"Puppy Love (Paul Anka song) ""Puppy Love"" is a popular song written by Paul Anka in 1960 for Annette Funicello, whom he was dating at the time. Anka's version reached #2 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 behind Percy Faith's ""Theme from ""A Summer Place"""" and #33 on the UK Singles Chart. Twelve years later the song was revived by Donny Osmond. It was released on February 19, 1972, and reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 on April 1, 1972. It peaked at #1 in April 1972 on both the Canadian ""RPM"" singles chart for three weeks and the UK"
"Sugar Baby Love ""Sugar Baby Love"", recorded in autumn 1973 and released in January 1974, is a bubblegum pop song, and the debut single of the Rubettes. Written by Wayne Bickerton and Tony Waddington and produced by Bickerton, engineered by John Mackswith at Lansdowne Recording Studios, and with lead vocals by Paul Da Vinci, ""Sugar Baby Love"" was the band's one and only number one single in the UK Singles Chart, spending four weeks at the top of the chart in May 1974. Bickerton and Waddington had been writing songs together since they were both members of the Pete Best"
"and it took off like a rocket and sold 6 million copies worldwide. Gerry said to me, 'I'm keeping my mouth shut and will concentrate on conducting the strings.'"" Sugar Baby Love ""Sugar Baby Love"", recorded in autumn 1973 and released in January 1974, is a bubblegum pop song, and the debut single of the Rubettes. Written by Wayne Bickerton and Tony Waddington and produced by Bickerton, engineered by John Mackswith at Lansdowne Recording Studios, and with lead vocals by Paul Da Vinci, ""Sugar Baby Love"" was the band's one and only number one single in the UK Singles Chart,"
"Love Train ""Love Train"" is a hit single by The O'Jays, written by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff. Released in 1972, it reached number one on both the R&B Singles and the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, in February and March 1973 respectively, number 9 on the UK Singles Chart and was certified gold by the RIAA. It was The O'Jays' first and only number-one record on the U.S. pop chart. ""Love Train"" entered the Hot 100's top 40 on January 27, 1973, the same day that the Paris Peace Accords were signed. The song's lyrics of unity mention a number of"
"""Snoopy Come Home"". ""It Changes"" was left off the original 1972 LP, but added to a 2004 U.K. compact disc reissue of the album by EMI. After finishing ""Norma Deloris Egstrom"", Lee did not make any studio recordings until two years later, when she recorded ""Let's Love"" (written for her by Paul McCartney) for Atlantic Records in April 1974. Capitol Records released ""Love Song"" (backed by ""Someone Who Cares"") as a 45"" single in 1972. It was a minor hit, spending four weeks on the Billboard Easy Listening chart and peaking at #34 in October 1972. It was also Lee's"
"a female singer, Joyce Peterson's younger sister Sylvia. The group then became Four Bees and a Gee (for four boys and a girl), and auditioned with several of Mack's songs for Richard Barrett at Gone Records. Barrett renamed the group the Tops, and recorded them on one of Mack's up-tempo songs, ""Puppy Love"" (not the song of the same name written by Paul Anka). The song was first issued in late 1958 on the V-Tone label, and then on several other labels credited to Little Jimmy Rivers and the Tops. In late 1961 it was re-promoted and reissued more successfully"
"Nappy Love Nappy Love is a song by Bill Oddie and recorded by The Goodies. It was arranged by Tom Parker and released as a single in September 1975. The B-side was a version of ""Wild Thing"", arranged by Dave MacRae. Oddie originally wrote the song in 1973 for use in the radio series ""I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again"", where it was performed in the episode broadcast on 9 December of that year. It entered the UK Singles Chart on 27 September 1975 at #37, remaining in the chart for 6 weeks and peaking at #21. The Goodies performed"
"Love"" (1971) was released on Detroit-based Westbound Records. This reached #1 on the national R&B chart and #13 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart. The song ranked at #85 on the 1971 year-end chart. A RIAA gold disc award was made on November 30, 1971 for a million sales. She also wrote successful follow-ups, ""Now Run and Tell That"" and ""Man Sized Job"", which made #3 and #4 in the R&B Top Ten and also charted in the Hot 100. Her early hits were recorded at the Hi recording studios in Memphis, operated by Willie Mitchell, using the best southern"
"the first single released. It peaked in the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 at #22 and in the Adult Contemporary chart at #2. It peaked in the Canadian Single Chart at #17. Shortly after, a second single was released, ""Don't Hide Your Love"", that entered the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 at #46. Foxy Lady (Cher album) Foxy Lady is the eighth studio album by American singer-actress Cher, released in July 1972 by Kapp Records. Following the commercial success of the previous album ""Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves"", Cher again collaborated with Snuff Garrett (producer), Al Capp (arrangements) and her then-husband Sonny Bono (co-producer)."
"the UK Singles Chart for three weeks in February 1972. It was one of the first hit singles to feature a Moog synthesizer, which in this case was programmed and played by studio engineer and record producer Chris Thomas. A different account was given by Chicory Tip's Rick Foster, who stated in an interview with TV and radio broadcaster Stuart Cameron in 2012 that the Moog was played by the musician who joined them on ""Top of the Pops"", whose name he could not remember. The single sold over one million copies by July 1972, and was awarded a gold"
"chart) and ""Love Me"" in 1967 (No. 84), and wrote many other songs, including Lou Rawls' 1971 hit ""A Natural Man"" (co-written with comedian Sandy Baron). Six years prior to ""Sunny"", Hebb reached the New York City Top 50 with a remake of Roy Acuff's ""Night Train to Memphis"". In 1972, his single ""Love Love Love"" reached No. 32 on the UK charts. After a recording gap of 35 years, Hebb recorded ""That's All I Wanna Know"", his first commercial release since ""Love Games"" for Epic Records in 1970. It was released in Europe in late 2005 by Tuition, a"
"and Judy Quay. This song became number 1 in Japan. She was married to James Napoli. Jeanne Napoli Jeanne Napoli (October 26, 1938 - October 24, 2010) was an American pop singer, songwriter, actress, and musical performer. She was signed to the Vigor sub-label of New York's De-Lite Records in 1976. She is best known for her ""Let's Make Love"" disco track. Napoli started out her Career as a Copa-Girl in New York City's famous Copacabana. She went on to be a performer in the singing duo The PJ's. She co-wrote the music for at the Minskoff Theater Original Musical"
"Puppy Love/Sleigh Ride ""Puppy Love"" and ""Sleigh Ride"" are two songs by British pop group S Club Juniors released as a double A-side single release and the fourth single from their debut album ""Together"". It was released on 9 December 2002, peaking at #6 on the UK Singles Chart. The single was the group's first and only double-A-side. Calvin Goldspink sings the whole song. Frankie Sandford, Aaron Renfree, Stacey McClean, Rochelle Wiseman, Daisy Evans, Hannah Richings and Jay Asforis do not have any solos in this song. The video for ""Puppy Love"" features Goldspink looking through a Rachel Stevens calendar"
"Puppy scored a US Top 20 hit in 1969 with their single, ""Hot Smoke & Sasafrass"". The name was a misheard line lifted from an episode of ""The Beverly Hillbillies"". The single peaked at number 14 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in the U.S. and number 15 on the ""RPM"" chart in Canada. The song also had local successes, for example, reaching number 6 on WLS. The song was also covered internationally by MGMT, a popular American psychedelic rock band, and by The Mooche in the UK. Cleveland, Ohio, classic rock trio ""Pagan Club Orchestra"" opened their live shows with"
"include the Tams' 1964 recording ""Hey Girl Don't Bother Me"" (UK No. 1, July 1971) - which was popularised by Midlands DJ Carl Dene - the Fascinations' 1966 single ""Girls Are Out to Get You"" (UK No. 32, 1971), the Elgins' ""Heaven Must Have Sent You"" (UK No. 3 July 1971), the Newbeats' 1965 American hit ""Run Baby Run"" (UK No. 10, Oct 1971), Bobby Hebb's ""Love Love Love"" which was originally the B-side of ""A Satisfied Mind"" (UK No. 32 August 1972), Robert Knight's ""Love On a Mountain Top"" of 1968 (UK No. 10, November 1973) and R. Dean"
"The Puppy Song ""The Puppy Song"" is a Harry Nilsson song that appeared on his album ""Harry"" released in August 1969. Nilsson originally wrote this song at Paul McCartney's request for Mary Hopkin, an 18-year-old singer that McCartney had signed to Apple Records and whose first album, ""Post Card"" would feature her version of Nilsson's song. Nora Ephron would use Harry's own version for the opening credits of her 1998 film, ""You've Got Mail"" and at the end of the first episode of the FX series ""Wilfred"". It was popularized by David Cassidy in his double A-side single ""Daydreamer""/""The Puppy"
"by Lead Belly from a recording made in 1949, shortly before his death. Playboy Records was also home to the early 1972-1973 U.S. single releases by soon-to-be international superstars ABBA, licensed to the label by their Swedish label, Polar Music. Polar/ABBA manager Stig Anderson blamed the lack of greater U.S. success of their first single, ""People Need Love"", on the limited distribution resources of the label, as they were unable to meet the demand from retailers and radio programmers, and Polar changed distributors when ABBA won Eurovision in 1974. The label's biggest hit was Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds' million-seller,"
"hits with a string of covers of earlier teen-pop songs, including ""Go Away Little Girl"" (#1, originally by Steve Lawrence), ""Puppy Love"" (#3, a Paul Anka composition) and ""The Twelfth of Never"" (#8, originally recorded by Johnny Mathis). From 1971 to 1976, he had 12 Top 40 hits, including 5 in the Top 10; for most of these, the Osmonds were still performing as a full band, but backing and giving star billing to Donny for songs on which he sang lead. Donny's numerous solo hits, have led many to assume he was the group's lead. Merrill was nevertheless the"
"Wayne and Merrill had penned the track for Donny), came out on the easy listening charts at the same time the much harder ""Crazy Horses"" song was charting. Donny, and to a lesser extent, Marie and Jimmy, soon began to emerge as solo artists. Jimmy was becoming ""big in Japan"", and in 1972 had a #1 hit in the United Kingdom with ""Long Haired Lover from Liverpool"". Marie, then 13 years old, hit #1 on the US country chart in 1973 with ""Paper Roses"" (a song originally recorded by Anita Bryant a decade before). Donny had a string of pop"
"eclipsed the record with ""Buy Me a Rose."" From 1974 to 1987, the song was the theme to ""A Prairie Home Companion"". Hello Love (song) ""Hello Love"" is a 1974 single by Hank Snow. ""Hello Love"" was Snow's seventh and final number one on the U.S. country singles chart, and his first number one in twelve years. The single stayed at number one for a single week and spent a total of ten weeks on the chart. When ""Hello Love"" peaked in popularity, Snow (at 59 years, 11 months) became the oldest singer to have a No. 1 song on"
"Crazy Love (Poco song) ""Crazy Love"" is a 1979 hit single for the country rock group Poco introduced on the 1978 album ""Legend""; written by founding group member Rusty Young, ""Crazy Love"" was the first single by Poco to reach the Top 40 and remained the group's biggest hit with especial impact as an Adult Contemporary hit being ranked by ""Billboard"" as the #1 Adult Contemporary hit for the year 1979. In 2012, Young would thus recall his writing ""Crazy Love"": ""I was living in Los Angeles, working on my house one day"" - ""I was paneling a wall and"
"1972. ""Doctor Hook"" featured lead vocals, guitar, bass and harmonica by Locorriere, guitarist Cummings, singer Sawyer plus drummer David, singer/guitarist and keyboard player Billy Francis. The album sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the RIAA on August 2, 1972. It has been released 20 times in the US, UK, Netherlands, Italy, Yugoslavia, Canada, Europe, Spain, and Greece. The single ""Sylvia's Mother"", a subtle parody of teen-heartbreak weepers, flopped on first release, but with some more promotional muscle became the band's first million-seller, and hit the top five in the summer of 1972. Other titles"
"Song"" reaching #1 on the UK Singles Chart. The song also appears on David Cassidy's 1973 album ""Dreams Are Nuthin' More Than Wishes"". The Puppy Song ""The Puppy Song"" is a Harry Nilsson song that appeared on his album ""Harry"" released in August 1969. Nilsson originally wrote this song at Paul McCartney's request for Mary Hopkin, an 18-year-old singer that McCartney had signed to Apple Records and whose first album, ""Post Card"" would feature her version of Nilsson's song. Nora Ephron would use Harry's own version for the opening credits of her 1998 film, ""You've Got Mail"" and at the"
"Bubble Puppy Bubble Puppy (also known as The Bubble Puppy) is an American psychedelic rock band originally active from 1967 to 1972. They are best remembered for their Top 20 hit, ""Hot Smoke & Sasafrass"". Bubble Puppy was formed in 1966 in San Antonio, Texas, by Rod Prince and Roy Cox who had previously performed together in the rock group called The Bad Seeds. Looking to form a ""top gun rock band"" based on the concept of dual lead guitars, Prince and Cox recruited Todd Potter, an Austin, Texas, gymnast, saxophonist and guitarist. With the addition of Danny Segovia and"
"""Billboard"" listed ""Silly Love Songs"" as Paul McCartney's all-time biggest Hot 100 single. In 2008, the song was listed at No. 31 on ""Billboard's Greatest Songs of All Time"", commemorating the 50th anniversary of the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart. The UK single was released on 30 April 1976 and reached number 2 on the UK Singles Chart. The song was McCartney's 27th number one as a songwriter, the all-time record for most number one hits by a songwriter. With this song, McCartney became the first person to have a year-end No. 1 song as a member of two distinct acts."
"Hot Love (T. Rex song) ""Hot Love"" is a song by English glam rock act T. Rex, released as a standalone single on 12 February 1971 by record label Fly. It was the group's first number one placing on the UK Singles Chart, where it remained at the top for six weeks beginning on 20 March 1971. The two performances of the song in March 1971 on ""Top of the Pops"", which saw Bolan dressed for the first time on television in shiny satin stagewear and glittery make-up (the latter at the suggestion of his stylist Chelita Secunda) were a"
"in 1972), ""Got the All Overs For You (All Over Me)"" (No. 1 in 1972), ""If You Can't Feel It (It Ain't There)"" (1973), ""Super Kind of Woman"" (No. 1 in 1973), ""Trip to Heaven"" (No. 1 in 1973), ""Hang In There Girl"" (1974), ""The Want-To's"" (1974), ""My Woman's Man"" (1975), ""The First Time"" (1975), ""I'd Like To Sleep Till I Get Over You"" (1975) and ""The Warm Side of You"" (1975). He has been called by many fans as ""The Heart and Soul of Country Music"". With the success of ""Easy Loving"" and other songs he wrote, plus a"
"UK and three million copies globally. With three more songs, ""Sugar Baby Love"" was recorded for Polydor in October 1973 at Landsdown Studios in Holland Park, London, by a group of session musicians featuring the distinctive falsetto and lead vocals of Paul Da Vinci (born: Paul Leonard Prewer). However, Da Vinci did not join the others to become a member of the band put together by John Richardson, and instead pursued solo work, having signed a contract with Penny Farthing Records. ""Sugar Baby Love"" was their only UK No. 1 and sole US Top 40 entry. In November 1974 ""NME"""
"November 14, 1970. The Osmonds soon had hits with other light, R&B-style pop numbers like ""Double Lovin'"" (#14) and ""Yo-Yo"" (#3). In each of these hits, the formula was the same; Merrill sang lead, and Donny was ""co-lead"" in essence, singing the ""hook"" or ""chorus"" of the song. At this time the Osmonds also recorded several hits that were billed to Donny, the lead soloist on the songs: ""Sweet and Innocent"" (#7), ""Go Away Little Girl"" (#1), ""I Knew You When"" (#9) and ""Puppy Love"" (#2). The Osmonds began writing and performing their own music and their sound moved towards"
"then offered it to the demo musicians, provided that they would become an actual group. The musicians agreed, were named The Rubettes, and ""Sugar Baby Love"" became a UK number one hit in 1974, also reaching number 37 in the US chart. They wrote and produced all of the Rubettes' subsequent UK hits – nine Top 50 hits in all between 1974 and 1977 – winning an Ivor Novello Award as Songwriters of the Year, and also reached the UK Top 10 with ""Sugar Candy Kisses"" by Mac and Katie Kissoon. They set up their own record label, State Records,"
"Some authorities proclaim it to be the first disco song to hit number-one, while others give that distinction to ""Love's Theme"" by Love Unlimited Orchestra, a chart-topper from earlier in 1974. The song became a gold record. It is a heavy airplay favorite on oldie and adult contemporary stations today. The song features a lead vocal by Fleming Williams, who left The Hues Corporation shortly after the song was recorded. According to ""The Billboard Book of Number One Hits"" by Fred Bronson, the lone female member of the group, H. Ann Kelley, had originally been pegged to sing lead, but"
"An Old Fashioned Love Song ""An Old Fashioned Love Song"" is a 1971 song written by Paul Williams and performed by the American pop-rock band Three Dog Night. Chuck Negron performed the lead vocal on this track. Taken as the lead single from their 1971 album, ""Harmony"", the song peaked at number four on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart in December 1971, becoming the band's seventh top-ten hit. It was Three Dog Night's first record to top the U.S. easy listening chart. It reached number two in Canada. Its lyrics suggest the straightforward and melodic nature of the tune: ""Just"
"offered it to the demo musicians, provided that they would become an actual group. With the exception of the recording's lead singer, Paul Da Vinci, who had signed a solo recording contract with Penny Farthing Records. Surprisingly, only John Richardson, who played drums and spoke the ""please take my advice,"" would sign up and later become a member of The Rubettes. ""Sugar Baby Love"" became a UK No. 1 hit in 1974, also reaching No. 37 and No. 30 on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and Cashbox charts, respectively. It also reached No. 1 in Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Austria"