The 1000 best songs in the world ever.
796-Bingo Players featuring Far East Movement-Get Up(Rattle.)
2013-Number 1 single.
Best Bit At 1.23 it’s amazing what a difference a few words and a lot of Dirty Bass can make.
This song is a collaboration between Dutch production duo Paul Baumer and Maarten Hoogstraten who were The Bingo Players and American Hip Hop Electronic group Far East Movement.The original version of this song released as an instrumental in 2011 was called Rattle,it met with little success,a peak of Number 35 in Denmark being the best it did anywhere in the world.When the Far East Movement added vocals the song took off reaching the top 10 in 14 countries.
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The 1000 best songs in the world ever.
798-The Fatback Band-(Are You Ready) Do The Bus Stop.
1975-Number 18 single.
Best Bit-At 2.53 I would certainly join the Queue to catch this tune.
The Fatback band were formed in 1970 by Bill Curtis and to this day after several personnel changes they still tour,in fact there has been 21 different band members since there inception.Bus Stop is typical of their Funky sound and was a very popular Disco hit,the song had dance moves of it’s own which unfortunately appears to have been lost in the annals of time.
Incidentally their 1979 song King Tim 111(Personality Jock)is often considered to be the first commercially released Rap single having been released just before The Sugarhill Gangs Rappers Delight.
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The 1000 best songs in the world ever.
799-Everly Brothers-Walk Right Back.
1961-Number 1 single.
Best Bit-At 0.7 Phil and Don in perfect harmony,at least when they were singing.
The Everly brothers were an American country influenced Rock N Roll duo.Don Everly was born in 1937 and Phil Everly was born in 1939 and died on January 3rd 2014,together they achieved 24 top 40 UK hits between 1957-1968.
Walk Right Back was written by Sonny Curtis who after the death of Buddy Holly took over as lead singer of the Crickets.Other notable compositions from Curtis include I Fought The Law(covered by The Clash,)More Than I Can Say,( a hit for Bobby Vee and Leo Sayer)and he also wrote the theme tune to The Mary Tyler Moore Show,’Love Is All Around.’
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The 1000 best songs in the world ever.
800-Beyonce-If I Were A Boy.
2008-Number 1 single.
Best Bit-At 1.28 even in the battle of the sexes ‘the grass is always greener.’
The song is taken from Beyonce’s third solo Album ‘I Am…Sasha Fierce.’It was a double CD release with disc 1 being ballads and disc 2 uptempo,in order to show Beyonce’s full range.This song from disc 1 and ‘Single Ladies’ from disc 2 were released simultaneously to promote the Album’s.The song was written by little known artist Brittany Jean Carlson who at first didn’t want to give the song to Beyonce as she wanted it to launch her own career,but she came to an arrangement that was amicable to them both.
I have chosen to post the songs remix featuring R Kelly as both vocals compliment each other perfectly.
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The 1000 best songs in the world ever.
801-Madness-House Of Fun.
1982-Number 1 single
Best Bit-At 2.07. I have it on very good authority from someone who should be in the know that ‘Joe’ is in fact a name check for the fictional character Joe Sugden from the TV soap Emmerdale Farm,but he may have been fibbing to me.
This was the only Number 1 single for the group written by band members Lee Thompson and Mike Barson.The song is about coming of age.The lyrics tell the story of a boy on his 16th birthday attempting to buy condoms at a chemist,however the boy is misunderstood by the chemist as he uses slang euphemisms such as ‘box of balloons’ and ‘party hats with the coloured tips,’the chemist sends him to the house of fun which is a joke shop down the road.
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The 1000 best songs in the world ever.
802-Bone Thugs-N-Harmony-Tha’ Crossroads.
1996-Number 8 single.
Best Bit-At 2.06 Gangsta Rap never sounded more melodic.
The five members of the group were very persistent in their attempt to get a record deal and finally succeeded in 1993 when signing for N.W.A legends Easy-E’s record label Ruthless Records.’Crossroads’ was originally written in 1995,it was dedicated to the bands dead friend Wallace Laird but after the death of Easy-E they decided to remake it as Tha’ Crossroads adding new lyrics.The song became a hit world wide peaking at Number 1 on Billboard.
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The 1000 best songs in the world ever.
803-Lobo-I’d Love You To Want Me.
1974-Number 5 single.
Best Bit-At 0.53 Killer chorus.
Roland Kent LaVoie better known by his stage name Lobo
(Lobo is Spanish for Wolf) is an American singer songwriter.The song was originally recorded in 1972 and peaked at Number 2 on Billboard being kept off the top by Johnny Nash with’ I Can See Clearly Now,’it had failed to chart in the UK.It wasn’t until it’s re-release in 1974 that it became a hit.Back in 1971 Lobo achieved his only other UK hit with ”Me And You And A Dog Named Boo’ which charted at Number 4.
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The 1000 best songs in the world ever.
804-Ben E King-Stand By Me
1961-Number 27 single.When re-released in 1987-Number 1.
Best Bit-At 0.48 Stand By Me was the name of a Gospel Hymn written in 1905 by Philadelphia minister Charles Tindley,this is where King got the idea for the song from.
Stand By Me was co-written by Ben E King and the legendary song writing team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller,with King receiving 50% of the royalties.It is estimated that to date the song has made in excess of £17 million,making it the sixth highest earner of all time.
The song was re-released in 1986 as the theme song of the movie of the same name,but it was after it was also used in an advertisement for Levi Jeans it went to Number 1.There are over 400 recordings by other artists ,one of the most notable being by John Lennon in 1975 of which King praised by saying ‘He made the song his own.’ In 2007 Reggae influenced musician,Sean Kingston sampled the song for his Number 1 single Beautiful Girls.
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