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• 1994 – HERO / Mariah Carey
• 1984 – SAY SAY SAY / Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson
• 1974 – TIME IN A BOTTLE / Jim Croce
• 1964 – THERE! I’VE SAID IT AGAIN / Bobby Vinton
• VIDEO – SAY SAY SAY / Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson
According to the eBook editions of the invaluable publications from Joel Whitburn’s Record Research of data from Billboard magazine’s music charts – widely used in both the radio and record industries because of their accuracy – there were 837 singles that topped the Hot 100 in the 40-year period between January, 1956 and December, 1995. And the deep music vault here at House of the Hits has every one of them!
So, rather than let them sit idle on the vault’s digital hard drives, I thought that I’d begin presenting them over them over the next 52 weeks (and into 2017) for your listening pleasure – and virtually all of them in crystal-clear HD audio!
Each of the blog posts (3-4 per week) will contain four #1 songs, in exact 10-year separations (e.g.1991-1981-1971-1961), so that the changing styles and genres of music from corresponding weeks/decades can be seen and compared.
By early ’17, all 837 chart-toppers from each of those years will comprise a permanent archive found HERE and you can bookmark this link for future instant access.
Clearly, 2016 at House of the Hits will embrace la crème de la crème!
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[Note] For fans of statistics, for the three complete decades in this time period (60’s-80’s) the Seventies decade had the most #1’s with 252 (ah, yes, the music decade where AOR meant ‘All-Over-the-Road’), the Eighties had 231 and the Sixties, with 202, had the least.
Furthermore, across the full 40-year span, 1974 and 1975 had the most chart-toppers (34 each) and 1994 the fewest with just 9.
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#1 / January 10, 1994
HERO
Mariah Carey
[1993]
Number One: 4 weeks
Replaced: AGAIN / Janet Jackson
Succeeded by: ALL FOR LOVE / Bryan Adams/RodStewart/Sting
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Co-written by Maria Carey, Hero was never intended to be recorded by her, but rather by Gloria Estefan, for the film of the same name starring Dustin Hoffman and Geena Davis.
But Sony Music Entertainment president and COO Tommy Mottola (Mariah’s manager and then-fiancé) felt the song – to be released on their subsidiary Epic label – was too good to give away and he convinced Carey to record it herself.
After its release, Mariah dedicated the song to three men who detained a lone gunman from a recent Long Island Railroad shooting in New York, and donated all proceeds from the sale of her single to the families of victims.
Hero reached Billboard‘s #1 spot on Christmas Day, 1993 and held it for three more weeks into early 1994.
https://youtu.be/S71oFavPFoo
Other #1 Singles by MARIAH CAREY (18)
• 1990 / VISION OF LOVE
• 1990 / LOVE TAKES TIME
• 1991 / SOMEDAY
• 1991 / I DON’T WANNA CRY
• 1991 / EMOTIONS
• 1992 / I’LL BE THERE
• 1993 / DREAMLOVER
• 1995 / FANTASY
• 1995 / ONE SWEET DAY (Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men)
• 1996 / ALWAYS BE MY BABY
• 1997 / HONEY
• 1998 / MY ALL
• 1999 / HEARTBREAKER (Mariah Carey Featuring Jay-Z)
• 2000 / THANK GOD I FOUND YOU (Mariah with Joe & 98°)
• 2005 / WE BELONG TOGETHER
• 2005 / DON’T FORGET ABOUT US
• 2008 / TOUCH MY BODY
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#1 / January 10th, 1984
SAY SAY SAY
Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson
[1983]
Number One: 6 weeks
Replaced: ALL NIGHT LONG (All Night) / Lionel Richie
Succeeded by: OWNER OF A LONELY HEART / Yes
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The early 80’s saw a couple of significant collaborations between two of pop music’s all-time biggest stars – the genesis of which had Michael Jackson phoning Paul McCartney to suggest writing and performing some songs together – to which the latter agreed.
The first was 1982’s The Girl Is Mine, officially listed as by ‘Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney’ on Jackson’s Epic label and as part of his mega album Thriller. The single spent two weeks at #2.
With Say Say Say, the logistics were reversed. It was released by Paul’s then-current label, Columbia – as done by ‘Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson’ – also included on Macca’s Pipes Of Peace album.
https://youtu.be/U-nHce5wHfY
[Trivia Bits] Say Say Say was Paul McCartney’s last #1 single – solo or otherwise.
The record spent six weeks at #1 to become the weekly national chart’s fourth biggest pop single for 1983.
Other #1 Singles for PAUL McCARTNEY (29)
• 1964 / I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND (The Beatles)
• 1964 / SHE LOVES YOU (The Beatles)
• 1964 / CAN’T BUY ME LOVE (The Beatles)
• 1964 / LOVE ME DO (The Beatles)
• 1964 / A HARD DAY’S NIGHT (The Beatles)
• 1964 / I FEEL FINE (The Beatles)
• 1965 / EIGHT DAYS A WEEK (The Beatles)
• 1965 / TICKET TO RIDE (The Beatles)
• 1965 / HELP! (The Beatles)
• 1965 / YESTERDAY (The Beatles)
• 1966 / WE CAN WORK IT OUT (The Beatles)
• 1966 / PAPERBACK WRITER (The Beatles)
• 1967 / PENNY LANE (The Beatles)
• 1967 / ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE (The Beatles)
• 1967 / HELLO GOODBYE (The Beatles)
• 1968 / HEY JUDE (The Beatles)
• 1969 / GET BACK (The Beatles with Billy Preston)
• 1969 / COME TOGETHER b/w SOMETHING (The Beatles)
• 1970 / LET IT BE (The Beatles)
• 1970 / THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD b/w FOR YOU BLUE (The Beatles)
• 1971 / UNCLE ALBERT/ADMIRAL HALSEY (Paul & Linda McCartney)
• 1973 / MY LOVE (Paul McCartney & Wings)
• 1973 / BAND ON THE RUN (Paul McCartney & Wings)
• 1975 / LISTEN TO WHAT THE MAN SAID (Wings)
• 1976 / SILLY LOVE SONGS (Wings)
• 1978 / WITH A LITTLE LUCK (Wings)
• 1980 / COMING UP (Live At Glasgow)
• 1982 / EBONY AND IVORY (Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder)
Other #1 Singles for MICHAEL JACKSON (17)
• 1970 / I WANT YOU BACK (The Jackson 5)
• 1970 / ABC (The Jackson 5)
• 1970 / THE LOVE YOU SAVE (The Jackson 5)
• 1970 / I’LL BE THERE (The Jackson 5)
• 1972 / BEN
• 1979 / DON’T STOP ’TIL YOU GET ENOUGH
• 1980 / ROCK WITH YOU
• 1983 / BILLIE JEAN
• 1983 / BEAT IT
• 1987 / I JUST CAN’T STOP LOVING YOU
• 1987 / BAD
• 1988 / THE WAY YOU MAKE ME FEEL
• 1988 / MAN IN THE MIRROR
• 1988 / DIRTY DIANA
• 1992 / BLACK OR WHITE
• 1995 / YOU ARE NOT ALONE
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SAY SAY SAY
Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson
[1983]
(Official Video)
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#1 / January 10th, 1974
TIME IN A BOTTLE
Jim Croce
[1973]
Number One: 2 weeks
Replaced: THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL / Charlie Rich
Succeeded by: THE JOKER / The Steve Miller Band
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Time In A Bottle was contained on Jim Croce‘s debut album from 1972, You Don’t Mess With Jim, but not initially released as single.
However, after its successful appearance in the soundtrack of an ABC ‘Movie Of The Week’ on September 12th, 1973, a decision was made to go back to that album to cull ‘Time’ as a single.
Tragically, eight days after the ABC broadcast, Croce was killed at the age of 30, along with five others, when their privately charted plane crashed after a concert at Northwestern Louisiana University.
Time In A Bottle reached #1 posthumously during the last week of December of ’73 and remained there for a second week on this date.
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Other #1 Singles by JIM CROCE (2)
• 1973 / BAD, BAD LEROY BROWN
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#1 / January 10th, 1964
THERE! I’VE SAID IT AGAIN
Bobby Vinton
[1963]
Number One: 4 weeks
Replaced: DOMINIQUE / The Singing Nun
Succeeded by: I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND / The Beatles
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Bobby Vinton scored a significant #1 song in the annals of pop music on this date with There! I’ve Said It Again.
The single’s importance stems from what ultimately followed in the weeks, months and years ahead, during what became known as Top 40 music’s ‘Golden Age.’
Vinton’s hit sat at the top of the Hot 100 heap through all of January, 1964 before his third chart-topper was succeeded at number one (on February 1st) by four young lads from Liverpool, England known as The Beatles and I Want To Hold Your Hand.
[Trivia Bits] The British Invasion had begun and popular music – and indeed social culture – would never return to its innocence.
Those days, which began with pioneering 50’s American rock & roll artists like Bill Haley & His Comets, Chuck Berry, Little Richard and Elvis Presley and continued into the early 60’s with Philadelphia’s teen idol crooners, The Four Seasons, The Beach Boys and so many others, were gone.
Other #1 Singles by BOBBY VINTON (4)
• 1962 / ROSES ARE RED (My Love)
• 1963 / BLUE VELVET
• 1964 / MR. LONELY
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Written By: Rick Murray Hunter
Songs Source: The Music Vault of HouseoftheHits Inc.
Billboard® Chart Data: Joel Whitburn’s Record Research (eBook Editions)
References: The Billboard Book Of Number One Hits (5th Edition) by Fred Bronson
The Archives of RollingStone.com
Record Sleeve & Label Graphics: Courtesy of 45cat
Other #1 Songs on This Date Posts are HERE
