then solely on the Billboard Hot 100 charts thereafter. Samples are played of each number one hit, in chronological order, from January 1955 through December 2011. The plan is to update the time sweep at the end of each year so as to document the continuous trend changes in popular music...
The Four Seasons –“December, 1963 (Oh What a Night)” The Jersey Boys’ revival continued with this number with lead vocals by drummer Gerry Polci. (Frankie Valli sings the bridge and backing vocals.) Their new label, Warner Bros. Records, touted the band in an ad as “Rock’sNew Sup...
December 31, 2018 '60s 0 Comments Atlantic 8236 Producer: Jimmy Page Track listing: Whole Lotta Love / What Is and What Should Never Be / The Lemon Song / Thank You / Heartbreaker / Living Loving Maid (She’s Just a Woman) / Ramble On / Moby… Continue Reading → There’s a Riot...
On this page you can see the list of every UK Number 1 song in history, from the historic first ever Number 1 single - Al Martino's Here In My Heart in 1952, all the way through to this week's reigning chart topper on the Official Singles Chart. Click on the links above to jump...
December 24, 1977 – January 13, 1978 Bee Gees How Deep Is Your Love The Bee Gees were a British-Australian pop music group formed by three brothers: Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. How Deep Is Your Loveis a romantic ballad that became one of the group’s most enduring and beloved hi...
One of three albums to reach #1 in 1974 from the gifted storyteller was this December 1, 1973, LP, released a little over two months after his tragic death. It includes a pair of Top 10 hits–the title cut and “I’ll Have to Say I Love You in a Song”–as well as the clever...
been out for a year and a half. In 1972, Richard Carpenter had learned of a new song by Williams and Nichols, who had already contributed "We've Only Just Begun" and "Rainy Days and Mondays" to the Carpenters. Goodbye To Love (1985 remix with count-in) 8. They first performed ...
20 December 2023, 14:36Christmas number ones from Queen, Shakin' Stevens and Mr Blobby. Picture: Alamy/YouTube By Tom Eames There have been over 70 Christmas number ones, but which song is the best?We've gone through every single Christmas number one since 1952, to pick out the ...
Soul singer Billy Paul took this song, written by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, and turned into his only number one hit when it topped the Billboard Hot 100 charts for three weeks in December of 1970. The lyrics tell the story of the singer and his lover, Mrs. Jones.7...
it mixed and matched snatches of genres in one song in a way that hadn’t really been heard before. Some of the sounds were also new, Garth Hudson used his clavinet with a wah-wah pedal to produce the sound of a Jews harp on‘Up On Cripple Creek’and this instrument configuration was...