Category: Rock and Roll
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Lionel Richie – All Night Long
About The Song “Well my friends, the time has come…” to commemorate a very recognizable lyric and a chart anniversary for Lionel Richie. On November 12, 1983, “All Night Long (All Night)” completed its climb to the top of the Billboard Hot 100, on its way to becoming one of the anthems of his career. Written by Richie and…
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The Temptations – Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)
Each day through my window I watch her as she passes byI say to myself, “You’re such a lucky guy”To have a girl like her is truly a dream come trueOut of all the fellows in the world, she belongs to you But it was just my imaginationRunnin’ away with meIt was just my imaginationRunnin’…
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Gladys Knight and the Pips – Midnight Train to Georgia
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Whitney Houston – I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)
About The Song – George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam wrote this song. They met when they both performed at the wedding of Seattle socialite Susan Boeing and began playing clubs in the Northwest US. In 1985, they released an album as Boy Meets Girl and wrote Houston’s hit “How Will I Know.” A year…
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Lionel Richie – Say You, Say Me
About The Song At the end of November 1985, Phil Collins climbed to the pole position on the Billboard Hot 100 with “Separate Lives,” a duet with Marilyn Martin. Three weeks later, Lionel Richie’s “Say You, Say Me” ascended to the throne. Both songs were featured in Taylor Hackford’s film White Nights, making it only the sixth…
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Dean Martin – Everybody Loves Somebody
About The Song “Everybody Loves Somebody” is a song written in 1947 by Irving Taylor and pianist Ken Lane, and made famous by Dean Martin who recorded and released his version in 1964. Although still a major recording artist, Dean Martin had not had a top 40 hit since 1958. With the British Invasion ruling the U.S. charts, few had…
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Gladys Knight and the Pips – Neither One Of Us
About The Song “Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)” is a song recorded by Gladys Knight & the Pips. Released on December 26, 1972 on Motown’s Soul Records imprint as S 35098, it became one of their biggest hit singles to date, and was also the last single…
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Wham! – Last Christmas
The song originated one Sunday in 1984 when George Michael and Andrew Ridgely were visiting Michael’s parents. Ridgely recalled to The Mail On Sunday in 2017:“We’d had a bite to eat and were sitting together relaxing with the television on in the background when, almost unnoticed, George disappeared upstairs for an hour or so. When he came…
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Bill Haley & The Comets – Shake Rattle & Roll
About The Song “Shake, Rattle and Roll” is a song written in 1954 by Jesse Stone (usually credited as “Charles Calhoun“, his songwriting name) and first recorded that year by Big Joe Turner, whose version ranked No. 127 on the Rolling Stone magazine list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The early days of rock and roll brought…
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Doris Day – Que Sera Sera
About The Song Hollywood icon Doris Day starred in dozens of movies and released more than 600 songs in her lifetime. But the box office star, known for her singular voice, never came around to the hit that might have been most associated with her career, “Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera).”…