #89 in Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2004.

For the week of January 18,1975 the song at position #3095 held the #1 spot in the UK.In Australia it was the #15 (David Kent) song for the entire year of 1975.The song was Written by Francis Rossi and Bob Young.The album version lasts 5 minutes and 24 seconds and the single version 3 minutes and 49 seconds.Originally the song was titled "Get Down",but this was changed before release,possibly to avoid confusion with the Gilbert O'Sullivan song of the same name.Towards the end of his life, BBC 1 DJ John Peel was known for playing "Down Down" as part of his eclectic DJ sets.

  The song at position #3070 by this Motown recording act was remade 21 years later by two UK superstars.On September 7,1985 that remake went to #1 for four (4) weeks in the UK.That version of the song is still to come in the countdown.The version at position #3070 was produced by William "Mickey" Stevenson and written by Stevenson and Marvin Gaye,the song highlighted the concept of having a good time in whatever city the listener lived.The idea for dancing came to Stevenson from watching people on the streets of Detroit cool off in the summer in water from opened fire hydrants.They appeared to be dancing in the water.The song was conceived by Stevenson who was showing a rough draft of the lyrics to Gaye disguised as a ballad.When Gaye read the original lyrics,however,he said the song sounded more danceable.With Gaye and Stevenson collaborating,the duo composed the single with Kim Weston in mind to record the song.Weston passed on the song and when Martha Reeves came to Motown's Hitsville USA studios,the duo presented the song to Reeves. Hearing Gaye's demo of it,Reeves asked if she could arrange her own vocals to fit the song's message.Gaye and Stevenson agreed and including new Motown songwriter Ivy Jo Hunter adding in musical composition,the song was recorded in two takes.The interesting loud beat of the drums in its instrumentation can be attributed to Hunter,who banged on a crowbar to add to the drum beat led by Gaye,who was often a drummer on many of Motown's earliest hits.While produced as an innocent dance single (it became the precursor to the disco movement of the 1970s),the song took on a different meaning when riots in inner-city America led to many young black demonstrators citing the song as a civil rights anthem to social change which also led to some radio stations taking the song off its playlist because certain black advocates such as H. Rap Brown began playing the song while organizing demonstrations.
    Dancing in the street had two meanings.The first is the one Martha Reeves asserted to reporters in England."The British press aggravated Reeves when someone put a microphone in her face and asked her if she was a militant leader.The British journalist wanted to know if Reeves agreed,as many people had claimed,that "Dancing in The Street" was a call to riot.To Reeves,the query was patently absurd."My Lord,it was a party song,"she remarked in retrospect". While Berry Gordy had created the Black Forum label to preserve black thought and creative writing,he kept the Motown record label and the popular hits it produced from being too revolutionary."Berry Gordy Jr. was extremely wary about affiliating his business with any organization of movement that might negatively influence his company's commercial success".The central tenet of Motown records was to produce a sound that was genteel enough to appeal to white audiences across the country while still wholly African American and reflective of the African Diaspora in America. This song is suave and melodious,while still percussive,repetitive and danceable.The primary meaning was innocent enough to allow national audiences to accept and enjoy the song, if only at first."Motown records had a distinct role to play in the city's black community,and that community--as diverse as it was-articulated and promoted its own social, cultural, and political agendas.These local agendas, which reflected the unique concerns of African Americans living in the urban north,both responded to and reconfigured the national civil rights campaign".The movement lent the song its secondary meaning and the song with its second meaning fanned the flames of unrest.This song (and others like it) and its associated political meanings did not exist in a vacuum. It was a partner with its social environment and they both played upon each other creating meaning that could not have been brought on by one or the other alone.The song therefore became a call to reject peace for the chance that unified unrest could bring about the freedom that suppressed minorities all across the United States so craved.
   On April 12, 2006,it was announced that Martha and the Vandellas' version of "Dancing in the Street" would be one of 50 sound recordings preserved by the Library of Congress to the National Recording Registry.Lead singer Martha Reeves said she was thrilled about the song's perseverance,saying"It's a song that just makes you want to get up and dance".
This version was #40 on the list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time by Rolling Stone in 2004.

  Born Cornell Haynes,Jr. on  November 2,1974 in Austin,Texas (raised in St,Louis) is the singer at position #3069 and this is his the eight of seventeen (17) appearances in the Top 7000,He has four songs in the Top 1000.Three songs in the top 500. And one song in the Top 200 a duet with Texan Kelly Rowland.He won Grammy Awards in 2003 and 2004 and starred in the 2005 remake film The Longest Yard with Adam Sandler and Chris Rock.He has two clothing lines,Vokal and Apple Bottoms.He has been referred to by Peter Shapiro as "one of the biggest stars of the new millennium",and he has sold over 20 million records.On December 11th,2009 he was ranked as the 3rd Top Overall Artist of the 2000-2009 decade by Billboard Magazine.

   The group composed of three girls with lead singer Peggy Santiglia born May 4, 1944,from Orange,New Jersey occupy the #3051 position.The Song in the #3051 position stayed in the #1 position for five (5) weeks beginning August 13th,1963 on Radio Station WABC from New York City (at that time it was the most listened to station in the USA) and was Radio Station WABC from New York City's third (3rd) biggest record for the entire year of 1963.The song was the #1 song on WABC when Dr. Martin Luther King made his famous "I Have A Dream" speech.The song at position #3051 was written by the songwriting team of Feldman,Goldstein and Gottehrer.The recording was originally intended as a demo for "The Shirelles",but ended up being released as recorded.The song is a word of warning to a would-be suitor who,after the narrator of the song rebuffed his advances,went on to spread nasty rumours accusing the narrator of romantic indiscretions.Now,the narrator declares,her boyfriend is back in town and ready to settle the score,and she tells the rebuffed would-be suitor to watch his back.The inspiration for the song was when co-writer Bob Feldman overheard a conversation between a high school girl and the boy she was rebuffing.

  The song at position #3048 was the song that Radio Station WABC from New York City ranked as the eighth (8th) biggest song for the entire year of 1970 in their year-end countdown.Better yet Radio Station WWDJ from Hackensack,New Jersey ranked the song at #5 in their year end countdown.The song at position #3048 delves head-on into psychedelia, this time with a strong political message.The lyrics list a multitude of problems that were tearing the world apart in 1970:the Vietnam War,segregation, white flight,drug abuse,crooked politicians,and more."Round and around and around we go",the Temptations sing,"where the world's headed/nobody knows."The end of each section of the Temptations' lists of woes is punctuated by bass singer Melvin Franklin's line,"And the band played on.The lyrics of this song are delivered over an up-tempo instrumental track with two drum tracks (one for each stereo channel),multi tracked wah-wah guitars,and an ominous bassline by Funk Brother Bob Babbitt that opens the song.Norman Whitfield's dramatic count-in,always recorded at the very start of a recording for synching purposes only,was left in the mix for this record.Despite its strong political themes,the record consciously avoids implying a definitive point-of-view or a defiant stance.This is because the "Temptations" song "War",which Norman Whitfield intended as a spring 1970 single release,was not released due to Motown's concern the song's forward message could alienate more conservative listeners.Whitfield took "War" and reworked it as a single for Gordy solo artist Edwin Starr(for whom it became a #1 hit), while he and lyricist Barrett Strong wrote the more subtle "Ball of Confusion" for the group at position #3048.When they first saw the sheet music for the song,the group didn't think they would be able to pull off the rapid-fire delivery required for the song.Lead singer Dennis Edwards had the quickest tongue in the group,and was assigned to deliver the more difficult lines in the song.Eddie Kendricks was given a rare chance to sing in a tenor voice for his verses.

  The song at #3046 is covered by another prominent male/female duet thirty (34) years later. That other version of the song is in the Top 1000.

  Born Stacy Ann Ferguson on March 27, 1975 in Hacienda Heights,this southern California female singer at #3045 is making her third appearance in the Top 7000.She has six (6) songs in the Top 7000.One is a duet she does with Ludacris,another is a quartet with David Guetta,Chris Willis, & LMFAO and she has one song in the Top 400.These six (6) songs do not include any of her songs she recorded with a group known as the "Black Eyed Peas".The singer at position #3045 is also a fashion designer and actress.She was a member of the children's television series Kids Incorporated,and the girl group "Wild Orchid".She was also a co-host of the television show "Great Pretenders".Having released her debut album,"The Dutchess",in September 2006.The album spawned five Billboard Hot 100 Top 5 singles (three of which went to number one) making "The Dutchess" the seventh album from a female artist to spawn five Top 5 hits.

  Born on November 8th,1947 in Chicago is the artist who sings the song at position #3041.The song peaked at #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 on the week ending April 5,1975.The singer died of cancer on July 12,1979.

  Born Jiles Perry Richardson in Beaumont,Texas on October 24th,1930 is the singer at position #3037.He died on February 3rd,1959 in a plane crash in a field outside Mason City,Iowa along with Ritchie Valens and Buddy Holly  and the pilot Roger Peterson.

  Born on October 3rd,1984 in Richardson,Texas,with a sister named Jessica,she has the song at position #3036.It is one of her two
appearances in the Top 7000.This song peaked at #5 on the US Billboard Hot 100 the week of September 18th,2004.

   For the week of May 19,2008 the song at position #3035 was at the top of the UK Singles chart.The recording act at position #3035 is from Lowton,Greater Manchester and London in the United Kingdom.The song is the second single by this recording act from their debut studio album "We Started Nothing". Vocalist Katie White states that the song was written with her ranting about her frustrations with the record industry.The song was originally released as a double A-side with "Great DJ" by independent record label Switchflicker Records on May 28,2007. After heavy promotion and support from BBC Radio 1 and the NME,the single was re-released individually on May 12,2008 on Columbia Records.When the song went to number one on the UK Singles Chart it held off competition from well-established acts like Rihanna,Madonna and will.i.am.
  The song has three music videos.The first features The group on a white background performing the song on a set,with alternating scenes of Katie with blue and pink backgrounds.This version of the video was used to promote the song and album upon its 2007 release.This video is visually similar to the video for Toni Basil's "Mickey,"in keeping with the audio similarities.This video was directed by Sophie Muller and Stacey Hartly.Columbia produced a 2008 video for the US release,with director David Allain and with them performing again on a different set,with more equipment and flashing lights in the background.The video premiered on mtvU.com on January 26,2009.Another video was made for the acoustic version.All videos are live action.The third music video was directed by Alexand Liane and features The group in a park,where some people costumed by skeletons start to show themselves, with some words of the lyrics of the song at position #3035.

  The  band originally formed in Orlando,Florida in 1995,at position #3011 has eight (8) songs in the Top 7000 with one song in the Top 1000.The band then went on hiatus in 2004,and rhythm guitarist Adam Gaynor left the band in 2005,after performing on the first three studio albums.As a result,Paul Doucette took over rhythm guitar,and the band reunited and released a compilation album,"Exile on Mainstream",in 2007,which was certified gold in the United States.When the group went on hiatus and its members focused on solo work,although while on tour in 2009 and 2010 Rob Thomas has repeatedly said that the band will get back together to record another album.

A folk rock group consisting of Erik Darling,Bill Svanoe,Lynne Taylor,Mindy Stuart and
Patricia Street based out of New York City peaked at #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 for two (2) weeks beginning the week ending January 26,1963.They have the song at position #3009. The group played at the Newport Folk Festival in 1963. Lynne Taylor (born in 1928) died in 1982 at age 54, and Erik Darling died on August 3,2008, aged 74, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, from Burkitt's lymphoma.

  The LA psychedelic recording act has the song at position #3004.The band consisted of Gene Gunnels,Mark Weitz,Randy Seol,George Bunnell,Howie Anderson.This song peaked at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 during the week ending November 25th,1967.This is the recording act's one and only appearance in the top 7000.
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