He sang in several New York doo wop groups, including The Empires and The Whirlers, and was the manager of the group The Charts.
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Their first single as a trio was "Say Something Anyway", which peaked in the UK at No.26, but spent only three weeks on the charts.
That same year, two more songs that he co-wrote entered the charts: "What I Did Last Night" by Catherine Britt and "We Weren't Crazy" by Josh Gracin.
His hit songs include "Cushie Butterfield", "Combine Harvester" (which topped the charts in Ireland in 1975, and which would later become a U.K. number one hit for The Wurzels in 1976), and "The Dutchman".
In the late nineties, Jive expanded its success to include teen pop phenomenons such as Backstreet Boys, 'N Sync and Britney Spears, all of which topped the charts.
As The Hip-Hop Soul Party and Cut Killer Show series reached the top of the charts and brought in gold and platinum awards, Killer delegated R&B to his long time accomplice, DJ Abdel, West Coast music to the specialist DJ Cream, and gave himself a try with dancehall Ragga Killa Show, before coming back to the French sound with 1 Son 2 Rue.
In 2003, just as his first single When You Come Around was released, he celebrated his first No. 1 as a songwriter when friend and collaborator Dierks Bentley took the Ruttan/Bentley/Brett Beavers co-write "What Was I Thinkin'" to the top of the charts in the US.
In the UK, the single peaked at a low #22, because Child refused to appear on the popular British TV program Top of the Pops while the single was climbing the charts due to considering appearing on that program a "sellout".
The Edwin Hawkins Singers made a second foray into the charts exactly one year later, backing folk singer Melanie on "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)".
It was released in 1974 and was the UK's biggest-selling album over the Christmas period of that year, but along with all albums on K-tel, Ronco and Arcade, it was ineligible for the UK Albums Chart until 1975 because it was felt that heavy TV advertising and low pricing distorted the charts.
One of his interesting findings was that the duration of the lunar eclipse of 30 August 1765 was predicted by a Tamil astronomer, based on the computation of the size and extent of the earth-shadow (going back to Aryabhata, 5th century), and was found short by 41 seconds, whereas the charts of Tobias Mayer were long by 68 seconds.
"Hands to Heaven" is the title of a popular song released in 1987 and peaking on the charts in 1988 (see 1988 in music) by the English pop group Breathe.
In 1973, he made a strong comeback to the charts when he signed with Atlantic Records and scored 2 Top 30 hits in 1974 with "Some Old California Memory" and a version of Mac Davis' hit song "Stop and Smell the Roses".
The album had been a long-rumored project between the country singers for over a decade and received much publicity and acclaim upon its release, although its only single release, a remake of the longtime country female vocalist staple "Silver Threads and Golden Needles", barely dented the charts (its accompanying video, however, received heavy rotation from CMT and TNN).
The first Roger Taylor song (however with Mercury on vocals) to be released as a single (albeit in selected countries, including the US and Australia, but not the UK), "Calling All Girls" failed to create much of an impact on the charts where it peaked at #60 in the US and #33 in Canada, despite its music video based on the George Lucas film THX 1138.
The first big hit version (#5 on the Billboard charts) was by Fats Waller recorded on May 8, 1935 (Victor 25044), reaching further heights in the charts (#3) for the Boswell Sisters in the following year (January 6, 1936—Decca 671 B (60302-A)).
Two singles found some success on the charts, the Prince-produced "Born 2 B.R.E.E.D." reached to 89 on the Billboard Hot 100, while "Full Term Love" peaked at 96 on the Billboard Hot 100 and has appeared on the Class Act soundtrack.
It topped the charts in 1940 in the U.S. and one year later was featured in the movie Sun Valley Serenade.
After shooting up the charts nationwide with “I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)” and “Hotel Room Service” off his new album Rebelution, Miami’s Mr. 305 is gearing up for the international leg of his Rebelution Tour, and got with DJ Noodles and DJ Buddha to release the official soundtrack to the world-tour, “International Takeover: The United Nations”.
The following week, after it was properly released on New Year's Day 2001, the single jumped 70 spots, peaking at #2 and spent 11 weeks on the charts.
"Let Me Cry" debuted at number 1 on Japan's Oricon single charts, selling 119,149 copies on its first week of release, making him the first non-Japanese act to have the debut single to debut at number 1 on the charts.
The album with its cover designed by Gerry Judah was critically acclaimed: it was nominated for Best Album at the Brit Awards, and reached #7 on the charts in the UK.
Denes added in the same article, "104.3MYfm will play adult hits like Kelly Clarkson, Beyonce, Christina Aguilera, Fergie, Justin Timberlake, John Mayer, Shakira, Madonna, Santana and much more. Every song we play is or was at the top of the charts."
In 2013, three songs co-written by McKenna entered the charts: "I Want Crazy" by Hunter Hayes, "Your Side of the Bed" by Little Big Town, and "Sober", also by Little Big Town.
The song peaked at #31 on the UK Singles Chart, and is the last single of Level 42 to enter the charts.
The song returned to the charts in the summer of 1982 in a version by Paul Davis, which reached number 40 on the Hot 100 and number 11 on the Adult Contemporary chart.
In the United Kingdom, a version recorded by Malcolm Vaughan spent 14 weeks on the charts, peaking at number three in 1957.
It represents a hiccup in her assault on the charts in the 1970s, and perhaps reflects the influence and contributions of Noel Rogers and Johnny Harris, who produced her first five studio albums of the 70s but stepped down from those roles beginning with this album.
In 2013, after Baroness Thatcher's death, "I'm in Love with Margaret Thatcher" received additional publicity when there was an online campaign to boost the record's re-entry into the charts as a download, to counter the promotion of the song "Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead" by anti-Thatcher activists.
In 1985, Ocean Software managed to secure the first movie licences, such as Rambo, Short Circuit and Cobra, as well as the TV show Miami Vice and RoboCop which spent about a year on the top of the charts.
Released in April 2007, the album was successful, entering the charts at number two behind Kings of Leon's album Because of the Times.
It was recorded live at the London Palladium and released as a double A side along with Gamblin' Man and reached #1 in the UK charts in June and July 1957, where it spent two weeks in this position.This was the last record to reach the top of the charts that was only released in 78 format,the original Pye Nixa does not exist in 7" format although was re-released on a 7".
Having topped the charts around the world with Welcome to the Pleasuredome and its accompanying singles, Frankie Goes to Hollywood took off to Amsterdam to record the follow-up album, Liverpool.
Singer Boudewijn de Groot and songwriter Lennaert Nijgh helped De Nijs relaunching his singing-career; in 1973 he was back in the charts with Jan Klaassen de Trompetter.
It peaked at #56 on the Hot 100, and was followed into the charts by her cover of Wilson Pickett's "In the Midnight Hour".
Pearce went on to manage Soft Cell, got them a deal with Phonogram under the Some Bizzare umbrella, and their cover of "Tainted Love" topped the charts.
The group hit the top of the charts in 1964 with "Chapel of Love," a song that Phil Spector, Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich had originally written for The Ronettes.
Although no songs from the album reached the charts, the song "The Big Beat" has been notably sampled by hip hop artists, including Run-D.M.C.'s "Here We Go", Big Daddy Kane's "Ain't No Half Steppin'", Jay-Z's "99 Problems", Dizzee Rascal's "Fix Up, Look Sharp", U.T.F.O's "Roxanne, Roxanne" and Alicia Keys' "Girl on Fire".
They released several more records on the Casa Grande label, distributed by Ember Records, including "I Remember Dear", but none of their later releases made the charts.
In 2003-2004, Phantom’s independently released single entitled, “Storming the Bastille” b/w "A Million MC's", received airplay on over 300 college and independent radio stations in the U.S., topping the charts at WGBB and WSIA in New York among others.
His second son, Ulysses Kae, Jr., (born 7 March 1956; died November 11, 2008), was a record producer, whose Catch Me I'm Falling by the group Pretty Poison climbed the charts on its release.
1970s glam rock singer Alvin Stardust (who had recently enjoyed a comeback in the charts) appeared as a performer as did Fiona Kennedy who was at the time a presenter of TV's Record Breakers.
Over the next couple of years more singles were released including Tony Macaulay's "Better By Far" on DJM Records in 1972, but none of them entered the charts.
In the United Kingdom, the song debuted at number sixteen on the UK Singles Chart, until descending to number sixty-three, staying in the charts for three weeks.
Written in Scotland, "With a Little Luck" would become Wings' follow-up single to the then best-selling UK Single of all time, "Mull of Kintyre" and was one of the first synthpop records to appear on radio and in the charts and the beginning of McCartney's period of involvement and experimentation with synthesisers.
Releasing hits by artists such as Milow (Ayo Technology), Stromae (Alors on Danse), Edward Maya (Stereo Love) and Pitbull (I know you want me), B1 Recordings (now B1M1 Recordings) frequently topped the charts.
Theo Paphitis of television series Dragon's Den also attended, while the '80s band Bad Manners were famously formed at the school in 1976. They commemorated the 1981 closure of the school on the back sleeve of their Gosh It's... Bad Manners album, which reached number 18 in the charts that year.
The song had debuted at number twenty-four on the UK Singles Chart, but had descended the charts finishing at number seventy-three then falling out.