"number one on the R&B chart in ""Billboard"" magazine dated August 7, 1965 and crossed over to the Top 40 of the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 reaching number 21: however according to Stax owner Jim Stewart the domestic sales total of the single in its original release was a moderate 300,000 units. However ""In the Midnight Hour"" by Wilson Pickett has become an iconic R&B track, placing at number 134 on ""Rolling Stone""<nowiki>'</nowiki>s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All-Time, Wilson Pickett's first of two entries on the list (the other being ""Mustang Sally"" at number 434). It is also"
"in the years to follow, but his biggest successes were as songwriter for other artists on labels like Stax and others in the 1960s and following decades. He began his solo vocalist career at Stax in 1967, recording on Atco Records beginning in 1968. Rice is one of the few musicians whose career touched both Motown and Stax Records. As a solo recording artist, he had two chart hits: ""Mustang Sally"", which reached number 15 on the ""Billboard"" R&B chart in 1965, and ""Coal Man"", which reached number 48 on the soul music chart in 1969. Besides ""Mustang Sally"", which"
"Mack Rice Bonny ""Mack"" Rice (November 10, 1933 – June 27, 2016), sometimes credited as Sir Mack Rice, was an American songwriter and singer. His best-known composition and biggest hit as a solo performer was ""Mustang Sally."" He also wrote ""Respect Yourself"" with Luther Ingram. Rice was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi. In 1950, his family moved to Detroit, Michigan, where he began his work in the R&B field, performing with the Five Scalders in 1956. From 1957–63, he performed with the Falcons, a group whose members included Eddie Floyd, Wilson Pickett and Joe Stubbs. He performed as a solo vocalist"
"Sandie Shaw Sandie Shaw, MBE (born Sandra Ann Goodrich; 26 February 1947) is an English singer. One of the most successful British female singers of the 1960s, in 1967 the song ""Puppet on a String"" performed by her became the first British entry to win the Eurovision Song Contest. After a long and successful career, Shaw announced her retirement from the music industry in 2013. Sandra Ann Goodrich was born and brought up in Dagenham, Essex, England. On leaving school, she worked at the nearby Ford Dagenham factory, and did some part-time modelling before coming second as a singer in"
"Suzi Quatro Susan Kay Quatro (born June 3, 1950) is an American rock singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and actress. She was the first female bass player to become a major rock star. In the 1970s, Quatro scored a string of hit singles that found greater success in Europe and Australia than in her homeland. She reached no. 1 in the UK and other European countries and Australia with her singles ""Can the Can"" (1973) and ""Devil Gate Drive"" (1974). Following a recurring role as bass player Leather Tuscadero on the popular American sitcom ""Happy Days"", her duet ""Stumblin' In"" with Smokie's lead"
"Fury with the Four Kestrels Billy Fury Ronald Wycherley (17 April 1940 – 28 January 1983), better known by his stage name Billy Fury, was an English singer from the late 1950s to the mid 1960s, and remained an active songwriter until the 1980s. Rheumatic fever, which he first contracted as a child, damaged his heart and ultimately contributed to his death. An early British rock and roll (and film) star, he equalled the Beatles' record of 24 hits in the 1960s, and spent 332 weeks on the UK chart, without a chart-topping single or album. AllMusic journalist Bruce Eder"
"Manchester United fan. In 1986, he provided backup vocals for the musical film ""Little Shop of Horrors"". Mick Hucknall Michael James Hucknall (born 8 June 1960) is an English singer and songwriter. Hucknall achieved international fame in the 1980s as the lead singer and songwriter of the soul-influenced pop band Simply Red, with whom he enjoyed a 25-year career and sold over 50 million albums. Hucknall was described by Australian music magazine ""Rhythms"" as ""one of the truly great blue-eyed soul singers"". Hucknall, born at Saint Mary's Hospital, Manchester, was an only child. His mother abandoned the family when he"
"Blue Rock Records Blue Rock Records was a subsidiary of Mercury Records, and like their parent, based in Chicago between 1964 and 1969. Despite their name, they didn't release blues or rock, concentrating almost exclusively on soul music, with a fair number of the singles echoing Chi-town styles popularized by Curtis Mayfield and other local producers and writers. Highlights included a version of ""Mustang Sally"" by its author, Sir Mack Rice. Big names past their hit-making prime, such as (The Shirelles), and in experimental phases (bluesmen Junior Wells and Junior Parker), cut records for the label. The best known Blue"
"Without Your Love"", ""Colour My World"", ""This Is My Song,"" ""Kiss Me Goodbye,"" and ""Don't Sleep in the Subway"", and she was dubbed ""the First Lady of the British Invasion"". She has sold more than 68 million records. Clark was born to Doris (née Phillips) and Leslie Norman Clark in Epsom, Surrey, England on 15 November 1932. Both of her parents were nurses there at Long Grove Hospital. Her mother was of Welsh ancestry and her father was English. Young Sally's stage name of ""Petula"" was invented by her father, Leslie Clark; he joked it was a combination of the"
"handful of significant British Blue-eyed soul acts, including Dusty Springfield and Tom Jones. In 70s Carl Douglas, Real Thing and Delegation had hits in UK chart. American soul was extremely popular among some youth sub-cultures like the Mod, Northern soul and Modern soul movements, but a clear genre of British soul did not emerge until the 1980s when a number of artists including George Michael, Sade, Simply Red, Lisa Stansfield and Soul II Soul enjoyed commercial success. The popularity of British soul artists in the U.S., most notably Amy Winehouse, Adele, Estelle, Duffy, Joss Stone and Leona Lewis, led to"
"Mick Hucknall Michael James Hucknall (born 8 June 1960) is an English singer and songwriter. Hucknall achieved international fame in the 1980s as the lead singer and songwriter of the soul-influenced pop band Simply Red, with whom he enjoyed a 25-year career and sold over 50 million albums. Hucknall was described by Australian music magazine ""Rhythms"" as ""one of the truly great blue-eyed soul singers"". Hucknall, born at Saint Mary's Hospital, Manchester, was an only child. His mother abandoned the family when he was three; the upheaval caused by this event inspired him to write ""Holding Back the Years"", which"
"Ray Thomas Raymond Thomas (29 December 1941 – 4 January 2018) was an English musician, flautist, singer, founding member and composer in the English progressive rock band the Moody Blues. His flute solo on the band's 1967 hit single ""Nights in White Satin"" is regarded as one of progressive rock's ""defining moments."" In 2018, Thomas was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Moody Blues. Thomas was born at an emergency maternity unit set up during World War II in Lickhill Manor, Stourport-on-Severn, England. His father's family was from the southwest corner"
"This had previously been the B-side to Douglas' 1969 release, ""Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head"", a cover of the B.J. Thomas song. Douglas' 2011 album, ""The Craig Douglas Project"", included his versions of ""Auberge"" and ""Creep"". Craig Douglas Craig Douglas (born Terence Perkins, 12 August 1941) is an English pop singer, who was popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s. His sole UK chart-topper, ""Only Sixteen"" (1959), sold more copies in the UK than Sam Cooke's original version. Born a twin, in Newport, Isle of Wight the former Terence Perkins was employed as a milkman before becoming a"
"Stan Kelly-Bootle Stanley Bootle, known as Stan Kelly-Bootle (15 September 1929 – 16 April 2014), was a British author, academic, singer-songwriter and computer scientist. He took his stage name Stan Kelly (he was not known as Stan Kelly-Bootle in folk music circles) from the Irish folk song ""Kelly, the boy from Killane"". His best-known song is the ""Liverpool Lullaby"" or ""The Mucky Kid"" which was recorded in 1965 on the ""Three City Four"" LP and sung by Marian McKenzie. It was also sung by the Ian Campbell Folk Group on the ""Contemporary Campbells"" LP. It was later a song which"
"Kathy Kirby Kathy Kirby (born Kathleen O'Rourke; 20 October 1938 – 19 May 2011) was an English singer, reportedly the highest-paid female singer of her generation. She is best known for her cover version of Doris Day's ""Secret Love"" and for representing the United Kingdom in the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest where she finished in second place. Her physical appearance often drew comparisons with Marilyn Monroe. Her popularity peaked in the 1960s, when she was one of the best-known and most-recognised personalities in British show business. Kirby was born in Ilford, London, the eldest of three children of Irish parents."
"Lonnie Donegan Anthony James Donegan (29 April 1931 – 3 November 2002), known as Lonnie Donegan, was a British skiffle singer, songwriter and musician, referred to as the ""King of Skiffle"", who influenced 1960s British pop musicians. Born in Scotland and raised in England from the age of 1, the ""British Hit Singles & Albums"" lists him as ""Britain's most successful and influential recording artist before The Beatles"". Donegan had 31 UK Top 30 single hits, 24 being successive and three at number one. He was the first British male singer with two US Top 10 hits. Donegan received an"
"Billy Fury Ronald Wycherley (17 April 1940 – 28 January 1983), better known by his stage name Billy Fury, was an English singer from the late 1950s to the mid 1960s, and remained an active songwriter until the 1980s. Rheumatic fever, which he first contracted as a child, damaged his heart and ultimately contributed to his death. An early British rock and roll (and film) star, he equalled the Beatles' record of 24 hits in the 1960s, and spent 332 weeks on the UK chart, without a chart-topping single or album. AllMusic journalist Bruce Eder stated, ""His mix of rough-hewn"
"Craig Douglas Craig Douglas (born Terence Perkins, 12 August 1941) is an English pop singer, who was popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s. His sole UK chart-topper, ""Only Sixteen"" (1959), sold more copies in the UK than Sam Cooke's original version. Born a twin, in Newport, Isle of Wight the former Terence Perkins was employed as a milkman before becoming a professional singer, and was known to many as the 'Singing Milkman'. His manager was Bunny Lewis, who gave him the name Craig Douglas. Lewis saw the name outside a house in Scotland. Douglas said there were a"
"1980s, his British citizenship allowing him to perform in East as well as West Germany. He also made TV appearances in the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Italy and Spain, and has continued to perform and release records in Germany. He married a Lufthansa stewardess in 1984 and lives near Cologne. Graham Bonney Graham Bonney (born Graham Arthur Ernest George Bradly, 2 June 1943) is a British pop singer and songwriter who has mainly lived and worked in Germany. Although he only had one UK chart hit, ""Super Girl"" in 1966, his success has continued in Europe. He was born in"
"You Heard?"", ""Come What May"", ""That Old Feeling"", ""Too Marvelous for Words"" and ""The Mama Doll Song"". Lita Roza Lita Roza (14 March 1926 – 14 August 2008) was an English singer whose 1953 hit record ""(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?"" made her the first British solo singer to top the UK Singles Chart. Born Lilian Patricia Lita Roza in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, she was the eldest of seven children. and began work at an early age to support the family. She owed her sultry looks and passion to her father, an amateur accordionist who also played"
"albums and EPs have reached the UK Top 20, more than any other artist. Richard has had 67 UK top ten singles, the second highest total for an artist behind Elvis. Richard holds the record (with Elvis) as the only act to make the UK singles charts in all of its first six decades (1950s–2000s). He has achieved 14 UK number-one singles, and is the only singer to have had a number-one single in the UK in five consecutive decades. Richard has never achieved the same impact in the United States despite eight US Top 40 singles, including the million-selling"
"the April 27, 2002 issue of ""Billboard"", none of the songs on the Hot 100 were from British artists; that week, only two of the top 100 albums, those of Craig David and Ozzy Osbourne, were from British artists. The most recent recognized movement came in the mid to late 2000s when British R&B and soul artists such as Amy Winehouse, Estelle, Joss Stone, Duffy, Natasha Bedingfield, Florence Welch, Adele, Floetry, Jessie J, Leona Lewis, Jay Sean and Taio Cruz enjoyed huge success in the U.S. charts, which led to talk of a ""Third British Invasion"" or a ""British Soul"
"Suggs (singer) Graham McPherson (born 13 January 1961), known by the stage name Suggs, is an English singer-songwriter, musician, radio personality and actor. In a music career spanning 40 years, Suggs came to prominence in the late 1970s as the lead singer of the ska band Madness, which released fifteen singles that entered the Top 10 charts in the United Kingdom during the 1970s, 1980s and the 1990s, including ""My Girl"", ""Baggy Trousers"", ""Embarrassment"", ""It Must Be Love"", ""House of Fun"", ""Driving in My Car"", ""Our House"", ""Wings of a Dove"" and ""Lovestruck"". Suggs began his solo career in 1995,"
"by his two daughters (Natali and Melody Williams) and two sons, the actor Anthony Barclay and Michael Stewart. Danny Williams (singer) Danny Williams (7 January 1942 – 6 December 2005) was a British, South African-born pop singer. who earned the nickname, ""Britain's Johnny Mathis"", for his smooth and stylish way with a ballad. He is best known for singing his UK number 1 version of ""Moon River"" in 1961 and his US top ten hit, ""White on White"". Born in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa, Williams won a talent contest at the age of 14 and joined a touring"
"Lynsey de Paul Lynsey de Paul (born Lynsey Monckton Rubin; 11 June 1948 – 1 October 2014) was an English singer-songwriter. She had chart hits in the UK and Europe in the 1970s, starting with the UK top 10 single ""Sugar Me"", becoming the first British female artist to achieve a number one with a self-written song (in Belgium, Spain and The Netherlands). She represented the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest, scoring another chart topping hit in Switzerland and had a successful career as an Ivor Novello Award-winning composer, actress and television celebrity. Lyndsey Monckton Rubin was born to"
"Susan Maughan Susan Maughan (born Marian Maughan, 1 July 1938,) is an English singer who released successful singles in the 1960s. Her most famous and successful song, ""Bobby's Girl"" (a cover of the Marcie Blane single), reached number three in the UK Singles Chart at Christmas time in 1962. It also reached number six in the Norwegian chart in that year. Maughan was born in Consett, County Durham. The sleeve notes on her 1963 album, written by John Franz, stated that ""Susan's family moved to Birmingham (in 1953) when Susan was 15. She started work there as a shorthand typist,"
"Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section played on hits by many Stax artists during the late 1960s through the mid-1970s, and Atlantic Records artists Wilson Pickett, Percy Sledge, Joe Tex and Aretha Franklin. The popularity of Southern soul declined during the height of disco's commercial dominance in the mid- to late 1970s. In 1983, however, J. Blackfoot saw success with his single ""Taxi"". Southern soul music is still being recorded and performed by artists such as Sharon Jones, Charles Bradley, Avail Hollywood, Shirley Brown, Sir Charles Jones, Barbara Carr, Willie Clayton, Bobby Rush, Denise LaSalle, Reggie Sears, TK Soul, Joyce Cobb, Ms"
"UK Singles Chart in May 1977. A follow-up single, ""Angling for a Kiss"", was released in November 1977, but failed to make the chart, and Sarney remains a one-hit wonder. ""Naughty Naughty Naughty"" was engineered by Chris Tsangarides at Morgan Studios in Willesden, North London. The single was issued by Alaska Records, owned by the record producer and musician, John Schroeder. Joy Sarney Joy Sarney (born Joy Crabtree, 1944) is an English female pop singer, best known for a UK hit single, ""Naughty Naughty Naughty"" in 1977. Sarney was born in Liverpool and started out as a folk/comedy performer in"
"blues boom, including the Spencer Davis Group, the Small Faces, the Rolling Stones, the Kinks and the Who. Most of these were popular with members of the Mod subculture, out of which grew the northern soul movement, in which northern English youths avidly collected and played rare soul records. Britain produced a handful of soul acts in the 1960s, most significantly the blue-eyed soul singers Tom Jones and Dusty Springfield. ""Dusty in Memphis"" (1969) is one of the few albums by a British performer considered among the great soul recordings. In 1964 Springfield became the first British Invasion act after"
"Elton John Sir Elton Hercules John (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight, 25 March 1947) is an English singer, pianist, and composer. He has worked with lyricist Bernie Taupin as his songwriting partner since 1967; they have collaborated on more than 30 albums. John has sold more than 300million records, making him one of the best-selling music artists in the world. He has more than fifty Top 40 hits, including seven consecutive number one albums in the U.S., 58 ""Billboard"" Top 40 singles, 27 Top 10, four which reached number two and nine which reached number one. His tribute single ""Candle in"
"Georgie Fame Georgie Fame (born Clive Powell; 26 June 1943) is an English rhythm and blues and jazz singer and keyboard player. Fame, who had a string of 1960s hits, is still a popular performer, often working with contemporaries such as Van Morrison and Bill Wyman. Fame is the only British pop star to have achieved three number one hits with his only Top 10 chart entries: ""Yeh, Yeh"" in 1964, ""Get Away"" in 1966 and ""The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde"" in 1967. Fame was born in Leigh, Lancashire. He took piano lessons from the age of seven and"
"Beverley Knight Beverley Knight, (born Beverley Anne Smith; 22 March 1973) is an English recording artist, radio presenter and musical theatre actress who released her debut album, ""The B-Funk"", in 1995. Heavily influenced by American soul music icons such as Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin, Knight has released eight studio albums to date. Widely labelled as one of Britain's greatest soul singers, Knight is best known for her hit singles ""Greatest Day"", ""Get Up!"", ""Shoulda Woulda Coulda"" and ""Come as You Are"". In 2006 Knight solidified her transition into the mainstream by starring in the BBC music TV series ""Just"
"Lita Roza Lita Roza (14 March 1926 – 14 August 2008) was an English singer whose 1953 hit record ""(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?"" made her the first British solo singer to top the UK Singles Chart. Born Lilian Patricia Lita Roza in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, she was the eldest of seven children. and began work at an early age to support the family. She owed her sultry looks and passion to her father, an amateur accordionist who also played piano in Liverpool nightclubs. Her father was of Filipino ancestry. At the age of 12, she saw"