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hit and singles
There were fewer hit singles, and declining album sales.
It hit number 1 in the UK singles chart in April 1972, spending 24 weeks total on the charts, topped the RPM national singles chart in Canada for three weeks, and rose as high as number 11 in the U. S. It is also a controversial instrumental, as it combined pipes with a military band.
-short for " The Collective Consciousness Society "-which had several hit singles produced by Mickie Most, including a version of Led Zeppelin's " Whole Lotta Love ", which was used as the theme for BBC's Top Of The Pops between 1971 and 1981.
BAO has released five albums to huge success in Sweden, all containing hit singles.
Initially, it was relatively unsuccessful, staying at the charts for only one week, but Haley soon scored a major worldwide hit with a cover version of Big Joe Turner's " Shake, Rattle and Roll ", which went on to sell a million copies and became the first ever rock ' n ' roll song to enter British singles charts in December 1954 and became a Gold Record.
This album failed to chart and, though " Find a Way " was a minor hit in the UK, no more singles were released.
Three further singles were released from the album including the Top 75 hit " True Skool " with Roots Manuva.
The hit streak consisted of four singles, four doubles, two home runs and a triple.
In his final start two weeks later, the last eight batters of Young's career combined to hit a triple, four singles, and three doubles.
The album was played as two continuous pieces of music on the two sides of the vinyl and produced the band's two biggest hit singles, " Kayleigh " and " Lavender ".
They would usually play 45-rpm records, featuring hit singles on one turntable while talking between songs.
Though her solo singles and the Wagoner duets were successful, her biggest hit of this period would be " Jolene ".
He then reached a new commercial peak in 1983 with Let's Dance, which yielded several hit singles.
" Lodger reached number 4 in the UK and number 20 in the US, and yielded the UK hit singles " Boys Keep Swinging " and " DJ ".
In 1987, the release of the country-based Love Tracks album gave rise to the hit singles " Love in My Heart " ( a top-10 in Australia ), " Can't Blame the Wreck on the Train " ( US country No. 49 ), and " Eventually ".
From 1972 to 1986, ELO accumulated 27 Top-40 hit singles in both the UK and the US.
The group also scored 20 Top 20 UK hit singles, as well as 19 Top-20 hit singles in the US ( as charted by Billboard Magazine ).
Face the Music was released in 1975, producing the hit singles " Evil Woman " and " Strange Magic ".
It contained the hit singles " Livin ' Thing ", " Telephone Line ", " Rockaria!
Out of the Blue featured the singles " Turn to Stone ", " Sweet Talkin ' Woman ", " Mr. Blue Sky ", and " Wild West Hero ", each becoming a hit in the United Kingdom.
The album spawned hit singles from both Newton-John (" Magic ," No. 1 in the United States, and " Suddenly " with Cliff Richard ) and ELO (" I'm Alive ", which went gold, " All Over the World " and " Don't Walk Away ").

hit and Love
The mainstream song " Saved by Love " was a minor hit, receiving airplay on radio stations featuring the newly emerging Adult Contemporary format.
" Run From Love " was subsequently released in a remix form on the Bronski Beat album Hundreds & Thousands, a collection of mostly remixes ( LP ) and b-sides ( as bonus tracks on the CD version ) as well as the hit " I Feel Love ".
In addition to the many songs recorded by him, in 1956 he co-wrote, with Jody Williams, the pioneering pop song " Love Is Strange ", a hit for Mickey & Sylvia in 1957.
This tango melody is also " No Other Love Have I " in the musical " Me and Juliet " and a popular hit for Perry Como during the 1950s.
He produced fewer records but could still turn out hits such as Perry Como's pop hit " And I Love You So ".
Producers Giorgio Moroder, whom Allmusic described as " one of the principal architects of the disco sound " with the Donna Summer hit " I Feel Love " ( 1977 ), and Jean-Marc Cerrone were involved with Eurodisco.
Dalida released " J ' attendrai ", which became a big hit in Canada and Japan, and Cerrone's early hit songs, " Love in C Minor ", " Give Me Love " and " Supernature " became major hits in the U. S. and Europe.
Of the previously unreleased songs, " Down to the Wire " features the New Orleans pianist Dr. John with Buffalo Springfield on an item from their shelved Stampede album ; " Love Is a Rose " was a minor hit for Linda Ronstadt in 1975 ; " Winterlong " received a cover by Pixies on the Neil Young tribute album from 1989, The Bridge ; and " Campaigner " is a Young song critical of Richard Nixon.
She has composed over 3, 000 songs, the best known of which include " I Will Always Love You " ( a two-time U. S. country chart-topper for Parton, as well as an international pop hit for Whitney Houston ), " Jolene ", " Coat of Many Colors ", " 9 to 5 ", and " My Tennessee Mountain Home ".
Other chart hits during this period included Parton's chart-topping cover of the 1969 First Edition hit " But You Know I Love You " and " The House of the Rising Sun " ( both 1981 ), " Single Women ", " Heartbreak Express " and " Hard Candy Christmas " ( 1982 ) and 1983's " Potential New Boyfriend ", which was accompanied by one of Parton's first music videos, and which also reached the U. S. dance charts.
" Real Love " also reached number one on the country-singles chart and also became a modest pop-crossover hit ).
*" And I Love You So " was covered by Elvis Presley, Helen Reddy, Shirley Bassey, Glen Campbell, Engelbert Humperdinck, Howard Keel and a 1973 hit for Perry Como
The Black Eyed Peas often use freestyle lyrics, and Miami rapper Pitbull collaborated with Miami freestyle artist Stevie B to create an updated version of Stevie B's hit, " Spring Love.
Tolga Katas is credited as one of the first persons to create a hit record entirely on a computer, and produced Stevie B's “ Party Your Body ”, “ In My Eyes ” and “ Dreamin ' of Love ”.
The album spawned three additional Top 10 Country hits, including two number-one hits between 1997 and 1998, " Two Pina Coladas " and " To Make You Feel My Love ", which also was a Top 10 hit on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart and was released on the soundtrack to the movie Hope Floats.
Some disco songs incorporated sounds produced with synthesizers and drum machines, and some compositions were entirely electronic ; examples include Giorgio Moroder's late 1970s productions such as Donna Summer's hit single " I Feel Love " from 1977, Cerrone's Supernature ( 1977 ), Yellow Magic Orchestra's synth-disco-pop productions from their self-titled album ( 1978 ), Solid State Survivor ( 1979 ), and several early 1980s disco-pop productions by the Hi-NRG group Lime.
Janis Joplin charted five singles, and other popular songs from her four-year career include " Down On Me ", " Bye, Bye Baby ", " Coo Coo ", " Summertime ", " Piece of My Heart ", " Turtle Blues ", " Ball ' n ' Chain ", " Try ( Just A Little Bit Harder )", " Maybe ", " To Love Somebody ", " Kozmic Blues ", " Work Me, Lord ", " Move Over ", " Cry Baby ", " A Woman Left Lonely ", " Get It While You Can ", " My Baby ", " Trust Me ", " Mercedes Benz ", " One Night Stand ", " Raise Your Hand " and her only number one hit, " Me and Bobby McGee ".
Ten of his songs were nominated for the Oscar, many written with Cahn, including " I've Heard That Song Before " (# 1 for 13 weeks for Harry James and His Orchestra in 1943 ), " I'll Walk Alone ", " It's Magic " ( a # 2 hit for Doris Day in 1948 ) and " I Fall in Love Too Easily ".

hit and Song
* Comedy Band The Barron Knights ' 1978 UK # 3 hit single A Taste Of Aggro, a medley of parodies, included a version of The Smurf Song featuring, in place of the Smurfs, a group of bank robbers from Catford who have escaped from Dartmoor Prison.
Another hit song associated with McLean ( though never recorded by him ) is " Killing Me Softly with His Song ", which was written about McLean after Lori Lieberman, also a singer / songwriter, saw him singing his composition " Empty Chairs " in concert.
The success of the pairing prompted both acts to record repeatedly through 1950, producing such rhythmically comical fare as " The Woody Woodpecker Song " ( based on the frisky bird from the Walter Lantz cartoons, and another Billboard hit for the quartet ), " Put ' em in a Box, Tie ' em with a Ribbon ( And Throw ' em in the Deep Blue Sea )," " The Big Brass Band from Brazil ," " It's a Quiet Town ( In Crossbone County )," " Amelia Cordelia McHugh ( Mc Who?
Brood continued to record throughout the 1980s and had a few hits — a top-ten single, " Als Je Wint " with Henny Vrienten, and a minor hit with a reggae song, " Tattoo Song ," but he spent more and more time on his art work.
Medley also had solo success: In 1984, he scored country hits with " Till Your Memory's Gone " and " I Still Do " ( which crossed over to the adult contemporary charts and later became a " cult " hit with the Carolina Beach / Shag dance club circuit ); and in late 1987, his duet with Jennifer Warnes — "( I've Had ) The Time of My Life ", which appeared on the soundtrack for Dirty Dancing — topped the Billboard Hot 100 and won both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for a Motion Picture ( for the three songwriters, which did not include Medley ) as well as a Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals ( which, of course, did ).
They had a top 10 Australian hit with the Woodley-penned " The Sparrow Song ".
Valhalla is prominently referenced — with the line " Valhalla, I am coming "— in the Led Zeppelin hit single " Immigrant Song " ( 1970 ).
In the US, the record received strong reviews as the album and the " Song 2 " single became a hit.
Idle is an accomplished songwriter, having composed and performed many of the Pythons ' most famous comic pieces, including " Eric the Half-a-Bee ", " The Philosophers ' Song ", " Galaxy Song ", " Penis Song ( Not the Noel Coward Song )" and, probably his most recognised hit, " Always Look on the Bright Side of Life ", which was written for the closing scene of the Monty Python film Life of Brian, and sung from the crosses during the mass crucifixion.
Other shows include the minor hit, Flower Drum Song ( 1958 ), as well as relative failures Allegro ( 1947 ), Me and Juliet ( 1953 ) and Pipe Dream ( 1955 ).
The song, entitled " The Song of the Heart ", appears on the film's soundtrack, which also features a cover of Prince's earlier hit " Kiss ", sung by Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman.
The hit song from the film was " Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah ", which won the 1947 Academy Award for Best Song and is frequently used as part of Disney's montage themes, and which has become widely used in popular culture.
Song soldiers in Xiangyang witnessed a giant rock fall flew right over the gigantic walls of Fancheng, and hit the houses inside.
Waves of arrows hit the Song ships.
The radio-friendly " Interstate Love Song " quickly became a big hit, spending a record-setting fifteen weeks atop the album rock tracks chart.
In 1963 Lee Morgan scored a significant hit with the title track of The Sidewinder album, and Horace Silver did the same the following year with Song for My Father.
It was also nominated for several Academy Awards including Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Michael Caine ), Best Actress in a Supporting Role ( Vivien Merchant ), Best Song ( Burt Bacharach and Hal David for " Alfie ") ( a UK hit record for Cilla Black, but performed by Millicent Martin in the original UK release and Cher in the American print of the movie ), Best Picture and Best Writing ( Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium ).
Several times, Auric ’ s work made it onto the hit parade, notably " The Song from Moulin Rouge ".
It was propelled by solid songs from all three principals, trademark vocals, contemporary production, and as usual a hit single from Nash in “ Just a Song Before I Go ”.
Gaye's first recordings involving social commentary occurred a couple years before working on What's Going On, including " Abraham, Martin & John " and " The Onion Song ", two songs of which gave Gaye hit success in Europe where it charted mainly in the United Kingdom pop chart.
Pope also wrote or co-wrote many comic songs for Not the Nine O ' Clock News and Spitting Image including British Number 1 hit single " The Chicken Song " with Rob Grant & Doug Naylor and along with Simon Franglen, he did the main theme for Round the Bend for Yorkshire TV, a three series comedy shown on CITV, later shown on Channel 4 and Nickelodeon.

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