The 1000 best songs in the world ever.
793-The Wannadies-You And Me Song.
1996-Number 18 single.
Best Bit-At 0.49 You get the best of both worlds with this one as it transforms from easy listening to Rock N Roll.
The Wannadies were an Alternative Rock band who formed in Sweden in 1988.’You And Me Song’ was originally released in 1994 but failed to chart.It became the bands biggest success when included on the soundtrack to the 1996 Baz Luhrmann film Romeo + Juliet.The band split in 2009.
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The 1000 best songs in the world ever.
794-Guy Mitchell-Singing The Blues.
1956-Number 1 single.
Best Bit-At 0.13 Not the kind of Blues that Lead Belly,Lightin’ Hopkins,Bessie Smith,etc were known for singing.
The song was written in 1954 by Melvin Endsley who as a three year old in 1937 contracted polio,requiring him to use a wheel chair for the rest of his life.Back in the 1950s it was not unusual for more than one version of the same song be in the chart at the same time.In 1956 Guy Mitchell spent 10 nonconsecutive weeks at Number 1,the sequence being broken by Tommy Steele’s version.In America Mitchell was challenged by a version by Marty Robbins.In the UK the song has also charted for Dave Edmunds in 1980,Daniel O’Donnell in 1994 and Cliff Richard in 2009.
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The 1000 best songs in the world ever.
795-Maria Muldaur-Midnight At The Oasis.
1974-Number 21 single.
Best Bit-At 0.46 Cactus’s may be your friend,but i was always taught it was cacti.
The song was written by David Nichtern and peaked at Number 6 on Billboard in 1974.It was nominated for both record of the year and song of the year at the 17th annual Grammy Awards in 1975.In 1994 the song became a hit for British Jazz Funk band The Brand New Heavies reaching Number 13.
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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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