The 1000 best songs in the world ever.
831-Bar Kays-Shake Your Rump To The Funk.
1977-Number 41 single.
Best Bit-At 0.48 A late night summons for your Booty to Party.
The Bar Kays formed in 1966 and started life as a studio session group backing major artists at Stax Records.
On December 10th 1967 Otis Redding and four members of the band died when their aeroplane crashed into Lake Monona near Wisconsin.The remaining band members reformed with new recruits and went on to play on many tracks including Isaac Hayes 1968 classic album Hot Buttered Soul.
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The 1000 best songs in the world ever.
832-B.J.Thomas-Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head.
1970-Number 38 single.
Best Bit-At 2.28 Singing in the rain.
The song was written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach for the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,it went on to win the Academy Award for Best Original Song.B.J.Thomas was third choice to record the song as both Ray Stevens and after him Bob Dylan both turned down the opportunity,it went onto become the first American Number 1 of the 1970s.
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The 1000 best songs in the world ever.
833-Captain Sensible-Glad It’s All Over.
1984-Number 6 single.
Best Bit-At 2.52 My idea of what Drum and Bass should sound like.
Captain Sensible was born Raymond Ian Burns and was the co-founder of Punk rock legends The Damned.After leaving The Damned and launching a solo career he achieved a 1982 UK Number 1 single with Happy Talk the Rodgers and Hammerstein song from South Pacific.
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THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.
834-Detroit Spinners-It’s A Shame.
1970-Number 20 single.
Best Bit-At 1.12 ‘Why do you use me to confuse me.’One of the most beautiful sounds in Pop Music,the Falsetto vocal range of a very talented Soulful voice.
The Detroit Spinners formed in 1954 and Henry Fanbrough is the only original member still touring with them.The song was written in 1969 by Stevie Wonder,his future wife Syreeta Wright and long time writing partner Lee Garrett.This was the first song Stevie Wonder had produced for anyone other than himself.
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The 1000 best songs in the world ever.
835-Flo Rida-Low.
2008-Number 2 single.
Best Bit-At 0.22 If you are sat in front of the mirror at home and thinking which song is the best for me to practice my Twerking to,try this.
Low is the debut single from Florida born Flo Rida,he co-wrote the song with T-Pain who also performs on the track.The song was a massive success worldwide topping the charts in nine different countries.In America it spent 10 weeks at Number 1 and has the distinction of being the most downloaded song of the 2000s decade.
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The 1000 best songs in the world ever.
836-Elvis Costello-Oliver’s Army.
1979-Number 2 single.
Best Bit-At 1.49 A deceptively jolly tune,just because a song is uptempo and has a happy beat doesn’t mean it isn’t hiding a sinister message.
Some music critics have suggested that the title refers to Oliver Cromwell whose New Model Army was a forerunner to the modern British Army.Of the songs meaning Costello said ‘I made my first trip to Belfast in 1978 and saw mere boys walking around in battle dress with automatic weapons,the song was based on the premise they always get a working class boy to do the killing.’
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The 1000 best songs in the world ever.
837-Rage Against The Machine-Killing In The Name.
1993-Number 25 single-2009-Number 1 single.
Best Bit-At 4.12 this is not a love song,don’t expect a cover version from Westlife any day soon.
Rage Against The Machine are well known for their revolutionary political views which are expressed in many of their songs.Killing In The Name makes the allegation that some members of the US police forces are members of the Ku Klux Klan,the song reflects the racial tensions that exist in the United States.
In early December 2009 English DJ Jon Morter launched a group on Facebook encouraging people to buy the song in an attempt to prevent the winner of X Factor from topping the Christmas chart for the 5th year running,Rage Against The Machine donated all profits to charity.
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The 1000 best songs in the world ever.
838-Petula Clark-Downtown.
1964-Number 2 single.
Best Bit-At-1.54 In America ‘Downtown’ is the heart of the city where the action happens.The word isn’t used much in Brittan,but it generally means the less affluent part of town.
The writer of the song Tony Hatch used the word in the American meaning as he was inspired by a walk down Broadway during his first visit to New York.The song got to Number 1 on Billboard but was kept off the top spot in the UK by The Beatles song I Feel Fine.
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