Beatle GEORGE HARRISON (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001)
topped the US Singles Chart with MY SWEET LORD this day in 1970.
In February 1971 Harrison was accused of alleged copyright infringement
regarding a song called He’s So Fine written by Ronnie Mack in 1963, and
made popular by The Chiffons. After a court case, Harrison was convicted
to pay $1,599,987.
Harrison‘s version…
Check out the similarities
with He’s So Fine here…
Artist: BILLY PAUL Who: Grammy Award-winning
soul artist from Philadelphia.
He passed away in 2016, aged 81
Single: MR AN D MRS. JONES Written: by composers Kenny Gamble,
Leon Huff, and Cary Gilbert
The song is anout an extramarital affair between a man and his lover, called Mrs. Jones. The two meet in secret “every day at the same cafe”, at 6:30, where they hold hands and talk. The two are caught in a quandary: “We got a thing going on/we both know that it’s wrong/but it’s much too strong/to let it go now”.
This day 50 years ago, on 16 December 1972 Paul and Mrs. Jones
started a 3-week run on the top spot of the American Singles Chart.
Glam pop act THE HUMAN LEAGUE scored their only No 1 hit in the UK
with ‘Don’t You Want Me’ when it topped the chart on 12 December 1981,
40 years ago today.
It was the biggest-selling single of that year with over more than 1.560.000 copies.
But frontman Phil Oakey wasn’t really fond of the hit. After the release, he said
that he disliked the song so much that it became the last track on their masterpiece albumDare.
Note 1: Legend goes that the song’s title was inspired
by Wilson‘s obsession with cosmic vibrations, as his mother
would tell him as a kid that dogs sometimes bark at people
in response to their ‘bad vibrations‘.
Note 2: Over 90 hours of tape was consumed for the recordings
of the good vibes, with a total cost of production estimated
to be in the tens of thousands of dollars.
Score: The single hit the top spot of the US charts
on 10 December 1966, 53 years ago today.
Also #1 in the UK.
The song was written by band members Bernard Edwards and main man Nile Rodgers who’s still active as producer, songwriter and live performer.
Score: The funky disco hit started a seven-week run at No.1 on the US Singles
Chart this day 44 years ago, on 9 December 1978. It peaked at #7 in the UK
and sold more than 7 million copies worldwide.
She played the guitar and wrote songs since she was 15. Her religious superiors encouraged her to spread the Catholic message through her music. An LP was recorded/released, containing the song DOMINQUE.
An ode to Saint Dominic, a Spanish-born priest and founder of the Dominican Order
which became a worldwide hit. She was the first and (so far) only Belgian artist who
topped the US Charts.
It happened this day 59 years ago, on 7 December 1963. She occupied the top
seat for 4 weeks. The single sold over 1.5 million copies in America alone, winning
a Grammy Award for the year’s best Gospel song. The Signing Nun topped also the
charts in 11 other countries. She also sang Dominisue in English, Dutch, German,
Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, and Portuguese.
Secretly, she had a lesbian relationship. But when the news came out she strongly
denied it. After several mental problem periods, she and her lover Annie Pécher took
both their own lives in 1985 by taking overdoses of barbiturates and alcohol.
Sad, really sad story.
Domi-nique -nique -nique
s’en allait tout simplement,
Routier, pauvre et chantant.
En tous chemins, en tous lieux,
Il ne parle que du Bon Dieu,
Il ne parle que du Bon Dieu.
