1 hit.Other labels were heavily into disco in 1976 but not Motown. 1s. This time, Clive Davis said yes.Four months after he was No. "I asked Jay to get on the song the night before I had to turn my album in," Beyoncé told Billboard. "Mario didn't realize this song was going to be so huge. McCartney wanted the song for himself but his label was unenthusiastic so it went to the winner of the third season of "The X Factor" in the U.K.Back in 1958, Don Gibson wrote two songs one hot afternoon in Knoxville, Tenn. – "Oh Lonesome Me" and "I Can't Stop Loving You." The inspiration for the sentimental ballad was Scarsdale, N.Y.-born Linda Louise Eastman, a professional photographer before she married McCartney on March 12, 1969.Ryan Tedder and Jesse McCartney wrote the song, inspired by the latter's long-distance romance with his girlfriend. 1 and the first single to top five different Billboard charts.After singing with Chess Records' the Gems and Rotary Connection, Riperton joined Stevie Wonder's backing vocalists, Wonderlove, in 1973. The follow-up LP, "Honey," yielded a single, "Sweet Sticky Thing," that stalled at No. The next day, the network was inundated with calls from viewers asking where they could buy the song. "Freddie Mercury wrote the song while languishing in his bath at the Munich Hilton. Carey was told the song was a "career-maker" and despite her protests, the presses were stopped and the song was added to her debut release.Barry and Robin Gibb wrote the song for Streisand but the former told Billboard he gives the artist most of the credit. "After struggling for 15 years, the group scored a No. A furious Darren Hayes went away for 10 minutes with bandmate Daniel Jones and came back with a completed song, "I Knew I Loved You" (the duo's second No. 1 smash for Dion, who told Billboard, "If you want to open up and sing strong, you could not have a better song than 'Power of Love.
Although it didn't reach No. ABC's "Nightline" then aired the entire video, uncensored.Jackson's first single for Virgin was based on a sample from a James Brown No. "I was over the moon," says Lulu.Right after she was signed to Columbia, Carey wrote her debut single with Ben Margulies. It's sonic proof that while musical fads and fashions will change with every generation, love -- and the songs inspired by it -- will never go out of style.The singer from Eureka, Calif. made her chart debut with this song. Their collaboration gave Carey her then-longest-reigning No. Asked to submit another song, they sent "Waiting for a Star to Fall," and when the answer was no, they recorded it themselves as Boy Meets Girl. The song was recorded for the soundtrack to "Set It Off," starring Queen Latifah and Jada Pinkett.The video for this song was too steamy for MTV, which refused to air it. George Benson's soundtrack single peaked at No. The next morning in her office, she recalls, "The chorus lyrically and musically wrote itself. Finally it was a No. Within hours of the network's decision, Warner/Reprise Video announced that "Justify My Love" would be the first commercially released video single.
When Zeffirelli changed his mind and asked Richie if he would add lyrics, the Motown star agreed to write some. © Copyright 2020 Rolling Stone, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media, LLC. 1 R&B hit from 1974, "Papa Don't Take No Mess." Encouraged to try again, it only took them two days to write "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)."
1 of her solo career. They intended the song for Yvonne Elliman, but their manager Robert Stigwood insisted they record it themselves.What could be more romantic than finding love in a "hopeless place"? Just a few months earlier, they were known around Berry Gordy's company as "the no-hit Supremes," but that changed when their previous single, "Where Did Our Love Go," achieved pole position.It's not a surprise that Swift wrote this song based on a real guy she was dating. "It was the worst sounding thing you ever heard in your life," he admits. "Producer Jon Peters and director Franco Zeffirelli asked Lionel Richie to compose an instrumental along the lines of the theme from "Love Story" for their movie starring Brooke Shields. Ross had no problem with the slow, seductive first half but started laughing when the beats-per-minute increased, protesting she couldn't sing that part. 1.The 12th entry on the Hot 100 for this female vocal group from Oakland, Calif., it proved to be their biggest hit, with four weeks in the runner-up spot.