Who had a No 1 in the 70's with Knowing Me Knowing You
"Knowing Me, Knowing You ""Knowing Me, Knowing You"" is a hit single recorded by Swedish pop group ABBA. The song was written by Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus and Stig Anderson, with Anni-Frid Lyngstad singing the lead vocals. During recording sessions, it had the working titles of ""Ring It In"" and ""Number 1, Number 1"". The song is featured on the group's album ""Arrival"", and also on the compilation """". ""Knowing Me, Knowing You"" was recorded in 1976 at the Metronome studio in Stockholm and was released as a single in February 1977, becoming one of the group's most successful hits."
"led him to country. He signed first with Mega Records and then with Shannon Records and later on with ABC Records and Elektra Records. After releasing the 1970 cult classic ""Same People That You Meet Going Up You Meet Coming Down"" on Dunhill Records, Head's music reached the U.S. country music Top 100 24 times by the mid-1980s, while landing three Top 20 hits: ""The Most Wanted Woman in Town"", (1975) ""Come To Me"" and ""Now You See Em, Now You Don't"" both in 1977 and recorded on the ABC/Dot label reaching No. 16 and No. 19, respectively. Even the"
"Top Ten success, the subsequent ""(Bringing Out) The Girl in Me"" marking her final Hot 100 appearance with a #73 peak. ""Lead Me On"" is a re-packaged and slightly remixed version of the previous European LP with the addition of a new song, the disco-styled ""Hideaway"". The songs ""Lead Me On"" and ""Hideaway"" were extended for a promotional 12-inch record. 1969: 1971: 1975: 1976: 1977: 1978: 1979: 1980: 1982: 1986: Maxine Nightingale Maxine Nightingale (born 2 November 1952) is a British R&B and soul music singer. She is best known for her hits in the 1970s, with the million seller"
"No. 90 in the United Kingdom. I Knew You When (song) ""I Knew You When"" is a song written and composed by Joe South. It became a popular hit in 1965 when recorded by American pop and country singer Billy Joe Royal. There have also been several other hit cover versions of this song, including Donny Osmond and Linda Ronstadt. ""I Knew You When"" was first recorded by Billy Joe Royal for his 1965 studio album, ""Down in the Boondocks"". The song reached No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 the week of November 6, 1965. The song went to"
"""Black Day in July"" about the 1967 Detroit riot, brought him wide recognition in the 1960s. Canadian chart success with his own recordings began in 1962 with the No. 3 hit Me) I'm the One"", followed by recognition and charting abroad in the 1970s. His topped the US Hot 100 and/or AC chart with the hits ""If You Could Read My Mind"" (1970), ""Sundown"" (1974); ""Carefree Highway"" (1974), ""Rainy Day People (1975), and ""The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"" (1976), and had many other hits that appeared within the top 40. Several of his albums achieved gold and multi-platinum status"
"The World We Knew The World We Knew, also known as Frank Sinatra, is a 1967 studio album by American singer Frank Sinatra. The title track reached #30 on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart and #1 on the Easy Listening chart in 1967, while the Frank/Nancy Sinatra duet ""Somethin' Stupid"" reached #1 on both charts. The Allmusic review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine awarded the album two and a half stars, and described it as ""More of a singles collection than a proper album...Much of this has a rock-oriented pop production, complete with fuzz guitars, reverb, folky acoustic guitars, wailing"
"with 11 songs topping the chart, just ahead of 1956, 1962 and 1992, with 12. The act that has achieved the most number ones is American entertainer Elvis Presley, who has topped the chart 21 times – Presley's second number one, ""Jailhouse Rock"" was the first single ever to debut at the top of the chart. The most successful band are The Beatles, who have achieved 17 number ones on the chart. The Beatles' first chart-topper, ""From Me to You"", reached number one in May 1963. In the 1970s the required number of sales needed to top the chart was"
"and ""Killing Me Softly"". Both were # 1 hits on the pop charts and she became the first artist and the only female artist to win back to back Grammy Awards for Record of the Year. Stevie Wonder who topped the charts five times during the decade with songs such as ""You Are the Sunshine of My Life"" and ""Sir Duke"" had a unique treble. He won Grammy Awards for both best male Pop and R & B vocal performance in 1974, 1975, and 1977. The Jackson 5 became one of the biggest pop-music phenomena of the 1970s, playing from"
"If You Love Me, Let Me Know If You Love Me, Let Me Know is a United States and Canada-only album by singer Olivia Newton-John, released in May 1974. Other than the title track, all the material was from her previous albums, ""Olivia"" (1972), ""Music Makes My Day"" (1973) and ""Long Live Love"" (1974). It is the first of her albums to top the ""Billboard"" 200 pop albums chart. Two hit singles were issued from the LP in the US: the title song and ""I Honestly Love You"", the latter of which became Newton-John's first number-one US single, and her"
"2006 from complications of a stroke and diabetes. He is survived by his wife, children, and grandchildren. King Floyd King Floyd (February 13, 1945 – March 6, 2006) was a New Orleans soul singer and songwriter, best known for his Top 10 hit from 1970, ""Groove Me"". King Floyd III was born in New Orleans in 1945. His musical career started as a singer at the Sho-Bar on Bourbon Street. Following a stint in the army, Floyd went to California, where he joined up with record producer Harold Battiste. His debut album, ""A Man In Love,"" featuring songs co-written with"
"behind them. The song is heard in a 2016 TV commercial for ""The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon"". Like to Get to Know You ""Like to Get to Know You"" is a 1968 song from Spanky and Our Gang. Written by Stuart Scharf, the song debuted at number 71 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 on April 20, 1968, and peaked at #17 on June 8, 1968. It became a minor hit on the ""Billboard"" Easy Listening chart at the same time, eventually peaking at #24 the same week it peaked on the Hot 100. In Canada, the song reached #5"
"a number of the most popular soul music hits of the 1970s, including ""If You Don't Know Me By Now"" by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, ""Back Stabbers"", ""For the Love of Money"", and ""Love Train"" by The O'Jays, as well as the Grammy-winning ""Me and Mrs. Jones"" by Billy Paul. According to an interview on BBC Radio 4 on June 28, 2006, Gamble and Huff were inspired to write ""Me and Mrs. Jones"" after seeing someone they knew who appeared to be involved in an affair, meeting a woman in a cafe frequented by the songwriters. Gamble and"
"professional career in the mid 1960s, forming the psychedelic band Nazz in 1967. Two years later, he left Nazz to pursue a solo career and immediately scored his first US top 40 hit with ""We Gotta Get You a Woman"" (1970). His best-known songs include ""Hello It's Me"" and ""I Saw the Light"" from ""Something/Anything?"" (1972), which have heavy rotation on classic rock radio stations, and the 1983 single ""Bang the Drum All Day"", which is featured in many sports arenas, commercials and movie trailers. Although lesser known, ""Couldn't I Just Tell You"" (1972) was influential to many artists in"
"Oh! Baby Baby / Blue Stroll 1960 213 The Hunt Sisters Don't Hang Your Shame On Me / I'm Not Gonna Take It Anymore 1961 214 Jim Myers Bouncy / Partings 1961 215 Bobby Bernell Stay Away From Me / Thousand And One Dreams 1962 215 Jim Myers and his Gems Memphis / After Tomorrow 1962 216 ? 217 The Hunt Sisters Blue Moon Of Yesterday / My Feelings Are Showing 1962 218 ? 219 Danny Richards Can't Stop Me From Loving You / Love I Used To Know 19?? 220 Vic Norwin For Loving You / Long Gone Lonesome"
"when we finished a tour, we'd party into the red,"" says Locorriere. They were forced to file bankruptcy in 1974, although they continued to tour incessantly. In 1973- 1974 Haffkine, Ray Sawyer and Dennis Locorriere of Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show composed ""You Ain't Got the Right"" for Olivia Newton John on her ""Crystal Lady"" and ""If You Love Me, Let Me Know"" albums. ""If You Love Me, Let Me Know"" in 1974 was on the Billboard 200 at #1 and Billboard Top Country Albums at #1. At the time, in Nashville, Kyle Lehning, now famous for his body"
"hit. Jack and Jeannie's stage show became one of the biggest touring acts during the 1970s. Jack continued to have both solo hits and duets with Seely. Among the biggest of these hits during the 1970s included ""Lord, Is That Me"" (1970), ""There's A Lot About A Woman A Man Don't Know"" (1971), and two more duets with Jeannie with ""Much Obliged"" (1972) and ""What In The World Has Gone Wrong With Our Love"" (1972). Decca became MCA Records in the early 1970s but Greene kept on having chart success with ""Satisfaction"" (1973), ""I Need Somebody Bad"" (1973), and ""It's"
"1970. ""The Wonder of You"" was one of his most successful records in the UK ever, topping the UK Singles Chart for six weeks in the summer of that year. It is his fifth biggest seller in the UK to date, with sales of 891,000. It also stayed at number one in the Irish Charts for three weeks that same year. This was the 59th Top 40 hit of his career. Presley's version also reached number 37 on the US Country Singles chart, and number one on the easy listening chart. ""The Wonder of You"" was one of about thirty-five"
"1960s. Canadian chart success with his own recordings began in 1962 with the No. 3 hit Me) I'm the One"", followed by recognition and charting abroad in the 1970s. He topped the US Hot 100 and/or AC chart with the hits ""If You Could Read My Mind"" (1970), ""Sundown"" (1974); ""Carefree Highway"" (1974), ""Rainy Day People"" (1975), and ""The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"" (1976), and had many other hits that appeared within the top 40. Several of Lightfoot's albums achieved gold and multi-platinum status internationally. His songs have been recorded by renowned artists such as Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash,"
"1970, ""I Hear You Knocking"" reached number one in the UK, including the Christmas number one slot, and topped the UK Singles Chart for six weeks. It also placed in the top 10 in several other countries, including number four on the U.S. ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in 1971. It sold over three million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. In 1972, the song was included on his first solo album, ""Rockpile"". Edmunds had originally planned to record a cover of ""Let's Work Together"" by Wilbert Harrison, but had to reconsider when he heard a version that had been recorded"
"a moderately successful solo career. His first single was ""Just for You""; on the B-side, ""Little Woman"", he was backed by the band Family, following his production of Family's first album, 1968's ""Music in a Doll's House"" (which included ""Never Like This"", an original Mason song). His songwriting and sound culminated on his 1970 album ""Alone Together"" featuring ""Only You Know and I Know"", which reached No. 42 on the ""Billboard"" chart, as well as the lesser hit ""Look at You, Look at Me"". In the early 1970s he enlisted his friend, singer-songwriter Ray Kennedy, to tour and write for"
"If You Love Me (Let Me Know) ""If You Love Me (Let Me Know)"" is a song written by John Rostill that was a 1974 hit single for Olivia Newton-John. It was her second release to hit the top 10 in the United States, reaching number 5 on the pop chart and number 2 on the Easy Listening chart. It also reached number 2 on the ""Billboard"" country chart. As with her single ""Let Me Be There"", Mike Sammes sings a bass harmony. Brian Collins covered the song for Dot Records in 1977. His version went to number 83 on"
"record holdings later evolved into the Famous Music Group) and suggested they change their name. ""They told us Gary and the Knight Lites sounded a little dated"", Loizzo told Chicago Tribune in 1994. ""So we put a bunch of names in a hat and pulled out American Breed"". The band's first single was ""Ï Don't Think You Know Me"", written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin. The band enjoyed its greatest success in 1967 and 1968. They released five singles that reached the charts, including ""Step Out Of Your Mind"", ""Green Light"", and ""Bend Me, Shape Me"". The latter track"
"Chart. ""Billboard"" ranked ""Make It with You"" as the No. 13 song of 1970, and it was certified gold by the RIAA for sales of over one million copies. When the song was released, David Gates's mother was asked by a local interviewer how her son's music career was going. Misunderstanding the song's title, she replied that his group had just recorded a song called ""Naked with You."" Peggy Lee, Cleo Laine, The Supremes, Aretha Franklin, Christian Bautista, Earth, Wind & Fire, Dusty Springfield, Nancy Wilson, Cilla Black, the Originals, the Main Ingredient, the Whispers, Marc Anthony, Teddy Pendergrass, Don"
"until mid-1954. In second place was pop singer Jo Stafford with ""You Belong to Me"", and, with the exception of one week, she stayed just one place behind the top spot for nine weeks, until she finally managed to knock Al Martino off the top in 1953. Another record-achiever went to English traditional pop music singer Vera Lynn, who had three singles within the top 10 at the same time with ""Forget Me Not (Vera Lynn song)"" (at number 7), ""The Homing Waltz"" (at number 9), and ""Auf Wiederseh’n Sweetheart"" (at number 10). Other artists that had chart success in"
"Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Marvin Gaye, Cat Stevens, James Taylor, Eric Clapton, Barry White, and Rod Stewart. Female soloists who epitomized the 1970s included Linda Ronstadt, Carly Simon, Roberta Flack, Donna Summer, Barbra Streisand, Rita Coolidge, Olivia Newton-John and Helen Reddy. Some of the most popular music acts of the day got their own network television variety shows, which were very popular in the 70s. Acts like Sonny & Cher, Glen Campbell, John Denver, Tony Orlando and Dawn, husband and wife team Captain & Tennille, brother and sister Donny & Marie Osmond. Soft rock was prominently featured on many Top"
"""The Little White Cloud That Cried,"" ""Walking My Baby Back Home,"" ""Please, Mr. Sun,"" and ""Just Walkin' in the Rain."" The Four Lads racked up some hits on their own with ""Who Needs You,"" ""No, Not Much,"" ""Standin' on the Corner,"" and ""Moments to Remember."" Nat ""King"" Cole dominated the charts throughout the decade with such timeless classics as ""Unforgettable,"" ""Mona Lisa,"" ""Too Young,"" ""Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup,"" ""Pretend,"" ""Smile,"" and ""A Blossom Fell."" Perry Como was another frequent visitor to the charts with hits like: ""If,"" ""Round and Round,"" ""Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes,"" ""Tina"
"Should Have Said"" (U.S. #23) (1967); ""Midnight Confessions"" (U.S. #5, their biggest hit) (1968); ""Bella Linda"" (a cover of an Italian hit by Lucio Battisti, ""Balla Linda"") (U.S. #28), ""Lovin' Things"" (a cover of a UK hit by Marmalade the previous year) (U.S. #49), ""The River Is Wide"" (U.S. #31), ""I'd Wait a Million Years"" (U.S. #15), and ""Heaven Knows"" (U.S. #24) (1969); ""Walking Through the Country"" (U.S. #44), and ""Baby Hold On"" (U.S. #35) (1970); ""Temptation Eyes"" (#15), ""Sooner or Later"" (U.S. #9), and ""Two Divided by Love"" (U.S. #16) (1971); ""Glory Bound"" (U.S. #34) and ""The Runway"" (U.S."
"like ""Say My Name"" in 2000), Kelly Rowland (4 #1 hits like Dilemma in 2002), Kelly Clarkson (3 #1 hits like ""A Moment Like This"" in 2002), rock and roll pioneer Roy Orbison (d.1988) (2 #1 hits like ""Oh, Pretty Woman"" in 1964), country singer Kenny Rogers (2 #1s like ""Islands in the Stream"" in 1983), Christopher Cross (2 #1s like ""Sailing"" in 1980), The Crickets (w/Buddy Holly (d.1959), ""That'll Be the Day"" in 1957), B.J. Thomas (""Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"" in 1970), Janis Joplin (d.1970) (""Me and Bobby McGee"" in 1971, she attended the University of Texas),"
"Knows,"" written by Mike Settle, which was featured in the end credits of the 1971 film ""Vanishing Point"". The film also featured Carnes' first cut as a songwriter, ""Sing Out for Jesus,"" which was recorded by Willie Mae ""Big Mama"" Thornton. Also in 1971 she and Mike Settle again worked with Bowen to create the bubblegum pop studio group The Sugar Bears. An album, ""Presenting the Sugar Bears"", and three singles were released with one song, ""You Are The One,"" reaching #83 on the ""Billboard"" charts. In the early 1970s, Carnes and husband Dave Ellingson co-wrote several songs with David"
"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"
"Eddie Rabbitt and Linda Ronstadt were some of the other artists who also found success on both the country and pop charts with their records as well. The 1970s continued a trend toward a proliferation of No. 1 hits on the ""Billboard"" Hot Country Singles chart. In 1970, there were 23 songs that reached the top spot on the chart, but by the mid-1970s, more than 40 titles rotated in and out of the top spot for the first time in history. The trend temporarily reversed itself by the late 1970s, when about 30 to 35 songs reached the pinnacle"
"number one on the Easy Listening chart. The song on this album entitled ""For All We Know"" won the Oscar for Best Original Song for its inclusion in the 1970 film ""Lovers and Other Strangers"" and was another Gold single for The Carpenters, this time reaching number three pop and spending three weeks at number one Easy Listening. ""A Song for You"" originally appeared on Leon Russell's self-titled debut album in 1970. Aside from Williams, the only other artist to chart the song during this period was Jaye P. Morgan, who reached 105 while ""bubbling under"" the Hot 100 for"
"McLean's cover of Roy Orbison's ""Crying"". The Ska and Mod revivals reached their peak this year, with strong chart showings by The Jam, The Specials and Madness. 1970s favourites ABBA and Blondie both had their last years as chart heavyweights, clocking up 5 No.1 singles between them. David Bowie scored his second No.1 this year, while the death of John Lennon at the end of the year gave him his first chart topper (and would dominate the early months of 1981). Kate Bush became the first British female artist to have a No.1 album, and The Police finished the year"