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• 1991 – GONNA MAKE YOU SWEAT (Everybody Dance Now) / C & C Music Factory Presents Freedom Williams
• 1981 – 9 TO 5 / Dolly Parton
• 1971 – ONE BAD APPLE / The Osmonds
• 1961 – CALCUTTA / Lawrence Welk
Welcome to another #1 Songs On This Date! – another four-pack of the cream of the cream from the Top 40 Rock ‘n’ Roll music era.
83 distinct number one singles between the years 1956 and 1995 have already been presented since January – with literally hundreds more to come.
They’re all part of a permanent archive that’s being built at HouseoftheHits.com which will ultimately feature ALL 837 different number one singles as listed in 2,080 weekly national music charts published by Billboard® within that 40-year timeframe.
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Fortunately, HouseoftheHits has every one of those charts – plus secondary data – as published in the essential Joel Whitburn’s Record Research series (CD-ROM and eBook edition formats).
Everything is stored digitally on a HouseoftheHits computer – as are all 837 number one singles (in high-quality audio) from the music vault.
With the availability of precise data and the HOTH song files – together with some amazing technology – approximately 600 – 700 of those Billboard® chart-toppers will be presented this year – with the remainder to follow in early 2017.
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As the archive grows you will have continual free access to the accumulating repository, indexed by Decade, Month and Year. Plus, EVERY Title and Artist will be (blue) hyper-linked for smooth, easy navigation from song to song – with more great features to be added along the way.
Again, it will contain every #1 single in America, plus interesting commentary about each song (written by yours truly) and presented with a crystal clear High-Definition audio version of the complete original hit to instantly play as often as you wish.
The ever-expanding library is found HERE and you can bookmark this link for future instant access.
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#1 / February 21st, 1991
GONNA MAKE YOU SWEAT (Everybody Dance Now)
C & C Music Factory Presents Freedom Williams
[1990]
(Radio Edit Version)
Number One: 2 weeks
Replaced: THE FIRST TIME / Surface
Succeeded by: ALL THE MAN THAT I NEED / Whitney Houston
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David Cole and Robert Clivillés met at a Times Square underground club in New York City, where the latter was a DJ and the former played keyboards.
Initially they turned their mutual musical interests into recording and performing as a duo, and then focused on producing records by forming C + C Music Factory in 1990.
For this hit single on Columbia Records, Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now), they enlisted female vocalist Martha Wash and added one of their studio engineers – the deep-voiced Freedom Williams – to add a rap element to the song.
The record topped the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks and sold two-million copies.
The next two releases also scored big in 1991 – Here We Go (3) and Things That Make You Go Hmmmm… (#4) sold one million units apiece.
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#1 / February 21st, 1981
9 TO 5
Dolly Parton
[1980]
Number One: 2 weeks
Replaced: CELEBRATION / Kool And The Gang
(1) Succeeded by: I LOVE A RAINY NIGHT / Eddie Rabbitt
(2) Succeeded by: KEEP ON LOVING YOU / REO Speedwagon
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Dolly Parton was a precocious child who was singing, playing the guitar (a modified mandolin) and writing songs by the age of five.
The day after graduating from high school, the Tennessee-born Parton set out to pursue her musicals dreams by moving to the big city – Nashville, landing a recording contract with Monument Records in 1965.
Two years later Dolly was hired by country vocalist Porter Wagoner as his road show partner, and by 1974, a new solo recording deal with RCA yielded big country hits like Jolene and Light Of A Clear Blue Country Morning.
Moving to Los Angeles in the late-70’s, Parton “crossed over” to the pop music charts with a song written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, 1977’s million-selling Here You Come Again, which earned her a Grammy Award for ‘Best Female Vocal Performance.’
Written by Parton, 9 To 5 was also the title song from the 1990 movie in which she co-starred with Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dabney Coleman.
[Trivia Bit] In a rare chart occurrence, 9 To 5‘s two weeks at #1 were split and book-ended Eddie Rabbitt‘s couple of weeks there with I Love A Rainy Night.
Other #1 Singles by DOLLY PARTON (2)
• 1983 / ISLANDS IN THE STREAM (Kenny Rogers with Dolly Parton)
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#1 / February 21st, 1971
ONE BAD APPLE
The Osmonds
[1971]
Number One: 5 weeks
Replaced: KNOCK THREE TIMES / Dawn
Succeeded by: ME AND BOBBY McGEE / Janis Joplin
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The singing Osmonds quintet of brothers, from Ogden Utah, was discovered in 1962 by the father of crooner Andy Williams while performing at the Disneyland After Dark show at Orange County, California’s famous theme park.
And despite becoming regulars on NBC-TV’s weekly The Andy Williams Show for eight years, it would take until late 1970 for The Osmonds to finally achieve recording success.
During that drought, Alan, Wayne, Merrill, Jay and Donny Osmond had failed while recording for both Williams’ Barnaby Records label and MCA’s Uni Records.
Finally, a deal with Mike Curb‘s MGM label in 1970 hooked them up with highly respected record producer Rick Hall and after this week’s first chart-topper for the boys, the hits “just kept on comin'” for over 3 and 1/2 years.
Beginning its first of 5 weeks at number one on this date, One Bad Apple would sell over one million singles and was later joined by Yo-Yo (1971 • #3) and Down By The Lazy River (1971 • #4) in achieving gold status.
Other big Osmonds hits included Double Lovin’ (1971 • #14) Hold Her Tight (1972 • #14), Crazy Horses (1972 • #14) and Love Me For A Reason (1974 • #10).
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#1 / February 21st, 1961
CALCUTTA
Lawrence Welk
[1960]
Number One: 2 weeks
Replaced: WILL YOU LOVE ME TOMORROW / The Shirelles
Succeeded by: PONY TIME / Chubby Checker
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After a two-week stint at Billboard’s #1 spot from Will You Love Me Tomorrow by The Shirelles, American orchestra leader Lawrence Welk joined its predecessor – Bert Kaempfert‘s instrumental Wonderland By Night – with another instrumental song of German origin.
Written in 1958 by composer Heino Gaze (as Tivoli Melody), the tune was ultimately renamed four more times!: Take Me Dreaming, Nicolette, Kalcutta Leigt Am Ganges and finally, recorded by Welk as the harpsichord-driven Calcutta.
The English lyrics were added by Americans Paul Vance and Lee Pockriss, who both had prolific and diverse careers as songwriters – as a team and with others.
And to me, as an aficionado of music trivia, their impressive resumes are the story below in the ‘Trivia Bits.’
[Trivia Bits] Besides Calcutta, Vance-Pockriss co-penned Perry Como‘s Grammy-nominated Catch a Falling Star from 1957, Itsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini by Brian Hyland, recorded in 1960, The Detergents‘ Leader Of The Laudromat (the 1964 spoof of the hit by The Shangri-Las earlier that year, Leader Of The Pack), Tracy from The Cuff Links in 1969 and Clint Holmes‘ Playground In My Mind, recorded in 1972.
Paul Vance co-wrote 1963’s What Will Mary Say by Johnny Mathis (with Eddie Snyder) and Run Joey Run from David Geddes in 1975 (with Perry Cone).
Lee Pockriss co-authored Anita Bryant‘s My Little Corner of the World from 1960 (with Bob Hilliard) and 1962’s Johnny Angel by Shelley Fabares (with Lyn Duddy).
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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
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