"version of the song, retitled ""Dream Maker"" and with rewritten lyrics, appears in the pilot of the 1987 TV series ""Rags to Riches"". In 2014, the song was featured in the episode ""The Immutable Truth"" of ""Bates Motel"". Peter McCann released a version of the song as a single in 1982 which did not chart. Dream Lover ""Dream Lover"" is a song written by Bobby Darin and recorded by him on April 6, 1959. Darin decided to stretch out some chord changes he found on the piano and add strings and voices. The song was produced by Ahmet Ertegun and"
"Dreamer (Livin' Joy song) ""Dreamer"" is a song produced and recorded by Italian house group Livin' Joy. It features vocals by Janice Robinson, who also co-wrote the song. It was number one in the US Hot Dance Club Play chart that year. On 13 May 1995, it entered the UK Singles Chart at number 1. The song was first released in the United Kingdom on 3 September 1994, going straight in at number 18 in the UK Singles Chart. It had a slow and steady decline down the charts shortly after, slipping from its number 18 debut down to 67,"
"at number 72 and spent seventeen weeks on the chart. The song had a more successful run in the United Kingdom, hitting the number one spot after being re-issued. In its original run in late 1994, ""Dreamer' peaked at #18, spending 6 straight weeks in the UK top 100. It did re-enter the lower ends of the top 100 two more times that year bringing its total to 12 weeks inside the top 100. (18-22-24-32-46-67-85-97-99-85-97) By the end of 1995, the re-issue of 'Dreamer' ranked as the U.K's 40th best selling single of the year logging a total of 21"
"with a volume number suffix since 1991). Hits 50 Hits 50 is a compilation album released in the United Kingdom in August 2001. It contains 50 tracks spread over two CDs, including nine number-one singles on the UK Singles Chart from Five, DJ Pied Piper and the Masters of Ceremonies, Craig David, Jennifer Lopez, Bob The Builder, Rui Da Silva, LeAnn Rimes, A1, and Westlife. ""Hits 50"" is the first Hits album since ""Hits 97"" and ""Hits 99"" to feature the word Hits in the name as the only word in the title. Despite its success, the album was quite"
"stayed true to its original form. This was the single that finally took the Visnadi brothers to number 1. beating the out-going number one by Oasis by a narrow margin of just 500 sales. ""Dreamer"" stayed on top of the chart for only a week, eventually being knocked off by the monster hit ""Unchained Melody"" by Robson & Jerome. ""Dreamer"" racked up an impressive run in the top 100, spending 21 non-consecutive weeks in the UK chart, ending the year as the 40th biggest selling single of 1995. In the United States, the song was a sleeper hit on pop"
"Hits 50 Hits 50 is a compilation album released in the United Kingdom in August 2001. It contains 50 tracks spread over two CDs, including nine number-one singles on the UK Singles Chart from Five, DJ Pied Piper and the Masters of Ceremonies, Craig David, Jennifer Lopez, Bob The Builder, Rui Da Silva, LeAnn Rimes, A1, and Westlife. ""Hits 50"" is the first Hits album since ""Hits 97"" and ""Hits 99"" to feature the word Hits in the name as the only word in the title. Despite its success, the album was quite controversial - in order to have 25"
"in the UK chart. Elvis Presley reached number 2 in the UK chart with ""Heartbreak Hotel"" in 1956 and had nine more singles in the Top 30 that year. His first number 1 was ""All Shook Up"" in 1957 and there would be more chart-toppers for him and for Buddy Holly and the Crickets and Jerry Lee Lewis in the next two years. The initial response of the British music industry was to attempt to produce exact copies of American records. These were often recorded with session musicians and, even if note perfect, lacked the energy and spontaneity that characterised"
"also made the UK Singles Chart, peaking at No. 16. Travellin' Light ""Travellin' Light"" is a UK No. 1 single recorded by Cliff Richard and The Shadows and released in 1959. It was the follow-up single to Richard's first No. 1, ""Living Doll"" and remained at No. 1 for five weeks (one less than ""Living Doll""). ""Travellin' Light"" was also a Number 1 hit in Ireland and Norway, selling 1.59m copies worldwide. It was Richard's last single of the 1950s and his first release after the Shadows had changed their name from the Drifters (so as to not conflict with"
"well into the 1960s. Their hit ""When We Get Married"" was covered by The Intruders in 1970 and by Larry Graham in 1980; ""You Gave Me Somebody to Love"" was a UK hit for Manfred Mann in 1966. The Dreamlovers The Dreamlovers were an American doo wop group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Formed in 1956, the group took several names early in its career, recording demos as The Romancers and The Midnighters (under which name they backed Chubby Checker on a 1958 recording of ""The Twist""). They recorded briefly for V-Tone Records before signing to Heritage Records, who released their 1961"
"Part-Time Lover ""Part-Time Lover"" is a single by Stevie Wonder, from his 1985 album ""In Square Circle"". The song reached number 1 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, R&B, dance, and adult contemporary charts. The song's simultaneous chart successes made Wonder the first artist to score a number-one hit on four different ""Billboard"" charts. The song was also released as a special 12"" version. ""Part-Time Lover"" also reached number three on the UK Singles Chart thanks in large part to a performance by Wonder on ""Top of the Pops"" in late 1985. The song featured R&B singer Luther Vandross singing the"
"UK than in his native America, including a cover of The Young Rascals' ""How Can I Be Sure"" and the double A-side single ""Daydreamer"" / ""The Puppy Song"" – two UK number ones which failed to chart in the States. In Britain, Cassidy the solo star remains best known for ""Daydreamer"", ""How Can I Be Sure"" and ""Could It Be Forever"" (UK number 2/US number 37), all released during his 1972–73 solo chart peak. Though he wanted to become a respected rock musician along the lines of Mick Jagger, his channel to stardom launched him into the ranks of teen"
"her big-selling cover. The Everly Brothers followed in 1963, along with Jerry Wallace (1966), Dean Martin (1967), Engelbert Humperdinck (1967) who was number one on the UK Singles Chart and many others in the years after. The Humperdinck version has the distinction in the UK of holding the number one slot on the chart for six weeks during March and April 1967, and preventing The Beatles' ""Penny Lane"" / ""Strawberry Fields Forever"" from reaching the top spot. Humperdinck's ""Release Me"" was also the highest selling single of 1967 in the UK, recording over one million in sales, eventually becoming one"
"America, ""Dreamgirls"" star Jennifer Holliday, and featured keyboard work by Thompson Twins frontman Tom Bailey. The choir also appears in the song's music video. ""I Want to Know What Love Is"" reached number one in the UK Singles Chart on January 15, 1985, displacing Band Aid's ""Do They Know It's Christmas?"", staying there for three weeks, and knocked Madonna's long-running ""Like a Virgin"" out of number one on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 on February 2, 1985. It was Foreigner's first and only pop chart topper in either country, although the band had four number one Mainstream Rock hits and a"
"and the United Kingdom. In the U.S. it reached No. 2 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 on 2 February 1985, kept out of the top spot by ""I Want to Know What Love Is"" by Foreigner. In the UK Singles Chart it reached No. 1, staying there for four weeks. The single was certified gold in the UK. The single sold over a million copies in the U.S. and was certified gold, as the RIAA requirement for a platinum single disc was not lowered to 1 million units until 1989. In addition, ""Easy Lover"" has been certified gold by the"
"of 56. Rikki Patrick{Recardo Patrick} replaced Marcel King in 1975. Sweet Sensation (band) Sweet Sensation was an eight piece British soul group who had some success in the mid 1970s. They are best known for their 1974 No. 1 UK hit, ""Sad Sweet Dreamer"". Formed in Manchester in 1971, the band came to prominence after appearing on the ITV talent show ""New Faces"". Under the guidance of panellist Tony Hatch the band signed to Pye Records. The debut single ""Snowfire"" failed to reach the charts, but the follow-up ""Sad Sweet Dreamer"" was a UK number one single in October 1974,"
"Time list. It is one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. In the UK the Drifters' version of ""Up on the Roof"" failed to reach the Top 50, being trumped by two local cover versions, sung by, respectively, Julie Grant and Kenny Lynch. The Kenny Lynch version, which largely replicated the Drifters' original, was the more successful, reaching number 10 in the UK. The Julie Grant version, which reached number 33 in the UK, reinvented the song as a Merseybeat number; its producer Tony Hatch would later be inspired to write"
"Travellin' Light ""Travellin' Light"" is a UK No. 1 single recorded by Cliff Richard and The Shadows and released in 1959. It was the follow-up single to Richard's first No. 1, ""Living Doll"" and remained at No. 1 for five weeks (one less than ""Living Doll""). ""Travellin' Light"" was also a Number 1 hit in Ireland and Norway, selling 1.59m copies worldwide. It was Richard's last single of the 1950s and his first release after the Shadows had changed their name from the Drifters (so as to not conflict with the American band of the same name). The B-side, ""Dynamite"""
"standard. The Spencer Davis Group had their first UK number one with the Jackie Edwards penned ""Keep on Running"" (1965), but became largely a vehicle for the young keyboard player and vocalist Steve Winwood, who at only 18 co-wrote ""Gimme Some Lovin'"" (1967) and ""I'm a Man"" (1967), both of which reached the ""Billboard"" 100 top 10 and became R&B standards. The Moody Blues had only one major R&B hit with a cover of ""Go Now"" (1964), which reached number one in the UK and number ten in the US. Subsequent singles failed to penetrate the top 20 and hardly"
"to number one in the same year. It was certified Gold on February 17, 1960, and Platinum on August 10, 2011, by the Recording Industry Association of America. It was originally released in UK in 1957 as ""Elvis Presley No. 2"" with a different front cover (on ""His Master's Voice"" CLP1105). It was also catalogued as ""Rock 'n' Roll No. 2"". RCA Victor producer Steve Sholes had commissioned two new songs for this batch of sessions, ""Paralyzed"" from Otis Blackwell and ""Love Me"" from Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, the authors respectively of both sides of Presley's summer hit of"
"was as commercial as its predecessor. Similarly, ""The Sydney Morning Herald"" described the song as the ""next most commercial song to ""Lost in France""."" Tyler performed ""More Than a Lover"" live on ""Top of the Pops"" on 31 March 1977. The song progressed slowly in the charts; it was released in January 1977, but it took until March for the single to reach the UK Top 50. Further success was hampered when the BBC banned the song from being played on any associated music programs due to a BBC producer's view that the song contained sexual innuendos. Its highest UK"
"kill the invading Martians every time the record was played. Although once known as ""America's Favorite Folk Singer"", he was consistently more popular throughout Europe, and in particular the United Kingdom, than in his native America, especially with his covers of pop standards, film songs, love songs, folk tunes, and melodic gospel hymns. His 1955 hit single ""Rose Marie"" spent 11 weeks at #1 on the UK Singles Chart and held the Guinness World Record for the longest time at number one on the UK Singles Chart for 36 years until Bryan Adams broke the record in 1991 and was"
"singer and mastermind of the acid jazz band Jamiroquai. In 1965, on the U.S. ""Billboard"" Hot 100, a unique hat-trick of consecutive number 1s took place in the spring, all from Mancunian pop groups. Freddie and the Dreamers spent two weeks at the top with ""I'm Telling You Now"" (April 10–24), Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders one week with ""Game of Love"" (24 April-1 May), and finally Herman's Hermits with ""Mrs Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter"", a further three weeks (1–22 May), a total of six weeks, an achievement never matched even in the UK Top 50. Manchester's main"
"Lists of UK Albums Chart number ones This is a list of the number one hits in the UK Albums Chart, from its inception in 1956 to the present. The sources are the ""Record Mirror"" chart from 1956 to the end of 1958, the ""Melody Maker"" chart from November 1958 to March 1960, the ""Record Retailer"" chart from March 1960 to March 1972 and the ""Music Week"" chart from then onwards. In January 1989 the compilation album chart started, and compilation albums were excluded from the main chart. The first number one album was Frank Sinatra's ""Songs for Swingin' Lovers""."
"the UK Top 40 chart, for the chart week of January 20, 1965. It reached No. 1 in its fourth week (February 10) and remained there the following week. It would become the only single to ever enter the UK Top 10 three times, having been successfully re-releases in 1969 (No. 10), and again in 1990 (No. 3) as a follow-up to the re-release of ""Unchained Melody"", which had hit No. 1 after being featured in the film ""Ghost"". ""You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin also reached No. 42 after a 1977 re-release and in 1988 reached No. 87. In Ireland,"
"when ""Are You Ready for Love"" was re-released in 2003. The Equals (with Eddy Grant), who had come to prominence in the late 1960s playing Caribbean-influenced pop-rock, embraced harder funk sounds on their 1970s releases, most notably on their UK top 10 hit ""Black Skinned Blue Eyed Boys"". Sweet Sensation were the first all-black British soul band to score a UK number one hit with their song ""Sad Sweet Dreamer"" in 1974. One of the key figures in Britain's soul and disco scenes during the 1970s was Biddu, an Indian-born British composer and producer who gained breakthrough success with chart-topping"
"100 Number 1 hits. For the performance, she donned a sequined white dress, and entered the stage in a pink convertible car. At the end of the performance, she stands atop a stage fan, while her skirt blows in the wind, as an homage to Marilyn Monroe. These credits were adapted from the ""Music Box"" liner notes. ""Dreamlover"" was recorded at Right Track Studios, New York, and mixed at Sony Music Studios, New York. Works cited Dreamlover (song) ""Dreamlover"" is a song by American singer Mariah Carey, released on July 27, 1993, as the lead single from her third studio"
"somewhat from the attention. The ever-present sunglasses led some people to assume that the stationary performer was blind. His black clothes and the desperation in his songs emanated the image of mystery and introversion. His dark and brooding persona, combined with his tremulous voice in lovelorn ballads marketed to teenagers, made Orbison a star in the early 1960s. His string of top-40 hits continued with ""In Dreams"" (US number seven, UK number six), ""Falling"" (US number 22, UK number 9), and ""Mean Woman Blues"" (US number five, UK number three) coupled with ""Blue Bayou"" (US number 29, UK number three)."
"50 at the time). It did however become a top 20 hit in both the Netherlands and Belgium. An accompanying album ""Images"", similarly failed in the UK charts. The group battled on into 1978 with the release of ""Figaro"", which brought them back into vogue and became their third UK Number one single. Many critics argued however that this song was simply cashing in on the success of ""Angelo"", but although their titles are similar, there is little evidence to support this, as the two songs are very different. In May ""Beautiful Lover"" was released and another hit, reaching the"
"53 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in the United States. In 2010, ""Rolling Stone"" magazine placed the single at number 435 on their list of ""The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time"". This song was also included in the Pitchfork 500. The UK cover features a photograph of Peter Rowen, who grew up near U2 lead vocalist Bono in Ireland. The lyric had its origins in a love song from Bono to his wife, but was subsequently reshaped and inspired by the Polish Solidarity movement. The bassline stemmed from bassist Adam Clayton trying to figure out the chords to the"
"the UK Singles Chart was their cover of ""A White Sport Coat"", which hit #6 in 1957. In October 1960, they were again voted ""top vocal group"" in the ""NME"" reader's poll. They had a string of successful singles through 1961, after which time they continued recording but found their popularity waning. Group leader Denis King later became an award-winning composer for television, film, and musicals; among other things, he wrote the theme music for ""The Adventures of Black Beauty"" and ""Lovejoy"". The King Brothers The King Brothers were a British pop vocal trio popular in the late 1950s and"
"55 in the UK and at number 18 in the US in March 1990. In mid-1990 English DJ Steve Wright began playing the song on BBC Radio 1, soon followed by many more radio DJs. The song was then re-released as a double A-side single, along with ""Healing Hands"", and reached number one in the UK in June 1990. Thus, it became John's first solo number-one single in the UK Singles Chart, remaining on the top spot for five weeks. With this re-release, Elton John also got his first number one in France and stayed on the chart for 26"
"SAW. The lead single ""Brand New Lover"" became a modest UK hit, peaking at No. 31, but was more successful in the US where it reached No. 15 on the US Hot 100, and number one on the US ""Billboard"" dance chart. Three more singles from the album were released, although none saw any notable US success on the pop charts. All of these singles caused some sort of controversy in the UK. The most successful in the UK was ""Something in My House"" (UK No. 12), tonally Gothic and with a sleeve depicting Burns in front of what appears"
"number 29441), that reached number 3 on the Billboard charts and number 2 in the UK chart listings. He was quickly followed by Jimmy Young, whose version hit number 1 on the British charts. Jimmy Young also later re-recorded another version of his 1955 chart topper in early 1964, which rose to number 43 in the UK. Two weeks after Young's version entered the top 10 of the British charts in June 1955, Liberace would score a number 20 hit (Philips PB 430). Roy Hamilton's version (Epic Records catalog number 9102) reached number 1 on the R&B Best Sellers list"