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🎵 1995 – HAVE YOU EVER REALLY LOVED A WOMAN? / Bryan Adams
🎵 1985 – EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD / Tears For Fears
🎵 1975 – SISTER GOLDEN HAIR / America
🎵 1965 – BACK IN MY ARMS AGAIN / The Supremes
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Welcome to another #1 Songs On This Date! – another four-pack of the cream of the crop from the Top 40 Rock ‘n’ Roll music era.
And with this mid-June post we pass the 250 mark, now with 253 distinct number one singles from the years 1956 through 1995 having been featured – with hundreds more to follow.
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.
Enjoy!
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#1 / June 15th, 1995
HAVE YOU EVER REALLY LOVED A WOMAN?
Bryan Adams
[1995]
Number One: 5 weeks
Replaced: THIS IS HOW WE DO IT / Montell Jordan
Succeeded by: WATERFALLS / TLC
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Canadian pop/rock singer-songwriter-guitarist Bryan Adams scored a huge hit on both Billboard’s weekly Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts with yet another tune written for inclusion in a motion picture – in this case, ‘Don Juan DeMarco’ starring Johnny Depp, Marlon Brandon and Faye Dunaway.
About the recording, Adams was quoted as saying: “The charm of that song is its simplicity – it is really sparse and basically what it is, a flamenco guitar and a voice.”
The creative formula that worked so well for the #1 hit (Everything I Do) I Do For You was again employed for “Woman’ – Adams’ writing collaboration with Robert John “Mutt” Lange and Michael Kamen.
https://youtu.be/z4u9bDRCCXc
[Trivia Bits] The Flamenco guitar work was provided by Paco De Lucia, who comes from a Spanish family famous for their guitarists, and who at one time worked with Chick Corea.
HYERLAW? was the last of three #1 Hot 100 hits recorded by Adams for movies. In 1991 it was (Everything I Do) I Do It For You for ‘Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves’ and in 1993 he collaborated with Rod Stewart and Sting on All For Love as heard in ‘The 3 Musketeers’ (See below).
‘Woman’ was nominated for both the ‘Best Male Pop Vocal Performance’ Grammy and ‘Best Original Song’ Academy Award, but lost in both categories – to Seal‘s Kiss From A Rose and Colors Of The Wind (from ‘Pocahontas’), respectively.
Other #1 Singles for BRYAN ADAMS (4)
• 1985 / HEAVEN
• 1991 / (Everything I Do) I DO IT FOR YOU
• 1989 / ALL FOR LOVE (Bryan Adams/Rod Stewart/Sting)
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#1 / June 15th, 1985
EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD
Tears For Fears
[1985]
Number One: 2 weeks
Replaced: EVERYTHING SHE WANTS / WHAM!
Succeeded by: HEAVEN / Bryan Adams
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The UK synth-pop duo Tears For Fears held down the prime position on the Hot 100 in mid-June of 1985.
Co-vocalist and bass player Curt Smith and vocalist-guitarist-keyboardist Roland Orzabal had met as teenagers living in Bath – a town some 100 miles west of London – where they discovered a mutual interest in music, especially heavy metal by the likes of Led Zeppelin and Slade.
By their late teens they’d formed a band with three friends called Graduate, which in turn was succeeded by permutations with other members named History Of Headaches and ultimately Tears For Fears.
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Over time, the duo’s overall thinking, and accordingly, their music, became heavily influenced by the work of American ‘primal therapy’ guru, psychologist Arthur Janov, who was widely followed by Orzabal initially and later by Smith.
Janov also authored a number of books, with the group’s name Tears For Fears being derived from a chapter title in one of those works called ‘Prisoner of Pain.’
In 1983, a heavily Janov-inspired debut album was recorded called The Hurting, from which three singles hit the UK Top 5 – Mad World, Change and Pale Shelter.
1985’s follow-up set, Songs From The Big Chair, produced three U.S. hit singles – the future chart-topper that same year called Shout, its follow-up, Head Over Heels (1985 • #3) and Everybody Wants To Rule The World.
https://youtu.be/Jzhicm1Gy_k
[Trivia Bits] As I’ve frequently reported about other big hits, Everybody Wants To Rule The World ostensibly was a lowly-regarded, last-minute addition to complete Songs From The Big Chair.
But there seemed to be some calculated forethought given to the recording as well. According to an interview published by USA Today, Smith revealed that EWTRTW was done “to get an American hit, (that) sounded American because it’s like, ‘drive’ music, and a lot of Americans love that.”
Unlike other individual songs that Orzabal and Smith usually took several months to finish, ‘World’ was knocked out in just three days.
TFF would score one other big American hit in 1989 when Sowing The Seeds Of Love climbed to #2.
Other #1 Singles by TEARS FOR FEARS (2)
• 1985 / SHOUT
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#1 / June 15th, 1975
SISTER GOLDEN HAIR
America
[1975]
Number One: 1 week
Replaced: THANK GOD I’M A COUNTRY BOY / John Denver
Succeeded by: LOVE WILL KEEP US TOGETHER / The Captain & Tennille
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The soft-rock group known as America – Dewey Bunnell, Gerry Beckley and Dan Peek – topped Billboard’s showcase chart listing on this date with their second-biggest career hit, Sister Golden Hair.
Their debut single, 1972’s million-selling #1 A Horse With No Name, maintained its ‘best of all-time’ position by the trio despite being succeeded by some very strong releases, namely I Need You (1972 • #9), Ventura Highway (1972 • #8), Tin Man (1974 • #4), Lonely People (1974 • #5) and this week’s chart-topper.
The latter three were produced by legendary Beatles session conductor George Martin, who’d been hired by America in 1975 to work on their fourth album, Holiday, and then retained for LP number five, Hearts – from which SGH emerged.
That work also yielded two additional singles, Daisy Jane and Woman Tonight, both of which failed to replicate the success of Sister Golden Hair by topping out at #20 and #48 respectively.
https://youtu.be/kJtlm8zK7r0
[Trivia Bits] In 1979 America jumped to the Capitol Records label, with whom, after a slow start, they broke through with the bouncy tune You Can Do Magic – a #8 hit in 1982.
Two more singles of note followed while with Capitol. One was called Right Before Your Eyes (1982 • #45) – written by Canadian musician Ian Thomas (Painted Ladies, 1973 • #34) – and The Border (1983 • #33).
Member Dan Peek had left the trio by 1976 to pursue a solo career as a Contemporary Christian recording artist, with Bunnell and Beckley continuing with America as a duo.
Peek then passed away in July of 2011 at the age of 60.
Other #1 Singles by AMERICA (2)
• 1972 / A HORSE WITH NO NAME
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#1 / June 15th, 1965
BACK IN MY ARMS AGAIN
The Supremes
[1965]
Number One: 1 week
Replaced: HELP ME RHONDA / Beach Boys
Succeeded by: I CAN’T HELP MYSELF / Four Tops
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Berry Gordy, Jr.‘s Motown Records company – and its subsidiary label Tamla – just kept on a-rollin’ during the late spring of 1965 when the juggernaut known as The Supremes reeled of their fifth successive #1 smash hit.
The run of sequential chart-toppers had begun ten months prior, when Where Did Our Love Go vaulted to #1, after which it, Baby Love, Come See About Me and Stop! In The Name Of Love collectively enjoyed 10 weeks of top dog domination during a seven-month-plus span in 1964-65.
And on this date in 1965, and again thanks to Diana Ross, Mary Wilson and Florence Ballard, Back In My Arms Again tacked on a single-week’s sojourn to that total.
https://youtu.be/cprXEbta4cM
[Trivia Bits] The Supremes‘ five-singles-at-the-top string was snapped when Nothing But Heartaches stumbled at #11 in the summer of 1965.
The quintuple collection of superior hits by the girl-group was all penned by the emerging preeminent tandem of Gordy Jr.’s growing stable of songwriters – brothers Eddie Holland and Brian Holland along with Lamont Dozier.
And according to Dozier, it was all just part of a learning curve for the trio – “You have to remember that we did not know what we were doing. We were just going on pure instinct and feeling. There were really no rule books.”
As usual, Motown’s in-house stable of excellent studio musicians known as the Funk Brothers can be heard on the backing track of BIMAA, including Benny Benjamin (drums), James Jamerson (bass), Joe Messina (guitar), Mike Terry (saxophone) and Earl Van Dyke (keyboards).
Songwriters H-D-H co-authored the first 10 out of the one dozen Supremes’ number ones, as listed below.
Other #1 Singles by THE SUPREMES (12)
• 1964 / WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO
• 1964 / BABY LOVE
• 1964 / COME SEE ABOUT ME
• 1965 / STOP! IN THE NAME OF LOVE
• 1965 / I HEAR A SYMPHONY
• 1966 / YOU CAN’T HURRY LOVE
• 1966 / YOU KEEP ME HANGIN’ ON
• 1991 / LOVE IS HERE AND NOW YOU’RE GONE
• 1967 / THE HAPPENING
• 1968 / LOVE CHILD (Diana Ross and The Supremes)
• 1969 / SOMEDAY WE’LL BE TOGETHER (Diana Ross and The Supremes)
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CREDITS
Produced & Written By: Rick Murray Hunter / HouseoftheHits.com
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 Billboard Book Of Number One Rhythm & Blues Hits by Adam White and Fred Bronson
• The Billboard Book Of Number One Adult Contemporary Hits by Wesley Hyatt
• The Billboard Book Of Number One Albums by Craig Rosen
• The Billboard’s Hottest Hot 100 Hits (4th Edition) by Fred Bronson
• 1000 UK Chart Hits (Kindle Edition) by Jon Kutner and Spencer Leigh
• The Archives of RollingStone.com
Record Sleeve & Label Graphics: Courtesy of 45cat.com
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