"Dizzy (Tommy Roe song) ""Dizzy"" is a song originally recorded by Tommy Roe; it became an international hit single in 1969. Instrumental backing was provided by the Los Angeles session musicians known as the Wrecking Crew. Co-written by Roe and Freddy Weller, ""Dizzy"" was a major hit on both sides of the Atlantic, reaching number one on the U.S. ""Billboard"" Hot 100 for four weeks in March 1969, for one week on the UK Singles Chart in June 1969, and was number one in Canada in March 1969. ""Dizzy"" has 11 key changes total between a total of four keys."
"Dizzy, Miss Lizzy ""Dizzy Miss Lizzy"" is a rock and roll song written and recorded by Larry Williams in 1958. It became better known through a 1965 cover version by the Beatles. The track was also performed live by John Lennon with the Plastic Ono Band in 1969, as one of only five Beatles songs done live throughout his solo career. Williams recorded the song at Radio Recorders studio in Hollywood, California on February 19, 1958. The song has been covered many times, including by the Beatles in 1965, included on the UK album ""Help!"" and the US album ""Beatles"
"Diddy by Manfred Mann.""Dancing in the Street"" also reached the Top 5 on the UK Singles Chart peaking at No. 4 in a 1969 release after initially peaking at No. 28 on the chart and helped to revive the Vandellas' success in the UK. On April 12, 2006, it was announced that Martha and the Vandellas' version of ""Dancing in the Street"" would be one of 50 sound recordings preserved by the Library of Congress to the National Recording Registry. Lead singer Martha Reeves said she was thrilled about the song's perseverance, saying ""It's a song that just makes you"
"the following: Dizzy, Miss Lizzy ""Dizzy Miss Lizzy"" is a rock and roll song written and recorded by Larry Williams in 1958. It became better known through a 1965 cover version by the Beatles. The track was also performed live by John Lennon with the Plastic Ono Band in 1969, as one of only five Beatles songs done live throughout his solo career. Williams recorded the song at Radio Recorders studio in Hollywood, California on February 19, 1958. The song has been covered many times, including by the Beatles in 1965, included on the UK album ""Help!"" and the US"
"so we were really surprised when it took off the way it did"". Barry Lederer in ""Billboard"" was positive: ""As with the first hit, this new release is, equally, energetic, uplifting and a step forward for the group."" Dance Yourself Dizzy ""Dance Yourself Dizzy"" is a 1980 song by Liquid Gold taken from their self-titled album. It was the band's biggest hit in the UK, peaking at number two and being certified silver for sales of 250,000. Some of the members of Liquid Gold did not have great belief in the song, such as Syd Twynham; however, lead singer Ellie"
"in the UK, on 8 February 1974. In January 1974, the song, taken from the album ""Ringo"", hit number one. The latter performance reunited Ringo Starr with his former Beatles bandmate Paul McCartney. McCartney is credited on the liner notes of the album ""Ringo"" as having played the solo on a kazoo. But reviewer Michael Verity has quoted the song's producer, Richard Perry, as revealing it wasn't actually a kazoo. “In fact, the solo on ‘You’re Sixteen,’ which sounds like a kazoo or something, was Paul singing very spontaneously as we played that track back, so he’s singing the solo"
"Dance Yourself Dizzy ""Dance Yourself Dizzy"" is a 1980 song by Liquid Gold taken from their self-titled album. It was the band's biggest hit in the UK, peaking at number two and being certified silver for sales of 250,000. Some of the members of Liquid Gold did not have great belief in the song, such as Syd Twynham; however, lead singer Ellie Hope was more hopeful for its success. Syd Twynham recalled, ""We didn't think it really going to happen but we were playing a residency at Caesar's Palace in Luton and the song came on and everyone was dancing"
"Tommy Roe Thomas David ""Tommy"" Roe (born May 9, 1942) is an American pop music singer-songwriter. Best-remembered for his hits ""Sheila"" (1962) and ""Dizzy"" (1969), Roe was ""widely perceived as one of the archetypal bubblegum artists of the late 1960s, but cut some pretty decent rockers along the way, especially early in his career,” wrote the Allmusic journalist Bill Dahl. Roe was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, where he attended Brown High School. After graduating, he landed a job at General Electric soldering wires. He had a ""Billboard"" number 1 hit in the U.S. and Australia in"
"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"
"""The Magic Number"" from their album ""Three Feet High and Rising"". In 1994, it was covered by Babe on their album ""4 Babe pesme"", the Babe version being entitled ""Dizel"". In 2005, ""Dizzy"" was used in the soundtrack of ""The Sandlot 2"". On 14 October 1991 a cover of ""Dizzy"" recorded by English comedian Vic Reeves and the alternative rock band The Wonder Stuff was released in the United Kingdom, reaching number one in the UK Singles Chart in the third week of release and staying there for two weeks. This added another key change to the 11 that already"
"first and only UK number one as a solo artist. He later appeared on five charity singles that reached number one: Band Aid (1984), Ferry Aid (1987), Ferry Cross the Mersey (1989), Band Aid 20 (2004) and The Justice Collective (2012). As the 1969 single Get Back was formally credited to 'The Beatles with Billy Preston' this makes McCartney the only person to have had a number one single as a solo artist and as a member of a duo, a trio, a quartet and a quintet. At Chobham Common, Surrey, a video was shot for ""Pipes of Peace"", depicting"
"became a hit, reaching No. 5 on the US ""Billboard"" Hot Dance Club Play chart, and No. 45 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in 1979. Despite their success in the US, however, they never toured there. At home, their next single was ""Mr. Groovy"", which did not chart; it was quickly followed with ""Dance Yourself Dizzy"", which became their biggest UK hit, peaking at No. 2 on the UK chart in 1980. The song also reached No. 26 on the US Hot Dance Club Play chart. Their next single, ""Substitute"", peaked at No. 8 in the UK in the summer"
"reached number one in the British singles charts. More hits written by Green followed, including ""Oh Well"", ""Man of the World"" (both 1969) and the ominous ""The Green Manalishi"" (1970). The double album ""Blues Jam in Chicago"" (1969) was recorded at the Chess Records Ter-Mar Studio in Chicago. There, under the joint supervision of Vernon and Marshall Chess, they recorded with some of their American blues heroes including Otis Spann, Big Walter Horton, Willie Dixon, J. T. Brown and Buddy Guy. In 1969, after signing to Immediate Records for one single (""Man of the World"", prior to that label's collapse)"
"Dogzilla Dogzilla was a duo of dance music musicians from the United Kingdom. The group has had four major releases since 2003 and is composed of Simon Patterson and Richie Kayvan, both based in London. They are most famous for their single ""Without You"" which charted in numerous countries, including Finland where it reached the number 11 spot. The song also appeared on many respected compilation albums such as Dave Pearce Dance Anthem Classics and former world #1 DJ Paul Van Dyk picked it as his track of the year. Their eponymously titled debut featured in the cult Brit flick"
"first period of British success in the late 1960s started with ""New York Mining Disaster 1941"" and the band added drummer Colin Petersen and guitarist Vince Melouney to their line up. They toured Europe in 1967 and 1968 as well as the US in August 1968. The band's first UK No. 1 was ""Massachusetts"" which features Gibb on lead vocal. On the day it reached number one, 5 November 1967, Robin Gibb recalled to ""The Mail on Sunday"" on 1 November 2009: On 13 June 1968, Gibb recorded demos for seven songs, accompanying himself on guitar. The tape listed Robin"
"Dizzy Gillespie John Birks ""Dizzy"" Gillespie (; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer. Gillespie was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the virtuoso style of Roy Eldridge but adding layers of harmonic and rhythmic complexity previously unheard in jazz. His combination of musicianship, showmanship, and wit made him a leading popularizer of the new music called bebop. His beret and horn-rimmed spectacles, his scat singing, his bent horn, pouched cheeks, and his light-hearted personality provided some of bebop's most prominent symbols. In the 1940s Gillespie, with Charlie Parker, became"
"Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich were a British pop/rock group of the 1960s. Two of their single releases sold in excess of one million copies each, and they reached number one in the UK Singles Chart with the second of them, ""The Legend of Xanadu"". Five friends from Wiltshire, David John Harman (Dave Dee), Trevor Leonard Ward-Davies (Dozy), John Dymond (Beaky), Michael Wilson (Mick) and Ian Frederick Stephen Amey (Tich), formed a group in 1961, originally called Dave Dee and the Bostons. They soon gave up their jobs (e.g. Dave Dee"
"the UK, giving President Records their only number one hit. In June 1969, the group received a gold disc for a combined one million sales of the disc. A string of single releases followed, several of which charted in the UK, including two further top ten hits, ""Viva Bobby Joe"" (1969) and ""Black Skin Blue Eyed Boys"" (1970). Their songs were mainly written by Eddy Grant. Though the majority were on traditional teenage pop themes, some, such as ""Stand Up and Be Counted"", ""Police on My Back"", and the funky ""Black Skin Blue Eyed Boys"", touched on social and political"
"as an open letter to a school friend, the song had a pacifist message as well as psychedelic imagery. The real ""Dippy"" was in the British Army in Malaysia. According to Brian Hogg, who wrote the liner notes for the Donovan boxed set """", Dippy heard the song, contacted Donovan and left the army. On 9 February 1967, Donovan was among guests invited by the Beatles to Abbey Road Studios for the orchestral overdub for ""A Day in the Life"", the finale to ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"". In mid-1966, Donovan became the first British pop star to be"
"1959. Then in April 1960, while touring with Gene Vincent in the UK, their taxi crashed into a concrete lamp post, killing Eddie at the young age of 21. The grim coincidence in this all was that his posthumous UK number-one hit was called ""Three Steps to Heaven"". Rockabilly music enjoyed great popularity in the United States during 1956 and 1957, but radio play declined after 1960. Factors contributing to this decline are usually cited as the 1959 death of Buddy Holly in an airplane crash (along with Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper), the induction of Elvis Presley into"
"Epistle to Dippy Epistle to Dippy is a song and single by Donovan, released in 1967 outside the United Kingdom only. It charted in the USA (Billboard: No.19). Musicians featured are Donovan on vocals and acoustic guitar, Jimmy Page on electric guitar, John Cameron on keyboards and arrangement, Danny Thompson on bass, and Tony Carr on drums. Strings were provided by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Written in the form of an open letter to an old school friend, the song had a strong pacifist message in addition to its florid psychedelic imagery. The real ""Dippy"" was, at the time, serving"
"in the UK in 1969, No. 4 in Ireland, and won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Song and the Grammy Award for Song of the Year. The distinctive guitar in the opening is played on a Danelectro electric sitar, which can be seen in a video recorded to support South's album ""Introspect."" Concurrent with South's version of the song on the pop charts, Freddy Weller, guitarist for Paul Revere and the Raiders, released a country version of the song in 1969 as his debut single; this rendition reached No. 2 on the country charts. ""Games People Play"" was covered"
"ones. Dickie Rock and the Miami Showband were the first Irish artists to go straight into the number one spot with ""Every Step of the Way"" in 1965. During his time with the Miami Showband, Rock attracted the kind of mass hysteria normally reserved for The Beatles. In 1966, he sang for Ireland in the 1966 Eurovision Song Contest with the song, ""Come Back to Stay"". He entered as a solo artist and finished fourth in the Contest. This song also became a number one hit in Ireland. Rock went solo in 1973, although still performed occasionally with the Miami"
"Zack Knight Zack Knight (born 22 November 1991), formerly known by his stage name Zeekay, is a British-Pakistani singer, songwriter, music composer and producer. He is best known for his 2017 single ""Bom Diggy"", which achieved the number one position on the BBC Asian Network's Official Asian Music Chart and Shazam. Knight was born in Pakistan, and raised in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England. His mother is a Punjabi from Pakistan, and his father is a South-Asian from Africa. He describes his music as ""R&B infused style with a crossover sound"", peppered with Bollywood and Middle-Eastern influences. Zack's music is influenced by"
"to the UK Albums Chart with ""The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars"" (1972), which peaked at number five. Following the success of ""Ziggy Stardust"", sales of ""Hunky Dory"" improved and it eventually peaked at number three in the UK. RCA re-released the 1969"" David Bowie"" under the title Space Oddity (with an updated Ziggy Stardust-era photo) and ""The Man Who Sold the World"", which reached numbers 17 and 26 in the UK respectively. Bowie released nine more studio albums with RCA, all of which reached the top five of the UK Albums Chart, of"
"D.I.V.O.R.C.E. ""D.I.V.O.R.C.E."" is a 1975 UK number-one single by Scottish folk singer and comedian Billy Connolly. A comedy song, it reached No. 1 for one week in November 1975, and was one of the few songs of its genre to reach this milestone. The song is a parody of the Tammy Wynette song ""D-I-V-O-R-C-E"", and Connolly's version to date has been his only No. 1 UK single, though in the late 1970s he had a further two UK hits which parodied contemporary songs. He later dropped musical performances from his act. ""D.I.V.O.R.C.E."" has a similar theme to Wynette's original in"
"number one in the UK Singles Chart in January 1969, making them the first Scottish group to ever top that chart. Their cover sold around half a million in the UK, and a million copies globally by April 1969. They appeared on BBC One's music programme ""Top of the Pops"" to perform the track in kilts. Because the song features the lyrics ""life goes on"", a version performed by Patti LuPone and the cast of ""Life Goes On"" was featured on the 1989–1993 drama of that name on ABC in the United States. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da ""Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"" is a song"
"the Window"", with the flip side being ""My Jealous Eyes"". It reached No. 1 on both the ""Billboard"" and ""Cash Box"" charts in 1953, and sold over two million copies. Mercury, however, had poor distribution in the United Kingdom. Therefore, a recording by Lita Roza was the one most widely heard in the UK, reaching No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart in 1953. It also distinguished Roza as the first British woman to have a number-one hit in the UK chart. It was also the first song with a question in the title to reach number 1. ""Doggie"" was"
"Zappa song ""Willie the Pimp"". The album peaked at number 53 in the UK Albums Chart in November 1970. Lie Back and Enjoy It Lie Back and Enjoy It is the second album by British-American blues rock group Juicy Lucy, which was released in 1970. Although several members of the band had been replaced since the release of their first album, most notably singer Ray Owen and lead guitarist Neil Hubbard, it was generally considered to be a respectable follow up to their eponymous debut album of the previous year. The bulk of the songs were written by the band,"
"With the smaller line-up they released two more singles before splitting up in 1984. All of their songs were produced, arranged, written, and engineered by Adrian Baker, who also played guitar. ""Synth and Strings"", a 1999 UK chart hit by Yomanda, was based around a sample from ""Dance Yourself Dizzy"". In 2008, ""Dance Yourself Dizzy"" remixes were released on a 12"" single with bonus CD, and digital download. Liquid Gold Liquid Gold was an English disco group, from Brackley in Northamptonshire. Their biggest success came in 1980 with ""Dance Yourself Dizzy"", which peaked at number two on the UK chart."
"(1969). Both live albums reached number one on ""Billboard"" country album music and the latter crossed over to reach the top of the ""Billboard"" pop album chart. In 1969, Cash became an international hit when he eclipsed even the Beatles by selling 6.5 million albums. In comparison, the prison concerts were much more successful than his later live albums such as ""Strawberry Cake"" recorded in London and ""Live at Madison Square Garden"", which peaked at numbers 33 and 39 on the album charts, respectively. The Folsom Prison record was introduced by a rendition of his ""Folsom Prison Blues"" while the"
"weeks at the start of 1968 and remained in the top 200 until 8 February 1969. It was nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1969. In Britain, the EP peaked at number 2 on the national singles chart, behind ""Hello, Goodbye"", and became the Beatles' ninth release to top the national EP chart compiled by ""Record Retailer"". In the UK singles listings compiled by ""Melody Maker"" magazine, it replaced ""Hello, Goodbye"" at number 1 for a week. The 2012 remastered ""Magical Mystery Tour"" DVD entered the ""Billboard"" Top Music Video chart at number 1. The"
"had happened. He wanted to be the leader of his own band, not the singer in someone else's."" Due to being in dire financial straits, Lizzy did, however, soon record an album of Deep Purple covers under the name Funky Junction. Lynott did not sing on the album as he felt his voice was not in the same style as Ian Gillan. Towards the end of 1972, Thin Lizzy got their first major break in the UK by supporting Slade, then nearing the height of their commercial success. Inspired by Noddy Holder's top hat with mirrors, Lynott decided to attach"