Shawna Posted December 13, 2010 Report Share Posted December 13, 2010 The only US Billboard chart that matters for singles is the Hot 100. The others are subsidiary charts that are extremely specialized due to airplay on specific kinds of radio stations. While a band can have several hit singles on those charts (Pink Floyd is one of those bands), they're not considered chart successes until they've had multiple hits on the Hot 100. Pink Floyd has had only two hit singles on the Hot 100 -- Money (#13) and Another Brick In The Wall pt. 2 (#1). They've had several other singles do well on the Mainstream Rock Tracks charts, especially from the later two albums, but that doesn't mean those were their biggest hits. So Edna was correct to call Can't Get Enough their biggest hit, as it charted at #5 on the Hot 100. does the Hot 100 include all genres of music? Country, rap, R&B - everything? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawna Posted December 13, 2010 Report Share Posted December 13, 2010 "Harper Valley PTA" Jeannie C Riley Written by Tom T. Hall. It was released as a single and is also a track of her album "Harper Valley PTA", both released in 1968. The song jumped to #1 in the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard Country singles in the US. It also went #1 in the pop and country charts in Canada and in Australia as well. Jeannie C. Riley became the first woman to have a #1 in both pop and country lists. The single sold over 6 million copies. Tom Hall said he was a former student of the Harpeth Valley Elementary School in Bellevue, Tennessee and he loved the name, so he wrote the song inspired by it. I think Barbara Eden (I Dream of Jeannie) played in the movie of that song... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skybluesky Posted December 13, 2010 Report Share Posted December 13, 2010 Woody Harrelson was in that movie too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky Posted December 13, 2010 Report Share Posted December 13, 2010 What reminded of the song at all is that Pat Paulsen is in the film (Mr Harper), Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lea Posted December 16, 2010 Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 Thank you everyone for your contributions to the facts thread. Edna, a spacial thank you for your efforts You've been doing this so diligently for so long... I hereby deem you queen of the facts thread Your all just wonderful and thank you for any and all the input you offer. Rock On :rock: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lea Posted December 18, 2010 Report Share Posted December 18, 2010 The Songfactors' Choice Top Ten #242 This week there are two songs needing facts. Oh Very Young - Cat Stevens (1974) Take It or Leave It - The Rolling Stones (1966) If you have any info on any of the songs mentioned anywhere in this thread, please feel free to post your knowledge here. Submissions on songs will be collated and sent to the main site and you will receive credit for your contribution. As always the Songfish thanks you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinkstones Posted December 18, 2010 Report Share Posted December 18, 2010 "Oh Very Young" Cat Stevens "Oh Very Young" is a song by Cat Stevens. It was released on his 1974 album Buddha and the Chocolate Box. The song, which expresses an older person's wistful appreciation of the idealism of youth and the inevitable disillusionment of maturity, reached number 10 in the U.S. charts. Stevens' fans responded warmly to Buddha and the Chocolate Box's stylistic return to form. "Oh Very Young" became his first Top Ten hit in two years, and the album was held out of number one only by The Sting. The album's tone, however, suggested that Stevens was once again wearying of being a pop star, even as he delivered a record that maintained that status. "Take It or Leave It" The Rolling Stones Take It or Leave It is a song written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards recorded from December 3-6, 1965 at RCA Studios in Los Angeles, California and first released on their album Aftermath (UK version). The Searchers released their version before the Stones as a single a-side in 1966 reaching No. 31 in the UK. Very little info on the Stones song that I can find, I'm afraid. AllMusic didn't have anything about it and that blurb on Wikipedia was all there was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edna Posted December 18, 2010 Report Share Posted December 18, 2010 "Take It or Leave It" The Rolling Stones Very little info on the Stones song that I can find, I'm afraid. AllMusic didn't have anything about it and that blurb on Wikipedia was all there was. Cool, pinkstones! All I can add to "Take it Or lave It" is that it was released in the UK in 1966, on April 15th, and "Flowers" in the US one year later on July 15th. Jack Nitzsche plays organ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lea Posted December 23, 2010 Report Share Posted December 23, 2010 Thank you everyone for this weeks facts Merry Christmas to all who celebrate it ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edna Posted December 24, 2010 Report Share Posted December 24, 2010 Thank you, Lea... Happy Christmas!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lea Posted December 24, 2010 Report Share Posted December 24, 2010 The Songfactors' Choice Top Ten #243 This week there are four songs needing facts. Rock Steady - Bad Company (1974) Feel Like A Number - Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band (1978) Old Days - Chicago (1975) Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24 - Trans-Siberian Orchestra (1996) If you have any info on any of the songs mentioned anywhere in this thread, please feel free to post your knowledge here. Submissions on songs will be collated and sent to the main site and you will receive credit for your contribution. As always the Songfish thanks you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinkstones Posted December 24, 2010 Report Share Posted December 24, 2010 "Rock Steady" Bad Company Rock Steady", "Bad Company" and "Ready for Love" (the latter originally recorded by guitarist Mick Ralphs during his tenure with Mott the Hoople on All the Young Dudes) are also "classic rock" radio staples. The song is featured on the band's debut album, released in 1974. The song was written by Paul Rodgers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinkstones Posted December 24, 2010 Report Share Posted December 24, 2010 "Feel Like A Number" Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band Nothing on Wikipedia about this song, other than it was featured on the 2nd album he did with the Silver Bullet Band, "Stranger In Town" and it was written by Seger himself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinkstones Posted December 24, 2010 Report Share Posted December 24, 2010 "Old Days" Chicago "Old Days" is a song written by James Pankow for the group Chicago and recorded for their album Chicago VIII (1975), with lead vocals by Peter Cetera.[1] The second single released from that album, it reached #5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and #3 on the Easy Listening chart. Pankow has said that the song is a nostalgic piece about his childhood: "It touches on key phrases that, although they date me, are pretty right-on in terms of images of my childhood. 'The Howdy Doody Show' on television and collecting baseball cards and comic books." [2] Cetera apparently hated singing the song in concert, as the Howdy Doody show was his least favorite show during his childhood. The song is still popular at Chicago concerts, with Jason Scheff or Keith Howland now singing the lead vocal. The Sopranos star Vincent Curatola has been known to guest vocal with the band on the song as well.[citation needed] "Old Days" is featured on the soundtrack of the movie Starsky & Hutch (2004). The band also reworked the song in 2009 to serve as the theme for the "Monsters in the Morning" show airing on Comcast SportsNet Chicago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edna Posted December 25, 2010 Report Share Posted December 25, 2010 "Fell Like A Number" Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band Written by Bob Seger. A track from his album "Stranger in Town", released in 1978. The Silver Bullet Band are. Drew Abbott (guitar), Robyn Robbins (keyboard),Alto Reed (horns), Chris Campbell on bass and David Teegarden (percussion, drums) Doug Riley plays piano and keyboard. When Bob Seger was nominated for a Grammy as "Best New Artist of 1976," it generated no small amount of laughter around the Midwest, where he'd been scoring regional hits and playing anywhere a promoter would have him for ten years. Prior to the album Night Moves, Bob Seger was the prototypical hard-working heartland rocker, playing his heart out for his endlessly loyal Michigan audience while the rest of the country ignored him, but by the 1980s, after he'd finally achieved nationwide recognition, Seger had forsaken both Michigan and hard rock for Los Angeles and mushy mid-tempo "soft rock" that suggested the Eagles without the occasional burst of irony. "Feel Like a Number," from Seger's 1978 album Stranger in Town, was one of his last truly great moments as a rocker, and could well have been the anthem of the Regular Joes who'd stuck by Seger during his lean years. A typical working stiff is hounded by the world around him, which regards him as just another nonentity and shows him little or no respect, until he explodes in a burst of desperation, declaring, "I ain't just a number/Dammit, I'm a man!" While the Silver Bullet Band generate a tough wall of guitar and keyboard driven rock behind Seger on this cut, it's his vocal -- pained, angry, and defiant -- that makes this recording something special. Given the ups and downs of his career, Seger was probably only a few steps away from a life as a typical Midwest factory rat on more than one occasion, and if the fates spared him such a life, on this song he saw just how bleak it could be; he made the pain just real enough that one can understand why he might be reluctant to revisit this territory, though more than a few fans would love to see him try. (Mark Deming, from allmusic.com) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edna Posted December 25, 2010 Report Share Posted December 25, 2010 Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24 An instrumental instrumental medley of "Carol of the Bells" (written by the Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovychand) and "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen", an English traditional Christmas carol. It was released on "Dead Winter Dead", a Savatage album from 1995 as "Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24)." On the next year, The Trans-Siberian orchestra (formed by some of Savatage members)released it again. It's part of a track from their debut album "Christmas Eve and Other Stories" The piece describes a lone cello player playing a forgotten Christmas carol in war-torn Sarajevo... The cellist that the story refers to is Vedran Smailović. However, unlike the "white-haired man" referred to in the story, Smailović was in his mid-thirties at the time of the Siege of Sarajevo. We heard about this cello player born in Sarajevo many years ago who left when he was fairly young to go on to become a well-respected musician, playing with various symphonies throughout Europe. Many decades later, he returned to Sarajevo as an elderly man—at the height of the Bosnian War, only to find his city in complete ruins. I think what most broke this man's heart was that the destruction was not done by some outside invader or natural disaster—it was done by his own people. At that time, Serbs were shelling Sarajevo every night. Rather than head for the bomb shelters like his family and neighbors, this man went to the town square, climbed onto a pile of rubble that had once been the fountain, took out his cello, and played Mozart and Beethoven as the city was bombed. He came every night and began playing Christmas carols from that same spot. It was just such a powerful image—a white-haired man silhouetted against the cannon fire, playing timeless melodies to both sides of the conflict amid the rubble and devastation of the city he loves. Some time later, a reporter traced him down to ask why he did this insanely stupid thing. The old man said that it was his way of proving that despite all evidence to the contrary, the spirit of humanity was still alive in that place. The song basically wrapped itself around him. We used some of the oldest Christmas melodies we could find, like "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" and "Carol of the Bells" (which is from Ukraine, near that region). The orchestra represents one side, the rock band the other, and single cello represents that single individual, that spark of hope. (from ChristianityToday.com) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edna Posted December 26, 2010 Report Share Posted December 26, 2010 "Old Days" Chicago The single was released in April 1975 with "Hideaway" as the B-side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edna Posted December 26, 2010 Report Share Posted December 26, 2010 "Rock Steady" Bad Company The song is featured on the band's debut album, released in 1974. The song was written by Paul Rodgers. Though also released as a single, it didn't chart. Yet it's one of the most popular songs of the band and it is often performed live as part of the encores. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lea Posted January 1, 2011 Report Share Posted January 1, 2011 That you for the facts ladies nice work The Songfactors' Choice Top Ten: Best of 2010 This week there are two songs needing facts. F*ck You - Cee Lo Green Burden Of Tomorrow - The Tallest Man On Earth If you have any info on any of the songs mentioned anywhere in this thread, please feel free to post your knowledge here. Submissions on songs will be collated and sent to the main site and you will receive credit for your contribution. As always the Songfish thanks you :guitar: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edna Posted January 1, 2011 Report Share Posted January 1, 2011 ...very little info on this... "Burden Of Tomorrow" The Tallest Man On Earth Written by Kristian Mattson, a.k.a The Tallest man On Earth, a Swedish folk musician, former singer of the band Montezumas. A track of his album "The Wild Hunt" released on April 13th, 2010. It's the second album of the TTMOE and the first one released by Dead Oceans Records. Often compared to Bob Dylan, Matsson is considered as an uprising talent. Though it didn't chart, the album had the best ratings from listeners and medias. NME said it's ' a refreshingly clean listen. ...his characteristically poetic evocations of the natural world connecting on a more human and relatable level than past abstractions (from "Burden of Tomorrow": "I'm just a blind man on the plains/I drink my water when it rains/And live by chance among the lightning strikes") Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edna Posted January 1, 2011 Report Share Posted January 1, 2011 "F**k You" Cee Lo Green Written by Cee Lo Green, Bruno Mars, Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine, Brody Brown. A single released on August 19th, 2010 as a single and also a track of "The Lady Killer", Cee Lo Green's album released on November 5th the same year. The single reached #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, #1 in the UK and in Holland, while staying among the Top-tenners in many countries. The record company had to change the name of the song into "Forget You" -or just "FU"- so it could be aired on the radio. The video was a hit on Youtube when it was released in september, with more than 2 million viewers and a nomination for a Grammy Award. According Billboard critic Jason Lipshutz, the song is "as sunny as a '60s Motown hit and as expletive-laden as an early Eminem song, a combination that fits the singer's sky-high vocals and offbeat sense of humor well. Over a twinkling piano line, bumping bass and steady percussion, Green shakes off a failed relationship with a gold digger by packing the simple pleasures of old-school soul music into tongue-in-cheek verses and a suitably soaring chorus". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted January 1, 2011 Report Share Posted January 1, 2011 "F**k You" Cee Lo Green Written by Cee Lo Green, Bruno Mars, Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine, Brody Brown. A single released on August 19th, 2010 as a single and also a track of "The Lady Killer", Cee Lo Green's album released on November 5th the same year. The single reached #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, #1 in the UK and in Holland, while staying among the Top-tenners in many countries. The record company had to change the name of the song into "Forget You" -or just "FU"- so it could be aired on the radio. The video was a hit on Youtube when it was released in september, with more than 2 million viewers and a nomination for a Grammy Award. According Billboard critic Jason Lipshutz, the song is "as sunny as a '60s Motown hit and as expletive-laden as an early Eminem song, a combination that fits the singer's sky-high vocals and offbeat sense of humor well. Over a twinkling piano line, bumping bass and steady percussion, Green shakes off a failed relationship with a gold digger by packing the simple pleasures of old-school soul music into tongue-in-cheek verses and a suitably soaring chorus". that song's already in the database under the non-asterisk name Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edna Posted January 2, 2011 Report Share Posted January 2, 2011 Oh, cool then... Thank you, martin... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lea Posted January 2, 2011 Report Share Posted January 2, 2011 Thank you edna for getting this weeks facts And thank you Farin for pointing out my oversite. When I checked the data base I didn't use the whole word good catch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lea Posted January 7, 2011 Report Share Posted January 7, 2011 The Songfactor's Choice Top Ten #244 This week there are two songs needing facts. House Is Rockin, The - Stevie Ray Vaughan (1989) Sun Smells Too Loud, The - Mogwai (2008) If you have any info on any of the songs mentioned anywhere in this thread, please feel free to post your knowledge here. Submissions on songs will be collated and sent to the main site and you will receive credit for your contribution. As always the Songfish thanks you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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