THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.
582-Kenny Rogers and the First Edition.-Ruby Don’t Take Your Love To Town.
1969- Number 2 single.
Best Bit-At 1.56.It was a brave decision to record this song as the Vietnam War was raging.
Rogers would perform the song in a jovial manner and the crowd would often clap and sing along,so to some it was seen as disrespectful to veterans.Rogers said ‘We are there primarily to entertain,if we can entertain by providing thought provoking songs,then that’s all to the good.’Incidentally ‘Ruby’ wasn’t written about the Vietnam War,it was in fact written about the Korean War.
‘You’ve painted up your lips and rolled and curled your tinted hair.’
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THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.
583-Limp Bizkit-Rollin'(Air Raid Vehicle.)
2000-Number 1 single.
Best Bit-At 0.52.Don’t look for any in-depth meaning here,it’s just for fun,after-all the American wrestler ‘The Undertaker’ used the song for his entrance in the WWE.
Lead singer Fred Durst named the band Limp Bizkit because he wanted a name that would repel listeners.’The name is there to turn people’s heads away.A lot of people pick up the disc and go,Limp Bizkit ,they must suck.Those are the people that we don’t even want listening to our music.’
At a cost of $3 million the video was filmed around and on the roof of the World Trade Center. The band received a letter from the World Trade Center the day before the Twin Towers were destroyed,thanking them for featuring the towers in the video.
‘Throw your hands up,ladies and gentlemen,Chocolate Starfish keep on rolling baby.’
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THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.
585-Jo Stafford-You Belong To Me.
1953-Number 1 single.
Best Bit-At 0.41.She became the very first female to have a UK Number 1 single when this song topped the chart in January 1953.
The song was written in 1952 by Chilton Price(December 25,1913-January 14,2010,) Redd Stewart and Pee Wee King.
In a 2002 interview Price claimed that Stewart and King had no part in writing the song.Billy Stewart,who is the son of Redd refutes the claim saying that Stewart and King revised the lyrics and improved the melody.
Jo Stafford(November 12,1917-July 16,2008) was born in California and recorded from the 1930’s until the 1980’s.Between 1944-1959 she achieved 85 Album and single entry’s on the Billboard Hot 100 singles and 200 Album charts.
See the marketplace in old Algiers send me photographs and souvenirs.’
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THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.
586-Tinie Tempah-Pass Out.
2010-Number 1 single.
Best Bit-At 3.25.The well travelled Tinie Tempah has been to Miami and Ibiza and Southampton,but it appears he still has the delights of Scunthorpe to look forward to.
The song was co-written by Tinie Tempah(see also best songs 883) and the songs producer Labyrinth.
Tempah explained ‘We tried out many different things by going in the studio and having fun.The drum and bass mix was a trialled and tested method.Once we put it in there everyone went crazy,the song is about getting so out of it that you pass out.’
‘I’m born famous I’m sort of known,if your son doesn’t i bet your daughter knows.’
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THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.
589-Sly & The Family Stone-Dance To The Music.
1967-Number 7 single.
Best Bit-At 1.30.So many talented musicians,the best ones make the job appear easy.
None of the band members particularly liked ‘Dance To The Music,’they were pressurized into recording a more commercial sound at the insistence of their record label.However it did what it was supposed to do,bringing the band into the Pop consciousness.
Sly & The Family Stone are one of the most influential bands of the late 1960’s,influencing the sound of subsequent American Funk,Soul and Hip-Hop music.
‘Cynthia and Jerry got a message that’s sayin’ all the squares go home.’
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THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.
590-Pluto Shervington-Dat.
1975-Number 6 single.
Best Bit-At 0.12.and you thought shopping at Tesco was stressful.
Leighton Shervington is a Reggae musician,singer,engineer and producer born in Kingston Jamaica in 1950.
He has charted twice in the UK,his other hit being in 1982 when ‘Your Honour’ peaked at Number 19.
‘Dat’ is about a Rastafarian trying to buy pork (pork is not allowed in the Rastafarian religion) in order to keep his shopping bill down so that he can afford ‘to buy a little weed.’
‘Hush your mouth man,me brethren hear,sell i a pound of dat t’ing there.’
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