THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.

572-Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr.-You Don’t Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show.)

1976-Number 7 single.

Best Bit-At 1.16. In 1978 Janet Jackson performed this song in the final season of the ‘CBS’ sitcom ‘Good Times,’ she was 11 years old at the time.

Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. are husband and wife, having married in 1969. McCoo was born September 30th, 1943, in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States, and began her musical career as a member of the ‘Hi-Fi’s’ who would often open for Ray Charles. She first met Billy Davis Jr., who was born June 26th, 1938, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, in 1966, when he founded the ‘Versatiles,’ who would soon become ‘The 5th Dimension.’ With The 5th Dimension, McCoo and Davis Jr. had great success, staying with the band until they both left in 1975. They recorded 10 studio Albums, and achieved 20 top 40 hit singles, on Billboard, including two Number 1’s.

‘You Don’t Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show’) was taken from Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr’s debut Album,’I hope We Get to Love in Time’ from 1976. The song went on to top the Billboard singles chart in January 1977, and also made Number 1 in Canada. It was co-written by John Glover, and James Dean (1943-2006,) Dean had already been a very successful songwriter in the 1960’s when working for ‘Motown Records,’ among his best known co-writes, and productions are,’What Becomes of the Broken Hearted’ (Jimmy Ruffin,) ‘I’ll Pick a Rose for My Rose,’ (Marv Johnson,) and ‘When Your Young and in Love,'( The Marvelettes,) he was the cousin of Eddie and Brian Holland.

In the 1980’s McCoo became the host of the American music television series ‘Solid Gold,’ which ran between 1980-1988. McCoo and Davis Jr, also became the first African American married couple to host a network television series,’The Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr Show,’ on ‘CBS’ in 1977.

‘Somebody nobody knows could steal the tune that you want to hear. So stop your running around,’cause now you’ve found what was cloudy is clear.’