"in Norway. The song ""Chillin"" by rapper Wale featuring singer Lady Gaga samples the chorus. ""Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye"" bears a resemblance to the coda of The Beatles' 1968 song ""Hey Jude"". In February 1983, UK girl group Bananarama released the song as a single from their album ""Deep Sea Skiving"". This version became a top ten hit in the United Kingdom (#5), but only a minor hit in the US (Billboard #101) later that year. This was the fifth single released from their first album in 1983. It peaked at number five in the UK singles"
"Velvet Car"", with Ann. The album released in 2010 and included two singles by Nancy: ""Hey You"", which reached the top 40 on the Hot Adult Contemporary chart; and ""Sunflower"", which Nancy wrote for Ann's 60th birthday. The album peaked at number 10 on the ""Billboard"" 200 chart and three on the Rock Albums chart. With Nancy now aged 56, and Ann about to become a grandmother, the sisters had managed to have albums make it onto top-10 charts in four different decades. The band's subsequent tour sold out and charted on ""Billboard"" just behind those of Lady Gaga and"
"1978 and youngest sister Coleen, who had previously made occasional appearances (including appearing in the I'm In the Mood for Dancing video), became a full-time member in 1980, replacing Anne. Between 1979 and 1982, the group had seven UK top 20 hits, including ""Gotta Pull Myself Together"" (1980) ""Who's Gonna Rock You"" (1980), ""Attention to Me"" (1981) and ""Chemistry"" (1981). They were particularly successful in Japan and won the 1981 Tokyo Music Festival with the song ""Sexy Music"". Anne returned to the group in 1982, before Linda left in 1983. The group won a Japanese Grammy (Tokubetsu Kikaku Shō) in"
"six. By the beginning of the 21st century, sales of ""Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye"" had exceeded 6.5 million records, attaining gold record status. The Supremes included a cover of the song on their 1970 album ""New Ways but Love Stays"". The Belmonts recorded an a cappella version, which can be found as a track on their 1972 album ""Cigars, Acappella, Candy"". Dave Clark & Friends released the song in October 1973 under the title ""Sha-Na-Na-Na (Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye)"" (EMI 2082), but the single did not chart. In 1987, Canadian quartet The Nylons released"
"Nina Gordon (left side and performing), and other band members bounce erratically. The video also shows Post and Gordon performing the song while a camera circles around them. Surrounding this arena stand many fans watching them perform several takes of the song. Volcano Girls ""Volcano Girls"" is a single by the American alternative rock band Veruca Salt, released in 1997 on their album ""Eight Arms to Hold You"". It was written by Nina Gordon who also sang lead vocals, with Louise Post performing backup vocals. This song was used at the beginning of the dark comedy movie ""Jawbreaker"", released in"
"Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye ""Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye"" is a song written and recorded by Paul Leka, Gary DeCarlo and Dale Frashuer, attributed to a then-fictitious band they named ""Steam"". It was released under the Mercury subsidiary label Fontana and became a number one pop single on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in late 1969, and remained on the charts in early 1970. In 1977, Chicago White Sox organist Nancy Faust began playing the song when White Sox sluggers knocked out the opposing pitcher. The fans would sing and a sports ritual was born. The"
"ABC's ""Good Morning America"" and written up in Sports Illustrated as baseball's ""MVO, or Most Valuable Organist"", among other accolades. She was even awarded a RIAA gold record from Mercury Records, whose sales of the 1969 pop tune ""Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye"" skyrocketed after Nancy's version took the sports world by storm. Fans enjoyed being able to visit Faust during games and offer suggestions – first in her open-air position in Comiskey Park's upper deck, and later in a booth behind home plate at U.S. Cellular Field. Aside from the Sox (1970–2010), Bulls (1976–1984) and Blackhawks (1984–1989),"
"line-up of June, Ruth, and Anita, winning two more Grammys for the top 10 hits ""Jump (for My Love)"" (1984) and ""Automatic"" (1984). The group's other U.S. top 10 hits are ""Fire"" (1979), ""He's So Shy"" (1980), ""Slow Hand"" (1981), the remixed version of ""I'm So Excited"" (1984) and ""Neutron Dance"" (1985). June Pointer, the youngest sister, struggled with drug addiction for much of her career, leaving the group in April 2004 and dying from extensive cancer in April 2006, at the age of 52. She was replaced by Ruth's daughter Issa Pointer. This trio had a number two hit"
"The Cover Girls The Cover Girls is a New York City-based freestyle girl group that achieved most of its chart success in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Among the group's best-known songs are ""Show Me"", ""Because of You"", ""My Heart Skips a Beat"", ""We Can't Go Wrong"", ""Funk Boutique"" and ""Wishing on a Star"". The Cover Girls began its musical career in 1986, at a time when other American and British girl groups such as Exposé, Bananarama, Seduction, Sweet Sensation and Company B were scoring hit singles on the pop and dance charts. The group was formed by music"
"sound than most glam metal, it produced three top 10 hits, including the number one ""Sweet Child O' Mine"". Some of the glam rock bands that formed in the mid-1980s, such as White Lion and Cinderella experienced their biggest success during this period with their respective albums ""Pride"" (1987) and ""Long Cold Winter"" (1988) both going multi-platinum and launching a series of hit singles. In the last years of the decade, the most notable successes were ""New Jersey"" (1988) by Bon Jovi, ""OU812"" (1988) by Van Halen, ""Open Up and Say... Ahh!"" (1988) by Poison"", Pump"" (1989) by Aerosmith, and"
"Rats (1978), The Clash (1979), The Jam (1980), The Selecter (1980), UB40 (1981), Girlschool (1981), U2 (1982), Whitesnake (1983), The Alarm (1984), Nina Hagen (1984), The Cure (1985), The Damned (1986), The Pretenders (1987), The Stranglers (1988), Tanita Tikaram (1989), Georgia Satellites (1989), Soundgarden (1990), Bob Dylan (1990), Midnight Oil (1990), Billy Idol (1991), Nirvana (1992), Faith No More (1993), Chris Isaak (1993), Jethro Tull (1993), Aerosmith (1994), Simple Minds (1995), Bon Jovi (1995), Blur (1996), Pulp (1996), Neil Young (1996), David Bowie (1997), Sting (1997), Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (1997), Pet Shop Boys (1997), Beastie Boys (1998),"
"success, including in the United States, where they had top 10 hits with ""Cruel Summer"" (1984), ""Venus"" (number one in 1986), and ""I Heard A Rumour"" (1987). Fahey's replacement in 1988 was Jacquie O'Sullivan, with hits in this period including ""I Want You Back"" (1988). Dallin and Woodward were the only artists from the original 1984 Band Aid to also feature on the 1989 version. O'Sullivan left in 1991 and Dallin and Woodward continued as a duo until 2017, when they reunited with Fahey. In June 2017, the original line-up of Bananarama received the Icon Award at the Glamour Awards."
"Sister, Poison, Dokken, Whitesnake, and Cinderella were among the most popular acts of the decade. The 1980s saw the emergence of wildly popular hard rock band Guns N' Roses and the successful comebacks of Aerosmith and Alice Cooper in the late 1980s. The success of hard rock act Van Halen spanned throughout the entire decade, first with singer David Lee Roth and later with Sammy Hagar. Queen, which had expanded its music to experimental and crossover genres in the early 1980s, returned to guitar-driven hard rock with ""The Miracle"" in 1989. Additionally, a few women managed to achieve stardom in"
"you didn't have a lyric."" Gary added ""hey hey"". The group that is seen on the album cover and in the old black and white video was a road group that had nothing to do with the recording. The road group was lip syncing to DeCarlo's vocal in the video. ""Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye"" reached number one in the United States for two weeks, on December 6 and 13, 1969; it was ""Billboard""'s final multi-week number 1 hit of the 1960s and also peaked at number twenty on the soul chart. In Canada, the song reached number"
"Dancing"", which reached number three in the UK singles chart. They also had UK top twenty hits with ""Don't Make Waves"" (1980), ""Gotta Pull Myself Together"" (1980), ""Who's Gonna Rock You"" (1981), ""Attention to Me"" (1981), ""Chemistry"" (1981) and ""Don't Love Me Too Hard"" (1982). In 1981 they won the Tokyo Music Festival with the song ""Sexy Music"". In 1991 the group won a 33rd Japan Record Awards Kikaku-shō (Prize for Planning) for Cover version of Japanese pops. On 5 February 1974 Nolan made her first television appearance with her sisters when she was almost nine years old, as the"
"keyboardist, David C. Lewis, as well as an additional singer Royce Jones. In April 1980 Warner Bros. released ""One Eighty"", which produced two of the year's biggest hits. The first, ""Biggest Part of Me"", reached number three for three weeks on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and crossed over to the soul chart, where it peaked at number thirty-five. The second, another blue-eyed soul hit, ""You're the Only Woman (You & I)"", reached No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100. ""One Eighty"" earned the band three Grammy nominations, including Best Pop Vocal Group. A headlining world tour followed. For the Japanese"
"successful song was ""Slow Boat to China"", which reached number 8 on the country charts in 1986. The original four members reunited for one concert in 2011. Girls Next Door Girls Next Door was an American country music group formed in Nashville, Tennessee in 1982 and disbanded in 1991. The group consisted of Doris King, Cindy Nixon, Diane Williams, and Tammy Stephens. The group recorded three albums. Girls Next Door was founded in 1982 by record producer Tommy West, who suggested that studio backing vocalist Doris King form a four-woman vocal group. They were previously known as Belle and Wildflower."
"while Yeeun and Sunmi decided to leave the company. The group released their final single ""Draw Me"" on February 10; it also serves as a celebration for their 10th anniversary since debut. The Wonder Girls are known for their signature retro sound and concept. Their music has been noted to contain elements from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. The Wonder Girls are known as ""South Korea's Retro Queens"", as their music has been noted to contain elements from the 1960s, such as in their hit ""Nobody"", 1970s, such as in the reggae track ""Why So Lonely"", and 1980s, heard on"
"the 1990s. They ranked as the second most successful female group of the 1990s. In March 2015, ""Billboard"" magazine named the group the ninth most-successful girl group of all-time. Two of the group's singles ranks in ""Billboard's"" most successful girl group songs of all-time list, ""Don't Let Go (Love)"" (#12) and ""Hold On"" (#23). In the late-1980s, when they were assembling their 1988 compilation project ""FM2"" for Atlantic Records, Oakland-based production and songwriting duo Denzil Foster and Thomas McElroy first conceived the idea of a modern-day girl group in the tradition of commercially successful female bands that flourished in the"
"band. Guitarist Tak Matsumoto, who supported TM Network's concerts, formed rock duo B'z with singer Koshi Inaba in 1988. In the late 1980s, girl band Princess Princess became a successful pop-rock band. Their singles ""Diamonds"" and ""Sekai de Ichiban Atsui Natsu"" (""World's Hottest Summer"") were ranked at the number-one and number-two spots, respectively, on the 1989 Oricon Yearly Single Charts. In the late 1980s, a new trend also emerged in Japanese rock music: the ""visual kei"", a movement notable by male bands who wore makeup, extravagant hair styles, and androgynous costumes. The most successful representatives of the movement are X"
"Steam (band) Steam was a pop-rock music group best known for the 1969 number one hit song ""Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye."" The song was written and recorded by studio musicians Gary DeCarlo, Dale Frashuer, and producer/writer Paul Leka at Mercury Records studios in New York City. The single was attributed to the band ""Steam"" although at the time there was actually no band with that name. Paul Leka and the studio group recorded the first album. Frashuer and DeCarlo were members of a vocal group called The Glenwoods from Bridgeport, Connecticut, for which Leka played the piano."
"6 Pop Singles for 1976 and No. 3 Soul Singles for 1976. Besides being the first and only No. 1 pop hit for The Manhattans, ""Kiss and Say Goodbye"" marked 11 years since the group made their first appearance on the ""Billboard"" in 1965, with the song ""I Wanna Be (Your Everything)"" (No. 68 on the Hot 100). ""Kiss and Say Goodbye"" ended the decade at No. 83 on the ""Billboard"" Top 100 Songs of the 1970s. Credits Companies Notes Kiss and Say Goodbye ""Kiss and Say Goodbye"" is a 1976 hit song worldwide, by popular American R&B vocal group"
"Nash. They enjoyed considerable popularity in many countries (at least 60 singles or EPs and 26 albums charting somewhere in the world, spanning over five decades), although they did not achieve major US chart success until 1966 with ""Bus Stop"". The Hollies had over 30 charting singles on the UK Singles Chart, and 22 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, with major hits on both sides of the Atlantic that included ""Just One Look"", ""Look Through Any Window"", ""I Can't Let Go"", ""Bus Stop"", ""Stop Stop Stop"", ""On a Carousel"", ""Carrie Anne"", ""Jennifer Eccles"", and later ""He Ain't Heavy, He's My"
"and early 1980s gave many one hit wonders and some bands that lasted longer. Female bands Luv' and Dolly Dots but also disco bands Spargo and Time Bandits were the most successful. Together with Golden Earring, which scored some of their biggest hits with ""Twilight Zone"" (1983) and ""When the Lady Smiles"" (1984). The Nits developed a large audience outside the Netherlands, including in Finland, Switzerland, Germany, France, Belgium, Greece and Canada and in 1989 were the first Dutch band to play in the (then still) Soviet Union. Urban Dance Squad was a cross-over band, combining hip-hop with funk and"
"their period of maximum media exposition and chart success. In 1980, ""Sounds"" voted the band second 'Best Newcomer' and Kelly Johnson third 'Best Female Vocalist'. Two years later, ""Kerrang!"" still voted Kelly Johnson second 'Best Female Vocalist' and best 'Female Pin-up'. In that period, British radio stations gladly broadcast Girlschool's singles and the band was also guest of music TV shows, culminating with a performance at ""Top of the Pops"" on April 1981 to promote the single ""Hit and Run"". On the contrary, Girlschool's change of musical style in 1984 and their sudden predilection for the US market were not"
"There were also others, such as The Liverbirds (1962–1967), the Ace of Cups (1967), The Heart Beats (1968), and Ariel (1968–1970). In 1971 Fanny became the first all-female band to reach the Hot 100's top 40, with ""Charity Ball"" peaking at No. 40. In 1975, the Canadian duo of sisters, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, recorded the first of a string of albums. The Runaways were an early commercially successful, hard-edged, all-female hard rock band, releasing their first album in 1976: band members Joan Jett, Cherie Currie and Lita Ford all went on to solo careers. The 1980s, for the first"
"in the UK, they became better known in the early 1980s. One of the original members of the band, Kathy Valentine departed to join the all-female band The Go-Go's, switching from guitar to bass. Among Girlschool's early recordings was an EP titled ""St. Valentine's Day Massacre"" which they recorded with Bronze label-mates Motörhead under the name Headgirl. In 1974, The Deadly Nightshade, a rock/country band (Anne Bowen, rhythm guitar/percussion; Pamela Robin Brandt, electric bass; Helen Hooke, lead guitar/violin) was signed by RCA's custom label Phantom. The contract made RCA/Phantom the first mainstream record label to grant a band the right"
"seen in Rihanna's hit ""SOS"" (a sampling of Soft Cell's ""Tainted Love""), Lumidee's ""She's Like The Wind"" and Flo Rida's ""Right Round"", a reworking of the Dead or Alive hit ""You Spin Me Right Round"". Other hits include Aaron Carter's cover of Bow Wow Wow's ""I Want Candy"", and Britney Spears' covers of ""My Prerogative"" and ""I Love Rock 'n' Roll"". Pop rock groups such as Metro Station, The Veronicas, and Owl City also displayed 1980s influences. Beyoncé's hit ""Sweet Dreams"" was not a direct sampling of an 1980s pop hit but Anne Hagerty of ""Billboard"" magazine was quoted as"
"the 1969 song ""Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye"" by the band Steam, and the 1987 song, ""Top Billin'"", by Audio Two. The song received mixed reviews from contemporary critics. Some praised Wale and Gaga's collaboration and composition, while others criticized it. ""Chillin"" reached number 12 on the UK Singles Chart, while in the United States it peaked at number 99 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. The song also reached the lower regions of the record charts in some other nations. The accompanying music video features both Wale and Gaga in various locations in and around Washington D.C. and"
"topping hit with ""Want Ads"", as did Labelle with ""Lady Marmalade"" and A Taste of Honey with ""Boogie Oogie Oogie"". Other examples of the girl group were Love Unlimited and The Three Degrees who scored a number two pop hit with ""When Will I See You Again"" but topped the chart when they teamed with Mother, Sister, Father, Brother (MSFB) on the Sound of Philadelphia (TSOP). The Commodores were another group that played from a diverse repertoire, including R&B, funk, and pop. Lionel Richie, who went on to even greater success as a solo artist in the 1980s, fronted the"
"style they would resort to in later hits as well. The single reached #8 in the UK Singles Chart in June 1998. After the success of ""Kung Fu Fighting"", the group released three further remakes, ""You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet"" that featured Randy Bachman, dance version of Van Halen's ""Jump"" and ""Get It On"" that featured T. Rex. Other hits included remakes of ""Footloose"" (originally by Kenny Loggins) and ""Na-Na"" (originally a hit by Steam called ""Goodbye"" popularly known as ""Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye"". Bus Stop also released ""Kick the Can"", ""Swing It"", ""One Two (Little Bitch)"""
"on eight separate occasions in 1971: August 19 and 26, September 7, 16, 23 ad 30, October 7 and December 27. Hey Girl Don't Bother Me ""Hey Girl Don't Bother Me"" is a popular single by The Tams. Written by Ray Whitley, it was originally released in 1964 and reached number 41 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and number 10 on the R&B chart. It later became a favourite on the Northern soul scene in the UK, belatedly reaching number one on the UK Singles Chart for three weeks in September 1971. The single was also number one on the"
"Girl's Day Girl's Day () is a South Korean girl group formed by Dream Tea Entertainment in 2010. The group currently consists of four members: Sojin, Minah, Yura and Hyeri. Members Jisun and Jiin officially left the group in 2010, while Jihae left in late 2012. In order of release, the group's biggest hits include ""Twinkle Twinkle"", ""Hug Me Once"", ""Expect"", ""Something"", ""Darling"", and ""Ring My Bell"", all of which have sold more than one million digital copies each. Over the span of their career, Girl's Day has endorsed over 20 brands, including LG Electronics, Ezaki Glico's Pocky, Lotte World,"