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Post by Sysop3 on Mar 5, 2015 10:24:08 GMT -5
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Post by beth on Mar 5, 2015 12:57:14 GMT -5
August 26, 1972
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Post by beth on Mar 5, 2015 17:32:46 GMT -5
January 31, 1981
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Billboard_number-one_singles
She still looks and sounds great!
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Post by beth on Mar 6, 2015 23:03:13 GMT -5
November 23
November 30
1963
Reaching back into my sister's 45 collection.
Later remakes by The Osmonds and Linda Ronstadt
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Post by Jessiealan on Mar 7, 2015 12:16:16 GMT -5
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Post by annaj26 on Mar 7, 2015 16:27:33 GMT -5
I'm going to cheat and post one that only got to #2 in July, 1963. Dex's question abut Phil Spector reminded me of it. Otherwise, it has been called the most influential pop hit of all time and Dick Clark dubbed it "Song of the Century". It's been remade a couple of times but nobody 's ever done it better than Ronnie Spector and the Ronettes.
okay, back to number ones.
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Post by Dex on Mar 8, 2015 10:22:16 GMT -5
I'm going to cheat and post one that only got to #2 in July, 1963. Dex's question abut Phil Spector reminded me of it. Otherwise, it has been called the most influential pop hit of all time and Dick Clark dubbed it "Song of the Century". It's been remade a couple of times but nobody 's ever done it better than Ronnie Spector and the Ronettes. okay, back to number ones. Here's some more about this one, Annie. Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys developed a fervent obsession with the song,[14] leading Spector to quip: "I'd like to have a nickel for every joint he smoked trying to figure out how I got the 'Be My Baby' sound."[15] Wilson is said[by whom?] to have once listened to the song in excess of 100 times a day. Wilson explains his reaction to hearing the record for the first time:
I was in my car with my girlfriend and we were driving around... When all of a sudden this guy Wink Martindale—a disc jockey—he goes, "All right! Here we go with 'Be My Baby' by the Ronettes." It started playing … All of a sudden it got into this part—"be my, be my baby"—and I said "What is—what?! Whoa whoa!" I pulled over to the side of the street of the curb and went, "...My God! ...Wait a minute! ...No way!" I was flipping out. I really did flip out. Balls-out totally freaked out when I heard. … In a way it wasn't like having your mind blown, it was like having your mind revamped. It's like, once you've heard that record, you're a fan forever.[16]
The song ultimately revamped Wilson's songwriting and creative aspirations.[17] Wilson considers his "Don't Worry Baby" to be the male answer to "Be My Baby".[18][19] At one point, he instructed Beach Boys engineer Stephen Desper to create a tape loop consisting only of the song's chorus, listening to it for several hours in what Desper saw as "some kind of a trance".[20] Wilson's daughter Carnie stated that during her childhood: "I woke up every morning to boom boom-boom pow! Boom boom-boom pow! Every day."[21] Brian Wilson eventually did a cover of the song with The Beach Boys in July 1980 and later in 2000 on his solo album Live at the Roxy Theatre.
Listen to it and when that "be my .. be my baby .." starts you can hear that heavy over dubbing that was part of Phil Spedtor's Wall of Sound. That's what Brian Wilson was hearing. |
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Post by Jessiealan on Mar 10, 2015 14:25:18 GMT -5
For only one week
September 14, 1974
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Post by ladylinda on Mar 10, 2015 17:10:41 GMT -5
Pharell Williams - Happy
A great record!
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Post by ladylinda on Mar 12, 2015 19:35:41 GMT -5
Irreplaceable - Beyonce
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Post by beth on Mar 13, 2015 12:54:23 GMT -5
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Post by ladylinda on Mar 13, 2015 17:07:45 GMT -5
Coolio feat LV - Gangstas Paradise
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Post by beth on Mar 19, 2015 0:25:46 GMT -5
April 20
April 27
1985
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Post by beth on Mar 21, 2015 22:45:14 GMT -5
February 19
1977
Blinded by the Light. - Manfred Mann's Earth Band
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Post by ladylinda on Mar 22, 2015 18:03:31 GMT -5
I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston
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