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A Little Bit More

It was Dr. Hook's joint second-best UK chart placing, matching "Sylvia's Mother" and surpassed only by "When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman".

Back of My Lac'

The album debuted on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart at number 5, selling 105,000 copies in its first week.

Bewl Valley Sailing Club

Other classes of boats regularly sailed at the club include the RS400, Topper, Optimist and Enterprise dinghies.

Billboard Top Hits: 1979

The track lineup includes six songs that reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, including the No. 1 song of 1979, "My Sharona" by The Knack.

Bishow Sharma

Aatma Ma became one of the biggest chart topper of the Nepal music video Industry of Nepal.

By the Time This Night Is Over

Kenny G's two previous #1 singles on the adult contemporary chart were "Missing You Now" (credited to Michael Bolton featuring Kenny G) and "Forever in Love", while Bryson's previous #1s were "If Ever You're in My Arms Again" and "A Whole New World", a duet with Regina Belle that was the theme for the 1992 Disney film Aladdin.

Carl Groszman

He is most notable for his song "A Dose of Rock and Roll" which was covered by Ringo Starr in 1976 for his album Ringo's Rotogravure Starr's cover of the song reached #26 on the U.S. singles chart and stayed on the Billboard for 9 weeks.

Chicago 19

Similar to the reaction to its predecessor, Chicago 19 became a moderate success on the album chart (although it went platinum) yet had major hit singles, including the #1 hit "Look Away", as well as "I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love" (#3), and "You're Not Alone" (#10).

Come Share My Love

Released in 1986 under Atlantic Records, the album peaked at #171 on the Billboard 200 and #19 on the Billboard R&B Albums Chart.

Dana Dawson

In 1996, she released the single "How I Wanna Be Loved" but it missed the Top 40 in the UK Singles Chart.

David Geddes

David Cole Idema (born July 1, 1950), best known by the stage name David Geddes, is a soft rock singer who had a U.S. Top 5 hit with "Run Joey Run" in 1975, which peaked at #4 in October 1975.

Difang and Igay Duana

Dan Lacksman of Deep Forest, in collaboration with Magic Stone Records and the Duanas, produced the chart-topping ethnic electronica album, Circle of Life.

Dorcas Cochran

Her English language lyric for "Under the Bridges of Paris" was recorded by both Eartha Kitt and Dean Martin for United Kingdom chart hits in 1955, although they failed to chart in the United States, and Frankie Laine's recording of her song, "In the Beginning" similarly charted in the UK but not in the US that year.

Dorothy Granger

Granger worked on a variety of television shows through the 1950s, including The Abbott and Costello Show, I Married Joan, Father Knows Best, Topper, Lassie, Death Valley Days and Wells Fargo.

Eric Church discography

Lead single "Homeboy" peaked at number 13 on the country charts, followed by his first and second number 1 hits on that chart, "Drink in My Hand" and "Springsteen".

Everlasting Night

It was released as a single in the first quarter of 1999 in Australia and reached number 42 on the singles chart, largely helped by the fact that the song was the official theme of the 1999 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.

Flowers in the Rain

During the single's chart success, most of the money went to the Spastics Society and Stoke Mandeville Hospital.

Gil Saunders

The album garnered three Billboard R&B chart hits including "Today's Your Lucky Day," "Don't Give Me Up," and "I Really Love You." Saunders also co-lead with Harold on the track "What We Both Need (Is Love)" which was popular on local Philadelphia radio station WDAS-FM in Philadelphia.

Hand on Your Heart

On its third week it was replaced on the top of the chart by the UK Hillsborough disaster charity single "Ferry Cross the Mersey" by The Christians, Holly Johnson, Paul McCartney, Gerry Marsden and Stock, Aitken and Waterman.

Hot Gossip

As a result of the track reaching number 6 in the British music chart, they went on to record an album in the early 1980s, Geisha Boys and Temple Girls, produced by the former Human League and then current Heaven 17/BEF member Martyn Ware.

It's Nothing

Although "It's Nothing" failed to chart or receive an accompanying music video, it elicited positive critical attention: Tom Doggett of RapReviews.com considers it comparable to The Beatnuts' 1997 hit single "Off the Books" because of its flute sample.

Jack Rhodes

Leon Payne (Rhodes' step-brother) wrote "I Love You Because", which has been covered by — among others — Elvis Presley (Elvis Presley LP, 1956), Al Martino (Billboard Hot 100 #3, 1963), Jim Reeves (UK Singles Chart #5, 1964), Johnny Cash, Matt Monro and Slim Whitman.

Jeff Rabhan

At Three Ring, he helped parlay Elliott Yamin's (American Idol) appearance into the highest chart debut by a new artist on an independent label in Soundscan history.

JK and Joel

They were replaced by Greg James in the overnight slot,who the pair said on the record that "Greg is the next big thing in radio" and taking over the chart show were good friends Fearne & Reggie.

John Truelove

Following the BRIT Awards ceremony on February 16, 2010, where Florence And The Machine were joined on-stage by Dizzee Rascal for a performance of ‘You Got The Love’ combined with Dizzee Rascal’s ‘Dirtee Cash’, the mash-up version ‘You Got The Dirtee Love’ was released as a single by Universal Island, reaching number 2 in the UK Singles Chart.

Julie-Anne Dineen

She followed her chart success with a Top 3 hit in Ireland, a cover of River Deep – Mountain High" released in October 2009.

Keep Yourself Alive

"Keep Yourself Alive" was largely ignored upon its release and failed to chart on either side of the Atlantic.

Kristy McNichol

The album included the single "He's So Fine" (a cover of The Chiffons' 1963 hit), which peaked at #70 on the Billboard chart.

Loud Guitars, Big Suspicions

Two singles were taken from it: "True Friends" and "Playing with Fire," both of which charted in the U.S. Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, the former peaking at #27, in 1999, and the latter only reaching #37, in 2000.

Love or Let Me Be Lonely

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.

Machakaaran

For the musical score of Machakaaran, director Thamizhvaanan teamed up with composer Yuvan Shankar Raja again, after the duo gave chart-topping songs in the director's previous venture Kalvanin Kadhali (2005).

Mannish water

The dish is mentioned in the 1974 Pluto Shervington song "Ram Goat Liver" which was reissued in 1976 (following the success of "Dat") and made it to #43 in the UK singles chart.

Matt McGloin

After playing behind Daryll Clark and Kevin Newsome in 2009, he ended up third on the depth chart in early 2010 behind Rob Bolden, a true freshman from Detroit.

Merril Bainbridge

The Garden was released in Australia on 31 July 1995, where it debuted at its peak position at number five on the Australian ARIA Albums Chart and certifying two times platinum selling 140,000 copies around Australia.

Moné

She scored three hits on the US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart: "We Can Make It" (#1, 1995), "Movin'" (#2, 1996) and "Partay Feeling" (As B-Crew featuring Barbara Tucker, Dajae, Ultra Nate and Moné) (#22, 1997).

Near You

Elliot Lawrence (Columbia Records catalog number 37838) entered the chart on October 3 and peaked at number nine.

One Piece Film: Strong World

The promotions surrounding Strong World boosted the sales of the One Piece manga during the week of December 7 through 13, causing all 56 then published volumes to be listed in Oricon's Top 200 chart of weekly Japanese manga sales.

Reverend Black Grape

It was the first single to be taken from their debut album It's Great When You're Straight... Yeah and peaked at #9 in the UK chart.

Shane Feldman

Canadian Award Winning Singer/Songwriter Jesse Labelle teamed up with musical artists including Juno Award nominated singer Vita Chambers, and chart-topping performer Tyler Shaw to produce a "VIP Benefit Concert" honoring Shane Feldman's 19th Birthday.

Strike Me Pink

It's Harry's last single to chart on the UK Singles Chart to date and the single didn't make any other major chart besides in the UK.

The BusBoys

A follow-up song, "Cleanin' Up the Town," written for the soundtrack to the 1984 film Ghostbusters, was a minor hit for the group, reaching #68 on Billboards Hot 100 Singles chart in the United States.

The Chips

Although it did not chart, "Rubber Biscuit" became an instant east coast radio favourite, and saw its performers touring alongside The Dells, Cadillacs and Bo Diddley, but the momentum gained by their debut single was waning and the group broke up at the end of 1957.

The Life Pursuit

"White Collar Boy" was released as the last single in June peaking inside the top 50 of the same chart.

The Man with All the Toys

As a single that year it had limited success (No. 6 on the Billboard Christmas chart), but built sales over successive Christmases and is listed by Billboard in the Top 100 selling Christmas songs in history, though well below the Beach Boys' 1963 Christmas single "Little Saint Nick".

The Network Chart Show

The show originally featured the Network Top 30 and ran from 5pm until 7pm in direct competition to BBC Radio One's Top 40 chart show and was broadcast from Capital Radio's studios on Euston Road in London.

The Space Brothers

Despite having signed to Paul Oakenfold's Perfecto imprint for the release of "Someone" - Ascension and WEA for the release of their Chakra material, the Space Brothers elected to make Manifesto Records their home, and their first Space Brothers single "Shine", appeared into the UK chart having been Pete Tong's 'essential new tune'.

To Anyone

In the United States, the album peaked at number seven on the Billboard World Albums chart.

Walk on the Ocean

The single, released 15 October 1992, peaked at #18 on the Billboard Hot 100, but did not chart on the UK Singles Chart.

White and Black Blues

It debuted at number 47 on 26 May 1990 and reached number two seven weeks later, but was unable to top the chart ("Zouk Machine", Ursull's former band, was then number one with "Maldòn").

You Light Up My Life: Inspirational Songs

The second and final single released from the album is "On the Side of Angels" which peaked at number 4 on the US Country Chart.


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Are You Ready for Freddy?

As well, Fender covers the novelty song "(How Much Is) That Doggie In The Window?", which was originally a Billboard chart-topper for singer Patti Page in 1953.

Curiosity Killed the Cat

The band's first album, Keep Your Distance, entered the UK Albums Chart at number one in May 1987, and stayed in the Top Ten for 13 weeks, although the release of that album's "Free" as a single only reached number 56 in the UK Singles Chart.

Deniece Williams

The following year, yet another famed producer, Thom Bell, helped Williams score another number-1 R&B chart-topper with her remake of The Royalettes' "It's Gonna Take a Miracle", which became a Top 10 pop hit as well, reaching number 10 and number 6 on the Adult Contemporary chart as well.

Diane Renay

"Navy Blue", composed by Crewe with Bud Rehak and Eddie Rambeau, became a national smash, reaching No. 6 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in February 1964, and soaring to No. 1 on the Adult Contemporary singles chart.

Donnie Elbert

He returned to All Platinum and had a run of minor R&B hits, but left after he claimed authorship of Shirley & Company's R&B chart-topper "Shame Shame Shame" which was credited to label owner Sylvia Robinson.

Geoff Love

Whilst working at Columbia, he arranged Laurie London's gospel song He's Got the Whole World in His Hands, a 1957 chart topper in the US.

Gogi Grant

In 1955 she signed with a small record company, Era Records, and had her first top ten hit with "Suddenly There's a Valley." The next year, she had an even bigger hit, reaching Billboard 's No. 1 position, with "The Wayward Wind" and holding there for a then record eight weeks.

Juan-les-Pins

Peter Sarstedt famously mentions Juan-les-Pins in his 1969 UK number one hit, "Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)"; a portrait of a girl who becomes a member of the Euro jet-set.

Judson Spence

Although he had a top 40 hit with “Yeah, Yeah, Yeah” in 1988 and also had a minor hit with “Drift Away” from The Wonder Years soundtrack, Spence was dropped from Atlantic before completing his second album in 1991.

Karen Ramirez

In 1998 she had a #1 hit single on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart and a #8 hit on the UK Singles Chart with her cover version of Everything but the Girl's "I Didn't Know I Was Looking for Love", under the more simple title of "Looking for Love".

Kōsa ni Fukarete

It was recorded by pop icon Shizuka Kudō and released as her eighth solo single, providing her with sixth chart-topper.

Love Storm

Lead single "Whodunit", with its lyrics pleading to several 1970s TV detectives ("Hey Baretta, won't you please go get her? .... Kojak, won't you bring her back?"), became the group's third and final R&B chart-topper, also reaching #22 on the pop chart and #5 in the United Kingdom.

Mars Bonfire

Dennis Edmonton (born 21 April 1943 in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada), also known by the stage name Mars Bonfire, is a Canadian rock musician and songwriter, best known for writing the hit song "Born to Be Wild" for Steppenwolf.

Mary MacGregor

Macgregor admitted in The Billboard Book of Number One Hits by Fred Bronson that she hated her own chart-topper, chiefly because she had little sympathy for the narrator of "Torn Between Two Lovers", a woman who confesses to her husband that she is having an affair, but pleads with her husband to stay with her and accept the situation.

Pete Drake

One of the most sought-after backup musicians of the 1960s, Drake played on such hits as Lynn Anderson's "Rose Garden", Charlie Rich's "Behind Closed Doors"' Bob Dylan's "Lay Lady Lay"' and Tammy Wynette's "Stand by Your Man".

Pip Williams

He is also known for producing The Moody Blues albums Long Distance Voyager and The Present, the former being a United States Billboard 200 chart topper.

Richard Tandy

Educated at Moseley School, where he first met future bandmate Bev Bevan, Tandy would later be reunited with Bevan in 1968 when he played the harpsichord on The Move's number one chart-topper "Blackberry Way".

Rockers Revenge

Its initial entry on the Hot Dance Club Play chart, "Walking on Sunshine" (an Eddy Grant composition and songwriter, featuring lead vocals by Donnie Calvin) hit #1 on the U.S. dance chart in 1982.

Silver Convention

"Fly, Robin, Fly," of which the complete lyrics consisted of only six different words (Fly, Robin, Up, To, The, Sky), maintained three weeks at #1 in late November and early December 1975, and won the group a Grammy Award for Best R&B Instrumental Performance.

Styl-Plus

It has also been a massive chart topper, and has been used in numerous shows, including the pioneer edition of Big Brother Nigeria.

Sue and Sunny

When "With A Little Help" reached number one in the UK Singles Chart they found themselves accompanying Cocker on several television programmes including Top of the Pops.

Susie Mathis

Mathis released a solo single under the name 'Tiger Sue' in 1978 and was the vocal coach for the St Winifred's School Choir Christmas number one in 1980, "There's No-one Quite Like Grandma".

Tarrus Riley

It contained the hits Start Anew, Contagious, Good Girl Gone Bad featuring Konshens and Superman, a cover of a Robin Thicke original.2010 saw the release of the chart topper Protect the People, which scaled several charts in Jamaica and across the Caribbean.

The Belle Stars

"Iko Iko", a cover of The Dixie Cups' 1965 hit (later featured in the 1988 movie Rain Man), was The Belle Stars' long-hoped-for UK Singles Chart debut, peaking at a modest number 35 in June 1982.

The Commentators

The Commentators was a one-off name used for the song, "N-N-Nineteen Not Out", a 1985 UK hit single recorded by the impressionist Rory Bremner as a parody of Paul Hardcastle's number one hit, "19".

The Mac Band

The group's first album, The Mac Band featuring the McCampbell Brothers included production by Babyface and members of Atlantic Starr, and one of the tracks from the album, "Roses Are Red" reached #1 on the U.S. R&B chart and reached the Top 10 in the UK Singles Chart.

Tippa Irie

He achieved his first national exposure on night time BBC Radio 1 in the mid-1980s, with the singles "It's Good To Have The Feeling You're The Best" and "Complain Neighbour" (on Greensleeves Records), before achieving a UK Top 40 hit in 1986 with "Hello Darling".