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INFORMATION FOR SONGS IN THE TOP 7000 Part VI
Welcome to the Top 2000. After spending 21 weeks on the US Billboard Hot 100 the song at position #1999 peaked at #1.It spent a week at the summit.At that time the song achieved a the distinction for the song that took the longest period of time to reach #1.This was this Greek musician's one and only entry in the Top 7000.
This female native German singer at position #1992 makes her one and only entry in the Top 7000.All the lyrics to this song are sung in Deutch.The 1983 released song went to #1 in Australia,Austria,Belgium,Japan,Netherlands,New Zealand,Sweden and Switzerland.The song peaked at #2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and peaked at #1 on the US Cash Box Magazine weekly singles chart.
The recording act at position was inspired into writing the song after going to Berlin to a Rolling stones' concert when she saw a balloon go over the Berlin wall.Then she imagined soldiers on both sides of the wall exchanging fire with one another.
The song at #1979 would be covered in the same year by a famous Seattle guitarist. That cover version from later in 1968 is within the Top 1000 of this list.Several reviewers have pointed out that the lyrics in "The song at position #1979" echo lines in the Book of Isaiah, Chapter 21, verses 5-9:Prepare the table,watch in the watchtower, eat,drink: arise ye princes,and prepare the shield./For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go set a watchman,let him declare what he seeth./And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen,a chariot of asses,and a chariot of camels;and he hearkened diligently with much heed./...And,behold,here cometh a chariot of men,with a couple of horsemen.And he answered and said,Babylon is fallen,is fallen,and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.
Commenting on the songs on his album John Wesley Harding,in an interview published in the folk music magazine Sing Out! in October 1968,the singer of the song at position #1979 told John Cohen and Happy Traum: "I haven't fulfilled the balladeers's job.A balladeer can sit down and sing three songs for an hour and a half... it can all unfold to you.These melodies on John Wesley Harding lack this traditional sense of time.As with the third verse of "The Wicked Messenger",which opens it up,and then the time schedule takes a jump and soon the song becomes wider... The same thing is true of the song at position #1979,which opens up in a slightly different way,in a stranger way, for we have the cycle of events working in a rather reverse order."
The unusual structure of the narrative was remarked on by English Literature professor Christopher Ricks,who commented that the song at position #1979 is an example of the singer of the song at position #1979's audacity at manipulating chronological time:"at the conclusion of the last verse,it is as if the song bizarrely begins at last,and as if the myth began again."
Critics have described the singer of the song at position #1979's version as a masterpiece of understatement.In Andy Gill's words:"In Dylan's version of the song,it's the barrenness of the scenario which grips,the high haunting harmonica and simple forward motion of the riff carrying understated implications of cataclysm;as subsequently recorded by Jimi Hendrix, ... that cataclysm is rendered scarily palpable through the dervish whirls of guitar."
Others have been more critical of the singer of the song at position #1979's achievement.Dave Van Ronk,an early supporter and mentor of the singer of the song at position #1979,made the following criticism of the song: That whole artistic mystique is one of the great traps of this business,because down that road lies unintelligibility.The singer of the song at position #1979 has a lot to answer for there,because after a while he discovered that he could get away with anything-he was the singer of the song at position #1979 and people would take whatever he wrote on faith.So he could do something like this song which is simply a mistake from the title on down:a watchtower is not a road or a wall,and you can't go along it.
A song that went to #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 for two (2) weeks beginning on February 8,1960 is the song at position #1976.This is one of the saddest songs of the decade of the 1960s.
Born Shanice Lorraine Wilson-Knox on May 14th,1973 in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania (raised in Los Angeles) is the singer who sings the song at position #1969.She makes her one and only entry in the entire top 7000;with a song that peaked on February 2,1992 at #2 for three (3) weeks on the US Billboard Hot 100. In 1992,the song was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance.
This singer is widely recognized for her coloratura soprano voice and her ability to sing in the whistle register.
On Valentine's Day 2000,this singer married actor/comedian Flex Alexander. Together, they have two children,daughter Imani Shekinah Knox (born August 23, 2001) and son Elijah Alexander Knox (born March 5, 2004).
The song at position #1949 gets remade thirty-eight (38) year laters by a middle aged woman from Scotland.The 2009 version is in the Top 100 of this list.The song at position #1949 is off of an album that radio station KZOK from Seattle in 1991 ranked as the fourth (4th) best album of all-time titled "Sticky Fingers".
In the liner notes to the 1993 "Rolling Stones collection Jump Back:The Best of The Rolling Stones", Mick Jagger states,"Everyone always says this was written about Marianne Faithful but I don't think it was;that was all well over by then.But I was definitely very inside this piece emotionally."Keith Richards wrote the melody and came up with the phrase "Wild Horses".
Originally recorded over a three day period at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Alabama during December 2-4 in 1969,the song was not released until over a year later due to legal wranglings with the band's former label.Along with "Brown Sugar" (in the Top 500 on this list),it is one of the two Rolling Stones compositions from "Sticky Fingers" over which Allen Klein co-owns the rights along with the Stones.It features session player Jim Dickinson on piano,Keith Richards on electric guitar,and Richards and Mick Taylor on acoustic guitars.Keith Richards uses Nashville Tuning,in which the EADG strings of the acoustic guitar are replaced by strings which are tuned one octave higher.
In 2007,Mick Jagger's longtime girlfriend,Jerry Hall named "Wild Horses" as her favorite Rolling Stones song.Rolling Stone Magazine ranked this song at #334 in its "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list in 2004.
In 1966 a triple murder happened in a Paterson,New Jersey bar.A professional boxer (born on May 6,1937 in Clifton,New Jersey) was convicted of this triple murder and spent 19 years in the New Jersey penal system.In November of 1985 US District Court Judge Haddon Lee Sarokin in Newark,New Jersey granted his petition for a "writ of Habeas corpus" and set aside his convictions.In 1975 "Robert Allen Zimmerman" wrote a song about this professional boxer and the events surrounding his murder conviction and placed the song on his 1976 "Desire" album.That song is at position #1925.
This boxer died from cancer at the age of 76 on April 20th,2014 in Toronto,Canada .
Born Steven Bernard Hill, April 19,1958 in Fort Lauderdale,Florida has the song at position #1915.It peaked at #1 for four (4) weeks beginning the week ending December 8th,1990 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song reached number six (6) on the UK Singles Chart and number eight (8) on the Australian (ARIA) Singles Chart.The song listed at number 71 on Billboard magazine Top 600 songs for the 60th Anniversary of the Hot 100 chart. This is his only song in the top 7000.
On September 30,2011 Hill was arrested by Springfield,Massachusetts police officers after his concert in MassMutual Center in Massachusetts due to him owing $420,000 in unpaid child support.
An alternative rock band formed by Mike Edwards,Jerry De Borg,Al Doughty,Iain Baker & Simon Matthews in Bradford-on-Avon,Wiltshire,England make their second of two appearances in the Top 7000 at position #1910.The song is about the ending of the cold war.It peaked at #2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 (kept out of #1 by Bryan Adams) but only peaked at #31 in the UK.Hmmmmm....
A song by this LA band from 1982 has the song at #1902.The song was written by the group's primary songwriter,David Paich.This song has been widely misunderstood to refer to the band member Steve Porcaro's defunct relationship with the actress Rosanna Arquette. However,this was actually just a coincidence.The rest of the song had already been finished,and Paich needed a name that fit well into the chorus.The music video features Cynthia Rhodes as the lead dancer and a young Patrick Swayze as one of the male dancers.They would reunite as members of the cast of the 1987 movie Dirty Dancing.
The song is the opening track from the group's 1982 album Toto IV.This song won the Record of the Year Grammy Award in the 1983 presentations.The song was also nominated for the Song of the Year award.In musician circles,the song is known for its highly influential half-time shuffle,as well as a blowing ending guitar solo played by guitarist Steve Lukather.The song peaked at #2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 for five consecutive weeks.
Welcome to the Top 1900.
The song at #1897 is a cover of a song that was released thirty-three (33) years prior.That version can be found in the Top 500 of this list. The song at position #1897 spent thirteen (13) weeks at #1 in Canada by this singer who was born on November 30, 1978 in Raleigh,North Carolina.He was
the runner-up in season 2 of American Idol.
A song from 1988 that went to #1 on July 9th for two (2) weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 by Robin Zander and his Illinois band is the #1894 song.The song was first offered to English singer Elkie Brooks,who turned it down.Written by Bob Mitchell
and Nick Graham, the song was initially released on the group who sings the song at position #1894's "Lap of Luxury" album.The song reached number one on the USA Billboard Hot 100 in 1988 when issued as a single;it also reached number one in Australia.The success of the song brought the group out of a years-long commercial slump and back into music industry prominence.
According to lead vocalist Robin Zander,"The band was very skeptical about performing this song live,because we only liked to perform songs written by us.However,a young man from,oh, I don't know,somewhere,confirmed to us after a show in Florida about a week after the song was released that the song was great and,get this, would be a #1 single.As we joked about the guy's prediction,we later realized whoa! This guy was right.I thank him for that."
The song at position #1887 is a cover of a song done four (4) years earlier.The 1968 version of the song topped the Canadian singles chart (Ted Kennedy) for the week of September 2,1968 and is at a higher position in this list.
An American rock band that was formed by Tony Scalzo,Miles Zuniga and Joey Shuffield in Austin,Texas in 1995, has the song at position #1886.The band originally called themselves "Magneto U.S.A." but changed their name after signing with Hollywood Records.The song at position #1886 spent seven (7) weeks at the top Billboard Magazine's (USA) Modern Rock Tracks chart. This is their one and only song in the top 7000.
The song at position #1875 spent four (4) weeks in the #2 position in Australia in 1999. This Dutch based music group plays this song in A-flat major.The video features all four members of the group travelling various destinations in the USA in a 1960s style mini-bus ("Vengabus"), where they end up in a nightclub.The group consists of two boys and two girls,Kim Sasabone,Denise Post-Van Rijswijk,Donny Latupeirissa and Robin Pors.
Born on October 21,1987 in Sydney,Australia is a singer and songwriter who had a song that spent five (5) weeks at #1 beginning August 19,2018 on the ARIA (Australia) weekly single charts.This song is at position #1874 on the Top 7000.
Born Joanna Noelle Blagden Levesque on December 20,1990 in Brattleboro,Vermont,USA (raised in Foxborough,Massachusetts,USA) is the singer who sings the song at position #1864.She makes her second and final appearance in the top 7000.This song peaked at #2 on the single charts in the UK,Australia and New Zealand.
The singer of the song at position #1864 has expressed her displeasure with the song, and most of her debut self-titled album,for its overall pop sound however she is grateful it put her on the musical map. When she would perform the song at her most recent concerts,she would arrange it to the point of being almost unrecognizable,adding jazzier instrumentation to the verses and heavier guitars or double bass drumming to the bridge.The song appears in the 2004 PlayStation 2 karaoke game Karaoke Revolution Volume 3. On her 2011 tour,this artist would open her set with her band playing the intro of "Dropkick Murphys" "I'm Shipping Up To Boston" which would then segue into the song at position #1864.
The song at position #1856 sort of gets remade again thirty-four (34) years later by a Michigan rocker.The 2008 version of the song is in the Top 500 of this list.The song at position #1856 was recorded at Studio One in Doraville,Georgia,using just Ed King as bassist,Wilkeson and drummer Burns to lay down the basic backing track.Ed King used a Marshall amp belonging to Allen Collins.The guitar used on the track was a 1972 Fender Stratocaster.However,King has said that the guitar was a pretty poor model and had bad pickups,forcing him to turn the amp up all the way to get decent volume out of it. This guitar is now displayed at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum in Cleveland,Ohio.
The famous "Turn it up" line uttered by Ronnie Van Zant in the beginning was not intended to be in the song.Van Zant was just asking producer Al Kooper and engineer Rodney Mills to turn up the volume in his headphones so that he could hear the track better.
The song at position #1856 was written as an answer to two songs,"Southern Man" and "Alabama" by Neil Young,which dealt with themes of racism and slavery in the American South."We thought Neil was shooting all the ducks in order to kill one or two," said Ronnie Van Zant at the time.The following extract shows the Neil Young mention
in the song:
Well I heard mister Young sing about her
Well, I heard ole Neil put her down
Well, I hope Neil Young will remember
A Southern man don't need him around anyhow
Ronnie Van Zant's musical response,however,was also controversial,with references to Alabama Governor George Wallace
(a noted supporter of segregation) and the Watergate scandal:
In Birmingham, they love the governor (boo boo boo)
Now we all did what we could do
Now Watergate does not bother me
Does your conscience bother you?
Tell me the truth
In 1975,Van Zant said: "The lyrics about the governor of Alabama were misunderstood.The general public didn't notice the words 'Boo! Boo! Boo!'after that particular line,and the media picked up only on the reference to the people loving the governor." "The line 'We all did what we could do' is sort of ambiguous," Al Kooper notes "'We tried to get Wallace out of there' is how I always thought of it."Journalist Al Swenson argues that the song is more complex than it is sometimes given credit for,suggesting that it only looks like an endorsement of Wallace. "Wallace and I have very little in common," Van Zant himself said, "I don't like what he says about colored people." The final line of the song indicates that it may be against racial discrimination: "My Montgomery's got the answer." This is a reference to the Montgomery Bus Boycott,which led to a Supreme Court decision declaring Alabama's racial segregation laws for buses unconstitutional.
In 1976,Van Zant and the band supported Jimmy Carter for his presidential candidacy, including fundraising and an appearance at the Gator Bowl benefit concert.At the end of the song, Alabama is also referred to as where "the governor's true."
The song at position #1855 by this Brooklyn,New York born singer was Cash Box Magazine's #5 song for the entire year of 1960.The song reached #1 on the US & Canadian singles charts.This song is a novelty song telling the story of a shy girl wearing a revealing polka dot bikini bathing suit at the beach,who in the first verse is too afraid to leave the locker where she has changed into the aforementioned swimwear;in the second,she has made it to the beach but sits on the sand wrapped in a blanket;and in the closing verse,she has finally gone into the ocean,but is too afraid to come out,and stays immersed in the water-despite the fact that she's "turning blue",to quote the song's lyrics is to hide herself from view.It was written by Paul Vance and Lee Pockriss and first released in June 1960 by the singer of the song at position #1855 with orchestra conducted by John Dixon.The song also made the top 10 in other countries,including #8 on the UK Singles Chart.Trudy Packer recited the phrases beginning with "One, two, three, four"-i.e. "Tell the people what she wore", heard at the end of each verse before the chorus; and "Stick around, we'll tell you more",heard after the first chorus and before the start of the second verse.
The song at position #1854 spent seven (7) weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 beginning June 17,1978 and was the song that Billboard Magazine ranked as the #1 song for the entire year of 1978 on the magazine's year-end countdown.The singer of the song at position #1854 was born on March 5,1958 in Manchester,Lancashire,England and died on March 10,1988 in Redcliffe,Australia.He became the first solo artist in the history of the U.S. pop charts to have his first three singles hit the number-one spot.The song was written by the singer and his brothers(Barry,Maurice and Robin Gibb) in Los Angeles,while the trio of brothers were working on the film Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band."And one night," the singer of the song at position #1854 would recall,"while we were relaxing,we sat down and we had to start getting tracks together for the album" (also titled with the same name as the song at position #1854 which would eventually hit #7 on the U.S. album charts). "So we literally sat down and in ten minutes,we had a group going,(singing) the chorus part.As it says underneath the song,we all wrote it,the four of us." While he would have three more Top 10 hits in the U.S.,this would be his final chart-topping hit in the USA.
The singer of the song at position #1854 died on March 10,1988,just five days after his 30th birthday as a result of myocarditis,an inflammation of the heart muscle due to a recent viral infection.
The debut single for this English alternative rock band from Abingdon,Oxfordshire headed by Thom Yorke at position #1841 places its tenth (10th) of eleven (11) entries in the top 7000.They have one more song in the top 7000. The band consists of Thom Yorke (lead vocals,guitar and piano),Jonny Greenwood (lead guitar,keyboards and other instruments),Colin Greenwood (bass),Phil Selway (drums,percussion) and Ed O'Brien (guitar,backing vocals).
After mid-1998,this group did not play the song at #1841 live at all until the final encore of a 2001 hometown concert at South Park,Oxford,UK when they played it in a seemingly impromptu decision after an equipment failure on the organ just after the start of "Motion Picture Soundtrack".Thom Yorke commented that they would be playing a "slightly older song... I think." To date,the last major performance of the song was at Reading Festival 2009, where it opened their set.
In April 2008,"Prince" covered the song at position #1841 at Coachella.This version was captured on a video from a concert-goer's mobile phone and uploaded to YouTube.However,it was quickly taken down at Prince's request.After finding out about the blocking,Thom Yorke was quoted as saying,"Well,tell him to unblock it.It's our song.
The song at position #1837 is from the 1980 soundtrack to the movie "Urban Cowboy".The singer of this song was born on November 20,1947 in Wichita,Kansas,U.S.A.
At position #1806 is a song by a Swedish synthpop duo and a British recording artist (who has another song in the top 7000 at position #3842). The song at position #1806 was released in May 2012 as a digital download in Sweden,where it peaked at number two on the singles chart.The song would not be released in the USA until 2013 peaking at #7 on the Billboard Hot 100.However the song went to #1 in the UK and #3 in Australia (ARIA}. In July 2013 American rock band "Titus Andronicus" posted an eight-minute cover of the song with added lyrics.The same month,American singer Robin Thicke performed a stripped down cover version during a performance on BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge.
Born Timothy Zachery Mosley on March 10,1972 in the capital city of Richmond. This Virginian at #1805 makes seven (7) appearances in the Top 7000 but never as a solo act. Timbaland appears in a trio at #1805 and he also appears in a trio one (1) more time in the Top 7000. In that trio he appears along side Justin Timberlake & Nelly Furtado.He also appears as part of a quartet along side of Keri Hilson,D.O.E. & Sebastian.He does a duet with Nelly Furtado,a duet with Justin Timberlake,a duet with Katy Perry and in another recording he sings along side the Colorado rock band OneRepublic.He appears three (3) times in the Top 500 and one time in the Top 200.He has worked with Justin Timberlake,Nelly Furtado,Katy Perry, Keri Hilson and X Factor winner Leona Lewis on past and upcoming projects.He has also produced tracks for Mariah Carey,Wyclef Jean,Missy Elliott,Keshia Chante and Jay-Z's upcoming albums.Timbaland also produced Chris Cornell's 2009 album "Scream".
The song at position #1804 by this Dutch band reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1970. However,it was not the first song with that title to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Eleven years earlier a different song with the same title went to #1.The 1959 song with the same title as the song at position #1804 is at a higher position on the Top 7000 of this list.The song's lead vocals are performed by Mariska Veres.The song's music and lyrics are written by Robbie van Leeuwen,the band's guitarist,sitarist and background vocalist,who also produced the song. Van Leeuwen used "The Banjo Song" on Winkin', Blinkin' and Nod,a 1963 album by The "Big 3" with Mama Cass Elliot on vocals,as main inspiration.
The song would hit #1 again on the US Billboard Hot 100 when three sexy gals from London do a cover of the song at position #1804.
Welcome to the Top 1800.
On October 22,2001 the song at position #1794 recorded by a singer who was born on July 29,1974 in Palmdale,California,began a two (2) week run at the Top of the Australian (ARIA)Singles Chart.ARIA ranked this song at #14 for the entire year of 2001 in Australia.The song explains how the author has forgotten to clean his room,failed his college class,sold dope,missed court dates,had his paycheck garnished due to missed child support payments,gambled away his car payment,is left masturbating after not having sex with his girlfriend,became paraplegic as the result of a police chase,lost his family,had messed up his "entire life",and is now homeless.The music video for it was directed by Kevin Smith and featured Jay and Silent Bob smoking with the singer of the song at position #1794 as well as a glimpse of the Quick Stop where Clerks were filmed.
In December 2001,a Connecticut teenager Matthew Fournier was ordered to listen to the song and write a report about it as punishment for possession of marijuana.
The singer born Aliaune Badara Akon Thiam, in St.Louis (raised in Dakar,Senegal) at position #1787 has eleven (11) songs in the Top 7000.Seven (7) of the eleven (11) songs are duets:a duet with Eminem,a duet with David Guetta,a duet with Kardinal Offishall,a duet with T-Pain,a duet with Snoop Dogg,a duet with Piles and a duet with Styles P.Two (2) of the eleven (11) songs are in the Top 500.Legal documents released by The "Smoking Gun" list the singer at position #1787's name as Aliaune Damala Thiam and his date of birth as April 30,1973 or April 16, 1973,however the BBC states he was born on October 14,1981. It has since been reported by various media sources that he was born in 1977.
The song at position #1787 is a pop-R&B song recorded by this singer for his second studio album titled "Konvicted" (2006).The song was released as the album's third single in early 2007.In April 2007,it became the singers' first solo U.S. number-one single and second number-one overall.A crucial part of the chorus takes from Bob Marley's 1979 classic "Zimbabwe". The bridge also borrows the melody from R. Kelly's song "Ignition (Remix)". This song was #31 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Best Songs of 2007.This song was also #81 on MTV Asia's list of Top 100 Hits of 2007.
On February 15,1969 the San Francisco based recording act at position #1784 began a four (4) week run in the #1 position on the Billboard Hot 100.Radio station KIMN from Denver ranked this song as the twenty-fifth (25th) biggest song for the entire decade of the 1960s.
The song is one of Sly Stone's pleas for peace and equality between differing races and social groups,a major theme and focus for the band.The group featured caucasians Greg Errico and Jerry Martini in its lineup,as well as females Rose Stone and Cynthia Robinson; making it the first major integrated band in rock history.The group's
the message was about peace and equality through music,and this song reflects the same.
Unlike the band's more typically funky and psychedelic records,this song is a mid-tempo number with a more mainstream pop feel.Sly,singing the main verses for the song, explains that he is "no better/and neither are you/we are the same/whatever we do."
Sly's sister Rose Stone sings bridging sections that mock the futility of people hating each other for being tall,short,fat,skinny,white,black,or anything else.The bridges of the song contain the line "different strokes for different folks," which became a popular catchphrase in 1969.
For the chorus,all of the singing members of the band (Sly, Rosie, Larry Graham, and Sly's brother Freddie Stone) proclaim that "I am everyday people," meaning that each of them (and each listener as well) should consider himself or herself as parts of one whole,not of smaller,specialized factions.
Bassist Larry Graham contends that the track featured the first instance of the "slap bass" technique,which would become a staple of funk and other genres.The technique involves striking a string with the thumb of the right hand (or left hand, for a left-handed player) so that the string collides with the frets,producing a metallic "clunk" at the beginning of the note.Later slap bass songs-for example, Graham's performance on "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again)"-expanded on the technique, incorporating a complementary "pull" or "pop" component.
This song was included on the band's classic album Stand! (1969), which sold over three million copies.It is one of the most covered songs in the band's repertoire,with versions by Aretha Franklin,The Staple Singers,Joan Jett (a modest hit in the year of 1983),The Supremes & The Four Tops,Peggy Lee,Belle & Sebastian and Pearl Jam, among
many others.Dolly Parton's previously unreleased 1980 cover of the song was included as a bonus track on the 2009 reissue of her 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs album.It was also prominently featured in a series of television commercials for Toyota automobiles in the late 1990s and most recently for Smarties candy in 2008.Rolling Stone ranked this song at #145 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.This song is prominently featured in the opening sequence of the 2008 romantic comedy film Definitely, Maybe.The lead character,Will Hayes (played by Ryan Reynolds),calls it his "perfect song" for that particular day.It can also be heard in the film "Purple Haze".
This Australian rock band Sydney make their one and only entry in the Top 7000 with a song from 1992 at position #1779.The original line-up was Frank Celenza on drums;Suze DeMarchi on lead vocals and guitar;Dave Leslie on guitar and backing vocals;and Eddie Parise on bass guitar and backing vocals.
The song at position #1761 by this Swedish duet went to #1 on the singles charts in the USA,Canada and Australia.It was also the #1 song for the entire year of 1989 in Canada and #3 for the entire year of 1989 in Australia (David Kent).While still unknown outside of Sweden,the duet at position #1761 released their second album titled "Look Sharp!" With the success of the first two singles from the album,they toured Sweden again.When the song at position #1761 was about to be released in Sweden as the third single,an American exchange student named Dean Cushman returned from Sweden and urged radio station,KDWB in Minneapolis,to play the song at position #1761. From there,the song spread on cassette copies to other radio stations.With the song's radio success,EMI quickly released the song at position #1761. Suddenly,the group had a #1 scoring single in the United States,and the record wasn't even released.When "Look Sharp!" was finally released,it was able to debut on the U.S. album charts at #50,an unusual feat at the time for a newcomer artist,and later scored #23,eventually staying on the charts for 71 weeks.
There is a song with the same title as the song at position #1755 but a different song. That song is the title track to both Cash Box and Billboard Magazine's #1 album for the entire year of 1971 and is in the Top 1000.The song at position #1755 originally is a song by Danish pop singer Christine Milton,released on January 13,2003 as the lead single from her debut album "Friday".It was written and produced by Cutfather & Joe and Remee,and peaked at #1 on the Danish Singles Chart. The song was later covered to international success by the British R&B singer at position #1755.Her version earned the songwriters an Ivor Novello Award for "Most Performed Work",being the most performed song in the UK in 2003.According to a HitQuarters interview with co-writer and producer Mich "Cutfather" Hansen,the song was initially inspired by Liberty X's "Just a Little", "I liked that song and wanted to do something,not similar, but something in that vibe.",he said.
This recording act a Hattiesburg,Mississippi,U.S.A. native makes his one and only entry in the Top 7000 with a song from 1961 at position #1751.
This song went to #1 in Canada,Australia,Sweden and the Netherlands.It made it to #2 in Norway but only got up to to #12 on the US Billboard Hot 100.
The song at position #1738 is a remake of a song done twelve (12) years earlier.That earlier version of the song is at a higher position in the countdown.The singer of the song at position #1738 was born on September 26,1964 in Carlisle,Cumberland,England. Born in Carlisle she was raised from the age of four in Tenterden, Kent, England.She represented the United Kingdom in 2000 at Eurovision in Stockholm.
The song at position #1738 peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and garnered frequent airplay on CHR and AC radio.It also reached #5 in the UK Singles Chart after being re-issued in 1995.
Born on March 11,1950 in New York City the recording act at position #1733 makes his one and only appearance in the Top 7000.The song at position #1733 went to #1 for two weeks on the US Billboard Hot 100 beginning September 24,1988. It became the first a cappella song to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
The song at position #1717 would be covered twenty-four (24) years later.That version is in the Top 1000.The version at position #1717 topped the singles chart in the UK.The song at position #1717 is from the 1985 album titled "Youthquake".The original cut was over four minutes long and was edited for the album.The unedited version was released on an '80s CD called Monster '80s Volume Two.This song was the first UK number-one hit for the Stock Aitken Waterman production trio.Released in November 1984,the record reached number one in March 1985,taking seventeen weeks to get there.
In the US, it peaked at #11 in September of that year.The video to the song was directed by Vaughan Arnell and Anthea Benton.The strings were based on Richard Wagner's classical piece Ride of the Valkyries. Welcome to the Top 1700.
The song at position #1698 by this female native Motown recording act who was born on May 13th,1943 places her one and only song in the top 7000.This song peaked for two weeks at #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 beginning the week ending May 16th,1964.The song was written by Smokey Robinson.
More than via any straight forward remake, "My Guy" has had its highest profile since the artist at position #1698's original through its appearance on the soundtrack of the Whoopi Goldberg film Sister Act (1992) in a rendition which substitutes "My Guy" with "My God", transforming the song into a faux-gospel number. In 1999, the song at position #1698 was inducted to the Grammy Hall of Fame.
In 2008,the Los Angeles-based rock group "Warpaint" performed a version of the song on their EP Exquisite Corpse (EP) under the title "Billie Holliday".
After a long battle with cancer the singer of the song at position #1698 died in Los Angeles on July 26,1992,at the age of 49.After her funeral,which included a eulogy given by her old friend and former collaborator Smokey Robinson,she was laid to rest in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
An instrumental by a British orchestra leader and jazz musician. (born on January 30,1911,died:May 12,1981)from 1954 is at position #1679. The song features the orchestra leaders' soprano saxophone solos between verses.
The Irish boy band with their 2005 hit at position #1672 went to #1 in the UK for two (2) weeks beginning on November 12th and it was the ninth (9th) best song for the entire year of 2005 in the UK according to the Official Chart Company.The song at position #1672 was written by Secret Garden's Rolf Lovland and the lyrics by Brendan Graham.The song has now been covered more than 125 times.The song was originally written as an instrumental piece and titled "Silent Story." The melody is based on a traditional Irish tune (especially the opening phrase of its chorus),the Londonderry Air,which is best known as the usual tune to the 1910 song Danny Boy.Lovland approached Irish novelist and songwriter Brendan Graham to write the lyrics to his melody after reading Graham's novels.It was originally released on the 2002 "Secret Garden" album "Once in a Red Moon," with the vocals sung by Irish singer Brian Kennedy,and sold well in both Ireland and Norway.Originally, Brian Kennedy was supposed to follow "Secret Garden" on their Asian tour in 2002,but fell ill,and could not attend.He was replaced by Norwegian singer Jan Werner Danielsen,who also later recorded the song together with "Secret Garden",but it was never released.
The recording act that formed at Wesleyan University in Middletown,Connecticut at position #1649 took a nineteenth (19th) century African-American spiritual and made the song that Billboard Magazine (USA) ranked as the third (3rd)biggest song for the entire year of 1961 on Billboard's year-end singles countdown.From September 4-18 in 1961 the song at position #1649 topped the Billboard Hot 100.The song also went to #1 in the UK,Canada and Australia.
The song at position #1649 was first noted during the American Civil War at St. Helena Island,one of the Sea Islands of South Carolina.It was sung by former slaves whose owners had abandoned the island before the Union navy would arrive to enforce a blockade.Charles Pickard Ware,an abolitionist and Harvard graduate who had come to supervise the plantations on St. Helena Island from 1862 to 1865,wrote the song down in music notation as he heard the freedmen sing it.Ware's cousin,William Francis Allen reported in 1863 that while he rode in a boat across Station Creek,the former slaves sang the song as they rowed.
The song at position #1636 is a remake of a song done twenty (20) years earlier.The singer of the song at position #1636 also sings in the twenty (20) year earlier version. That 1972 version is in the Top 300.In 1992,the singer of the song at position #1636 was invited to play for the MTV Unplugged series.His subsequent album,Unplugged,featured a number of blues standards and his new "Tears in Heaven." It also featured an "unplugged" version of the song at position #1636.The new arrangement slowed down and reworked the original riff and dispensed with the piano coda.This version climbed to #12 on the U.S. pop chart but failed to chart in Britain. In 1992,it won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Song,beating out "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana,one of the ten biggest upsets in Grammy history,according to Entertainment Weekly.The singer of the song at position #1954 only half-joked that he had rearranged the song in a slower,acoustic version because he was getting too old to play the demanding electric guitar riff very well.In 2003,The Allman Brothers Band began playing the song in concert.Warren Haynes sang the vocal,Gregg Allman played the piano part,and Derek Trucks plays Duane Allman's guitar parts during the coda.The performances were seen as a tribute not only to Allman,but also to producer Tom Dowd, who had died the previous year.
In 2000 "Madonna" does a cover of a song that went to #1 for "Don McLean" in 1972.Don McLean's version is in the Top 300 while Madonna's version is #1627.The song was released to promote the soundtrack to her film "The Next Best Thing (2000)".Her cover is much shorter than the original (it contains only the beginning of the first verse and all of the second and sixth verses) and was recorded as a pop-dance song.Don McLean himself praised the cover,saying it was "a gift from a goddess", and that her version is "mystical and sensual."Due to the success of the single,it was included as a bonus track on her 2000 studio album Music,however this was not available on the North American version.Madonna explained in a 2001 interview on BBC Radio 1 with Jo Whiley,the reason that the song was omitted from her 2001 greatest hits compilation GHV2:"It was something a certain record company executive twisted my arm into doing,but it didn't belong on the (Music) album so now it's being punished".The song was produced by Madonna and William Orbit,who had previously worked with her on the 1998 studio album "Ray of Light" and 1999 single "Beautiful Stranger".Released in March 2000,the song was a big worldwide hit,
reaching number one in many countries,including the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Italy, Germany (her first since "La Isla Bonita",in 1987),Switzerland,Austria and Finland.The song was the 19th best selling of 2000 in the UK.There was no commercial single release in the US,but the single still reached the number twenty-nine spot on Billboard's Hot 100,based on airplay alone.Chuck Taylor from Billboard was impressed by the recording and commented,"Applause to Madonna for not pandering to today's temporary trends and for challenging programmers to broaden their playlists.
The music video to the song at position #1627,directed by Philipp Stolzl,depicts a diverse array of Americans,including a scene showing a lesbian couple kissing,which resulted in the video being censored on certain music shows in the United States.Two official versions of the video were produced,the first of which now appears on Madonna's greatest-hits DVD compilation,Celebration,and was released as the official video worldwide.The second version was issued along with the "Humpty Remix",a more upbeat and dance-friendly version of the song.This video was aired on MTV's dance channel in the United States to promote the film "The Next Best Thing", starring Madonna and Rupert Everett;it contains totally different footage and new outtakes of the original and omits the lesbian kiss.Everett,who provides backing vocals in the song,is also featured in the video.Would you like a piece of pie?
On April 21,1973 the song at position #1615 by this New York City recording act began a four (4) week run at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.For the entire year of 1973 this song was #1 single for the entire year of 1973 in the USA (Billboard),Canada, Australia and the UK.
The origin of the idea of a yellow ribbon as a token of remembrance may have been the 19th century practice that some women allegedly had of wearing a yellow ribbon in their hair to signify their devotion to a husband or sweetheart serving in the U.S. Cavalry}and the song "'Round Her Neck She Wears a Yeller Ribbon" which later inspired the John Wayne movie "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon,is a reference to this.The symbol of a yellow ribbon became widely known in civilian life in the 1970s as a reminder of an absent loved one,either in the military or in jail that they would be welcomed home on their return.
The story of a convict who had told his love to tie a ribbon to a tree outside of town is an American folk tale,dating to before 1979.In October 1971,newspaper columnist Pete Hamill wrote a piece for the New York Post called "Going Home." In it,he told a variant of the story,in which college students on a bus trip to the beaches of Fort Lauderdale make friends with an ex-convict who is watching for a yellow handkerchief on a roadside oak in Brunswick,Georgia.Hamill claimed to have heard this story in oral tradition.In June 1972,nine months later,Reader's Digest reprinted "Going Home." Also in June 1972,ABC-TV aired a dramatized version of it in which James Earl Jones played the role of the returning ex-con.A month-and-a-half after that,Irwin Levine and L. Russell Brown registered for copyright a song they called the song at position #1194. The authors said they heard the story while serving in the military.Pete Hamill was not convinced and filed suit for infringement.One factor that may have influenced Hamill's decision to do so was that,in May 1973,the song at position #1615 sold 3 million records in three weeks. When the dust settled,BMI calculated that radio stations had played it 3 million times: seventeen continuous years of airplay.Hamill dropped his suit after folklorists working for Levine and Brown turned up archival versions of the story that had been collected before "Going Home" had been written'.
The German recording act at position #1612 covers a song done by a British recording act twenty-three (23) years earlier.The 1979 version of the song is in the Top 1000.The song at position #1612 is a single by a techno band.It was taken from their second singles compilation album "Push the Beat for this Jam (The Singles 98-02)",it reached number 1 in several European countries,including Norway and Ireland, as well as number 1 in Australia in 2002.The song at position #1612 reached number 2 in the UK,their highest ever charting single beating the number 18 peak of "Back in the U.K." in 1996.It has been certified gold by the BPI,selling over 400,000 copies and was the 9th best selling single of 2002 in the UK.
This Oklahoma City rock band places its second of two entries in the Top 7000 at position #1608.In 2006 this song peaked at #3 on the US Billboard Hot 100.The song also peaked at #2 in Canada (Nielsen SoundScan) and peaked at #1 in Australia and New Zealand.
This rock band from Agoura Hills,California,USA places its second of two entries in the Top 7000 at position #1606.In 2004 this song peaked at #2 on the US Billboard Hot 100.The song also peaked at #1 in Canada (Nielsen SoundScan) and peaked at #1 in Italy and Ecuador. Welcome to the Top 1600.
On November 10th,1990 the song at position #1572 by this Long Island,New York diva began a three (3) week run in the #1 position on the Billboard Hot 100.The song at position #1572 is a song written by the person who sings the song and Ben Margulies, and produced by Walter Afanasieff for the singer's self titled debut album. It was released as the album's second single in the third quarter of 1990.It was the first of several adult contemporary-influenced ballads to be released as a single,and its protagonist laments the loss of a lover and confesses that "love takes time" to heal and that her feelings for her ex-lover remain.It became the singer's second number 1 single in the United States and Canada,but was only a moderate success elsewhere.
First appearing solo at #4650 he now reappears at #1566 with his ninth of fourteen (14) appearances in the Top 7000.Three of those fourteen (14) songs are in the Top 1000.
The song at position #1559 by this Aquarian (born February 3,1947 in Astoria,Queens,New York)is the song that Cash Box Magazine ranked as the #3 song for the entire year of 1972.On Christmas Day,1971 the song began a three (3) week run at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.The song also reached the top of the single charts in Canada and Australia.
Many listeners detected innuendo in the lyrics,with the key in its lock symbolizing sexual intercourse,or in phrases like "I go pretty far" and "I've been all around the world". The singer of the song at position #1559 has acknowledged the possibility of reading sexual innuendo in the song:
"This song I wrote in about fifteen minutes one night.I thought it was cute;a kind of
old thirties' tune. I guess a key and a lock have always been Freudian symbols,and
pretty obvious ones at that.There was no deep serious expression behind the song,but
people read things into it.They made up incredible stories as to what the lyrics said
and what the song meant.In some places,it was even banned from the radio.My idea about
songs is that once you write them,you have very little say in their life afterward.It's a lot like having a baby.You conceive a song,deliver it,and then give it as good a start as you can.After that,it's on its own.People will take it any way they want to take it."
The song at position #1551 was the UK's #3 song for the entire year of 1975 and the #25 song for the entire year of 1976 in the UK,spending four (4) weeks at #1 in that country.In Australia it was #13 for the entire year of 1975.
The song at position #1551 is a song written by Gavin Sutherland in 1972 and recorded at various times by Sutherland's group,the "Sutherland Brothers",and then the amalgamated Sutherland Brothers and Quiver.The singer of the song at position #1551 recorded the song at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Muscle Shoals,Alabama for his 1975 album "Atlantic Crossing". The single returned to the UK top ten a year later in 1976 when used as the theme music for the BBC documentary series "Sailor",about HMS Ark Royal,and made a minor chart appearance when re-released as a charity single after the Zeebrugge ferry disaster in 1987.Having been a hit twice, it remains the singer of the song at position #1551's biggest-selling single in the UK.
The music video was shot in New York Harbor in 1975 and credited with a 1978 completion date;it also was one of the first to be aired on MTV when it launched on August 1, 1981.However,despite the singer of the song at position #1551's great popularity in the United States,the song never climbed higher than number 58 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The singer of the song at position #1551 performed the song at the Concert for Diana (a concert in memory of Diana,Princess of Wales,who had died 10 years earlier)at Wembley stadium on July 1,2007.In the British sitcom "Keeping Up Appearances",the band was playing this song as Hyacinth and Richard were trying to make it to the Queen Elizabeth 2.The melody has been used for the chant "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care".
The recording act that sings the song at position #1547 is based out of Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada.The song at position #1547 spent 11 weeks in the #1 Position in Canada (Canoe).The song was the #1 song for the entire year of 2005 in Canada and the #8 song for the entire year of 2005 in the USA (Billboard). The song at position #1547 is off the album titled "All The Right Reasons". This album was the biggest album for the entire year of 2005 in the USA (Billboard) and the fifth biggest for the entire year of 2005 in Canada (Canoe). Further, the album was the #6 album for the entire year of 2005 in Australia (ARIA) and the #3 album for all of 2008 in the UK.
The song at position #1547 is an up-tempo track reminiscent of country music.The music video for the song was filmed in Hanna,Alberta,Canada hometown to the majority of the band.
The music video begins with Chad Kroeger,the video's protagonist,walking along a lonely,sparsely populated street,holding up a photograph of himself and Nickelback's producer Joey Moi (who is referred to in the line "what the hell is on Joey's head?").As the song progresses to the line "This is where I grew up,"
he walks to a rusty mailbox, addressed as number 29025.As he speaks of sneaking out,the camera does not show the house itself but does show a view from the inside looking out at him,possibly suggesting someone else lives there now.He continues walking and comes to Hanna High School, announcing,"This is where I went to school."He and his three other band members enter the gym with their gear and put on a seemingly impromptu concert alone.During the chorus, two band members go to an old junkyard and reminisce about a field where the rest of the band and their girlfriends are partying.Another experiences a similar event near an abandoned train yard,seeing his old girlfriend (most likely Kim, who was "the first girl I kissed") run near the tracks and kiss his younger self.The camera then switches to flashbacks of various people ("I miss that town,I miss the faces") As the video ends,the flashback people get in their cars to go home as the band finishes the song.The video was directed by Nigel Dick.
On October 19th,1965 the song at position #1539 began a four week run at #1 on radio station WABC (at that time the most listened to station in the USA) from New York City.
The song also spent a week at #1 on the Cash Box (USA) singles chart.The song was written by American songwriters Sandy Linzer and Denny Randell. The song was sang by three gals based out of Jamaica,Queens,New York;with Barbara Harris (born August 18, 1945,Elizabeth City,North Carolina) sang lead,Barbara Parritt (born October 1,1944, Wilmington,North Carolina) and June Montiero (born July 1, 1946,Queens,New York).
Linzer and Randell based the melody of the song on the familiar "Minuet in G major" (BWV Anh. 114) from J.S. Bach's Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach.One key difference is that the "Minuet in G major" is written in 3/4 time, whereas the song at position #1539 is arranged in 4/4 time. Although often attributed to Bach himself, the "Minuet in G major" is now believed to have been written by Christian Petzold.
The song at position #1526 is a remake of a song done eighteen (18) years earlier.That 1974 version is a solo recording done by half of the recording act at position #1526.The 1974 song is in the Top 1000.The pair had performed the song at the Live Aid concert in 1985.Recorded live at a concert at Wembley Arena,London on March 25,1991 (EJs 44th birthday) when EJ was a surprise guest for George,the duet became a massive hit on both sides of the Atlantic.It was released later that year and reached number one on the UK singles chart for two weeks in December 1991 and a single week on the US Billboard Hot 100 in February 1992.
The footage used for the music video of the song was taken from a "live" concert in Chicago with 70,000 fans."The video was actually shot over several days," confirms Michael Pagnotta,George's publicist."It was shot in an airline hangar in Burbank where George had been rehearsing; EJ came in for a night and they ran through the song a couple of times.Then the song was filmed in its entirety live in Chicago in the middle of October as part of that Cover to Cover tour,and when EJ came out from the wings,that place went crazy."It appears on EJ's "Love Songs" compilation. The proceeds from the single were divided among ten (10) different charities for children,AIDS and education.
The British group with a female drummer (unique for 1964) at position #1524 topped the UK singles chart for two (2) weeks beginning August 27,1964 and was the the #14 song for the entire year of 1964 in the UK and #8 for the entire year of 1964 in Australia (Jimmy Barnes).
The song at position #1524 was this groups' debut single and biggest hit.It was composed by Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley,who had made contact with the group who records the song at position #1524 (then playing under the name of either The Sherabons or The Sheratons) in the Mildmay Tavern in Islington,England where they played a date.Shortly afterwards the group was granted an audition with indie record producer Joe Meek,and they played the two songs Howard and Blaikley had just given them.Meek
decided to record them there and then.After the recording session the group called themselves "The Honeycombs",but it is unclear who invented this name.
Conspicuous in the song at position #1524 is the prominent part of the drums that carry the song.Their effect was enhanced by making the members of the group stamp their feet on the wooden stairs to the studio.Meek recorded the sound with five microphones he had fixed to the banisters with bicycle clips.For the finishing touch someone beat a tambourine directly onto a microphone.The recording was somewhat sped up,reportedly to Dennis D'Ell,the singer's grief,who regretted that he could not reproduce this sound on stage.
Australian "Vanessa Amorosi" has the song at position #1521 with a song that was popular in Australia at the close of the 20th century in December of 1999.The song at position #1521 was also released internationally and reached the Top 10 in the United Kingdom,and throughout Europe and SouthEast Asia shortly after her Olympics performances,but subsequent releases met with little success.For her service to music she was later awarded the Australian Centenary Medal by the Government of Australia.
The song at position #1521 was an anthemic dance track that reached #6 in Australia (ARIA),and with its positive lyrics,became an unofficial theme song for various cultural events.It remained in the ARIA (Australia) Top 50 Singles Chart for over six months after its release.
The song had four different music videos.The first was released in Australia in 1999 and followed by the Australian Millennium version;the other two for the UK and Germany respectively in 2000.
The artist at position #1510 makes its second of two entries in the Top 7000. It was released on February 15,2000 as the second single from the artist's 1999 solo debut studio album "Unleash The Dragon".This song garnered four Grammy nominations and numerous other awards.The song peaked at number three on the US Billboard Hot 100.The song was a major success worldwide as well,reaching the top ten throughout European charts and reaching number three in the United Kingdom,Netherlands and Denmark.The song also topped the charts in New Zealand.
This native Jewish Philadelphian born on May 5,1922 with her song at position #1506 has the #1 single for the entire year of 1954 on both Cash Box and Billboard Magazine.On May 26,1954 this song at position #1506 began a nine (9) week run at #1 on the Billboard singles chart.The song also spent a week at #1 in the UK and five (5) weeks at the top of the Australian singles chart.This song was written by Edith Lindeman and Carl Stutz. Lindeman was the leisure editor of the Richmond Times-Despatch and Stutz a disc jockey from Richmond,Virginia,USA.
For the singer of the song at position #1506 her UK hit making days were over almost before they had begun.Without any further chart presence there,she became the first of the UK one-hit wonders.
Welcome to the Top 1500.
Born on Christmas Day,1958 in Buckhorn,Ontario,Canada is the singer who has the song at position #1479.The song was written by Canadian songwriters Christopher Ward and David Tyson.This song went to #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks beginning the week ending March 24,1990.This song reached #2 in both the UK (Official Chart Company) and New Zealand singles chart.It also reached #3 in Australia (ARIA). This song was one of four selected to be covered on the CBC Television reality television show "Cover Me Canada".
This is this singer's second and final appearance in the top 7000.
The song at position #1473 by this Englishman (born on January 19,1949 in Batley,Yorkshire died on September 26,2003 in Paris,France) was the #1 song in Australia for the entire year of 1988 according to David Kent & Jimmy Barnes.On September 19th,1988 it began a five (5) week run at #1 on the Australian (ARIA) singles chart.It also reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.The song at position #1473 features one of the most memorable video clips of the 1980s,directed by Terence Donovan.It is the first track on the album Heavy Nova.In 1989,the singer of the song at position #1473 won a second Grammy for the song at position #1473,which was later featured in the Tony Award-winning musical "Contact".Along with "Addicted to Love" and "I Didn't Mean to Turn You On",this song is among the singer of the song at position #1473's most recognized songs,partly because of the iconic '80s music videos by renowned British fashion photographer Terence Donovan, featuring mannequin-like women surrounding the singer of the song at position #1473. The song is also well-known to boxing fans as the entrance music for heavyweight Ross "Simply Irresistible" Kent.
Beginning September 25,2004 the song at position #1459 by this Swedish recording act began a five (5) week run at #1 in the UK (the longest run of any single that year).This song was the #2 song for the entire year of 2004 in the UK.This song is a song performed by a Swedish DJ,producer and a previous member of "Swedish House Mafia".The single received moderate sales success and topped several record charts.The song is partly known for its music video,which features women and one man performing aerobics in a sexually suggestive manner.
The song is a dance music track based on a re-recorded sample of Steve Winwood's 1982 song "Valerie".When the singer of the song at position #1459 presented the track to Winwood,he was so impressed with what the singer of the song at position #1459 had done,he collaborated with him and re-recorded the vocals to fit the track better.The original version of the song was initially mistaken as a release by Together (a collaboration between Thomas Bangalter and DJ Falcon),due to Falcon's use of the song in DJ sets and an advance pressing credited to Falcon and Bangalter.Until January 2005,the singer of the song at position #1459 held the record for selling the lowest number of singles for a number-one chart position in the UK in any particular week:This song sold 23,519 copies when it returned to the top of the charts on October 17,2004.This record was broken once again by himself only a week later on October 24,2004,with the single selling 21,749 copies that week.
The song entered the German singles chart at number one in early November 2004,and also repeated this feat in the Republic of Ireland.In Australia,the song debuted and peaked at #2.The song has been sampled in Chris Brown's song "Pass Out" released on his 2009 album "Graffiti".
The song at position #1454 was the song that Billboard Magazine ranked as the #3 song for the entire year of 1958.The song was popular when Elvis was being drafted.It was Presley's eleventh number-one hit in the United States.The song also peaked at number four on the R&B charts in the USA.
The song at position #1450 was the song that Billboard Magazine ranked as the #1 song for the entire year of 1986.On January 18th,1986 the song began a four (4) week run at the top of the Billboard Hot 100.This song was #1 when the space shuttle Challenger exploded on January 28,1986.
The song at position #1450 is a 1982 song written by Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer Sager and introduced by Rod Stewart for the soundtrack of the film "Night Shift".However, the version at position #1450 is the most popular version.The song was a one-off collaboration released as a charity single in the United Kingdom and the United States in 1985,it was recorded as a benefit for American Foundation for AIDS Research,and raised over US$3 million for that cause.In 1988,the Washington Post wrote,"So working against AIDS,especially after years of raising money for work on many blood-related diseases such as sickle-cell anemia,seemed the right thing to do.'You have to be granite not to want to help people with AIDS,because the devastation that it causes is so painful to see.I was so hurt to see my friend die with such agony,' the singer of the song at position #1450
remembers. 'I am tired of hurting and it does hurt.'"
The song won the performers the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal,as well as Song of the Year for its writers,Bacharach and Bayer Sager.The song at position #1450 also listed at #71 on Billboard's Greatest Songs of all time in 2013.
The song at position #1435 is by Spain's DJ Sammy.He does a cover of a 1985 Bryan Adams song.The version by Bryan Adams is at position #1163.The song in the #1435 position was the second single off the album of the same name and reached number one on the UK Singles Chart and number eight on the US Billboard Hot 100.It re-entered the chart on the week of November 17,2007.This version was sampled by Nina Sky in their 2009 hit,"Beautiful People".On October 28,2009,over seven years after its release,the song at position #1435 was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for sales of over 500,000.
She's climbing a stairway to....
The song at #1421 by this southern California girl band began a four (4) week run at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 beginning December 20,1986 and was the song that Billboard Magazine ranked as the #1 song for the entire year of 1987 on their year-end countdown. Liam Sternberg wrote the song at position #1421 after seeing people on a ferry walking awkwardly to keep their balance,which reminded him of figures in Ancient Egyptian reliefs.The opening lyrics state,"All the old paintings on the tombs/They do the sand dance don't you know".The reference to the sand dance possibly refers to a music hall routine performed by Wilson,Keppel and Betty where Wilson and Keppel danced around in the postures portrayed on the reliefs wearing the fez while Betty watched.
Sternberg offered his song to Toni Basil,who turned it down.David Kahne,the producer of the album "Different Light",took the song to the group who recorded the song at position #1421 who then agreed to record it.Kahne had each member of the group sing the lyrics to determine who would sing each verse,with Susanna Hoffs,Vicki Peterson and Michael Steele each singing lead vocals on a verse in the final version.
The song at position #1420 was by this Chicago band was the the #1 song for the entire year of 1979 in Canada.On December 1st,1979 the song began a six (6) week run at #1 on the Canadian (Ted Kennedy) singles Chart.Further,on December 8th,1979 the song began a two (2) week run at the top of the US Billboard Hot 100.The track also reached #6 in the UK.The song at position #1420 was the lead single from the group who sings the song at position #1420's 1979 triple-platinum album "Cornerstone". The song was this group's first,and only,U.S. number-one single.The song was written by member Dennis DeYoung as a birthday present for his wife Suzanne.The finished track was recorded as a demo with just DeYoung and the groups other members John Panozzo and Chuck Panozzo playing on the track,with DeYoung singing all of the harmonies himself.
The song was not originally intended to be one of the groups tracks,but the group's members James "J.Y" Young and Tommy Shaw convinced DeYoung to put the song on "Cornerstone".As a result,DeYoung's demo was placed on "Cornerstone" with Shaw overdubbing a guitar solo in the song's middle section.VH1 ranked it the second most
"softsational" soft rock song of all time.
Born on January 10,1939 in Jacksonville Beach,Florida,U.S.A. (Died:August 18,2012 at 73 years of age in Silver Lake,Los Angeles,
California,U.S.A.) is the singer at position #1412.This song was written by "Mamas & The Papas" member "John Phillips".In 1967 the
song peaked at #1 in Austria,Belgium,Ireland,Netherlands,Finland,Germany,New Zealand,Norway and the UK.The song reached #2 in Australia
and Canada.The song peaked at #3 on US Record World Magazine,however the song only peaked at #4 on the US Billboard Hot 100.
When the song at position #1402 was on the charts the same song was on the charts but by another artist.That other song is yet to come in the countdown.The version at #1402 reached #1 in the UK.
Welcome to the Top 1400.
The song at position #1399 was written by two (2) college students from Lincoln,Nebraska and was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 when Neil Armstrong landed on the moon.The song spent six (6) weeks on the Top of the Billboard Hot 100 from July 12,1969-August 23,1969.The song was written by Rick Evans in 1964 and originally released on a small regional record label (Truth Records) in 1968.A year later,an Odessa,Texas radio station popularized the disc,which RCA Records quickly picked up for nationwide distribution.
This song (Exordium and Terminus)" opens with the words "In the year 2525,If man is still alive,If woman can survive,They may find...". Subsequent verses pick up the story at 1010-year intervals from 2525 to 6565.Disturbing predictions are given for each selected year.In the year 3535,for example, all of a person's actions,words and thoughts will be pre programmed into a daily pill.Then the pattern as well as the music changes, going up a half step in the key of the song,after two stanzas,first from A flat minor,to A minor,and, then,finally, to B flat minor,and verses for the years 7510,8510 and 9595 follow.The song has no chorus.Amid ominous-sounding orchestral music,the final dated chronological verse is,In the year 9595, I'm kinda wonderin' if Man is gonna be alive.
He's taken everything this old Earth can give, and he ain't put back nothing, whoa-whoa...,
The summary verse concludes:
Now it's been 10,000 years, Man has cried a billion tears,
For what, he never knew. Now man's reign is through.
But through eternal night, The twinkling of starlight.
So very far away, Maybe it's only yesterday.
Then the song effectively "starts over" with the first verse again and then fades out, leaving open the possibility that "we went through this before," and life is now at the start of another cycle.The overriding theme,of a world doomed by its passive acquiescence to and overdependence on its own overdone technologies,struck a resonant chord in millions of people around the world in the late 1960s.The song describes a nightmarish vision of the future as man's technological inventions gradually dehumanize him.It includes a colloquial reference to the Second Coming (In the year 7510,if God's
a-coming, He ought to make it by then.),which echoed the zeitgeist of the Jesus Movement.
The song also references examples of technologies that were not fully developed but were known to the public in 1969,such as robots,as well as future technology that would come into existence long before their prediction in the song,the science of test tube babies and genetic selection by parents of their future children.Such a concept had been explored in a few science fiction novels but had not yet,for the most part,been mentioned in the mainstream media until this song was released in 1969.
It is unusual for a recording artist to have a number one hit and then never have another chart single for the rest of their career.This song actually gave this duo this status twice:they remain the only act to do this on both the U.S. and UK singles charts.
Song at position #1398 by this Philadelphia native born Antonia Christina Basilotta on September 22,1943 went to #1 on the singles chart in the USA,Canada and Australia.It was the #6 song for the entire year of 1982 in Australia (David Kent).The singer of the song at position #1398 has received Platinum and Gold Discs in the USA,United Kingdom, Australia,Canada,Philippines and France.The song at position #1398 was installed in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as one of the groundbreaking singles of the 1980's.She was given tribute at The Choreographers Carnival: Monsters of Hip-Hop Masters of Movement,and in Portraits of America's Great Choreographers.She was featured in the "Museum of Modern Art Calendar of Artists" and on the cover of Dance Magazine.
For the week of November 3rd in 1979 a band from the UK fronted by Robin Scott topped the Billboard Hot 100 with the song at position #1397.The song also topped the singles charts in Australia and Canada.
Robin Scott describes the genesis of the song at position #1397 this way:
I was looking to make a fusion of various styles which somehow would summarize the
last 25 years of pop music.It was a deliberate point I was trying to make.Whereas
rock and roll had created a generation gap,disco was bringing people together on an
enormous scale.That's why I really wanted to make a simple,bland statement,which
was,'All we're talking about basically (is) pop music.
The recording act who sings the song at the #1396 position is the youngest female solo artist to ever have a #1 single on Billboard Magazine's (US) Singles Chart. She was 15 years and one month.The music was written by Frank Pourcel (using the pseudonym J.W. Stole) and Paul Mauriat (using the pseudonym Del Roma).It was adapted by Arthur Altman. The English lyrics were written by Norman Gimbel.The song is a translation of the French language tune "Chariot" recorded a year earlier by Petula Clark,which hit #1 in France and #8 in Belgium and earned Clark a gold record. (Clark's Italian and German recordings of the song were also major hits.)
The song is featured prominently at the end of the 1992 film Sister Act, where it was performed by the nuns' chorus for the Pope.
The song at position #1384 spent four (4) weeks at #1 on the US Billboard (USA) Hot 100,five (5) weeks at #1 on Cash Box (USA) Magazine,two (2) weeks at #1 in both the UK & Canada and nine (9) weeks at #1 in Australia.The song at position #1384 was the #1 single for the entire year of 1985 on Cash Box Magazine (USA) and the #1 single for the entire year of 1985 in Australia.
The song at position #1384 is a charity single originally recorded by a supergroup in 1985.The song at position #1384 was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie,
and co-produced by Quincy Jones and Michael Omartian for the album of the same name. Following Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" project in the UK,an idea for the creation of an American benefit single for African famine relief came from activist Harry Belafonte (a Pisces),who along with fundraiser Ken Kragen,was instrumental in bringing the vision to reality.Several musicians were contacted by the pair,before Jackson and Richie were assigned the task of writing the song.Following several months of working together,the duo completed the writing of the song at position #1384 one night before the song's first recording session,in early 1985.The last recording session for the song was held on January 28,1985.The historic event brought together some of the most famous artists in the music industry at the time.
The song in the #1378 position recorded by a recording act who was born on April 1st,
1932 in El Paso,Texas (died:December 28,2016 in LA) was the song that Cash Box Magazine (US) ranked as the #1 song for the entire year of 1957. The song in the #1378 position is a popular song with music by Jay Livingston and lyrics by Ray Evans.It was published in 1957 and debuted in the film "Tammy And The Bachelor".It was nominated for the 1957 Academy Award for Best Original Song.
Olivia Newton-John has stated that her performance of "Hopelessly Devoted to You" in the movie Grease is inspired by the singer of the song at position #1378's performance of the song at position #1378 in the movie "Tammy and the Bachelor".
The song at position #1377 was Cash Box Magazine's #1 single for the entire year of 1963.The song at position #1377 is a popular song written by Kal Mann (under the pseudonym Jon Sheldon) and Billy Strange.An instrumental version was first recorded by The Champs in 1961.
A band from Glasgow,Scotland makes their one and only appearance in the top 7000 at position #1373.The band consisted of Geoff and Chris Martyn,Andy Dunlop and Neil Primrose.The song is off the album titled "The Man Who", an album that peaked at #1 on the UK album charts for nine (9) non-consecutive weeks between 1999 and 2000.
The song at position #1358 is a song by a Nashville,Tennessee,USA rock band and was the first single released from their 2010 album "Come Around Sundown".The song,along with its accompanying music video,premiered on September 8,2010 on the bands' website. The following day,it received its official radio premiere on Australian radio and debuted on US Alternative Radio on September 13.The song was released on US iTunes on September 14 and released at a later date in remaining countries.
The song was nominated for the 53rd Grammy Awards in two categories: Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals and Best Rock Song.The song is used in the films "I Am Number Four" and "Boyhood".
The song peaked at #5 in Ireland,peaked at #7 in the UK,peaked at #3 on the US Billboard Hot Rock Songs chart and peaked at #1 on the US Billboard Alternative Songs chart.
The song in #1355 position,which was recorded by a singer who was born on January 6th,1940 in Washington,D.C.,was radio station WABC in New York City's #1 song for the entire year of 1975.The song at position #1355 also peaked at #9 on the Australian Singles Chart (Kent Music Report) and #3 in the UK.
While in New York City to make an album,the singer of the song at position #1355 was inspired to record this song after his music partner,Charles Kipps,watched patrons do an elegant dance called "the hustle" at the Adam's Apple club.The sessions were done at New York's Media Sound with pianist McCoy,bassist Gordon Edwards,drummers Steve Gadd and Rick Marotta,keyboardist Richard Tee,guitarists Eric Gale and John Tropea,and orchestra leader Gene Orloff.Producer Hugo Peretti brought in piccolo player Philip Bodner to play the lead melody.
The song in the #1341 position performed by this Los Angeles pop-rock vocal trio was the #1 single for the entire year of 1971 in Canada and the #1 single for the entire year of 1971 according to Cash Box (US),Billboard (US) and Record World (US) Magazines.
The song in the #1341 position was written by Hoyt Axton. Some of the words are nonsensical.Axton wanted to convince his record producers to record a new melody he had written and the producers asked him to sing any words to the tune.
The singers of the song in the #1341 position never really wanted to record the song but they needed one last track for their "Naturally" album. The group had been on an overseas tour when that album was released and were greatly surprised to hear that the song they didn't want to record ended up being a big hit.
The song at position #1329 is a rhythm and blues-style song written and recorded by the American jazz and jump blues bandleader/pianist Buddy Johnson and His Orchestra in 1953.Called an "R&B anthem",the song has a big-band arrangement.The Rolling Stones covered the song in 2016 for their album Blue & Lonesome, for which it was released as the lead single on October 6,2016.The album went to #1 for the week of December 9,2016 in the UK.The single hit #1 on the US Billboard Digital Blues Songs Chart on October 18,2016.
The song at position #1327 topped the Billboard Hot 100 for the week of June 9,1990 and was the song that Billboard Magazine (USA) ranked as the #1 song for the entire year of 1990.The song won the Billboard Music Award for Hot 100 Single of the Year for 1990.At the Grammy Awards of 1991,the song received a nomination for Song of the Year.This song also peaked at number 6 on the UK Singles Chart.
Born September 14,1976 in Kingstown,Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is a Vincentian soca artist,who has the song at position #1326.This is one and only appearance in the Top 7000.It was the lead single from his self-titled debut album.The song was originally a soca ballad recorded in 2002 and released in 2003,remade into a dance hit for the US release.The song peaked at #4 on the US Billboard Hot 100,#3 on the ARIA singles chart in Australia,#2 in the UK (OCC Chart) and #1 in Denmark.
The song at position #1318 is a remake of a song that charted twenty-two (22) years earlier.The 1972 version is yet to come in the countdown.
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Born Anthony Jeffries on November 19th,1971 in Detroit. This R&B singer in the #1294 position has a song at that position that I calculated from Billboard Magazine (US) as the second (2nd) biggest single for the entire year of 1996.The song was from the singer of the song at position #1294's 1996 debut album "Words" and was released as his debut single.The singer of the song at position #1294 received a Grammy nomination for this song in 1997 for Best Pop Male Vocal Performance.He also was nominated that year for Best New Artist;but he lost to LeAnn Rimes.
A Pasadena,California rock band whose lead singer was born on October 10th,1955 in Bloomington,Indiana has the song at position #1291.This song spent five weeks at #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 beginning the week ending February 25th,1964.The song also peaked at #1 in Canada and Italy.It peaked at #2 in Ireland and Australia.
This song is the band's most popular and instantly recognizable composition,perhaps because its sound embodies the key aspects of both of the two genres of popular music most associated with the 1980s in America: synth-driven pop and "arena"-style metal. It was inspired by famed martial artist Benny Urquidez, of whom the lead singer was a student. The song changed the future and style of this group from being a predominantly hard rock band to one of more radio-oriented popular music.
Other members of this group included Michael Anthony,Alex and Eddie Van Halen who was married to actress Valerie Bertinelli.In 1985 Sammy Hagar would replace the lead singer of the group on this song.
The song by JLo at position #1290 was spending four (4) weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 on Tuesday,September 11th,2001.The song at position #1290 is the name of two songs by JLo.One is the song taken from her second studio album, J.Lo (2001), and the other is "I'm Real (Murder Remix)",which features rapper Ja Rule of The Inc. Records (formerly known as Murder Inc. Records),included on the special edition of J.Lo, Lopez's remix album, J to tha L-O!: The Remixes (2002), and Ja Rule's third studio album,Pain Is Love (2001). The remix contains an interpolation of the Mary Jane Girls' 1983 song "All Night Long" written by Rick James.Both versions reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 on September 8, 2001.Ja Rule had been brought in after the moderate U.S. performance of "Play", the second single from J.Lo. Singer Ashanti (also on The Inc.) also provided backing vocals on the Murder Remix.The two songs are essentially different songs with the same title.
Despite the success of "I'm Real", there was a bit of controversy over the use of the single's sample and the structure of the song.The song contains an uncredited sample from Yellow Magic Orchestra's 1978 version of Martin Denny's 1959 song "Firecracker" (while the remix on the other hand officially interpolates the Mary Jane Girls' 1983 song "All Night Long").There have been reports that the "Firecracker" sample was originally planned to be used for Mariah Carey's "Loverboy". According to the music publisher of "Firecracker", Carey called to license a sample of the song which had never been sampled before and within a month Lopez called to do the same. Carey felt that former husband and music executive at Sony Music (Columbia Records), Tommy Mottola, was interfering with her career by arranging for the sample to go to Lopez. Upset by the conduct of Lopez and her ex-husband, Carey featured a reference to the song on her single "Loverboy",her first single released by her then-record company, Virgin Records.The verse can be heard in Da Brat's rap section,where she sings, "Hate on me, much as you want to, you can't do what the fuck I do, bitches be, emulating me daily" over the melody of "Firecracker".The word "bitch" was used in the song, but when the song aired on the radio, the word "bitch" was deleted and the song was cut down to three minutes and fifteen seconds long.
Irv Gotti,who produced the remix of "I'm Real" featuring Ja Rule, openly admitted during an interview with XXL magazine that Mottola contacted him with instructions to create a song that sounded exactly like a song he had made with Carey for the Glitter soundtrack entitled "If We" also featuring Ja Rule.
Furthermore,some in the African American community were outraged by Lopez's use of the word "nigga" in the Murder Remix.
The song at position #1286 by this North Carolina native (born February 10,1937) would be covered by a New York City recording act twenty-three (23) years later and is yet to come in this countdown. The 1996 version of the song is at position #188 of this list.
After singer/songwriter Lori Lieberman saw Don McLean singing his composition "Empty Chairs" in concert,she wrote a poem titled "Killing Me Softly with His Blues". It became the basis for the song written by Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox.Lori Lieberman was the first to record Fox and Gimbel's song,in 1971.However,the version at position #1286 was much more popular. The song at position #1286 won three Grammy Awards:Song of the Year,Record of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Female Performer.In 1999 the song at position #1286's version was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
The song at position #1272 spent seven (7) weeks at #1 in the UK beginning July 22nd,1962.The music was written by Victor Schertzinger, the lyrics by Johnny Mercer.The song was published in 1941.
The song was one of several introduced in the movie "The Fleet's In" (1942).It was sung in the film by Dorothy Lamour (with harmony by Bob Eberly and Helen O'Connell and featuring the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra) and is one of the songs most associated with the singer/actress. Schertzinger, who co-wrote all the film's songs with Mercer, was also the director of the movie.
The singer at position #1272 covered the song in a yodeling country-music style in 1962. The song peaked at #5 on the US Billboard Hot 100 for two (2) weeks beginning the week ending October 13th,1962.
The singer of the song at position #1272 was born on November 30,1937 in Coundon,Coventry,Warwickshire,England but raised in Dural,New South Wales,Australia.
In the UK he had two other number ones:"Lovesick Blues" & "The Wayward Wind". He was the first UK-based person to reach number one three times in the UK in succession.The only other person to have done so at that point was Elvis Presley.
Born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie on November 3rd,1948 in in Lennoxtown,East Dunbartonshire,Scotland(grew up in Dennistoun,Glasgow)is the singer of the song at position #1271.On the week ending October 21st,1967 this song began spending five weeks at #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100.This song was the title track from a motion picture starring "Sidney Poitier".The song was Billboard Magazine and New York City radio station WABC's #1 single for the entire year of 1967.Canada's RPM Magazine put the song at No.2 for the entire year 1967.In fact,the song holds the distinction of being the only song by a British artist to hit No.1 on the US charts and not even chart in the UK, where it only appeared as a B-side to "Let's Pretend" (released in the UK on 23rd June 1967), which reached No.11 on the UK singles chart.
A song that spent eight (8) weeks at #1 on Billboard Magazine by a twenty-five (25) year old Philadelphian (born August 10,1928) from 1954 is the song that occupies the #1255 position.The song also spent four (4) weeks at #1 in Australia.The song at position #1255 also made the UK Top 10.
The Song at position #1255 is a German song about a beloved clown father,written by Swiss composer Paul Burkhard in 1939 or a musical called Der Schwarze Hecht (reproduced in 1950 as Feuerwerk (Fireworks),lyrics by Erik Charell,Jorg Amstein and Robert Gilbert. The song has been performed and recorded by numerous artists since then,including Alan Breeze,Billy Cotton,Billy Vaughn,Connie Francis,The Everly Brothers,Harry James,Lys Assia,Malcolm Vaughan,Muriel Smith,Ray Anthony & his Orchestra,Russ Morgan & his Orchestra,The Beverley Sisters,Bjork (on Gling-Glo, as Pabbi minn) and many others.Under the original German title,an instrumental version by trumpeter Eddie Calvert topped the UK Singles Chart in 1954,(see the song at position #1138 on this list) and was also a Top 10 hit in the U.S.It was adapted into English by John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons under the title of the Song at position #1255.Daddy!!!
The song at position #1253 by these three sexy Brits (Natasha Maria Hamilton:DOB 7/17/82 in Liverpool,England,Elizabeth Margaret McClarnon:DOB 4/10/81 in Liverpool, England and Jenny Frost:DOB 2/22/78 in Prestwich,Greater Manchester,England) is a remake of a song performed by a Jamaican group in 1967 then covered in 1981 by a New York based new wave group.The 1981 version is in a higher position on this list.The song at position #1253 went to #1 in the UK beginning September 3,2002.The song was #10 in the UK for the entire year of 2002 and #8 for the entire year of 2002 in the land "Down Under".It also went to #1 in New Zealand.
The song at position #1253 was originally written by John Holt and performed by The Paragons in 1967 with John Holt as lead singer.Although originally released as an A-side in Jamaica on the Treasure Isle label it was relegated to the B-side of the "Only a Smile" single for UK release a few months later.The song features the violin of "White Rum" Raymond and was popular in Jamaica and became popular amongst West Indians and skinheads in the UK when a deejay version by U-Roy was released in 1971.The song went mainly unnoticed in the rest of the world until it was rediscovered in 1980 when it became a US/UK no.1 hit for the band who has the version of this song that is in the Top 1000.
The song in the #1229 position recorded by this female who was born on May 3rd,1950 in Pontardawe,Wales was the #1 song for the entire year of 1968 in the UK.
The song in the #1229 position is a song credited to Gene Raskin,who put English lyrics to the Russian song "Dorogoi dlinnoyu". "By the long road"), written by Boris Fomin (1900-1948) with words by the poet Konstantin Podrevskii.It deals with reminiscence upon youth and romantic idealism.The Georgian Tamara Tsereteli (1900-1968) in 1925 and Alexander Vertinsky in 1926 made what were probably the earliest recordings of the song.
The melody of the song in the #1229 position is instantly recognizable to tens of millions of Brazilians,although most of them are probably wholly unaware of its origins or original lyrics and title;it was used for years by Brazilian TV host Silvio Santos in his Show de Calouros,a Gong Show-like talent show,with the lyrics changed to introduce the judges and host of the show.
The song in the #1223 position by this New York City Doo Wop/R&B group is the song that Cash Box Magazine (US)ranked as the #3 song for the entire year of 1960.The song also went to #1 on the Australian weekly singles chart (David Kent/Jimmy Barnes).
This single was produced by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller,two noted American music producers who at the time had an apprentice relationship with a then-unknown Phil Spector.Although he was working with Lieber and Stoller at the time,it is unknown whether Spector assisted with the production of this record;however,many Spector fans have noticed similarities between this record and other music he would eventually produce on his own.
In the song,the narrator tells his lover she is free to mingle and socialize throughout the evening,but to make sure to save him one dance at the end of the night.The song is likely based on the personal experience of songwriter Pomus,who had polio and used crutches to get around and could not dance.His wife,however,was a Broadway actress and dancer.The song gives his perspective of plaintively telling his wife to have fun dancing,but reminds her who will be taking her home and "in whose arms you're gonna be." The personnel for the group who sings the song at position #932 at the time of this recording were:Bucky Pizzarelli,Allan Hanlon (guitar),Lloyd Trotman (bass),Gary Chester (drums).
Born Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson On October 25,1984 in Santa Barbara,California is the singer who has the song at position number 1205.She has had a total of nine number ones on the US Billboard Hot 100 and this is one of them. This song at position #1205 is title track to the second album in US Billboard chart history to have five number ones singles from one album (after Michael Jackson's 1987 album "Bad"),the first by a female to achieve this milestone and the third album in Billboard history to produce eight top five hits.
The song at position #1202 by this Cuban bandleader and composer (born December 11,1916 in Matanzas,Cuba died September 14,1989 in Mexico City) was Billboard Magazine's #1 single for the entire year of 1955 and spent ten (10) weeks at the top of the Billboard singles chart.It was knocked out of #1 by "Bill Haley & The Comets" "Rock Around The Clock".
Cerezo rosa", or the song at position #1202 or "Gummy Mambo" is the English version of "Cerisier rose et pommier blanc",a popular song with music by Louiguy written in 1950. French lyrics to the song by Jacques Larue and English lyrics by Mack David both exist and recordings of both have been quite popular.
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A Pittsburgh inter-racial ensemble had a #1 single on the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1961.That song is located at position #1195.This song also peaked at #1 in the UK,New Zealand and Canada.The song reached #1 in Belgium and Norway.
A singer born in Port Arthur,Texas,U.S.A. is occupying the #1191 position.This is his second of two entries in the Top 7000.In 1960 this song peaked at #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1960.The song is a teenage tragedy song written by Jiles Perry Richardson (a.k.a. The Big Bopper).
This Texas duo at position #1188 make their one and only entry in the Top 7000.This song spent three (3) weeks at #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1963.
The artist who performs the song in the #1153 position was born on January 28th,1929 in Pensford,Somerset,England. The song in the #1153 position is the song that Billboard Magazine ranked as the #1 song for the entire year of 1962.The song was also the #1 song for the entire year of 1962 in the UK.
The song in the #1153 position is a piece for clarinet written by the artist who performs the song in the #1153 position for his young daughter and originally named Jenny after her.It was subsequently used as the theme tune of a BBC TV drama serial for young people that was also called the same title as the song in the #1153 position.
The track,performed by the artist who performs the song in the #1153 position with backing by the Leon Young String Chorale,was released as a single on Columbia Records DB 4750 in October 1961,with the label of the single openly proclaiming "Theme from the BBC TV. Series".The B-side was "Take My Lips".The single became a phenomenal success,topping the NME singles chart and spending nearly a year on the Record Retailer Top 50.In the UK it is the biggest-selling instrumental single of all time,and appears at #58 (fifty-eight) in the official UK list of best-selling singles issued in 2002.
On May 26, 1962, the song in the #1153 position became the first British recording to reach number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 where it was issued by Atlantic Records on the Atco label,but it was quickly followed,on December 22,by The Tornados' "Telstar", another instrumental.In the pre-rock era,Vera Lynn's "Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart" had reached #1 in 1952,on the shorter "Best Sellers In Stores" survey. After "Telstar",the next British performers to top the U.S. charts were The Beatles,with their first Capitol Records single "I Want to Hold Your Hand".The song in the #858 position became the second of three "one hit wonders" named pop single of the year by Billboard (the others being 1958's "Volare (Nel Blu Di Pinto Di Blu)" by Domenico Modugno and 2006's "Bad Day" by Daniel Powter.
In May 1969,the crew of Apollo 10 took the song in the #1153 position on their mission to the moon.Gene Cernan,a member of the crew,included the tune on a cassette tape used in the command module of the Apollo spacecraft.The composition has been covered by many other artists,most prominently a vocal version by Andy Williams,a group vocal version by The Drifters,and a soprano sax smooth jazz adaptation by Kenny G.It was also sampled (with a writer's credit for Bilk) on "A Melody From a Past Life Keeps Pulling Me Back" by The KLF on their album Chill Out,and on the track "Music For Libraries" by Way Out West.The song was also featured in the soundtrack to Mr. Holland's Opus,as well as in the 1988 film,"Red Heat",the 1998 romantic comedy "There's Something About Mary" and the 2001 movie "The Majestic".
The song was playing in the scene in the 2008 Season 2 finale of Mad Men when Betty Draper was having a drink in a bar.The song is used as the theme tune to BBC Radio 4 sketch show That Mitchell and Webb Sound.
The song at position #1150 is a song by a Norwegian musical duo (their only entry in the Top 7000). Produced by William Wiik Larsen ("Will IDAP"),the song was initially released as a digital download single in Norway on April 12,2013,credited to the duo's previous name Envy,and became a hit in various nordic countries,including Norway,Sweden,Denmark and Finland.
Upon being released internationally and following the duo's name change,the song attained commercial success in various other countries,reaching number one in Canada,New Zealand,the United Kingdom and the top five in Australia and the United States,among other nations.
The song at position #1136 by this Texan was both Billboard and Cash Box (both USA) Magazine's #4 song for the entire year of 1964 in both magazine's year-end countdowns.
The song at position #1136 was recorded on the Monument Records label in Nashville, Tennessee,it was written by the singer of the song at position #1136 and Bill Dees.The song spent three weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100.The song also went to #1 in the UK,Canada and Australia.The best-known guitar performance was by Wayne Moss later of Barefoot Jerry.Although the official recording appeared in 1964,the Beatles recalled the singer of the song at position #1136's having written and performed the song during a mid-1963 tour of the UK which included both acts.
The singer of the song at position #1136 posthumously won the 1991 Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for his live recording of the song on his HBO television special "Roy Orbison and Friends",A Black and White Night.In 1999,the song was honored with a Grammy Hall of Fame Award and was named one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.In 2004,Rolling Stone magazine ranked it #222 on their list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time."
The song at position #1124 is one of four songs that went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 where all the words to the song were in a foreign language.
The song also went to #1 on the singles charts in Australia,France,Ireland,Italy,New Zealand,the UK. Switzerland and Canada. It also reached #2 in the Netherlands,#3 in Sweden and #4 in Norway.
Two native New Yorkers of Italian extraction are at position #1117.The song is a show tune from the 1937 Rodgers and Hart musical "Babes In Arms",in which it was introduced by former child star Mitzi Green.This song is a spoof of New York high society and its strict etiquette (the first line of the verse is "I get too hungry for dinner at eight...") and phony social pretensions.It has become a popular music standard.
The song appears in the film version of "Babes In Arms" (1939) in an instrumental version only.
The two native New Yorkers at position #1117 recorded a version of this song for the male singer's 2011 album Duets II.The artist praised the female's performance in the song,saying that she is a real "jazz lady". They performed the song live on ABC's Thanksgiving special dedicated to,written,directed,produced and hosted by the female singer at position #1117.They were the opening number,singing next to an old piano in a casual obscure room.The male singer said, "I see in the female a touch of theatrical genius,she is very creative and very productive,I think as time goes on she might be America's Picasso.I think she's going to become as big as Elvis Presley."The song,even though not officially released,got to enter the Japan Hot 100 chart,where it managed to reach the top 40.It also entered the top 200 extension to the UK Singles Chart.
The recording act at #1115 has nine (9) songs in the Top 7000.Two song are in the Top 500 and one song is in the Top 200.He was born John Royce Mathis on September 30,1935 in Gilmer,Texas and raised in San Francisco.He is the the fourth (4th) of seven (7) children to Clem Mathis and his wife,Mildred Boyd,and is of both African-American and Caucasian ancestry.One of the last in a long line of traditional male vocalists who emerged before the 1960s,he concentrated on romantic jazz and pop standards for the adult contemporary audience through to the 1980s.Tarting his career with a flurry of singles of standards,he became more popular as an album artist,with several dozen of his albums achieving gold or platinum status,and over 60 making the Billboard charts. According to the Recording Industry Association of America,he has sales of over 17 million certified units in the United States.According to British recordings chart historian and music writer Paul Gambaccini,he has recorded over 130 albums and sold more than 180 million records worldwide.
A Detroit native with her one and only entry in the Top 7000 occupies position #1114.
The song tells a story which is open to a number of interpretations-based on the lyrics in the most commonly heard version of the song,which is the seven-inch single,the story is of a recently married woman whose husband is incapable of loving her (even though he tried),resulting in the couple sleeping in separate
rooms on their honeymoon,to her dismay.It would appear that the marriage ended in the husband's abandoning his bride,
leaving her with no more than the "band of gold" of the title (and the dreams she invested in it).Allusions to the
husband either being impotent or gay have been suggested as the cause of the breakdown of the relationship.Robert Christgau,
writing in The Village Voice, alluded to the song as being "about wedding-night impotence";Steve Huey's article on Allmusic.com
also deciphers the song as being about the man being impotent-"being unable to perform".
An earlier studio recorded version of the song includes some lyrics which were cut from the seven-inch single,which reveal
the story as somewhat different.The couple were young,the girl was either a virgin or sexually inexperienced.She was still
living at home ("You took me from the shelter of my mother"),the boy was her first boyfriend ("I had never known or loved
any other"),and the relationship was probably unconsummated ("and love me like you tried before").The couple rush into
marriage and the relationship crashes on the wedding night,when the woman rejects her groom's advance ("And the night I turned you away") emotionally wounding him, resulting in him leaving her.After the hurt she had caused,they spend their
wedding night in separate rooms.She then expresses her regret at her mistake ("And the dream of what love could be,
if you were still here with me").
In 1970 the song only peaked at #3 on the US Billboard Hot 100 but peaked at #2 on US Cash Box Magazine's weekly singles chart
and at #2 on Canada's RPM weekly singles chart.The song went all the way to #1 on the US Record World weekly singles chart.
While,the song also went to #1 in the UK and Ireland.
Welcome to the Top 1100.
The song in the #1098 position was the song that Billboard (US) Magazine ranked as the #1 song for the entire year of 1975.The song reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the week ending June 21,1975 and remained in the top position for four weeks.The recording also received a Grammy Award for Record of the Year.
The song in the #816 position was written by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield in 1973.It was first released in the United Kingdom on Sedaka's 1973 LP The Tra-La Days Are Over,which was never released in the U.S.The song arrived in the U.S. the following year when it appeared on Sedaka's compilation album "Sedaka's Back".Although Sedaka (and Wilson Pickett) recorded the song earlier in the 1970s,it is best remembered for the subsequent 1975 cover version by the recording act who sings the song in the #1098 position. It was their debut single.The recording act who sings the song in the #1098 position acknowledged Sedaka's authorship as well as his mid-1970s comeback by working the phrase "Sedaka is back" into the song's fadeout.The Spanish version of the song, "Por Amor Viviremos",was released as well during the summer of 1975 and charted as high as number 49 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.The song was released as the only single from the LP "Por Amor Viviremos" which was the same LP as "Love Will Keep Us Together",only re recorded entirely in Spanish.In 1976,The Tubes covered the song in the #1098 position with a live show track on the album "T.R.A.S.H.".In the 1978 Mae West movie Sextette,West and Timothy Dalton cover the tune in a Disco style.In 1983,The "Circle Jerks" covered the song in the #1098 position as one of the six cover versions on "Golden Shower of Hits (Jerks on 45)",which appears on their third album with the same title.The song was also covered by Nickelback in 2001 for the Andrew Denton Breakfast Show Musical Challenge on Sydney,Australia's version of radio station Triple M,and was later added as a bonus track on some versions of their 2003 album "The Long Road".
In 1999,French singer "Sheila",who is best known internationally as Sheila B. Devotion ('Spacer' 1979),covered the song for her album 'Dense'.The song was released as a cd single and 12 inch with remixes in the Summer of 2000 (EMI France).The song
was featured on the video game Karaoke Revolution Presents:American Idol.The song was also featured as the opening of film "Get Over It" starring Kirsten Dunst.The song appears in Starsky and Hutch (2004),Sextette (1978) and House Arrest (1996).
The song at position #1096 is a remake of a song done twenty years (20) earlier. The 1984 version of the song is in the Top 500 and is one of the biggest selling records of-all time in the UK. The 1984 version has some of the same and some different artists from the 2004 version.Bono,Paul McCartney and George Michael were the only artists from the original song who had been asked back to lend their voices to the 2004 song,Some of the lyrics were added in the 2004 version.
The song at position #1096 had Midge Ure as an organizer,Nigel Godrich (Radiohead, Travis) and Bob Geldof as producers.While Damon Albarn (Blur) reportedly served tea and biscuits to the participants.Danny Goffey of Supergrass played drums,Thom Yorke played piano and Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead) played guitar,Sir Paul McCartney on bass guitar
along with Francis Healy,Andy Dunlop & Dougie Payne of Travis on bass guitar.Also on guitar was Justin Hawkins (The Darkness),Dan Hawkins (The Darkness) and Charlie Simpson of "Busted". Vocals were by Bono (U2),Daniel Bedingfield,Natasha Bedingfield, Vishal Das,Busted,Chris Martin (Coldplay),Dido-performed separately from a studio in Melbourne,Dizzee Rascal-the only artist to add lyrics to the song,Ms Dynamite,Skye Edwards (Morcheeba),Estelle,Neil Hannon (The Divine Comedy),Jamelia,Tom Chaplin (Keane),Tim Rice-Oxley (Keane),Beverley Knight,Lemar,Shaznay Lewis (formerly of "All Saints"),Katie Melua.Roisin Murphy (Moloko),Feeder,Snow Patrol,Rachel Stevens,Joss Stone,Sugababes,The Thrills,Turin Brakes,Robbie Williams-performed separately from a studio in Los Angeles,Will Young and Francis Healy of "Travis".
A song by a Philadelphia group at position #1090 in the Top 7000 is this group's one and only song in the Top 7000.The song was written by Artie Singer,John Medora and David White.The song was released in the fall of 1957 and reached number one on the
US Billboard Magazine's primary weekly singles chart on January 6,1958 spending seven (7) weeks there,becoming one of the top-selling singles of 1958.The song also hit number one on the R&B Best Sellers list.Somewhat more surprisingly,the record reached #3 on the Music Vendor country charts.It was also a big hit elsewhere,which included a number 3 placing on the UK charts.
The song is notable for combining several of the most popular formulas in 1950s rock'n'roll,the twelve-bar blues,boogie-woogie piano,and the 50s progression.
The song at position #1082 was released as the lead single from the group's fourth studio album "Taller In More Ways" (2005).Composed by Dallas Austin and the recording act,it was inspired by an infatuation that group member Keisha Buchanan developed
with another artist.Musically,the song is an electro pop and R&B song with various computer effects.
The song at position #1082 on October 2,2005 began a three week run at #1 on the UK (OCC) weekly single charts.Along with the UK the single peaked at number one in Austria,Ireland,New Zealand and the United Kingdom and reached the top
five across Europe and in Australia. It was nominated for Best British Single at the 2006 Brit Awards.
On December 31,2005 the song at position #1080 began a four (4) week run at the Top of the UK Singles chart.This was the eighth (8th) biggest song for the entire year of 2006 in the UK.The singer of the song at position #1080 was the winner of the second series of X Factor.The song was first heard in the final of the aforementioned series,where it was performed by both him and X Factor runner up,Andy Abraham.
The single was rush-released on December 21 2005,which was a Wednesday.This is unusual as most new singles are released on a Monday to gain maximum sales for the UK Singles Chart the following Sunday.The late release was due to the fact that he was only chosen as the artist on the night of Saturday December 17,and delaying release until the next week would mean the song would not be a contender for the Christmas number one.The song sold 742,180 copies in this five-day period,which was more than enough to secure the 2005 Christmas number one,taking over from Nizlopi.It was the second biggest selling single of 2005 in the UK,and as of 2006,it is the 69th biggest selling single in the UK. To date, it has sold 1.3 million copies in the UK.
The song at position #1076 went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 but so did the original version twenty-two years earlier.The 1970 version of the song at Position #1076 is in the Top 1000.The singer of the song at position #1076 had included this song as a last-minute addition to her MTV Unplugged setlist,after she had been informed that most acts on the show commonly perform at least one cover.This song was the sixth track on her MTV Unplugged special,taped on March 16,1992.It was performed as a romantic duet,with her singing Michael Jackson's lines and R&B singer Trey Lorenz singing Jermaine Jackson's lines.The program and resulting MTV Unplugged album were produced by her and Walter Afanasieff,who played the piano for the performance.
This song was nominated for the 1993 Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals,losing to Boyz II Men with the song in the top 500 of this countdown. The music video to the song at position #1076,directed by Larry Jordan,was compiled from footage of the Long Island singer at position 1076's MTV Unplugged appearance.
During Michael Jackson's memorial service on July 7,2009,the singer at position #1076 and Lorenz sang their rendition of the song in tribute to Jackson.
The song at position #1066 by this Pennsylvania Sagittarian was the song that Billboard Magazine ranked as #9 for the entire year of 2009.It was #2 for the entire year of 2009 in Canada and ranked at #17 for all of 2009 in Australia (ARIA).The song at position #1066 was co-written by the singer of the song at position #1066 and Liz Rose and produced by Nathan Chapman with the singer of The song at position #1066's aid.It was released by Big Machine Records as the third single from the singer's second studio album titled "Fearless".The singer of the song at position #1066 was inspired to write this song after overhearing a male friend of hers arguing with his girlfriend through phone call;she continued to develop a storyline afterward.The song contains many pop music elements and its lyrics have the singer of The song at position #1066 desiring an out-of-reach love interest.
Critical reception for the song at position #1066 was average to mixed.At the 52nd Grammy Awards,the song received nominations for the Grammy Awards for Song of the Year,Record of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.The song became the singer of the song at position #1066's best-charting single on the Billboard Hot 100 to date and gained the largest crossover radio audience since Faith Hill's "Breathe" did in 2000.The single was certified double-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
The song's accompanying music video was directed by Roman White.The video features the singer of the song at position #1066 portraying two characters,a nerd (the protagonist) and a popular girl (the antagonist),while American actor Lucas Till acts as the male lead.The protagonist is in love with Till's character but does not tell him;his girlfriend,the antagonist,betrays him and does not like the protagonist.In the conclusion,the singer of the song at position #106,as the nerd,and Till reveal their love to each other and kiss.The video won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards,but during her acceptance speech,rapper Kanye West interrupted,protesting in support of Beyonce Knowles.The incident caused a reaction in the media,with most people coming to the singer of the song at position #1066's defense.The song was performed live at numerous venues,including the 2009-10 Fearless Tour,where it was the opening number.It was covered by various artists, including Butch Walker.
On June 10,1984 the song at position #1052 went to #1 for 9 weeks in the UK.It is the group's second (2) of three (3) songs in the Top 7000.
The song was released in the UK by ZTT Records.The song was later included on the album "Welcome To The Pleasuredome".Presenting a nihilistic,gleeful lyric expressing enthusiasm for nuclear war,it juxtaposes a relentless pounding bass line and guitar riff inspired by American funk and R&B pop with influences of Russian classical music,in an opulent arrangement produced by Trevor Horn.
The UK pop/rock band based out of London at position #1037 places six (6) songs in the Top 7000.One song is in the Top 1000.
The song at position #1032 by this UK R&B recording act was Canada's #1 single for the entire year of 1990.The song at position #1032 appeared on the group who sings the song at position #1032's debut album "Club Classics Vol. One ("Keep on Movin'" in the United States) and was released as its second single in 1989. The song at position #1032 was one of two songs on the album featuring British R&B singer Caron Wheeler and gained success in both the UK and in the U.S.
The album version of the song was an a cappella which was remixed and re-recorded before being released as a single.Two new versions were produced:the first taking the original recording with instrumentation added,and the second was a reworking of the song with new lyrics and chorus (also adding "However Do You Want Me" to the title).It was this second version that became most popular.
The song in the #1023 position,recorded by this Winnipeg,Manitoba, Canada rock band was the #1 song for the entire year of 1974 in Canada.It also reached the #1 position on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart the week of November 9,1974 and the single won the Juno Award for best-selling single of 1974.
This is a rock song written by Randy Bachman from the album "Not Fragile". It was released as a single in 1974 with an instrumental track "Free Wheelin'" as the B-side.
The lyrics for the song tell of the singer meeting a "devil woman" and her giving him love.The chorus of the song includes the song's famous stutter and speaks of her looking at him with big brown eyes and 'You ain't seen nothin yet.B-, b-, b-, baby, you just ain't seen na, na, nothin yet.Here's somethin' that you're never gonna forget.B-, b-, b-,
baby,you just ain't seen na, na, nothin yet.'
The guitar riff heard throughout the song's chorus is proportionate to the riff from Baba O'Riley by The Who.The riff follows a main pattern of A5, E5, then a D5, while the riff in Baba O'Riley is F5, C5, Bb5.
In The Rolling Stone Record Guide,writer Dave Marsh called this song "a direct steal from The Who," but "an imaginative one." The chords of the chorus riff are very similar to the ones used by "The Who" in their song "Baba O'Riley," and also,the stuttering vocal is indeed reminiscent of "My Generation." Randy Bachman insists that the song was performed as a joke for his brother,Gary,with no intention of sounding like "My Generation. "Gary had a stutter,and Randy only intended to record it once with the stutter and send the only recording to Gary.
Randy developed the song while recording the group's third album,"Not Fragile". It began as an instrumental piece inspired by the rhythm guitar of Dave Mason.Randy says "it was basically just an instrumental and I was fooling around... I wrote the lyrics,out of the blue,and stuttered them through." The band typically used the song as a "work track" in the studio to get the amplifiers and microphones set properly.
But when winding up production for their third album,Charlie Fach of Mercury Records said the eight tracks they had lacked the "magic" that would make a hit single.Some band members asked Randy,"what about the work track?" Randy reluctantly mentioned that he had this ninth song,but didn't intend to use it on a record.He said,"We have this one song, but it's a joke.I'm laughing at the end.I sang it on the first take.It's sharp,it's flat,I'm stuttering to do this thing for my brother."
Fach asked to hear it,and they played the recording for him.Fach smiled and said "That's the track.It's got a brightness to it.It kind of floats a foot higher than the other songs when you listen to it."Bachman agreed to include the song,but only if he could re-record the vocals first,without the stutter.Fach agreed,but Bachman says "I tried to sing it normal,but I sounded like Frank Sinatra.It didn't fit." Fach said to leave it as it was,with the stutter.
It is said that Gary Bachman has since lost his stutter.
At position #1022 is a girl group from Sheboygan,Wisconsin that spent seven (7) weeks at #1 on the primary US Billboard Magazine's beginning November 27,1954 places their second of two songs in the Top 7000.The song was written by Pat Ballard which was published in 1954.
The song's lyrics convey a request to "Mr. Sandman" to "bring me a dream"-the traditional association with the folkloric figure,the sandman.The pronoun used to refer to the desired dream is often changed depending on the sex of the singer or group performing the song, as the original sheet music publication,which includes male and female versions of the lyrics,intended.The chord progression in each chorus follows the circle of fifths for six chords in a row.
The song peaked at #11 on the NME charts in the UK.On April 3,1955 the song began a four (4) week run at #1 in Australia (David Kent).
The song at position #1016 went to the top of the single charts in the US,the UK,Australia and Canada Further,the song was the #1 single for the entire year of 1965 in Canada.
The song at position #1016 is from the 1965 album titled "Help!".It was recorded February 15th,1965 (the same day Canada adopted its current flag without the union jack) at Abbey Road Studios and released two months later.In 2004,this song was ranked number 384 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.
The song was written primarily by John Lennon (credited to Lennon/McCartney),with Paul McCartney's contributions in dispute.Lennon said that McCartney's contribution was limited to "the way Ringo played the drums".McCartney said that was an incomplete description,and that "we sat down and wrote it together... give him 60 percent of it... we sat down together and worked on that for a full three-hour songwriting session." This song was also the first song by the band in which McCartney was featured on lead guitar.
Lennon proudly claimed that it was the first heavy metal song given the droning bassline,repeating drums,and loaded guitar lines.
The song features a coda with a different tempo.Lennon said this double-time section (with the lyric "My baby don't care")was one of his "favourite bits" in the song.it was good.
While the song lyrics describe a girl "riding out of the life of the narrator",the inspiration of the title phrase is unclear.McCartney said it was "a British Railways ticket to the town of Ryde on the Isle of Wight",and Lennon said it described cards indicating a clean bill of health carried by Hamburg prostitutes in the 1960s.The recording act who sings the song at position #1016 played in Hamburg early in their musical career,and "ride/riding" was slang for having sex.(NOTE:Lennon was known to have an overtly dry sense of humor,and often would give ridiculous explanations when asked what any specific song "really" meant).
On June 2,1979 the song at position #1007 began a three (3) week run on top of the Billboard Hot 100.This song was also Record World Magazine's (USA) #1 song for the entire year of 1979.Up to that point,the singer of the song at position #1007 had mainly been associated with disco songs but this song also showed significant rock influences including the guitar,which had never been used in one of the songs by the singer of the song at position #1007 singles before. In fact the very intricate solo was played by Ex Doobie Brother and Steely Dan guitarist Jeff "Skunk" Baxter.
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