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INFORMATION FOR SONGS IN THE TOP 7000 Part VII |
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Written by Barry Kowal
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Oct 19, 2023 at 03:20 PM |
INFORMATION FOR SONGS IN THE TOP 7000 Part VII
Welcome to the Top 1000. We have finished the bottom 6000.1000 songs to go.
Welcome to the Top 1000.
The song at position #1000 is a group comprised of a male Canadian singer born Abel Makkonen Tesfaye on February 16,1990 in Toronto and a French electronic music duo formed in Paris in 1993. The artists co-wrote and co-produced the song alongside Doc McKinney and Henry "Cirkut" Walter, with Jason Quenneville providing additional writing.It was released as the first single from the Canadian singer's third studio album on September 21,2016,by XO and Republic Records.It is an R&B and electro pop song with lyrics that contain themes of extravagance of a celebrity life. The song at position #1000 topped the charts in countries such as Canada,France, Netherlands,New Zealand and Sweden,as well as the US Billboard Hot 100,where it became the Canadian singer's third chart-topper and the French electronic music duo's first chart-topper.The music video for the song was directed by frequent collaborator Grant Singer,who directed two of the Canadian singer's previous music videos.In the music video,the Canadian singer is shown trying to destroy evidence of his previous self,including his own awards from his past album.The video has been described as the Canadian singer's attempt to murder his former personality. This is the highest placement of eight entries in the the top 6500 and the highest of four entries for the French duo. A San Francisco rock band at position #988 places its third of three songs in the Top 7000.This song peaked at #4 on the US Billboard Hot 100 on August 9,1997 and remained in that spot for four weeks.
The British funk and acid jazz band at position #987 makes their second of two entries in the top 7000.The song was written by Jay Kay and Toby Smith and was inspired by the break-up between Kay and his former girlfriend Denise van Outen,which occurred due to conflicting work commitments and which led to Kay's cocaine problem. Kay quit his habit in 2003. This song in 2001 peaked at #1 in Spain AND peaked at #1 in Italy.
The Boston based band at position #986 places their second and final entry into the Top 7000.It is the fifth track and third single from the band's 1990 LP Pornograffitti. It is a ballad built around acoustic guitar work by Nuno Bettencourt and the vocals of Gary Cherone (with harmony vocals from Bettencourt).The song is a detour from the funk metal style that permeates the band's records.As such,it has often been described as "a blessing and a curse" due to its overwhelming success and recognition worldwide, but the band ultimately embraced it and plays it on every show. On June 8,1991 the song topped the US Billboard Hot 100 for a week.The song also went to #1 in Canada,Belgium,Netherlands and New Zealand.It peaked at #2 in Australia and the UK.
The song at position #980 by this Toronto recording act was the song that Billboard Magazine ranked as #3 for the entire year of 1957 in the magazine's year-end countdown. It was ranked at #6 for the entire year of 1957 for Cash Box Magazine (USA).This song was written by Maurice Williams with both melody and doo-wop accompaniment strongly emphasizing the clave rhythm,and was first released during 1957 as a rhythm and blues song by The Gladiolas.The original members of the group that sings the song at position #980 were Dave Somerville (lead),Ted Kowalski (tenor),Phil Levitt (baritone),and Bill Reed (bass).
The song in the #946 position recorded by a Swedish pop-rock duo: Marie Fredriksson (born on May 29th,1958) and Per Gessle (born on February 12th,1959 in Halmstad,Sweden) was the song that Billboard Magazine (US) ranked as the #2 song for the entire year of 1990.It is from the motion picture "Pretty Woman" starring Richard Gere & Julia Roberts. "Christmas for the Broken Hearted", the song's original title,was first released in 1987 after EMI Germany asked the duet who sings the song in the #946 position to come up with an intelligent Christmas-single.It went on to become a Top 10 hit in Sweden but EMI Germany decided not to release the track.This version of the song was not part of any of the duet who sings the song in the #946 position's albums until the 1997 re-release of Pearls of Passion,where it was included as a bonus track.The B-side to "Christmas for the Broken Hearted","Turn to Me", also featured as a bonus track. During the run of their chart-topping singles from their album Look Sharp!Touchstone Pictures approached the duet who sings the song in the #946 position's record label,EMI and the group about contributing a song to the soundtrack of the upcoming romantic comedy release Pretty Woman.Pretty Woman was released in March 1990 and went on to make more than $460 million worldwide. Gessle has claimed that The song in the #946 position,by then a two-year-old recording was chosen because the duet who sings the song in the #946 position did not have time to compose and record a new song while touring Australia and New Zealand.Gessle and producer Clarence Ofwerman took the original 1987 recording,had Marie Fredriksson replace a single Christmas-referenced line in the song and added some instrumentation and background vocal overlays to enhance the sound.Gessle claimed the soundtrack producers initially turned down The song in the #946 position but changed their minds after re-editing the film. Although The song in the #946 position" was part of the Pretty Woman soundtrack,the song wasn't part of any of the duet who sings the song in the #946 position album until "Don't Bore Us,Get to the Chorus!", their 1995 greatest hits release.The album wasn't released in the United States until September 26,2000, with a different track listing.
The song in the #928 position spent 13 weeks in the #1 position on Radio Station WABC from New York City.Longer than any other song in WABC chart history.It also spent nine (9) weeks in the #1 position on Cash Box Magazine's (US) Singles Chart.Between 1952 and 1991 no other song spent more time in the #1 position on the Cash Box (US) Magazine's Singles Chart.On both Radio Station WABC and on Cash Box Magazine the song in the #928 position was the biggest song for the entire year of 1981. The singers of the song in the #928 position recorded the song for Motown,and it was used as the theme for the film of the same name starring Brooke Shields. Produced by Richie and arranged by Gene Page,it was released as a single from the film's soundtrack in 1981. The song was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song,and was the second song with which Ross was involved that was nominated for an Oscar.It also won a 1982 American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Single. The song was included in Adam Sandler's movie Happy Gilmore when Happy and his girlfriend Virginia are ice skating,and the song begins to play.Virginia says to Happy "I thought we were just going to be friends." To which he responds, "Friends listen to Endless Love in the dark." The song was included as well in the third season of Friends,in which Phoebe walks into Chandler and Joey's flat,just to find Chandler singing the song.On an episode of The Steve Harvey Show,Steve and Regina perform the song at a janitor's urging (who thought they were Ross and Richie);at the end of the song, the janitor quips "no wonder you guys haven't had a hit in a while."
The Brooklyn,New York native at position #926 places his one and only entry in the Top 7000.In 1998 this song peaked at #1 in Austria,Belgium, Denmark,Germany,Ireland,Netherlands,New Zealand,Norway and Switzerland.Song peaked at #2 in Australia,Iceland and the UK.
Born in Conisbrough,West Riding of Yorkshire,England is the singer of the song at position #914 places his one and only entry in the Top 7000.This song in 1972 peaked at #1 in Austria,Belgium,West Germany, and Spain.In 2005 the song peaked at #1 in Ireland and the UK. This song was written by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield.It is about a man traveling to Amarillo,Texas to find his girlfriend Marie.
The inter-racial group from Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania,U.S.A. at position #910 makes their first of two entries in the top 7000.The song was written by C. E. Quick (a.k.a. Clarence Quick),an original member (bass vocalist) of the American doo-wop vocal group.The song was originally recorded by The groups' (lead singer Norman Wright) in 1956 but not released until July 1957 on the Luniverse LP "Come Go With The Del Vikings". The final version was released in the second week of January 1957 and was led by Gus Backus.When Joe Averbach, the owner of Fee Bee Records couldn't handle the demand,he signed with Dot Records in late January 1957;the song became a hit,peaking at No. 5 on the US Billboard Top 100 Pop Charts (a predecessor of the 1958 established Billboard Hot 100).It also reached No. 2 on the US R&B chart.
On May 16th,1981 the song in the #904 position began a nine (9)week occupation of the #1 position on the Billboard Magazine (US) Singles Chart. Between 1956 and 1991 only two (2) songs stayed in the #1 position on the Billboard Singles (US) Charts longer than the song at the #904 position.This song was also the song that Billboard Magazine ranked as the #1 song for the entire year of 1981. The song was also a number one hit in 31 countries, including Germany,Australia,Switzerland,Italy,Norway,Japan and Brazil. The song was written in 1974 by Donna Weiss and Jackie DeShannon.DeShannon recorded the song that same year on her album "New Arrangement". According to producer Val Garay,the original demo of the tune that was brought to him sounded like "a Leon Russell track,with this beer-barrel polka piano part."Keyboardist Bill Cuomo came up with the signature synth riff, using the then-new Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 synthesizer,which now defines the singer of the song in the #904 position's version.The song was recorded completely live in the studio on the first take. Bette Davis admitted to being a fan of the song and approached the singer of the song in the #904 position and the songwriters to thank them for making her "a part of modern times." The song was ranked at number 17 on Billboard's list of the top 100 songs in the first 55 years of the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 2018. This is this artist's second and final appearance in the top 7000.
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The song in the #891 position is from the album "Harvest" the album that Billboard Magazine (US) ranked as the #1 album for the entire year of 1972.The single in the #891 position topped the Billboard Hot 100 and the Canadian singles chart.His only #1 single on the Billboard Hot 100.Rolling Stone ranked it #297 on their list of the 500 greatest songs of all time in 2004.It features the back-up vocals of James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt. This song is one of a series of soft,acoustic pieces which were written partly as a result of a back injury.Unable to stand for long periods of time,he could not play his electric guitar and so returned to his acoustic guitar, which he could play sitting down. The song in the #891 position was taped during the initial sessions for Harvest in early 1971 at Quadraphonic Studios in Nashville,Tennessee.Ronstadt and Taylor were in Nashville at the time for an appearance on Johnny Cash's television program,and the album's producer Elliot Mazer arranged for them to sing backup for Young in the studio. Originally,this song was meant to segue with the song "A Man Needs a Maid",and was therefore played on piano.It was played in this manner during the singer of The song in the #891 position's solo shows in 1971,but he abandoned this approach midway through the tour and began to play it on guitar as it is now known.Additionally,one line that was cut when the two songs became separate entities was "Afraid/A man feels afraid" .An example of the segued version appears on "Live at Massey Hall 1971" release. The singer of the song in the #891 position wrote in the liner notes of his compilation album Decade:"This song put me in the middle of the road.Traveling there soon became a bore so I headed for the ditch.A rougher ride but I saw more interesting people there." This statement was in response to the mainstream popularity that he gained as a result of this song's number-one status.
The song at position #871 certainly did not get to that position because of its performance on the singles chart. This hard-rock group from San Diego,California only reached the #30 position on Billboard Magazine's weekly singles chart with this song.The song which is 17 minutes and 9 seconds long got to the #871 position on the Top 5000 because of the album that it was off of.The song at position #871 is the title track of the album of the same name. This album, although it only peaked at #4 on the Billboard album chart,it managed to spend 140 weeks on the Billboard album chart mostly within the Top 10. This song was Billboard (US) Magazine's #1 album for the entire year of 1969 and Cash Box (US) Magazine's #2 album for the entire year of 1969.
On August 25th,1962 (25 years before Kylie Minogue released this song) the song in the #866 position became the #1 song on the Billboard Hot 100.Radio Station WINS in New York City ranked the song in the #866 position as the #3 song for the entire year of 1962. The song was written by American songwriters Gerry Goffin and Carole King.The original recording of the song was sung by Eva Boyd the singer of the song in the #866 position. Boyd was actually Carole King's babysitter,having been introduced to King and husband Gerry Goffin by The "Cookies",a local girl group who would also record for the songwriters.The song was the first release by the new Dimension Records company,whose releases were mostly penned and produced by Goffin and King,and reached #1 in China during 2001. The song is a popular and enduring example of the dance-song genre: much of the lyrics are devoted to a description of the dance itself,usually done as a type of line dance.However,the song came before the dance.The song in the #866 position is ranked #350 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of "the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" in 2004.The song is also one of only nine songs to reach US #1 by two different artists.
The song in the #865 position by this hard-rock band from Melbourne,Australia was off the second (2nd) biggest album for the entire year of 2004 in Australia titled "Get Born".It was the first single from the album,released in 2003 in Australia and the UK,and in 2004 in the United States.Written by Nic Cester & Cameron Muncey,the song is often cited for similarities to Iggy Pop's "Lust for Life" and The White Stripes's "Screwdriver".However,the beat has been found to have been common in numerous 60s' Motown songs,including "I'm Ready For Love" by Martha And The Vandellas and "You Can't Hurry Love" by The Supremes. Chris Cester responded to the media debacle,stating the beat was taken from Motown,stating in a Jared Story interview,referring to a meeting between Iggy Pop and himself:"It's funny because I asked him point blank about that. He said I was crazy. He said that when he and David Bowie were writing "Lust for Life",they were ripping off Motown's beat.It's funny that he said that to me because we also thought we were ripping off Motown more than "Lust for Life".To be honest with you that kind of annoyed me a lot,because I always thought it was really lazy.People just go well Lust for Life is more well-known so that's what they go for,but if you listen to a song like "You Can't Hurry Love" (The Supremes) I think you'll find its closer to the song in the #865 position" than "Lust for Life" ever was.And that's what Iggy said as well."
The song at position #864 is a song by Russian-German record producer Zedd, American country music singer Maren Morris and American musical duo Grey.It was written by Sarah Aarons,Zedd,Grey and "The Monsters and the Strangerz",with production handled by the latter three.The song was released commercially for digital download on January 23,2018 by Interscope Records.The song peaked at #5 on the US Billboard Hot 100.It has reached the top ten of the charts also in the UK and several other countries.It was nominated for Record of the Year,Song of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards.
Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney got together to sing a song about racial harmony in 1982 and the song topped the Billboard Hot 100 for seven (7) weeks between May 15th and July 3. This song is at the #862 position. The title of the song at the #862 position was inspired by McCartney hearing Spike Milligan say "black notes,white notes,and you need to play the two to make harmony folks!". The figure is much older.It was popularized by James Aggrey in the 1920s, inspiring the title of the pan-African journal The Keys,but was in use from at least the 1840s. Although written by McCartney alone,the song was performed live in the studio by both McCartney and Wonder,though due to conflicting work schedules,both recorded their parts for the song's music video separately (as explained by McCartney in his commentary for The McCartney Years 3-dvd boxed set). The song is listed at position #76 on Billboard's Greatest Hot 100 Songs of all time in 2018.
The song at position #860 by an electronic music group from Oldham,Greater Manchester,England is a remake of a song from "Saturday Night Fever" done eighteen(18)years earlier. The 1978 version is in the Top 300.The version at position #860 was the #1 song for the entire year of 1996 in Canada,the #2 song for the entire year of 1995 in Australia (ARIA) and #40 for the entire year of 1995 in the group's native country the UK.
The song in the #836 position,by this rock and roll band from Clovis,New Mexico was the #1 song for the entire year of 1963 on both Billboard (US) Magazine and in Canada. The song in the #836 position was written in 1962 by Keith McCormack and his aunt,Fay Voss.
The song at position #832 is by this trio from Manchester,England.The song at position #832 spent eight (8) weeks in the #1 position on both the Billboard (US) Magazine's Singles Chart and the Cash Box (US) Magazine's Singles Chart.On Cash Box Magazine (US) the song at position #832 was the #1 single for the entire year of 1978.This song was also the third (3rd) biggest song for the entire year of 1978 in Canada and the 4th biggest song for the entire year of 1978 in the UK.Further,the song at position #832 was off an album which was both Cash Box (US) and Billboard (US) Magazine's #1 album for the entire year of 1978.The album also spent 24 weeks in the #1 position 0n Billboard 200 Album Chart.
The song at position #814 is a remake of a song done twenty (20) years earlier.That earlier version of the song went to #1 for two (2) weeks in the UK beginning March 3,1979.The song at position #814 was released as a double A-side with "Heartbeat".It debuted at number two on the UK Singles Chart before climbing to the top spot,achieving platinum status.A dance step of putting both hands parallel to the sides of the head became the trademark move of this British group.This song has sold more copies than all three previous singles by the group at position #814 combined.This song spent eighteen weeks in the Top 20 and thirty weeks on the chart in total.According to my calculations it was the #1 single for the entire year of 1999 in the UK.
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The song in the #797 position by this Australian singer born Melissa "Missy" Morrison Higgins on August 19,1983 was off the biggest album for the entire year of 2004 in Australia titled "The Sound Of White". The song in the #797 position won Best Pop Release at the 2004 ARIA Awards and was also nominated for Single of the Year.In 2005,the song won two ARIA song writing awards for Song of the Year and Breakthrough Song.The song's video was parodied by Rove McManus during the introduction of the ARIA Awards that year.The song is also featured on "One Tree Hill".The song has been covered by the band "67 Special" in Triple J's Like a Version:Volume Two.This chorus of this song has also been featured in the Axis of Awesome's song,"Four Chords",as an example of a song that uses Four standard Chords.
The song in the #770 position was the #1 song for the entire year of 2000 in Australia.It was recorded by a rock group from Northport,New York.The song in the #770 position was included on the soundtrack of the movie "Loser". In 2005,British girl group "Girls Aloud" covered the song for their tour.(This version reverses the lyrics so that it is the story of a girl singing about a boy owing to the singers being female) It was later featured as a b-side to their single "Whole Lotta History".A studio recording cover by Girls Aloud is included on a special BBC Radio 1 compilation CD, Radio 1.Established 1967,celebrating 40 years of the station.It has also been covered by the all-girl Belgian Scala Choir,and is regularly covered live by "Dashboard Confessional". It has also been covered by the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain.It was also covered by "All Time Low" at a concert in 2007,and Hedley (band) on the Famous Last Words tour in 2008. The song was also featured at number 69 on the top 100 greatest pop songs of all time on the UK music channel,"The Hits". For the radio version,from the sentence "He brings a gun to school" the word "gun" was removed due to the Columbine High School massacre one year previously.
Born on April 17, 1954 in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania,USA is the recording act who has the song at position #761.The song was used in the 1983 film "Flashdance".The song appears during an early scene in Flashdance and is used as the backing track of a montage sequence showing Alex (Jennifer Beals) training strenuously in her converted warehouse. The song was included in Flashdance after the recording act at position #761's wife accidentally included it on a tape sent to executives at Paramount Pictures who were looking for music to use in the film.The recording act at position #761 had originally written the song as a horror theme after watching a slasher film (possibly 1980's Maniac) with lyrics such as "He's a maniac,maniac,that's for sure/He will kill your cat and nail it to the door." Producer Phil Ramone convinced the recording act at position #761 to write new lyrics to reflect the film's subject matter. Beginning September 10,1983 the song began a two week run at #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and is one of the highest-grossing songs ever written for a film.In addition to producing this song,Phil Ramone produced the song that would dethrone it from the top spot,Billy Joel's "Tell Her About It".The Original Soundtrack of Flashdance won the 1983 Grammy Award for Best Album of Original Score Written for A Motion Picture or a Television Special. The song was nominated for an Academy Award.
The recording act at position #741 places the third of three songs in the Top 7000.The song was released as the lead single from their fourth studio album,"Elephant",in March 2003 and reached number one on the US Billboard Alternative Songs chart-maintaining that position for three weeks It also became the third best-performing song of the decade on the same chart.It was well received commercially as well. The song is known for its underlying riff,which plays throughout most of the song.Although it sounds like a bass guitar (an instrument the group had never previously used),the sound is actually created by running Jack White's semi-acoustic, 1950s-style Kay Hollowbody guitar through a DigiTech Whammy pedal set down an octave. A combination of the song's popularity, recognizable riff, and defiant lyrics led to it becoming the band's signature song. Often ranked as one of the greatest songs of the 2000s,it has been used widely at sporting events and political protests internationally. The song received two nominations for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal and Best Rock Song at the 46th Annual Grammy Awards,winning the latter one.
The performer who performs the song at position #728 later toured Europe together with Michael Jackson.At the beginning of their song they dissed another kid group "Another Bad Creation" when Chris "Mac Daddy" Kelly said "don't try to compare us to another bad little fad".The original song's introduction contained a sample of ABC's song "Playground" which was followed by a scratching sound giving the effect that their record was being taken off to play the song at position #728.This was soon removed due to copyright infringement. This song at position #728 ranked number 75 on "VH1's 100 greatest songs of the 90's",and number two on their "Child Stars" Top 10 list.
The song at #725 by this Atlanta,Georgia,USA duo has the same title as another song that went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 although it is another song.The 1984 #1 song of the same title by a Pasadena,California rock band is yet to come in the countdown. The members of the recording act who perform the song at position #728 were only 12 and 13 years old when they recorded this hit song.The song was written by Treach of "Naughty By Nature",and produced by "Jermaine Dupri",This song was the fastest selling single in fifteen years and stayed on top of the Billboard Hot 100 for eight weeks.The recording act who performs the song at position #728's debut album "Totally Krossed Out", which features the song at position #728 sold over four million copies.It also reached number one in Australia and New Zealand,and number 2 in the United Kingdom,held off the top by KWS' cover song "Please Don't Go".This song kept En Vogue's "My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)" from the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 with the song peaked at number 2. The song samples The Honeydrippers' "Impeach The President", Ohio Players' "Funky Worm" and Jackson 5's "I Want You Back";The recording act who
The song that US Billboard Magazine ranked as the #1 single for the entire year of 1988 in the magazine's year-end edition on December 31,1988 is at position #721.On the week ending December 12th,1987 this song began a four week occupation of the #1 position on the US Billboard Hot 100.The song was also the title track to the album of the same name that US Billboard Magazine ranked as the #1 album for the entire year of 1988 as published in the 1988 year-end edition. This song also peaked at #1 in Canada,the Netherlands,Italy and New Zealand single charts.However,in his native UK the song only peaked at #2.
Born in Keilor East,Victoria,Australia (Melbourne suburb),this female recording act at position #711 places her highest of two entries in the Top 7000.In 1994 this song peaked at #4 in Australia (ARIA charts),peaked at #6 in the UK and #7 in New Zealand.The song charted well throughout Europe, earning her numerous awards in the process.The power ballad became her biggest hit in North America,peaking at number 38 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number 20 on the Canadian RPM Top Singles chart.The track was re-released featuring Jessica Mauboy and the Veronicas following a rendition of the track at the 2015 ARIA Awards where Arena was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame.
Although the song in the #708 position by this pop-rock group from Memphis,Tennessee is only 1 minute 58 seconds long,it is the song that Cash Box (US) Magazine ranked as the #1 single for the entire year of 1967. The song in the #708 position was written by Wayne Carson Thompson.The track was recorded at American Sound Studio in Memphis in a session produced by Dan Penn.Previously a musician and engineer at FAME Studios,Penn had been hired as production assistant to American Sound's owner Chips Moman,who Penn felt was shutting him out as a collaborator. Penn recalls:"Finally, I just told (Moman)...'Look, we can't produce together...I think I can produce records (alone)...But I do need somebody to cut. Give me the worst one you got'.Moman suggested Penn record a local five man outfit who had been pitched to him by disc jockey Ray Banks (Penn - "Chips was just graspin'. He'd never heard (the group]") and also passed on to Penn a demo tape of songs cut by his friend Wayne Carson Thompson which included the song in the #708 position. Thompson's father dabbled in songwriting and would suggest ideas to his son,who had written the song in the #708 position after his father had suggested: "Give me a ticket for an aeroplane" as a potential opening line for a song.Penn met with some of the members of the group - who were eventually dubbed the group that sings the song in the #708 position-"and told them to pick anything they wanted from this tape (by Thompson),but make sure that we do the song in the #708 position which Penn considered the one outstanding song. The session for the song in the #708 position began at 10 o'clock on a Saturday morning and took over thirty takes wrapping at either three or five o'clock that afternoon. Penn met the group that sings the song in the #358 position's vocalist Alex Chilton for the first time at the session: "I coached him a little...told him to say 'aer-o-plane", told him to get a little gruff,and I didn't have to say anything else to him". (Composer Thompson, who says he played guitar at the session,was thrown by Chilton's vocal,having imagined the song being sung in a higher key.) Penn - "(Chilton) picked it up exactly as I had in mind, maybe even better. I hadn't even paid any attention to how good he sang because I was busy trying to put the band together...I had a bunch of greenhorns who'd never cut a record, including me...I borrowed everything form Wayne Thompson's original demo - drums, bass, guitar. I added an organ with an 'I'm a Believer' lick." Penn added the sound of an airplane take-off to the track by recording off of a special effects record played in an office adjacent to the recording studio. When the track was previewed for Chips Moman he suggested the take-off sounds be excised, to which Penn responded: "Give me that razor blade right there...(and) I'll cut this damn tape up! The airplane stays on it,or we don't have a record." Augmented with strings and horns (arranged by Mike Leach), the track was picked up by Larry Uttal of Bell Records who released it on the subsidiary Mala label in July 1967. In international hit charting the song in the #708 position reached #4 in Australia for six weeks,Austria (#9), Belgium (Flemish Region) (#2), Chile (#1),Denmark (#7)France (#2),Germany (#5),Greece (#2 Foreign Release), Ireland (#11), Israel (#1),Malaysia (#4),New Zealand (#4),the Netherlands (#3),Norway (#1), Poland (#1),South Africa (#4), Spain (#9) and Sweden (#2) & #5 in the UK. Born on January 10th,1927 in the US state of Oregon is the performer who occupies the #468 position.The song in the #468 position spent seven weeks in the #1 position in the UK and nine (9) weeks at #1 in Australia. This song was Australia's #1 song for the entire year of 1956 and the #2 song for the entire year of 1956 in the UK.
The song at position #706 was co-written and recorded by a reggae artist born Cecil Campbell on October 9,1957 in Saint Mary,Jamaica.He makes his one and only appearance in the top 7000.This song peaked at #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 beginning the week ending December 17,1994. Cecil Campbell has also written a book on the history of Port Royal, and a play titled "Runnings". His entertainer name means "mountain of the true God".
The song in the #700 position was Cash Box (US) Magazine's #1 single for the entire year of 1956.If this list were based solely on US charts this song would place within the Top 50. The song in the #700 position was written by Otis Blackwell.This song was the first song that song publishers,Hill and Range,brought to the king of rock & roll to record. Blackwell was more than happy to give up 50% of the royalties and a co- writing credit to the king of rock & roll to ensure that the "hottest new singer around covered it". The king of rock & roll recorded the song on Monday July 2,1956 during an exhaustive recording session at RCA studios in New York City.During this session he also recorded "Hound Dog", and "Any Way You Want Me".The song featured the king of rock & roll's regular band of Scotty Moore on lead guitar (with the king of rock & roll usually providing rhythm guitar),Bill Black on bass,D.J. Fontana on drums,and backing vocals from the Jordanaires.The producing credit was given to RCA's Steve Sholes,although the studio recordings reveal that the king of rock & roll produced the songs in this session by selecting the song,reworking the arrangement on piano,and insisting on 28 takes before he was satisfied with it.He also ran through 31 takes of "Hound Dog".
At position #682 this Parisian band makes its one and only appearance in the Top 7000. A one-time musical collaborative effort consisting of producers Thomas Bangalter,Alan Braxe and vocalist Benjamin Diamond released their only single on 20 July 1998. The song was one of the highest-selling singles of the year in the United Kingdom,where it debuted at number two in August 1998 and maintained the position for two weeks.The song peaked at #2 in Canada and #4 in Australia.In August of 1988,the song also spent two weeks atop the US Billboard Dance Club Songs chart.The song uses a sample of the song "Fate" by Chaka Khan.
The song in the #669 position reached #1 in the UK on January 24th,1958 then reached #1 again in the UK on January 9th,2005.One day after the performer's 70th birthday. The song in the #669 position was written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.It was from the motion picture of the same name.Composer Mike Stoller can be seen playing piano in the film presentation of the song. The song in the #669 position is #67 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and was named one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.
A group from New Providence,The Bahamas places their one and only entry in the Top 7000 at position #668.Originally written by Anslem Douglas (titled "Doggie") for the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival season of 1998,it was covered by producer Jonathan King who sang it under the name Fat Jakk and his Pack of Pets.He brought the song to the attention of his friend Steve Greenberg,who then had the group at position #668 cover the song.The song became the band's first hit in the United Kingdom and the United States and it gained popularity after appearing in Rugrats in Paris:The Movie and its soundtrack album. The song peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart,as well as topping the charts in Australia and New Zealand and reached the Top 40 in the United States.It was Britain's fourth biggest-selling single of 2000 and went on to become one of the highest-selling singles of the decade not to reach number-one.The track went on to win the Grammy for Best Dance Recording on the 2001 Grammy Awards.The song was the subject of a major lawsuit over copyright ownership that was settled.In 2019 a documentary about the creation of the song was the surprise hit of the SXSW music festival in Austin,Texas,USA.
The song in the #667 position performed by this British rock band is a cut off their album titled "Breakfast In America" which was both "Billboard" (US) and "Cash Box" (US) Magazine's #1 album for the entire year of 1979. This simple song makes use of keyboards,castanets,and an instrumental section with a strong Beatles influence.The song includes a section of Roger Hodgson "reeling off three- and four-syllable assonances" with a "schoolboy's tongue in cheek".Among the contemporary sound effects in this song are the 'tackled' sound from a Mattel electronic football game,as well as the Trouble "Pop-o-matic" bubble - both popular at the time this song was released.
On February 13,1993 the song at position #662 by a Belgian-Dutch music group began a five (5) week run at the Top of the UK Singles chart.The song at position #662 became notable outside its usual fanbase for its repetitive lyrics.The word "no" appears in the UK radio edit of the track 72 times and hence it was thus parodied by Spitting Image as "No Lyrics".Nonetheless,in 1993 in an NME interview, Mark E Smith of "The Fall" claimed it was one of his favourite songs.Like previous releases,the UK version of the single removed all of the raps from Raymond Slijngaard,leaving just Anita Dels' vocals.One word from the rap was kept,the word 'Techno' (from the line "I'm making techno and I am proud") which was looped and repeated during the middle of the song,turning the line into "Techno! Techno! Techno! Techno!" and giving the song an extra vocal hook.Like many artists in 2000,the group who does the song at position #662 released the Millennium editions of their more popular tracks.It featured underground sounding trance remixes by some well known producers from Belgium,Japan & the U.K.It had little success in the charts due its non-commercial approach.
The song in the #638 position,recorded by this man who was born on May 13th,1953 in Lynn Lakes,Manitoba,Canada was the #3 song for the entire year of 1991 in Canada (Canoe Charts). The song in the #638 position is a song written by the singer of The song in the #810 position,from his album "Mad Mad World".The song was the singer of The song in the #638 position's most famous song,as it was a number one hit in his native Canada.The song also peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States in 1992.The song also reached #2 in both Australia and New Zealand. In the 1990s the singer of the song in the #638 position took his family to West Africa where he helped to raise awareness and money for the World Vision famine relief organization.That experience shaped his next album "Mad Mad World" which contained the song in the #638 position. This song was the singer of The song in the #638 position's only Top 40 hit in the United States,although he continued to have significant hits in Canada. The song has been covered and released by Chris LeDoux,Jerry Jeff Walker and Rascal Flatts.
This LA alternative rock,post grunge band has the song at position #636. The band was formed by Alex Band (vocals) and Aaron Kamin (guitar) when Kamin was dating Band's sister.This song topped the US Billboard Adult Top 40 for 23 weeks;the second longest running number one in the chart's history.It was named the number 1 song of the 2000s decade on the Adult Pop Charts by Billboard magazine.
The song in the #619 position is the title track off the second biggest album for the entire year of 1977 according to both Cash Box (US) and Billboard (US) Magazines. The song's lyrics describe the title establishment as a luxury resort where "you can check out anytime you like,but you can never leave." On the surface,the song tells the tale of a weary traveler who becomes trapped in a nightmarish luxury hotel that at first appeared inviting and tempting.The song is an allegory about hedonism and self-destruction in the Southern California music industry of the late 1970s;Don Henley called it "our interpretation of the high life in Los Angeles" and later reiterated "it's basically a song about the dark underbelly of the American dream and about excess in America, which is something we knew a lot about."
On July 5,2008 the song at position #618 began a seven (7) week run in the #1 position on the Billboard Hot 100.The song also topped the single charts in the UK,Canada and Australia. The song at position #618 was written by the singer of the song at position #618,Dr Luke,Max Martin and Cathy Dennis (not to be confused with the earlier song with the same title by Jill Sobule).It was produced by Dr. Luke for the singer of the song at position #618's 2008 album titled "One of the Boys".The singer of the song at position #618 says the song is "about the magical beauty of a woman". The singer of the song at position #618 has stated that the song at position #618 is just a way for me to seem edgy and cool,I think it's worked."She says: "Everyone takes the song and relates it to their situation,they can see it however they want to see it.Love it,hate it,for me it was about us girls.When we're young, we're very touchy-feeley.We have slumber party sing-a-longs,we make up dance routines in our pajamas.We're a lot more intimate in a friendship than guys can be.It's not perverse but just sweet,that's what the song is about..." The song was partially inspired by Scarlett Johansson. The singer of the song at position #618 has also stated that the song was inspired by a particular person,"The song was inspired by a friendship I had with a girl when I was 15,but I didn't kiss her.I was totally obsessed with her.She was beautiful: porcelain skin,perfect lips-and I still talk to her,but I've never told her the song is about her."
The song in the #604 position by this hard-rock band that formed in Los Angeles, was the #1 single for the entire year of 1993 in Australia. According to Tracii Guns,former guitarist of the group that sings the song in the #604 position and founding member,Axl Rose had been working on the song since at least 1983.In an interview,he said the following about the song in the #604 position: "When we were doing that EP for L.A. Guns,like '83" He was playing the song in the #604 position ...on piano.The guitar solo is amazing.Way back then.It was the only thing he knew how to play, but it was his. He'd go, "Someday this song is gonna be really cool." And I'd go, "It's cool now." "But it's not done", you know, he used to say. And, like, anytime we'd be at a hotel or anywhere, there'd be a piano;he'd just kinda play that music. And I'd go, "When are you gonna finish that already",you know? And he'd go, "I don't know what to do with it." In 1985, Waggle Records (Pty.) Ltd. released in Australia a two-LP set titled "November Rain"/ "In Concert and Beyond" of an unidentified concert featuring a rough, acoustic version of the song.This early version of the song features finger-picked acoustic guitar, Axl on lead vocals,and a chorus of vocals in the background,as in the "Use Your Illusion" album version,but does not feature the extended guitar solos or the breakdown outro.As such, this live version clocks in at a running time of approximately 4:43. Slash states in his autobiography that an eighteen minute long version of the song in the #604 position was recorded at a session with guitarist Manny Charlton (of rock band Nazareth) in 1986,before the recording sessions for "Appetite for Destruction" began. According to a story told to the audience during the 2006 leg of the Chinese Democracy tour,none of the other band members had wanted to partake in the production of this song (or the other notable ballad "Estranged").Slash and Duff McKagan were particularly opposed to the drift to symphonic ballads,and felt their choice of more direct rock songs were being overlooked by Rose.However,Axl talked them into it over discussions at Can-Am studios (where some of the album was recorded and mixed). It should be noted that claims of such harsh musical differences were specifically refuted by Slash in his autobiography. Slash has said that the solo he played in the album version of the song (it's unclear which solo) was the same solo he played to the song when he heard it for the first time.
The song in the #601 position by this Stockholm,Sweden quartet was both Canada and Cash Box (USA) Magazine's #3 single for the entire year of 1977. This song was also the #5 song for the entire year of 1976 in Australia and the #6 song for the entire year of 1976 in the UK. This song spent nine (9) weeks occupying the #1 position in Australia and six (6) weeks at #1 in the UK.The song reached #1 in 13 countries including the USA, Canada, Belgium,Netherlands,Germany,Ireland,New Zealand,Norway and of course their native Sweden. The song in the #601 position was written by Benny Andersson,Bjorn Ulvaeus,and Stig Anderson and is considered by many to be this group's signature song. The recording sessions for the song in the #601 position began on 4 August 1975.The demo was called "Boogaloo" and as the sessions progressed,Andersson and Ulvaeus found inspiration to the dance rhythm in George McCrae's disco classic "Rock Your Baby",as well as the drumming on Dr. John's 1972 album Dr.John's Gumbo. Faltskog and Lyngstad recorded the vocals on sessions in September,and the track was completed three months later.During the sessions,Benny Andersson brought a tape home with the backing track on it and played it to his then-fiancae and band member,singer Anni-Frid Lyngstad,who apparently started crying when listening."I found the song so beautiful.It's one of those songs that goes straight to your heart." While working on the lyrics,half of the second verse was scrapped:"Baby, baby,you're out of sight/hey,you're looking alright tonight/when you come to the party/listen to the guys/they've got the look in their eyes...". It survives in footage from a recording session. The track was premiered on Swedish tv on June 18, 1976,during an all-star live gala in honour of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden and his bride to be,Silvia Sommerlath,who were to be wedded on June 19.Benny Andersson has cited it as "one of those songs where you know during the sessions that it's going to be a smash hit".Also Agnetha Faltskog has stated in a TV-programme:"It's often difficult to know what will be a hit. The exception was the song in the #601 position.We all knew it was going to be massive".
A singer who was born in Manchester,England on February 6th,1966 is in the #580 position.This song at position #580 was radio station WPLJ from New York City's #1 single for the entire year of 1988 and was the #1 single for the entire year of 1987 in the UK.The singer was 21 years old at the time he released the recording although he looked like he was twelve (12) and sounded like he was eighty (80). The song at position #580 won Best British Single at the 1988 Brit Awards.The music video for the song has become the basis for the "Rickrolling" Internet meme. The song hit #1 in the USA,UK,Australia,Canada,New Zealand,Netherlands,Germany,Norway and Sweden.In 2008,the singer of the song at position #580 won the MTV EMA awards for "Best Act Ever" with the song at position #580,as a result of collective voting from thousands of people on the internet,due to the popular phenomenon of "rick rolling".
The song in the #576 position was the song that Cash Box (US) Magazine ranked as the #1 song for the entire year of 1990. In late 1989,after the album "Like a Prayer" had spawned three U.S. hits-the title track,"Express Yourself" and "Cherish"-and a top-five European single in "Dear Jessie"-its fourth US single,"Oh Father",stalled at number twenty on the charts.Perhaps to ensure that the last single release of "Keep It Together" would fare better on the charts,the singer of the song in the #576 position and producer Shep Pettibone decided to compose a new song to be placed on the flipside of "Keep It Together" and quickly produced the song in the #576 position.The song and video were inspired by the dance of the same name,performed in New York clubs on the underground gay scene,in which dancers used a series of complex hand gestures,body poses and movements to imitate their favourite Hollywood stars as well as the cover models from the magazine Vogue. After presenting the song to Warner Bros. executives, all parties involved decided that the song was too good to be wasted on a B-side and that it should be released as a single.Although the song itself had nothing to do with the singer of the song in the #576 position's then-upcoming Disney movie titled "Dick Tracy",it was included on the album "I'm Breathless",which contained songs from and inspired by the film.The singer of the song in the #576 position altered some of the suggestive lyrics because the song was connected to the Disney film via soundtrack.The song in the #576 position contains samples to some songs from the disco era.The bassline is from "Love Is the Message" by MFSB.The horns and strings appear in the song "Ooh, I Love It (Love Break)" by the Salsoul Orchestra.Some vocal samples from "Love Break" are also in the 12" remix and dubs."Like a Virgin" (the intro hook) is also in one of the dubs.Bill Lamb from About.com commented that the song in the #576 position is the second "Top 10 Pop Songs of 1990" and the seventeenth in the list of "Top 100 Pop Songs of the 1990s." In 2003,the singer of the song in the #576 position fans were asked to vote for their Top 20 Madonna singles of all-time by Q-Magazine.The song in the #576 position was allocated the #14 spot. The song is featured in "The Devil Wears Prada" during a scene with Anne Hathaway.
The song in the #568 position spent eight (8) weeks in the #1 position on Cash Box Magazine's Singles Chart and was Billboard (US) Magazine's #1 single for the entire year of 1957. Otis Blackwell composed this song,with compositional additions by the king of rock & roll himself,who is also credited as lyricist. The song was ranked #352 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2004.
The singer-songwriter at position #567 has a song from his debut studio album,"Justified" (2002).He co-wrote the song with its producers,The Neptunes (consisting of Chad Hugo and Pharrell Williams).Jive Records released the track on April 8,2003 as the third single from "Justified".Originally intended to be featured on Michael Jackson's tenth studio album Invincible (2001),Jackson rejected the song along with several other tracks,which were instead given to the artist for his debut album.It is an uptempo,disco groove,soul infused song containing influences from Jackson and Stevie Wonder. The song peaked at #5 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and went to #1 in Australia (ARIA).
The song in the #566 position is performed by this R&B group that formed in Los Angeles. The song at the #566 position was ranked as the #2 song for the entire year of 1956 by Cash Box (US) Magazine. Tony Williams sang lead vocals on this song that was released as a single on November 3,1955. The words and music were created by Buck Ram,the group's manager and producer who was a successful songwriter before moving into producing and management.In 2004,the song was voted the 351st greatest song of all time by Rolling Stone Magazine.
Born on January 30th,1951 in Chiswick,London,England is the singer who occupies the #565 position. This song according to my mathematical calculations was the biggest song for the entire year of 1989 on both Cash Box (US) and Billboard (US) Magazines. This song won the grammy for song of the year in 1991.The song also won Best British Single at the 1990 Brit Awards.The song in the #565 position was listed at #96 on Billboard's Greatest Songs of all time in 2013.
The song in the #563 position is performed by a performer who was born on November 9th,1984 in Sydney,Australia. The song at the #563 position was the #4 song for the entire year of 2002 in Australia and was the singer's first release from Australia's #1 album for the entire year of 2003 which was titled "Innocent Eyes". The song in the #563 position is a piano-based pop ballad written by Delta Goodrem and Audius Mtawarira and produced by Ric Wake. The singer of the song in the #563 position, who was starring as Nina Tucker in "Neighbours" (an Australian TV show) at the time, performed the song in the #563 position on the show,as her character was also trying to launch a music career.
A classic by the "King Of Rock & Roll" is at the #560 position.It is the title track to his first motion picture of the same name from 1956.The song at the #560 position is a song adapted from the tune of "Aura Lee" (or"Aura Lea"),a sentimental Civil War ballad with music by George R.Poulton and words by W.W. Fosdick."Aura Lee" was published in 1861 and this Civil War song later became popular with college glee clubs and barbershop quartets.It was also sung at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point,New York. The King performed the song at the #560 position on the The Ed Sullivan Show on September 9,1956,shortly before the single's release and about a month before the movie of the same name was released,for which the song was originally recorded. (This was the "King Of Rock & Roll's" only movie that he dies in.) On the following day,RCA received 1 million advance orders for the song,making it a gold record before it was even released.The studio,20th Century Fox,originally wanted to call the movie The Reno Brothers but instead re-titled it to capitalize on the song's popularity. Movie producer Hal Wallis would not allow the "King Of Rock & Roll's" regular band made up of Scotty Moore,Bill Black and D.J. Fontana to play on the soundtrack. Instead, The Ken Darby Trio provided the musical backing with Red Robinson on drums,Charles Prescott on bass,Vita Mumolo on guitar,and Jon Dodson on background vocals,with the king providing only lead vocals.The song is credited to the "King Of Rock & Roll" and Vera Matson because of the publishing agreement reached for the assignment of royalties,but the principal writer of the lyrics was Ken Darby (Matson's husband).The song was published by Elvis Presley Music.Darby also adapted the Civil War tune,which was in the public domain. When asked why he credited his wife as co-songwriter along with the "King Of Rock & Roll",Darby responded,"Because she didn't write it either." The king received co-songwriting credit due to his Hill & Range publishing deal which demanded songwriters concede 50 percent of the credit of their song if they wanted the "King Of Rock & Roll" to record it;the king never wrote any of his own songs.As with nearly all his RCA recordings,the "King Of Rock & Roll took control in the studio despite not being credited as producer.He would regularly change arrangements and lyrics to the point the original song was barely recognizable. This,arguably,justified the co-writing credit in this case. This song hit #1 on the Billboard charts the week ending November 3,1956 (while Eisenhower won re-election in the USA)remaining in the position for 5 weeks and the song at position #560 reached no. 11 on the charts in the UK.This song was ranked #437 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2004.
Most people from "generation X" remember the 1990 version of the song in the #558 position which was performed by the "Righteous Brothers" from the movie "Ghosts" which starred Demi Moore,Whoopi Goldberg & Patrick Swayze. Most baby boomers recall the version by the Righteous Brothers (same as the 1990 version) from 1965.But the version of the song in the #558 position is the original version.First recorded in 1955 by the performer at position #558 who was born on August 16th,1915 in Tyro,Mississippi.It was from the movie "Unchained" which starred US football great "Crazylegs" Hirsch.
The song in the #540 position is performed by this recording act who was born Roderick Stewart on January 10th,1945 in the Highgate section of London,England,The song at position #540 spent eight (8) weeks in the #1 position on Billboard Magazine's Singles Chart and was Billboard (US) Magazine's #1 single for the entire year of 1977.
This electro-pop (synthpop) trio from Sheffield,England who occupy the #522 position spent five (5) weeks in the #1 position on the UK singles chart and this song was the biggest song for the entire year of 1981 in the UK. The song in the #522 position was released from the group's third album "Dare" on 27 November 1981.It is the band's best known and most commercially successful recording to date,topping the Billboard Hot 100 in the US,and was the Christmas number one in the UK where it sold over 1,400,000 copies,making it the 25th most successful single in UK Singles Chart history.
The song in the #520 position is performed by this pop group from London,England.This was the #1 single for the entire year of 1983 in the UK spending six (6) weeks at #1 in the UK.This song reached the #1 position in the USA (both Cash Box and Billboard), UK, Australia,Belgium,Denmark,Ireland,Netherlands,New Zealand,Norway,Sweden,Switzerland and Canadian singles chart.It also managed to reach the #2 position in Germany,#3 in Austria and #4 in Italy. In an interview,the group's frontman Boy George explained: "The song is about the terrible fear of alienation that people have,the fear of standing up for one thing.It's about trying to suck up to everybody.Basically,if you aren't true,if you don't act like you feel,then you get Karma-justice,that's nature's way of paying you back." The prominent harmonica part was played by Judd Lander,who had been a member of Merseybeat group The Hideaways in the 1960s.The song was originally to be called "Cameo Chameleon".The band were recorded in interviews in late 1983 stating this was to be the title of their next single. Likely because of the lyric "I'm a man without conviction," and the chorus, which repeats the word "chameleon," This song has been used by several politicians in political ads.In 2006, Britain's Labour Party used "Karma Chameleon" as the theme song for a series of political advertisements against Conservative party leader David Cameron in the 2006 UK Elections.Also,during the 2010 U.S. senate race in Pennsylvania, Republican Pat Toomey used the song as backing music for his video "Happy Anniversary Arlen Specter!" as a way to criticize a sitting Senator from Pennsylvania and recently-turned Democrat Arlen Specter. The song in the #520 position won Best British Single at the 1984 Brit Awards.
This disco vocal group from the Greenwich Village section of New York City occupy the #518 position. This song was the biggest single for the entire year of 1979 in the UK. Taken at face value, the songs lyrics extol the virtues of the Young Men's Christian Association.In the gay culture from which the group sprang,the song was implicitly understood as celebrating the YMCA's reputation as a popular cruising and hookup spot, particularly for the younger gay men to whom it was addressed.However,Victor Willis,the group's lead singer and writer of the lyrics,insists that he did not write the song in the #518 position as a gay anthem (Willis is straight).Rather,Willis said he wrote the song as a reflection of young urban black youth fun at the YMCA such as basketball and swimming, etc. That said,Willis has often acknowledged his fondness for double entendre. Willis also revealed that he wrote the song in Vancouver, British Columbia,Canada. The song continues to remain popular and is played at many sporting events in the USA.It is frequently played during breaks in the action at sporting events with crowds using the dance as an opportunity to stretch.Moreover,the song also remains particularly popular due to its status as a disco classic and gay anthem,even among listeners who are otherwise uninvolved in disco or gay culture.It is also known to be a favorite in school dances.A popular dance in which the arms are used to spell out the four letters of the song's title may have much to do with this.In 2009,the song in the #518 position was entered into the Guinness World Book of Records when over 44,000 people danced to the song with the group who sings the song in the #518 position singing live at the Sun Bowl game in Texas.This song is number 7 on VH1's list of The 100 Greatest Dance Songs of the 20th Century.
The recording act with the most songs in the Top 7000 occupies the #508 position. It is the title track to their first movie. The movie got it's name when "Ringo" the drummer mumbled "It's been a hard day's night". This song spent three (3) weeks at the #1 position in the USA (Cash Box)and four (4) weeks at #1 in Canada,Australia and the UK. The song was the #6 song for the entire year of 1964 in the USA (Cash Box),the #7 song for the entire year of 1964 on Radio Station CHUM from Toronto,Canada,the #3 song for the entire year of 1964 in Australia and the #8 song for the entire year of 1964 in the UK.The song at position #508 is the title track to the album of the same name.This album was Cash Box (US) Magazine's #3 Album for the entire year of 1964 on their "Mono" charts and the #1 album for the entire year of 1964 on the Billboard Albums chart.On July 25th,1964 this album began a fourteen (14) week occupation of the #1 position on Billboard Magazine's (US)album chart.Of all the fab four albums only one album has spent more time in the #1 position on Billboard's (US) album chart. A song from that album is in the Top 100.
On July 10th,1962 the USA launched the world's first communications satellite, Telstar,designed to relay television signals between the United States and Europe.On December 22nd,1962 the song in the #502 position performed by this British surf rock group became the first British group to have a #1 single in the USA.Further,this was the #2 single for the entire year of 1962 in the UK spending five (5) weeks at #1 in the UK.This song reached the #1 position on the US (both Cash Box and Billboard),and Canadian singles chart but only managed to reach the #2 position on the Australian singles chart.
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The song in the #496 position performed by this performer who was born Charles Westover on December 30th,1934 in Michigan was the #1 single for the entire year of 1961 in the UK. The song reached #1 in the US,UK,Canada and Australia.The song in the #496 position was written by the singer of the song in the #496 position and keyboardist Max Crook,and became a major international hit.In 2004 it was #466 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.The singer of the song at position #496 died on February 8th,1990 in Santa Clarita,California.
The song in the #494 position was recorded by a dance-rock group from New York City was the third (3rd) biggest song for the entire year of 2006 in Australia.The song in the #494 position was written with Elton John,who provides piano for the song,and was the band's first top ten single in both Australia and Canada.Also writing the song were Scott Hoffman and Jason Sellards.The song in the #494 position was made available on most download services on July 19,2006 and was released as a CD single on September 4.The song in the #494 position became the band's first UK number 1 single and topped the charts for four consecutive weeks.It ended the year as the UK's fourth best-selling single of the year.The song was in the UK Singles Chart for 27 weeks and performed live by the band at the BRIT Awards, 2007.The single's cover art features actress Veronica Cartwright. The song's tempo,arrangement,use of falsetto vocals,and subject matter have been compared by reviewers in "The Guardian" and "The Sun" newspapers to Leo Sayer's 1976 hit "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" (at position #1787 on this list). The song also features a rhythm piano that makes reference to December 1963 (Oh, What a Night) by The Four Seasons (yet to come in the countdown).The song has a segment after the first chorus that was composed on the Commodore 64 using the on board SID sound chip in the computer.
The song in the #488 position,was recorded by a woman who was born On Tuesday,August 11th,1981 in Macduff,Aberdeenshire,Scotland,UK and it was the #1 song for the entire year of 2006 in Australia (ARIA). The song in the #488 position,is the debut single by the singer of the song in the #496 position.The song was written by Tom Gilbert and the singer of the song in the #488 position herself.EMI Music Publishing identifies Tom Gilbert as Ian Brown,The singer's manager. The song was originally released in October 2005 by Viking Legacy Records, reaching number fifty-five (55) on the UK Singles Chart.It was re-released in May 2006 on Sony's RCA Records label,and went on to be the UK's fourth (4th) best selling single of the year.Also successful in Australia,it was on the ARIA Charts for ten weeks at number-one,and finished the year as the country's highest selling single and accrediting double platinum.The music video was shot in Bethnal Green in London. Although only released physically on May 22,2006 in the UK,download sales the week before are counted for the purpose of charts,and it achieved number fifteen on this basis in the general charts (and number seven in the download-only chart).The physical release had three formats:two CD versions (one featuring the radio mix and "A Light as Bright as Ours",another featuring the radio mix,the album mix,a further remix, "May You Never" and the music video),and also as a 7" vinyl record backed with Stranglers cover "No More Heroes".The single sold 39,797 copies in the week ending June 4, 2006,enough to reach number one in the UK,knocking Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" off the top spot after it was withdrawn following a nine week run.The singer of the song in the #668 position has been the subject of criticism by many artists within the recording world,most notably from Lily Allen,The Fratellis and The Automatic.James Frost and Robin Hawkins from The Automatic stated that "If she was a punk rocker with flowers in her hair she'd get the shit kicked out of her by other punk rockers,for having flowers in her hair....I haven't found anyone who's told me they like that song and bought it." Although,it is a common misunderstanding,as the song refers to both "77 and 69",and is talking about both years combined,thus the flowers in the hair,and punk rocker image combined.Regardless,the song's title garnered further criticism for neglecting the proper subjunctive mood,as it should have read "I Wish I Were a Punk Rocker."
The song in the #486 position by this Flatwoods,Kentucky recording act was the biggest song for the entire year of 1992 in (ARIA) Australia.The song was initially to be recorded by The Oak Ridge Boys in the early 1990s but the group decided against recording it after lead singer Duane Allen said that he did not like the words "achy breaky".It was then recorded in 1991 under the title "Don't Tell My Heart" by the singer who sings the song in the #486 position on his debut album "Some Gave All" in 1992. The music video for the song was filmed during a concert at the Paramount Arts Center in Ashland,Kentucky.It was nominated for Record of the Year and Song of the Year in the 35th Annual Grammy Awards in 1993,but lost both awards to Eric Clapton's "Tears in Heaven."
The song in the #480 position is performed by a performer who was born in Pontypridd, South Wales,United Kingdom on June 7th,1940.This song was the #1 single for the entire year of 1966 in both the UK and Australia spending seven (7) weeks at #1 on the UK singles chart. The song in the #480 position, written by Claude "Curly" Putman Jr., is a country song originally made popular by Porter Wagoner in 1964 and Bobby Bare in 1965.
The song at position #475 spent three weeks at #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 beginning September 1,2012.The singer co-wrote the song with its producers, Max Martin and Shellback.The song was released as the lead single from the album titled "Red" on August 13, 2012,by Big Machine Records.Its lyrics depict the singer's frustrations at an ex-lover who wants to re-kindle their relationship. Rolling Stone magazine named the song the second best song of 2012 while it took the fourth spot in Time's end-of-year poll.The song received a Grammy Award nomination for Record of the Year.It also received a People's Choice Awards nomination for Favorite Song of the Year.
The song in the #474 position is the #1 single for the entire year of 1969 according to Cash Box,Billboard and Record World Magazines (all in the USA)and on the UK singles chart. The song in the #474 position was written by Jeff Barry and Andy Kim.Produced by Jeff Barry,the song was originally released on the album "Everything's Archie".The album is the product of a group of studio musicians managed by Don Kirshner.Ron Dante's lead vocals were accompanied by those of Toni Wine (who sang the line "I'm gonna make your life so sweet"),Andy Kim, and Ellie Greenwich.Together they provided the voices of the various Archies using multitracking.Ray Stevens,the comic singer,provided the hand claps to the song. The song in the #474 position spent four weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 from September 20,1969 and eight weeks at the top of the UK singles chart.The song lists at #81 on Billboard's Greatest Songs of All Time in 2018.It also peaked at number one on the South African Singles Chart.On February 5, 2006,the song in the #474 position was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame,as co-writer Andy Kim is originally from Montreal,Quebec.
The song in the #472 position,recorded by this techno-pop duo from London,England,was originally recorded by Gloria Jones in 1964. According to "The Book" by "Jimmy Barnes" the song at position #472 was the #1 single for the entire year of 1981 in Australia. The song also spent 43 weeks on the Billboard Magazine (US) singles chart. The song in the #472 position is composed by Ed Cobb,formerly of The Four Preps.
The song in the #460 position performed by this Chicago rock band was the #1 single for the entire year of 1982 in Australia and the #1 single for the entire year of 1982 according to Cash Box (US) Magazine. The song is from the movie "Rocky III". The song in the #460 position was written at the request of Sylvester Stallone for the film "Rocky III",as a replacement for Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust" for which Stallone was unable to obtain permission.The mix of the song heard in the film features tiger growls,though these are omitted on the album and single version. The song in the #460 position reached number one on the UK,USA,Irish and Australian charts.The group singing the song in the #460 position won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for the song in the #460 position.The song received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song and was voted "Favorite Song" by the People's Choice Awards (in a tie with "Truly" by Lionel Richie). The song in the #460 position was listed at #26 on Billboard's All Time Top 600 in 2018 and was named the 63rd best hard rock song of all time by VH1.
The song in the #454 position recorded by this performer who was born on April 30th, 1925 in Los Angeles (raised in Tyler,Texas)spent nine (9) weeks in the #1 position on Cash Box (US) Magazine's Singles chart and was the song that Billboard (US) Magazine ranked as the #1 single for the entire year of 1959.Between 1952 and 1991 no other song spent more time in the #1 position on the Cash Box (US) Magazine's Singles Chart. The song written by Jimmie Driftwood details the 1815 Battle of New Orleans from the perspective of an American fighting alongside Andrew Jackson against British forces, but the tone is lighthearted. In Billboard magazine's rankings of the top songs in the first sixty years of the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 2018, The song in the #454 position was ranked as the thirty-seventh best song overall and the number-one country song to appear on the chart.
The song in the #452 position performed by this performer who was born Stanley Kirk on March 30th,1963 in Oakland,California was the song that ARIA ranked as the #1 single for the entire year of 1990 in Australia. The song is from the album "Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em" which spent 21 weeks in the #1 position on the Billboard (US) Magazine's Album Chart.The song also reached #1 in the Netherlands & Norway. The song in the #452 position samples Rick James' "Super Freak" heavily; James is accordingly credited as a co-author. The song received its debut live performance on a late 1989 episode of The Arsenio Hall Show.The lyrics describe the rapper as having "toured around the world, from London to the Bay" and as being "magic on the mic", which the singer of the song in the #452 position says combines with Rick James' "beat that you can't touch". It secured the Grammy Awards for Best R&B Song and Best Rap Solo Performance in 1991.
The song in the #448 position,performed by a recording act who was born on December 8th,1966 in Dublin,Ireland (died on July 26,2023 in London), reached the #1 position in the US,UK and Australia singles chart but only managed to reach the #3 position on the Canadian singles chart.The song also became a number-one hit in New Zealand,Ireland and Germany. The song in the #448 position was a song written in the 1980s by "Prince" for a group called "The Family".The subject of the song is actress Susannah Melvoin. In 2004 Rolling Stone Magazine placed this song at number 162 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time,which contains only two songs of the 1990s ranked higher.Not the case with this list.
The song in the #417 position performed by this Melbourne,Australian pop-rock group was the #3 single for the entire year of 1981 in Australia and the #3 single for the entire year of 1983 according to Cash Box (US) Magazine. The song reached the #1 position on the singles charts in the USA,UK,Canada,New Zealand,Switzerland and the group's native Australia.The song in the #417 position went to #1 on the Australian charts.It was reissued in 1982,and is the only song by this group to go to #1 in the UK and their only single to make the UK top 20.It has become a popular and patriotic song in Australia. The song reached #2 in Norway and the Netherlands and #6 in Sweden.
The song in the #413 position performed by this heavy metal band from Birmingham,England is a cut off of Cash Box (US) Magazine's #3 album for the entire year of 1970 titled "Led Zeppelin II". In 1992 when Seattle rock station KISW counted down the 1000 Best Rockers of All-Time the song in the #271 position ranked as the #1 rocker for all-time. The song in the #413 position was released in the United States and Japan as a single. In the US it was certified Gold on 13 April 1970,when it sold one million copies.As with other Led Zeppelin songs,no single was released in the UK,but singles were released in Germany (where it reached number one),the Netherlands (where it reached number four), Belgium and France. In 2004,the song was ranked number 75 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time,and in March 2005,Q magazine placed the song in the #413 position at number three in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks.It was placed 11 on a similar list by Rolling Stone.In 2009 it was named the third greatest hard rock song of all time by VH1. The song in the #413 position was recorded at various studios in New York and Los Angeles during the band's second concert tour of the United States and assembled by Jimmy Page at Olympic Studios in London.Already part of their live repertoire,it saw its first official release on the LP "Led Zeppelin II" on October 22,1969 (Atlantic LP #8236).
The song in the #409 position,by this hard-rock group from Yorkshire,England,is a cut from what is according to my mathematical calculations the biggest album of 1988 on both Cash Box (US) and Billboard (US) Magazines.It is off an album titled "Hysteria". Although the band was nearing the end of recording sessions for "Hysteria" in 1986, producer Mutt Lange felt that the album was still lacking a song that would have an appeal beyond the hard rock fans who had bought "Pyromania"; that song came to him during a 5 minute coffee break. The song has recently been confirmed to appear in the music video game "Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock". The song in the #409 position performed by this pop-rock group from Birmingham,England spent eight (8) weeks in the #1 position in Australia and was the #1 single for the entire year of 1982 in the UK. The song reached #1 in the US,UK and Australia but only reached #2 in Canada.The song won Best British Single at the 1983 Brit Awards. The song was written by Kevin Rowland, "Big" Jim Paterson and Billy Adams;it was produced by Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley.It originally appeared on the album Too-Rye-Ay. The song begins with Celtic-style fiddle played over a drum beat, with the bass guitar and piano providing accompaniment. An extended version has an additional intro of a Celtic fiddle solo,playing Thomas Moore's Irish folk song Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms.The chorus was loosely inspired by the song "A Man Like Me" by the 1960s British soul group Jimmy James and the Vagabonds. The bridge of the song in the #409 position features an improvised counter-melody which begins in a slow tempo and gets faster and faster over an accelerando vocal backing.The chord sequence of the bridge is actually the same as the verses but transposed up by a whole tone.Throughout the song,there are numerous tempo changes and key changes.
The song by this native Philadelphia rapper/actor at position $408 was #1 on the UK Singles chart on August 31,1997 the day that Princess Diana died. The song at position #408 is a song (featuring singer Coko from double diamond selling group SWV) from the movie of the same name,in which the singer also starred.The song plays during the movie's closing credits.The singer of the song at position #408 raps about how the MiBs "Walk in shadow, move in silence" and play the role of "first,last and only line of defense,against the worst scum of the universe",while Coko adds her soulful soprano vocals in the background.The song won a Grammy in 1998 for Best Rap Solo Performance.
The song in the #406 position is a twelve-bar blues song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and originally recorded by Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton in 1952 (see the song at position #4990).Other early versions illustrate the differences among blues,country and rock and roll in the mid 1950s.The 1956 remake by the king of rock & roll is the best known version. The king of rock & roll's first,apparently not very successful,appearance in Las Vegas, as an "extra added attraction",was in the Venus Room of the New Frontier from April 23 through May 6,1956.Freddie Bell and the Bellboys were the hot act in town,and the king of rock & roll went to the "Sands" to take in their show.The king of rock & roll not only enjoyed the show,but also loved their reworking of the song in the #406 position and asked Freddie if he had any objections to him recording his own version.By May 16 the king of rock & roll had added the song in the #406 position to his live performances.The song was done as comic relief,and the king of rock & roll based the lyrics,which he sometimes changed,and "gyrations" on what he had seen at the "Sands".The song always got a big reaction and became the standard closer.Drummer D.J. Fontana put it this way."We took that from a band we saw in Vegas,Freddie Bell and the Bellboys.They were doing the song kinda like that.We went out there every night to watch them.He'd say: "Let's go watch that band.It's a good band! That's where he heard the song in the #267 position,and shortly thereafter he said:"Let's try that song". The king of rock & roll first performed the song in the #406 position to a nation wide television audience on The Milton Berle Show on June 5,1956,his second appearance with Berle.By this time Scotty Moore had added a guitar solo,and DJ Fontana had added a hot drum roll between verses to the song.The king of rock & roll appeared for the first time on national television without a guitar.Before his death,Berle told an interviewer that he had told the king of rock & roll to leave his guitar backstage."Let 'em see you, son", advised Uncle Miltie.An upbeat version ended abruptly as The king of rock & roll threw his arm back.Then began to vamp at half tempo,"You ain't-a nuthin' but a ...,cuh-crying all the time." "You ain't never caught a rabbit..." A final wave signaled the band to stop.The king of rock & roll pointed threateningly at the audience,and belted out,"You ain't no friend of mine."The king of rock & roll's movements during the performance were energetic and exaggerated.The reactions of young women in the studio audience were enthusiastic,as shown on the broadcast.Over 40,000,000 people saw the performance and the next day controversy exploded.Berle's network received many letters of protest.The various self appointed guardians of public morality attacked The king of rock & roll in the press.TV critics began a merciless campaign against the king of rock & roll making statements that; he had a "caterwauling voice and nonsense lyrics",he was an "influence on juvenile delinquency", and began using the nickname "Elvis the Pelvis".The king of rock & roll next appeared on national television singing the song in the #406 position on the July 1 Steve Allen Show.Steve Allen wrote:"When I booked The king of rock & roll,I naturally had no interest in just presenting him vaudeville-style and letting him do his spot as he might in concert. Instead we worked him into the comedy fabric of our program...We certainly didn't inhibit the king of rock & roll then-notorious pelvic gyrations,but I think the fact that he had on formal evening attire made him,purely on his own,slightly alter his presentation."As Allen was notoriously contemptuous of rock 'n' roll music and songs such as the song in the #406 position,he smirkingly presented the king of rock & roll" with a roll that looks exactly like a large roll of toilet paper with, says Allen,the 'signatures of eight thousand fans' "and the singer had to wear a tuxedo while singing an abbreviated version of the song in the #406 position to an actual top hat-wearing basset hound.Although by most accounts The king of rock & roll was a good sport about it,according to Scotty Moore,the next morning they were all angry about their treatment the previous night. The morning after the "Steve Allen Show" performance,the studio version was recorded for RCA Victor by the king of rock & roll's regular band of Scotty Moore on lead guitar (with The king of rock & roll usually providing rhythm guitar),Bill Black on bass, D.J. Fontana on drums and backing vocals from the Jordanaires.The king of rock & roll recorded this version along with "Don't Be Cruel" and "Any Way You Want Me" on July 2, 1956 at RCA's New York City studio.The producing credit was given to RCA's Steve Sholes,however the studio recordings reveal that the king of rock & roll produced the songs (as well as most of the RCA recording sessions) himself,which is verified by the band members.The king of rock & roll insisted on getting the song exactly the way he wanted it,recording 31 takes of the song.Don't Be Cruel (G2WW-5936) was the flip side of the the song in the #406 position single (G2WW-5935),released on July 13,1956.Both sides of the record topped the charts independently,a rare feat.The single also topped all three extant Billboard charts:pop,country & western and rhythm & blues the first record in history to do so. On September 9,1956 with the song topping the US charts,the king of rock & roll performed an abbreviated version of The song in the #406 position on the Ed Sullivan Show hosted by Charles Laughton.After performing "Ready Teddy", he introduced the song with the following statement,"Friends,as a great philosopher once said..." The king of rock & roll's first time on the Sullivan show was an event that drew some 60 million TV viewers. During his second Sullivan Show appearance on October 28,1956 he introduced the song thusly (although unable to keep a straight face). "Ladies and gentlemen, could I have your attention please.Ah, I'd like to tell you we're going to do a sad song for you.This song here is one of the saddest songs we've ever heard.It really tells a story friends. Beautiful lyrics.It goes something like this". He then launched into a full version of the song.The king of rock & roll was shown in full during this performance.Again,the king of rock & roll drew more than 60 million viewers. The song in the #406 position sold over 4 million copies in the United States on its first release.It was the king of rock & roll's best selling single and starting in July 1956,it spent a record eleven weeks at #1.It stayed in the #1 spot until it was replaced by "Love Me Tender",also recorded by the king of rock & roll. In March, 2005, Q magazine (UK) placed the song in the #406 position on this list at number 55 in its list of the Q Magazine's 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks.Rolling Stone magazine ranked it #19 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time-the highest ranked of the king of rock & roll's eleven entries.The song in the #406 position was also recorded by 5 country singers in 1953 alone,and over 26 times through 1964.From the 1970s onward, the song has appeared,or is heard,as a part of the soundtrack in numerous motion pictures, most notably in blockbusters such as "American Graffiti", "Grease","Forrest Gump","Lilo & Stitch","A Few Good Men" (film) and "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull".
The song in the #403 position performed by a recording act who was born on December 18th,1980 in Staten Island,New York,is a cut off of the #3 album for the entire year of 2003 in the UK titled "Stripped". This song reached the #1 position on both the Australian (ARIA) and other single charts. The song in the #403 position is a song written and produced by Linda Perry.The song is a cello-driven,classically-flavored ballad in which its protagonist deals with hurtful statements made against her that cause her to feel insecure and have low self-esteem.She does not let other people's negativity get the best of her.It was released as the album's second single in late 2002.The song won the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 2004 Grammy Awards.The song also was ranked number 52 on Rolling Stones top 100 songs of the decade.
The song at position #402 is just phenomenal. It is one of the biggest selling singles of all-time in the UK. In 2002 according to "www.hart87,freeserve.co.uk/top100.html" which ranked by sales all the songs on the UK singles charts from 1952-2002,ranked at #2 the song that is at position #402.The song they ranked at #1 is yet to come in the Top 7000. And the song at position #91 on this list ripped off of the song at position #402. The song at position #402 was written by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure in 1984 to raise money for relief of the 1984-1985 famine in Ethiopia.
The song in the #401 position was the #1 song for the entire year of 1976 in Australia and on April 1st,1976 the song began a fourteen (14) week run in the #1 position in Australia.Only one other song has spent a longer period of time in the #1 position in Australia. That song is at the #6 position in the Top 7000. Lead vocals for the song in the #401 position were sung by Anni-Frid Lyngstad.The song was written by Bjorn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Stig Anderson and carried the working title of "Tango". Preparations for recording began in August 1975.This song was to become this group's biggest selling single of all time,selling 6,000,000 copies in 1976 alone.All in all,the song in the #401 position sold over 10 million copies worldwide.
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The song in the #395 position is the title track off the biggest album for the entire year of 1974 according to Billboard (US) Magazines.The song in the #395 position is composed of a three-part structure that revolves around the themes of escape and liberation.The song tells a story about a band being confined to prison and then escaping and going on the run.
The song in the #387 position,by this hard-rock band from San Francisco,is the most successful single from what is according to my mathematical calculations is the second (2nd) biggest album for the entire year of 1991 on Cash Box (US) Magazine.It is off an album titled "Metallica". The song was produced by Bob Rock and the music was written by Kirk Hammett,Lars Ulrich,and James Hetfield.Vocalist and guitarist Hetfield wrote the lyrics,which deal with the concept of a child's nightmares.
The song in the #384 position was the #1 song for the entire year of 1977 in both Australia and the UK.Spending ten (10) weeks at the #1 position in Australia and nine (9) weeks in the #1 position in the UK. The song was written by Paul of the fab four and bandmate Denny Laine in tribute to the picturesque Kintyre peninsula in Argyll and Bute,Scotland,where the singer of the song in the #150 position had owned a home and recording studio since the late 1960s,and its headland or "mull". The song was this group's biggest hit in the United Kingdom where it became a Christmas number one,and was the first single to sell over two million copies in the UK.
The song in the #382 position,by this performer who was born on May 14th,1936 in the Borough of the Bronx in New York City, spent fourteen (14) weeks in the #1 position on Radio Station WMGM from New York City. No other song stayed in the #1 position for a longer period of time on WMGM.The song also spent nine (9) weeks at the #1 spot on Billboard (US) Magazine's Singles Chart and no song between 1956 and 1976 stayed in the #1 position for a longer period on Billboard's Singles Chart.The song in the #148 position was both Radio Station WINS (from New York City) and Cash Box Magazine's #1 single for the entire year of 1959.Further,Radio station WCBS-FM from New York City ranked this song as the #1 song of the millennium. The song in the #382 position was originally known as "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer".It was composed by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht for their music drama "Die Dreigroschenoper",or, as it is known in English,"The Threepenny Opera". It premiered in Berlin in 1928. The song has become a popular standard. A moritat (from mori meaning "deadly" and tat meaning "deed") is a medieval version of the murder ballad performed by strolling minstrels In The Threepenny Opera,the moritat singer with his street organ introduces and closes the drama with the tale of the deadly Mackie Messer,a character based on the dashing highwayman Macheath in John Gay's The Beggar's Opera.The Brecht-Weill version of the character was far more cruel and sinister, and has been transformed into a modern anti-hero.The play opens with the moritat singer comparing Macheath (unfavorably) with a shark,and then telling tales of his robberies, murders, rapes, and arson.
Industrial rock icon Trent Reznor born on May 17,1965 in Mercer,Pennsylvania has the song at position #378. He makes it his second and final entry in the top 7000. Lyrically, this song is a meditation on self-hatred and sexual obsession,but to Reznor's dismay,the song was widely misinterpreted as a lust anthem due to its chorus,which included the line "I wanna fuck you like an animal".In 2003,VH1 ranked the song at number 93 in its countdown of the "100 Greatest Songs Of The Past 25 Years." The song was ranked at the number 2 position on AOL's "69 Sexiest Songs of All Time," mostly due to the explicit frankness of the chorus. "Come on dude: 'I wanna fuck you like an animal'?" remarked Motley Crue drummer and Downward Spiral contributor Tommy Lee. "That's the all-time fuck song.Those are pure fuck beats-Trent Reznor knew what he was doing.You can fuck to it,you can dance to it and you can break shit to it.Since I'm engaged now [to Mayte Garcia], I'll just say that the most memorable episode that I remember with this song is that it took place on a swing." In July 2009,the song was voted in at number 62 on Triple J's (Australia) Hottest 100 of all time,and in 2010 it was number 42 on Pitchfork Media's Top 200 Tracks of the 90s.
The song at position #370 spent three (3) weeks in the #1 position in Canada,four (4) weeks at #1 in the USA (Cash Box Magazine),five (5)weeks at #1 in the UK,six (6) weeks at #1 on radio station CHUM from Toronto & eight (8) weeks at #1 in Australia.The song at position #370 was the third (3rd) biggest song for the entire year of 1965 in both the UK and Australia, the #5 song for the entire year of 1966 in the USA (both Cash Box and Billboard Magazine). The performance of the song at position #370 on the Canadian and CHUM charts (because of the amount of points the song received for attaining these positions) is the primary reason why this song ranks so high on this chart. For the entire year of 1966 the song at position #370 was the #2 song in Canada and the #1 song on Radio Station CHUM from Toronto,Ontario,Canada..In addition the British website www.hart87,freeserve.co.uk/top100.html which was ranking the 100 best songs in the UK between 1952-2002 ranked this song as the 32nd best song between 1952 and 2002. Paul of the fab four wrote the words to the song at position #370 and music to the verses and the chorus,with lyrics that "might have been personal" and thus a reference to his relationship with Jane Asher.Paul of the fab four then took the song to John of the fab four: "I took it to John to finish it off and we wrote the middle together."According to John of the fab four,he "did the middle eight." With its intimations of mortality,John of the fab four's contribution to the twelve-bar bridge contrasts typically with what John of the fab four saw as Paul's cajoling optimism.As John of the fab four told Playboy in 1980, "You've got Paul of the fab four writing, 'We can work it out / We can work it out'-real optimistic, y'know, and me, impatient: 'Life is very short, and there's no time/For fussing and fighting,my friend.'"Based on those comments,some critics overemphasized Paul of the fab four's optimism,neglecting the toughness in passages written by Paul,such as "Do I have to keep on talking untilI can't go on?". Lennon's middle shifts focus from Paul of the fab four's concrete reality to a philosophical perspective in B minor,illustrating this with a waltz-time section suggested by George of the fab four that leads back to the verse,possibly meant to suggest tiresome struggle. Music critic Ian MacDonald said,"[John of the fab four's] passages are so suited to his Salvation Army harmonium that it's hard to imagine them not being composed on it.The swell-pedal crescendos he adds to the verses are,on the other hand,textural washes added in the studio,the first of their kind on a fab four record and signposts to the enriched sound-palette of Revolver."Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher described the song as the song that defines The fab four.
The song in the #363 position is a cut off the album titled "Blue Hawaii" which spent 20 weeks in the #1 position on the Billboard Magazine's (US) Album chart. The song in the #363 position written by George Weiss,Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore,is based on "Plaisir d'amour" by Jean Paul Egide Martini.
The Philadelphia R&B group at #361 has eight (8) songs in the Top 7000. In one song they are accompanied with Mariah Carey.Of the eight (8) songs four (4) songs are in the Top 500.At the 1995 Grammy Awards,the group received four Grammy Award awards for their work,including two for their 1994 second album,II in 1995.The group was named Billboard's most successful group and 4th overall artist of the 1990s by Billboard Magazine.
The song at position #360 was by a recording act who was born on February 11th,1940 in Somerville,Massacusetts.The song at position #138 got as high as it did on this list primarily because of two successful appearances on the singles charts in the US & Canada. On October 20th,1962 the song at position #360 began a two week run (during Halloween) at the #1 position on Billboard (US) Magazine's singles chart and on the same day began a three (3) week run at #1 on the Cash Box Magazine's singles chart. The song was re-released eleven (11) years later in the USA and in both magazines the song reached the Top 10. However,in Canada the song was even more successful. On October 15th,1962 the song at position #360 went to #1 for a week in Canada then again for three (3)more weeks on August 4th,1973. The song managed to spend seven (7) weeks at #1 in Australia beginning on October 11th,1973. In Canada the song at position #360 was the #8 song for the entire year of 1973 and in Australia it was the second (2nd) biggest song for the entire year of 1973. The singer of The song at position #360 was an aspiring actor who sang with a band called The Cordials at night while going to auditions during the day.One night,while performing with his band,the singer of The song at position #360 did a monologue in imitation of horror movie actor Boris Karloff while performing The Diamonds',"Little Darlin'".The audience loved it and fellow band member Lenny Capizzi encouraged the singer of The song at position #360 to do more with the Karloff imitation. The singer of The song at position #360 and Capizzi composed The song at position #360 and recorded it with Gary S. Paxton,Leon Russell,Johnny McCrae,Rickie Page and Terry Berg, credited as "The Crypt-Kickers".The song was partially inspired by Paxton's earlier novelty hit "Alley Oop",as well as by the Mashed Potato dance craze of the era.A variation on the Mashed Potato was danced to the song at position #360,in which the footwork was the same but monster gestures were made with the arms and hands.Mel Taylor, drummer for "The Ventures" claimed to play on this,and that fact is repeated many places, including Taylor's "N.Y. Times" obituary. The song at position #360 is narrated by a mad scientist whose monster,late one evening,rises from a slab to perform a new dance.The dance becomes "the hit of the land" when the scientist throws a party for other monsters.The producers came up with several low-budget but effective sound effects for the recording.For example,the sound of a coffin opening was imitated by a rusty nail being pulled out of a board.The sound of a cauldron bubbling was actually water being bubbled through a straw,and the chains rattling were simply chains being dropped on a tile floor.The singer of The song at position #360 also impersonated horror film actor Bela Lugosi as Dracula with the lyric "Whatever happened to my Transylvania Twist?"
The song in the #358 position by this British rock band reached #1 in the UK,USA & Canada spending seven (7) weeks in the #1 position on Cash Box (US) Magazines Singles Chart and eight (8) weeks in the #1 position on Billboard (US) Magazine's Singles Chart. On both Cash Box and Billboard Magazines the song at position #358 was the #1 song for the entire year of 1983. Also in Canada this song was the #1 song for the entire year of 1983. The song in the #358 position was written during the collapse of Sting's marriage to Frances Tomelty;the lyrics are the words of a sinister,controlling character,who is watching "every breath you take; every move you make". Sting said:"I woke up in the middle of the night with that line in my head,sat down at the piano and had written it in half an hour.The tune itself is generic,an aggregate of hundreds of others,but the words are interesting.It sounds like a comforting love song.I didn't realise at the time how sinister it is.I think I was thinking of Big Brother,surveillance and control. Sting later said he was disconcerted by how many people think the song is more positive than it is.He insists it's about unrequited love (the song was written at the time he and his then wife divorced),about the obsession with the lost lover,the jealousy and surveillance that followed."One couple told me 'Oh we love that song; it was the main song played at our wedding!' I thought,'Well,good luck.'"When asked why he appears angry in the music video Sting told BBC Radio 2,"I think the song is very, very sinister and ugly and people have misinterpreted it as being a gentle,little love song." According to the Back to Mono box-set book,the song in the #358 position is said to be influenced by a Gene Pitney song titled "Every Breath I Take". The song is composed in Classical rondo form with its ABACABA structure.The lyrics are very similar to the opening lines of a short story by science fiction author Judith Merrill titled "Whoever You Are".The chorus appears to borrow heavily from the Leo Sayer track, "More Than I Can Say", recorded a couple of years before.The lyrics "Every breath I take,every move I make" appear in the song "D'yer Mak'er" by Led Zeppelin,recorded ten years earlier in 1973. Sting won "Song of the Year" and "The Police" won "Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal" at the Grammy Awards of 1984 for the song in the #358 position.The song ranked #358 on the 2004 Rolling Stone Magazine list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and #31 on Billboard's Hot 100 All-Time Top Songs in 2018.
The song at position #352 is by the king of Rock & Roll.The song at position #352 spent seven (7) weeks in the #1 position on the Billboard (US) Magazine's singles chart.Billboard (US) Magazine ranked this song as the #1 song for the entire year of 1956 and was ranked as the #7 song for the entire year of 1956 in the UK. In a survey conducted in 1994 the song at position #352 premised upon chart action was ranked as fourteenth (14th)biggest song of all-time in the USA and the 41st biggest song of all-time in the UK.In 1982 radio station WKY from Oklahoma City ranked this song as the 19th best song of all-time.Further in July of 1976 Billboard Magazine (US) ranked the song at position #352 as the 31st best song between 1955 and 1975. In 1999 Q-Magazine in the UK ranked this song as the 49th best song of all-time. Inspired by the suicide of a young man who left a note with the line,"I walk a lonely street",songwriters Tommy Durden,then a steel-guitarist in "Smiling Jack Herring and his Swing Billies",and Mae Boren Axton,a teacher in Jacksonville,Florida,wrote the song at position #134 in thirty minutes in 1955.She was Hoyt Axton's mother,and also a publicist for Hank Snow whose manager,Colonel Tom Parker,would later also manage Presley. So sure that the song would be a hit,Axton presented it to the king of rock & roll's then manager,Bob Neal,and insisted it would be his first million-seller.On November 10,1955,upon hearing the demo for the first time,the king of rock & roll agreed and promised to record the song.Axton offered the king of rock & roll a third of the royalties if he made the song his first single release from his new label,RCA.The king of rock & roll first performed the song in Swifton,Arkansas on December 9,1955 and declared it his "first hit".
On August 27th,1994 this Philadelphia R&B group began a 14 week run at the #1 position on Billboard (US) Magazine's Singles chart with the song in the #348 position.The song also spent 12 weeks at the top of the Cash Box Magazine's singles chart.And only one song has occupied the #1 position for a longer period during the entire history of Cash Box Magazine and that is the song at the #16 position.The song at position #348 reached #2 in France.The song in the #348 position was written by Babyface.
The recording act at position #344 places the tenth of her twelve songs that she places in the Top 7000.The song was released as the lead single from the artists fifth studio album of the same name.The song was released on November 3,2018,without any prior official announcement or promotion.The track was written by the singer,Tayla Parx and Victoria Monet,along with its producers Tommy Brown,Charles Anderson and Michael Foster.Lyrically,the song reflects on the singer's past relationships. Commercially,the song spent seven (7) weeks at #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100.It also has reached number one in the United Kingdom,Australia,Canada,Estonia,Finland, Greece,Ireland,Lebanon,Malaysia,New Zealand,Portugal and Singapore and it reached the top ten in Austria,Belgium,the Czech Republic,Denmark,Hungary,Iceland,the Netherlands, Norway,Slovakia,Sweden and Switzerland and the top twenty in France and Germany. The Hannah Lux Davis-directed music video,which references "Mean Girls","Bring It On","13 Going On 30" and "Legally Blonde",was released on November 30,2018 and subsequently broke several YouTube and Vevo records.
The song in the #342 position is performed by this male interracial vocal group from Los Angeles.The song at the #342 position was ranked as the #1 song for the entire year of 1994 by Billboard Magazine and the song spent 11 weeks in the #1 position on Billboard Magazine's singles chart. The song in the #342 position is a ballad written by Gary Baker and Frank J. Myers that became a hit for two acts in 1994.Initially it was a number one song on the U.S. Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart for John Michael Montgomery at the beginning of the year.His version crossed over to pop radio and climbed to #42 on the Billboard Hot 100.A few months later,the recording act who does the song in the #342 position covered the song and achieved a great success in many countries.Along with the USA they reached #1 in Australia,Austria,the Netherlands,Germany,New Zealand,Sweden,Canada (Muchmusic) and Switzerland. The song also hit #2 in the UK and France.
Born April 3,1985 in Islington,London the British Aries recording act Leona Lewis has #341 with one of her hits from 2008.The song is written by J.R.Rotem and Andrea Martin and produced by Rotem for her debut album,Spirit (2007).It is the fourth track on the album (second track on the U.S. release),and was released in March 2008 as her third single in the United Kingdom,as a double A-side with "Footprints in the Sand".It was later released as her second international single following her debut hit "Bleeding Love".It was originally to be released in the United States on June 17,2008,but was pushed back to July 15,2008.The single was released in the UK as a digital download on March 9,2008, with a physical release on the following day,in aid of Sport Relief.The song was remixed with an extended piano instrumental before the beat came in for the single release.This song was BBC Radio 2's record of the week from February 11,2008.It has so far become a top ten hit in Europe,Canada,Australia,New Zealand and Lewis's native UK,its sold enough copies to be certified Silver.As well as being a quiet success in the US peaking at number eleven on the Billboard Hot 100.The song has been nominated for a Brit Award,for Best British Single.
Born on Friday,October 3rd,1969 in Orange County,California former lead singer of the ska-rock group "No Doubt" is at position #335.Billboard Magazine ranked the song at position #335 as the second (2nd) biggest song for the entire year of 2005.On May 7th,2005 this song began a four (4) week run at the #1 position on Billboard Magazine's Singles Chart.The Song is from the album "Love,Angel,Music,Baby" which was the 4th biggest album for the entire year of 2005 in Canada and ARIA (Australia) also ranked the album as the fourth (4th) biggest album for the entire year of 2005. The song at position #335 is a song written by the singer of the song at position #335 and Pharrell as part of the singer of the song at position #335's vision of creating "a silly dance record",the song is influenced by 1980s dance and pop music.They wrote the song as a response to Courtney Love's statement that the singer of the song at position #335 was a "cheerleader" in an interview with "Seventeen" magazine. Because the singer of the song at position #335 never disclosed the song title's meaning,reviewers came up with various interpretations.In a satirical,line-by-line analysis of the song's lyrics,"OC Weekly" critic Greg Stacy humorously speculated that "Gwen is apparently the captain of the cheerleader squad;she is the girl who 'hollas' the chants,not one of the girls who simply 'hollas' them back".The most commonly accepted meaning is that a hollaback girl responds to a confrontation with words but that the singer of the song at position #213 would rather take initiative and "step it up". The song briefly samples the bass line of Queen's 1980 classic "Another One Bites the Dust," which the singer of the song at position #335 refers to in the lyrics. The song was listed at #180 on Pitchfork Media's top 500 songs of the 2000s.The song at position #335 is 41st most popular song of the decade according to Billboard Magazine.
In 2003 after Libra Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks (group named after the "Little Feat" song "Dixie Chicken") made controversial statements against President George W. Bush while performing in London many radio stations in the USA banned the group's songs. Three years later in 2006 the group made a comeback and addressed the controversy with the song at position #334.The next year for this song they won a grammy and still they were banned by several radio stations in the USA.
The recording act at the #333 position is an English alternative rock band.Lead singer Chris Martin who was born March 2nd,1977 married actress Gwyneth Paltrow on Friday, December 5th,2003.The song at position #333 is where it is not for it's performance as a single but for the performance of the album the song is off of.The song at position #333 is from an album titled "X & Y". This album is the album that the BBC ranked as the #2 album in the UK for the entire year of 2005. The song at the #333 position was written by all members of the band built around a piano riff,the song builds into a huge, synthesizer-heavy chorus. Chris Martin admitted that the song was developed after the band had listened to English alternative rock singer Kate Bush.The song's drumbeat is similar to Bush's 1985 song "Running Up That Hill". Although it was recognized as Song of the Year by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP),the song received only mixed reviews from critics."Speed of Sound" was nominated twice at the 48th Grammy Awards.The song won a Brit Award in the category for Best British Single in 2006.The track's music video was nominated for four MTV Video Music Awards.The song at the #333 position was also the billionth song downloaded from the iTunes Store.
At position #332 is a song by a Florida rapper that spent ten (10) weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 between January 5th and March 15th in 2008.The song also spent three (3) weeks at #1 in Australia and was the #1 song for the entire year of 2008 in both the USA and Australia.The song at position #332 is from the movie "Step Up 2: The Streets." The song is featured on the singer's debut album "Mail On Sunday".The song features T-Pain and was co-written with T-Pain. This song also went to #1 in Ireland and New Zealand and reached #2 in the UK.
The song in the #326 position is the most successful single to chart off of "Fever" the biggest album for the entire year of 2001 in Australia."Fever" was the artist who sings the song in the #326's position eighth (8th) studio album.The song in the #326 position was written and produced by Cathy Dennis and Rob Davis.Released as the album's lead single in the third quarter of 2001,the song at #326 reached number one in 30 countries and has sold over four million copies worldwide including Australia,the UK,Belgium,New Zealand,Denmark,Netherlands,France,Germany,Ireland,Italy,Norway,Sweden & Switzerland.Reaching #3 in Canada & #7 in the USA.
The song in the #321 position is by a southern California punk-rock group. The song at position #321 spent six (6)weeks in the #1 position on the ARIA (Australia) charts.Radio Station JJJ in Australia ranked the song at position #321 as the #1 song for the entire year of 1998 and according to radio station HOT 100s Rock Poll (Darwin,N.T.,Australia) the song was the #2 song for the entire year of 1998.And according to ARIA's (Australia) year-end chart the song at position #321 ranked as the fifth (5th) biggest song for the entire year of 1999.Further the song at position #321 is off the album "Americana" which ARIA (Australia) ranked as the third (3rd) biggest album for the entire year of 1999 and Billboard Magazine in the USA ranked the album as the #7 album for the entire year of 1999. Further,"Americana" was the #5 album for the entire year of 1999 in Canada. Along with the land "down under" the song in the #321 position went to #1 in Belgium ( Flanders),Ireland,Japan,Finland,Netherlands,Norway (Norsktoppen),Sweden (Sverigetopplistan) and the UK.The song in the #321 position also reached #2 in Germany,Canada(Muchmusic) and #3 in Austria & Belgium (Wallonia) and #4 in Switzerland.
This New York City duo in the #307 position have a song that spent six (6) weeks in the #1 position on the Billboard (US) Magazine's Singles Chart and the song that was the song that Billboard Magazine (US) ranked as the #1 single for the entire year of 1970 and the #2 song for the entire decade of the 1970s.Also,the song at position #307 was the fourth (4th) biggest song for the entire year of 1970 in the UK and the second (2nd) biggest song for the entire year of 1970 in Australia.Further,the song at position #307 is the title track from the album that Billboard Magazine (US) and the Official Chart Company (UK) ranked as the #1 album for the entire year of 1970.The Official Chart Company (UK) also ranked the album as the #1 album for the entire year of 1971. This song's recording process exposed many of the underlying tensions that eventually led to the breakup of the duo after the album's completion.Most notably.Paul has repeatedly expressed regret over his insistence that Art sing this song as a solo,as it focused attention on Art and relegated Paul to a secondary position.Art initially did not want to sing lead vocal,feeling it was not right for him."He felt I should have done it,"Paul revealed to Rolling Stone in 1972. Art said that the moment when he performed it in Madison Square Garden in 1972 was "almost biblical." In recent performances on the "Old Friends" tour, the duo have taken turns singing alternate verses of the vocal. Rolling Stone Magazine in 2004 ranked the song at position number 47 on The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
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