Which unlikely artist had a number one with Grandad
"Singles Chart for three weeks, during which time Dunn celebrated his 51st birthday, and went on to spend a total of 27 weeks on the chart. Dunn never had another hit single but he did release an album which featured ""Grandad"" and B-Side ""I play the Spoons"" titled ""Permission to Sing Sir!"". In 1979-1984, Dunn starred as ""Charlie 'Grandad' Quick"" in a children's television show named ""Grandad"", although the series did not use the song as the theme tune. Grandad (song) ""Grandad"" is a popular song by Herbie Flowers and Kenny Pickett, and recorded by Clive Dunn. While starring in"
"novelty acts; Tiny Tim, for example, is included despite a consistent three-decade career in the music industry that included a major chart hit, and the Legendary Stardust Cowboy had a brief moment of widespread fame in the 1960s with several national television appeararnces. Chusid posited that the biggest-selling artist fitting of the ""outsider"" label could be Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, citing the widely circulated bootlegs of his unreleased 1970s and 1980s demos. However, ""considering the level on which he's been embraced by the public, it's difficult to make a case for him as an outsider."" Similarly, Chusid avoided"
"years and 255 days old when he debuted at number one with ""Unchained Melody"" in March 2002. The album would serve as a musical inspiration to producer Rodney Jerkins during his work on Brandy's third studio album, ""Full Moon"", following a gig in London, England, months before where he was exposed to the UK garage collaborations between David and Artful Dodger. Charles Ingram's £32,000 question on the ITV quiz show ""Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?"" asked him to identify the artist behind the album. Ingram claimed to have never heard of Craig David but went for the answer regardless,"
"one-man show at the Associated American Artists gallery in New York. Reeves Lewenthal, director of the gallery, said that it was the first time in the gallery’s history that the works of an untutored artist had qualified for such a show. Said Lewenthal, ""[Courlander] is a fantastic primitive who paints completely from memory. He has an inventive spirit uniquely his own. He is on the same level as Grandma Moses. He is definitely a rare find in the art world."" In fact, Courlander was affectionately dubbed ""Grandpa Moses"" by the Detroit press; other times he was referred to as ""Grandpa"
"occasions, but were little-known among music fans. The progress of ""Ride a White Swan"" was slow but steady; it entered the Top 40 on 31 October but it wasn't until 11 weeks later – on 23 January 1971 – that it reached a peak position of number 2. It was ultimately a novelty record by ""Dad's Army"" actor Clive Dunn – ""Grandad"" – which stopped ""Ride a White Swan"" from completing its climb to the top. The climb was made all the more remarkable by the song dropping a whole six places out of the Top 10 in the week"
"Mystery Virgin In Japan, “Mystery Virgin” debuted at #1 in its debut week on the Oricon chart, making him the first teenage male artist in thirty three years to have a number one debut single as well as being one of the only two artists in history to achieve this milestone. The fact that Yamada was only in his teens at the time the single reached #1 helped the singer set several new records in the Japanese music industry. In Japan, although many teen bands frequently top the charts, the industry was lacking young male solo artists for over two"
"one million copies in eight weeks. Popular artists from the 1980s made successful returns with Duran Duran, The Cure, Depeche Mode and Morrissey releasing top ten singles. After appearing in the reality television show ""I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!"", Peter Andre re-released his 1996 hit single ""Mysterious Girl"", this time getting to the top spot. In September and October Eric Prydz ""Call on me"" stayed at number one for five non-consecutive weeks and staying in the chart for a further 14 weeks. In October the music industry mourned the loss of John Peel, the Radio 1 DJ"
"Ward"" recordings, including a duet with radio DJ Wink Martindale, another Dot Records artist. In 1964 Ward released the single ""Winter's Here"", which reached #123 on the Billboard chart. Because ""Wonderful Summer"" is her only Hot 100 hit, the singer named Robin Ward is considered a one-hit-wonder. However, while the public did not know Jackie's real name, many of her other recordings were and still are widely heard. As her young-sounding Robin Ward records were disappearing from radio play, Jackie Ward's grown-up singing career was expanding. At times in 1960s-1970s she could be heard almost everywhere. In the early to"
"2011 at his home in Llandudno, Wales. Gordon Lorenz Gordon Lorenz (4 March 1943 – 5 June 2011) was an English songwriter and record producer, who made his fame by writing the UK Christmas number one hit ""There's No-one Quite Like Grandma"" for St Winifred's School Choir. Since the song's release, Lorenz became one of the most prolific record producers in the music industry, producing over 800 albums selling eight million records, and earning seventeen platinum, gold and silver discs. Born in Childwall, an affluent suburb of Liverpool, his parents were both members of the Salvation Army. He was a"
"hall, and sang the lyrics in the theme). He had previously had a number one hit single with the song ""Grandad"" on his fifty-first birthday in January 1971, accompanied by a children's choir. The song was written by bassist Herbie Flowers. He performed the song four times on ""Top of the Pops"". The B-side of ""Grandad"", ""I Play The Spoons"", also received considerable airplay. After the cancellation of ""Grandad"" in 1984, he disappeared from the screen, and retired to Portugal. Following the success of the ""Grandad"" record, Dunn released several other singles, but Dunn never hit the charts again. He"
"Poisonous Poets. Perhaps the rapper with the biggest underground support not getting coverage by the mainstream media is rapper, political activist and poet Lowkey who has toured America and worked with notable acts such as Immortal Technique, Dead Prez and Chuck D of Public Enemy. At the turn of the decade, Grime started to dominate the UK single and album charts. Acts such as N-Dubz, Tinchy Stryder and Chipmunk emerged in 2009 to wide commercial success. Tinchy Stryder scored two number ones with songs Number 1 and Never Leave You and became the best-selling British solo artist of 2009. The"
"Gordon Lorenz Gordon Lorenz (4 March 1943 – 5 June 2011) was an English songwriter and record producer, who made his fame by writing the UK Christmas number one hit ""There's No-one Quite Like Grandma"" for St Winifred's School Choir. Since the song's release, Lorenz became one of the most prolific record producers in the music industry, producing over 800 albums selling eight million records, and earning seventeen platinum, gold and silver discs. Born in Childwall, an affluent suburb of Liverpool, his parents were both members of the Salvation Army. He was a pupil of Evered Avenue school in Walton"
"became the first from an artist other than Eric Prydz. The EP, consisting of lead track ""Jackie"" together with ""Lauderdale"" and ""DLIGTY"", went to number 1 on the overall Beatport Top 100 releases chart and ousted Aphex Twin from the top spot. It stayed at number 1 for 10 days. He has produced a number of remixes for other artists both in and outside of the electronic dance music space, including Dosem, Mendoza, Digitalism, Golden Girls, The Good Guys, Glenn Morrison, 16 Bit Lolitas, Adrian Lux and Henry Saiz. Olander employs an alias called Dhillon for a certain style of"
"Gerald Masters Gerald Masters born Gerald Watkiss (February 17, 1955 – February 5, 2007) was a musician, solo artist and songwriter, achieving fame during the late seventies and early eighties. After releasing four albums, produced by Tony Atkins, as a solo artist between 1977 and 1983, he continued in the music business working as a producer/writer with Island, working with artists including Andy Gibb, Neville Staples and The Equators. Following this work, he struck up writing partnerships with Aziz Ibrahim (Ex-Simply Red, Stone Roses) and Paul Beard (James Blunt, Robbie Williams, Leona Lewis). In 2006, Masters decided to write and"
"Parkinson's disease at the age of 82. Jean Shepard Ollie Imogene ""Jean"" Shepard (November 21, 1933 – September 25, 2016) was an American honky tonk singer-songwriter who pioneered for women in country music. Shepard released a total of 73 singles to the Hot Country Songs chart, one of which reached the No. 1 spot. She recorded a total of 24 studio albums between 1956–81, and became a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 1955. After Kitty Wells' 1952 breakthrough, Shepard quickly followed, and a national television gig and the Opry helped make her a star when few female country"
"Herman Brood Hermanus ""Herman"" Brood (; 5 November 1946 – 11 July 2001) was a Dutch musician and painter. As a musician he achieved artistic and commercial success in the 1970s and 1980s, and was called ""the greatest and only Dutch rock 'n' roll star"". Later in life he started a successful career as a painter. Known for his hedonistic lifestyle of ""sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll"", Brood was an ""enfant terrible"" and a cultural figure whose suicide by jumping from a hotel roof, apparently influenced by a failure to kick his drug and alcohol habit, strengthened his controversial"
"Charles Kuhn Charles Harris Kuhn (March 20, 1892 – 1989), nicknamed Doc Kuhn, was a cartoonist best known as the creator of the comic strip ""Grandma"". He usually signed his drawings and comic strips Chas. Kuhn. Born in Prairie City, Illinois, he was the son of James B. and Minnie Harris Kuhn. His father ran a restaurant and proudly displayed his son's drawings in the eatery's window. At age 12, he decided to become a cartoonist when the sale of his first cartoon brought him 50 cents. Kuhn grew up in Bushnell, Illinois, and later remarked, ""I hope some of"
"hip hop musicians debated the issue in the press—some suggested, in fact, that the hip hop award's lack of visibility could be seen as not just a result of Canadian hip hop's poor commercial performance, but also a contributing factor. Maestro Fresh-Wes, now known simply as Maestro, also broke his own hit jinx in 1998, with ""Stick to Your Vision""—buoyed, in part, by a Guess Who sample—becoming his first Top 40 hit in seven years. Although he would not actually reach the Top 40 until 2001's ""BaKardi Slang"", Kardinal Offishall also made his first appearance as a solo artist in"
"Yamada performed tight-rope walking everyday for three months in each show. On January 9, 2013, he made his solo debut with a number one single, ""Mystery Virgin"". The fact that Yamada was in his teens at the time when the single reached number one helped him set several new records in the Japanese music industry. The single debuted at number one in its debut week on the Oricon chart, making him the first teenage male artist in thirty-three years to have a number one debut single as well as being one of the only two artists in history to achieve"
"single ""(They Long to Be) Close to You"", a Burt Bacharach and Hal David composition that had not been commercially successful when it was recorded by television star Richard Chamberlain in 1963. The Carpenters garnered worldwide commercial success, scoring big hits mainly in the first half of the 1970s. RIAA-certified sales of their records (albums, singles and videos) have been estimated at around 34.6 million units. In the United Kingdom, they are ranked as the seventh top-selling albums artist on the official record chart of the 1970s. They have also been the third-best-selling international music act in the Japanese market,"
"since 1987; Dalida is the most consecrated artist in the history of France. During her life and posthumously, she collected various international awards that no European artist has ever obtained. Dalida is the only person in Europe who has ever achieved such fame without any releases in the American and UK markets. She sold 120 million records worldwide during her lifetime and a further 20 million records since her death. Her singles and albums have received more than 90 certifications. Her early success with Bambino made Barclay adopt the practice of other producers in the world who had already awarded"
"Tussaud's attraction, which was then the most popular tourist attraction in Great Britain, drawing 2.7 million visitors a year. Some music fans may have questioned the choices of figures and for example, it was thought that Americans may have been baffled by the inclusion of Lonnie Donegan, when other notable artists such as Jim Morrison were not represented at all. Tussards attempted to address this by polling visitors on who should be added to the exhibition, stating that the artists with the most votes will be made into figures and shown in a designated area. Some visitors were not impressed"
"There's No One Quite Like Grandma ""There's No One Quite Like Grandma"" was a number-one hit in the UK Singles Chart, by the Stockport-based primary school choir St Winifred's School Choir from 27 December 1980 to 3 January 1981. It was written by Gordon Lorenz. The song was a Christmas number-one single in both the UK and Ireland. In the UK, it demoted John Lennon's last single, ""(Just Like) Starting Over,"" to number two. After two weeks at number one, a previous Lennon song, ""Imagine,"" replaced it. This was a posthumous release as Lennon had been killed three weeks prior."
"have been made of her dramatized short stories as many readers expect them to be historically accurate. Carr's life itself made her a ""Canadian icon"", according to the ""Canadian Encyclopedia"". As well as being ""an artist of stunning originality and strength"", she was an exceptionally late bloomer, starting the work for which she is best known at the age of 57 (see Grandma Moses). Carr was also an artist who succeeded against the odds, living in an artistically unadventurous society, and working mostly in seclusion away from major art centers, thus making her ""a darling of the women's movement"" (see"
"million copies in eight weeks. Popular artists from the 1980s made successful returns, including Duran Duran, The Cure, Depeche Mode and Morrissey, all of whom released top ten singles. After appearing in the reality television show ""I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!"", Peter Andre re-released his 1996 hit single ""Mysterious Girl"", this time getting to the top spot. Twenty years after the original, the Band Aid single ""Do They Know It's Christmas?"" was re-recorded and was the best-selling single of the year, holding the Christmas number 1 spot. The song sold over a million copies in a month."
"the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 when Wonder was aged 13, making him the youngest artist ever to top the chart. The single was simultaneously No. 1 on the R&B chart, the first time that had occurred. His next few recordings, however, were not successful; his voice was changing as he got older, and some Motown executives were considering cancelling his recording contract. During 1964, Wonder appeared in two films as himself, ""Muscle Beach Party"" and ""Bikini Beach"", but these were not successful either. Sylvia Moy persuaded label owner Berry Gordy to give Wonder another chance. Dropping the ""Little"" from his name,"
"Bari Goddard Bari Goddard is an avant garde and controversial British singer-songwriter, artist and photographer. Goddard was lead singer with Welsh Art Rock band Blaue Reiter, who released a single in 1981 called ""Where He Stands"" on Orifice Records (catalogue number ROZ1) to critical acclaim from John Peel, marketed by Rough Trade Records in London. The band split in 1982 and Goddard moved to London. He formed a band with Steve Maguire called The Design Team, then became lead vocalist with The Knives (ex-Brigandage) from 1983 to 1987. The Knives released one song, ""The Lonely One"", on the compilation album"
"Grandma Moses Anna Mary Robertson Moses (September 7, 1860 – December 13, 1961), known by her nickname Grandma Moses, was an American folk artist. She began painting in earnest at the age of 78 and is often cited as an example of an individual who successfully began a career in the arts at an advanced age. Her works have been shown and sold in the United States and abroad and have been marketed on greeting cards and other merchandise. Moses' paintings are displayed in the collections of many museums. ""Sugaring Off"" was sold for US $1.2 million in 2006. Moses"
"From November 10, 2012 to January 27, 2013, Yamada starred in “Johnnys’ World”, a musical performed at the Imperial Garden Theater in Tokyo, Japan, created in celebration of Johnny Kitagawa’s certification by Guinness World Records for producing the most number of artists who have claimed number one on the charts. For three months, Yamada performed “Mystery Virgin” during the second act in a total of 103 stage performances. Source Mystery Virgin In Japan, “Mystery Virgin” debuted at #1 in its debut week on the Oricon chart, making him the first teenage male artist in thirty three years to have a"
"2007. Lorde became the youngest artist whose song stayed more than eight weeks in the number one position, a feat that was previously achieved by hip hop duo Kris Kross with their song ""Jump"", in 1992, when they were thirteen years old. It also made Lorde the youngest solo artist to reach that mark since Mario who, at eighteen years old in 2005, topped the chart with ""Let Me Love You"". ""Royals"" also set many records on alternative radio stations. On August 2013, Lorde became the first solo female artist to top the ""Billboard"" Alternative Songs chart since Tracy Bonham"
"Russ Ballard Russell Glyn Ballard (31 October 1945) is an English singer, songwriter and musician. Originally coming to prominence as the lead singer and guitarist for the band Argent, Ballard became known by the late 1970s as a songwriter and producer. His compositions ""New York Groove"", ""You Can Do Magic"", ""Since You Been Gone"", ""Liar"", ""Winning"", ""I Know There's Something Going On"", ""So You Win Again"" and ""God Gave Rock and Roll to You"" were hits for other artists during the 1970s and 1980s. He also scored several minor hits under his own name in the early and mid-1980s. Ballard"
"at least four million-selling hits during his career. Jordan regularly topped the R&B ""race"" charts and was one of the first black recording artists to achieve significant crossover in popularity with the mainstream (predominantly white) American audience, having simultaneous Top Ten hits on the pop charts on several occasions. Jordan was a talented singer with great comedic flair, and he fronted his own band for more than twenty years. He duetted with some of the biggest solo singing stars of his time, including Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. Jordan was also an actor and a major black film"
"unsigned artists Macklemore and Ryan Lewis topped the chart with ""Thrift Shop"". The death of Michael Jackson on 25 June 2009 triggered a surge in sales of his recordings; this was the first time in the download era that the effect of a major star's death on the chart could be observed. During the week beginning 28 June, a total of 16 of his solo hits (plus four more by The Jackson 5) re-entered the chart. The following week, the momentum continued; 27 Jackson titles charted in the Top 75 (21 solo, one with his sister Janet and five by"