"Billy Don't Be a Hero ""Billy Don't Be a Hero"" is a 1974 pop song that was first a UK hit for Paper Lace and then, some months later, a US hit for Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods. The song was written and composed by two British songwriters, Mitch Murray and Peter Callander. Because the song was released in 1974, it was associated by some listeners with the Vietnam War, though the war to which it actually refers is never identified in the lyrics. It has been suggested that the drum pattern, references to a marching band leading soldiers in"
"and Mina. Murray also wrote ""My Brother"" which became a children's favourite when recorded by Terry Scott. Later Murray and Callander formed their own record label, Bus Stop, through which they launched the career of Paper Lace. Their first two singles, released in 1974, were both written by Murray and Callander, ""Billy Don't Be a Hero"" (No. 1 UK, with a cover version by Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods reaching Number 1 in the US), and ""The Night Chicago Died"" (Number 1 US). Another song Murray was involved in was ""Sing Me"", a UK Top Ten hit for one-hit wonders,"
"single with ABC, ""Deeper and Deeper,"" failed to make a big impression on the charts, beginning in 1974, the band began a string of hit songs. Their first two (and largest two) hits were cover versions of British hit songs whose original versions had not been hits in the U.S.: ""Billy Don't Be A Hero"" (a cover of a #1 UK Paper Lace song that reached #1 for 2 weeks on the Hot 100 with the Heywoods's version) and ""Who Do You Think You Are"" (written by Clive Scott & Des Dyer of Jigsaw, which originally became a hit for"
"who had already helped develop the career of UK pop group Paper Lace, are credited with producing ""Sing Me"" and another single, ""Beautiful."" Murray and Callander also composed some of the group's songs, including ""Beautiful,"" ""Love Don't Change"" (the B-side to ""Sing Me"") and ""You Don't Have to Be an Angel"" (the B-side to ""Beautiful""). Despite releasing an album and at least one other single that same year, the band was not able to repeat its success in the UK Singles Chart. They remain one-hit wonders. The Brothers (band) The Brothers (also referenced in some sources as simply Brothers) were"
"Paper Lace Paper Lace are a Nottingham-based pop group who rose to success in 1974 and during that year had their only three UK Top 40 hit singles. In the United States they are considered a one-hit wonder, having just a single chart hit in that country. There are currently two active bands featuring members from the hits period using the name Paper Lace or a direct derivation of it. The core of the band originally formed in 1967 as Music Box, members being Cliff Fish, Dave Manders, Roy White and Phil Wright, the band performing covers by the likes"
"Records (1973–1975). The CD contains all their charted singles and, in fact, includes 9 of the 11 songs featured on the 1974 LP ""Billy Don't Be a Hero"" (#97 on the Hot 200). The CD booklet includes liner notes written by Gordon Pogoda and the CD features such highlights as ""Who Do You Think You Are"", ""The House on Telegraph Hill"", and ""The Heartbreak Kid"". In 1975, the band was working on a second album of material for ABC including ""Our Last Song Together"", released as a single (and which made the pop charts), and ""Take Me Make Me Yours"","
"Paper Doll (song) ""Paper Doll"" was a hit song for The Mills Brothers. In the United States it held the number-one position on the ""Billboard"" singles chart for twelve weeks, from November 6, 1943, to January 22, 1944. The success of the song represented something of a revival for the group, after a few years of declining sales. It is one of the fewer than forty all-time singles to have sold 10 million (or more) physical copies worldwide. Harry Mills recalled that he and his brother Herbert did not initially like the song, although their brother Donald did. However, Harry"
"You Don't Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show) ""You Don't Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show)"" is a song by the husband/wife duo of Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr., former members of the vocal group The 5th Dimension. Released from their album, ""I Hope We Get to Love in Time"", it became a crossover success, spending six months on the charts and soaring to number one on both the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and Hot Soul Singles charts during late 1976 and early 1977. The song also reached #6 on Billboard's Easy"
"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"
"The Night Chicago Died ""The Night Chicago Died"" is a song by the British group Paper Lace, written by Peter Callander and Mitch Murray. The song reached number one on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart for one week in 1974, reached number 3 in the UK charts, and number 2 in Canada. It is about a fictional shoot-out between the Chicago Police and members of the Al Capone Syndicate. The narrator retells his mother's anguish while awaiting news of the fate of her husband, a Chicago policeman. The song is featured in the theatrical trailer of the 2000 comedy-drama film"
"Wrapping Paper ""Wrapping Paper"" is a song with music composed by Jack Bruce and lyrics by Pete Brown, performed by Cream and originally released as a single in 1966 with ""Cat's Squirrel"" as the B side. In contrast with the hard blues of other early Cream songs such as ""N.S.U."" and the psychedelic pop-style of ""I Feel Free,"" it has a distinctive slow-jazz style. The song reflects the band's iconoclastic persona and refusal to fit into accepted and orthodox musical styles and categories. The 45 single released on Reaction Records reached #34 on the British pop singles chart in 1966,"
"Heroes, a band consisting of a selection of other members with a legacy in the glam rock era. The Original Jukebox Heroes line-up also includes two members of Wright's Paper Lace line-up, Dave Major and Phil Hendricks. www.paperlace.co Paper Lace Paper Lace are a Nottingham-based pop group who rose to success in 1974 and during that year had their only three UK Top 40 hit singles. In the United States they are considered a one-hit wonder, having just a single chart hit in that country. There are currently two active bands featuring members from the hits period using the name"
"Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1969 Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1969 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1989, featuring 10 hit recordings from 1969. The original album includes six songs that reached the top of the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart, including the year's No. 1 song, ""Sugar, Sugar"" by The Archies. The remaining four tracks each reached the Hot 100's Top 5. A 1993 re-issue replaced three tracks, bringing the number of chart toppers down from six to five. On the re-issue, a cover of the title track from the musical ""Hair"" was replaced with another cover from"
"Philip Wright on drums/lead vocals, Mick Vaughan on lead and rhythm guitar, Cliff Fish on bass guitar, and Chris Morris on guitar and vocals. Carlo Paul Santanna joined Paper Lace as a fifth band member during 1974. Paper Lace were reportedly the most successful band Nottingham ever produced, and were invited to perform on the Royal Variety Performance in front of the Queen Mother. However, as musical tastes/styles evolved in the mid-70s the band's popularity waned and by early 1976 Vaughan, Morris and Santanna had left the band, replaced alongside Wright and Fish by Jamie Moses and from 1975-1978 Peter"
"Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1966 Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1966 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1988, featuring 10 hit recordings from 1966. All ten songs on the original 1988 release reached number one on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart. However a 1993 re-issue replaced the two Motown songs (""You Can't Hurry Love"" & ""Reach Out I'll Be There"") as well as Nancy Sinatra's ""These Boots are Made for Walkin'"" with ""When a Man Loves a Woman,"" ""Devil with a Blue Dress On/Good Golly Miss Molly,"" and ""Good Lovin',"" subsequently bringing the number of chart toppers down"
"To Be a Lover ""To Be a Lover"" is a song by Billy Idol from his 1986 album ""Whiplash Smile"". As the album's lead single, it became Idol's second top 10 hit in the US, peaking at No. 6 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and No. 22 on the UK Singles Chart. The song was co-written (with Booker T. Jones) and originally performed by William Bell as a soul ballad titled ""I Forgot to Be Your Lover"", released in late 1968 and hitting No. 45 on the Hot 100 and No. 10 on ""Billboard""′s Hot Rhythm & Blues Singles chart"
"Don't Worry, Be Happy ""Don't Worry, Be Happy"" is a popular worldwide hit song by musician Bobby McFerrin. Released in September 1988, it became the first ""a cappella"" song to reach number one on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart, a position it held for two weeks. The Indian mystic and sage Meher Baba (1894–1969) often used the expression ""Don't worry, be happy"" when cabling his followers in the West. In the 1960s, the expression was printed up on inspirational cards and posters of the era. In 1988, McFerrin noticed a similar poster in the apartment of the jazz duo Tuck"
"Paper Rosie ""Paper Rosie"" is a song written and originally recorded by Canadian country music artist Dallas Harms. Harms' version peaked at number 21 on the ""RPM"" Country Tracks chart in 1975. The song was later covered by American country music artist Gene Watson. Watson's version released in January 1977 as the first single and title track from his album ""Paper Rosie"". Watson's version peaked at No. 3 on the ""Billboard"" Hot Country Singles chart in the spring of 1977. It also reached number 1 on the ""RPM"" Country Tracks chart in Canada. The song is set at a roadside"
"Paper Dolls (band) The Paper Dolls were a late 1960s British female vocal trio, from Northampton, comprising lead vocalist Susie 'Tiger' Mathis, Pauline 'Spyder' Bennett and Sue 'Copper' Marshall. They appeared some years before similar recording acts such as Bananarama and Atomic Kitten became commonplace. Pre-dating the Spice Girls, each member of the group had a nickname. Signed to Pye Records, Paper Dolls had one solitary success. The song, ""Something Here in My Heart (Keeps A Tellin' Me No)"", which was their debut single, and was written by Tony Macaulay and John Macleod, reached Number 11 in the UK Singles"
"to buy a paper doll that I can call my own ...' and ended 'I'd rather have a paper doll to call my own than have a fickle-minded real live girl."" Paper Doll (song) ""Paper Doll"" was a hit song for The Mills Brothers. In the United States it held the number-one position on the ""Billboard"" singles chart for twelve weeks, from November 6, 1943, to January 22, 1944. The success of the song represented something of a revival for the group, after a few years of declining sales. It is one of the fewer than forty all-time singles to"
"Billboard Top Hits: 1986 Billboard Top Hits: 1986 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1994, featuring 10 hit recordings from 1986. The track lineup includes six songs that reached the top of the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart. Included is the No. 1 song of 1987, ""Walk Like an Egyptian"" by The Bangles; the song began its four-week run at No. 1 in December, after ""Billboard"" magazine's 1987 chart year had started. The remaining four songs (Danger Zone, Take Me Home Tonight/Be My Baby, When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going and Burning Heart) each reached"
"biggest hit up to this time, ""A Boy Named Sue"", which like ""One Piece at a Time"" was a comedic song. ""Go On Blues"" was later re-recorded during the American Recordings session with Rick Rubin. It was not on the album but part of the promo single for ""Delia's Gone"". All tracks composed by Johnny Cash, except where indicated. Additional personnel Album - ""Billboard"" (North America) Singles - ""Billboard"" (North America) One Piece at a Time (album) One Piece at a Time is the 54th album by American country singer Johnny Cash, released in 1976 on Columbia Records. ""One Piece"
"Supremes number-one, ""The Happening"" (a non-album track from the 1967 film of the same name). Also included are five popular Supremes B-sides: ""Standing at the Crossroads of Love"", ""Ask Any Girl"", ""There's No Stopping Us Now"", ""Everything is Good About You"", and ""Whisper You Love Me Boy"". The packaging for the set includes liner notes by actress Carol Channing (which were originally written for an unreleased album ""The Supremes and The Motown Sound: From Broadway To Hollywood"") and paintings by Robert Taylor, including collectable 12 inch by 12 inch pin-up portraits of Diana Ross, Florence Ballard, and Mary Wilson. ""Greatest"
"Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me ""Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me"" is a hit song by country and pop singer-songwriter Mac Davis. From his breakthrough album of the same name, the song reached number one on both the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and Easy Listening charts in September 1972, spending three weeks atop each chart. ""Billboard"" ranked it as the No. 8 song of 1972. He wrote the song when the record company demanded he write a tune with a ""hook"". The song was also a modest country hit concurrent with its pop success, reaching number 26 shortly after the"
"""Dear Mom and Dad"". Into the 1970s, as the Vietnam War continued, hit ballads of youth and death included B. J. Thomas' ""Billy and Sue"" (1972) and Terry Jacks' No. 1 hit ""Seasons in the Sun"" (1974), their protagonists of indeterminate age, or slightly older than teens. A song that was thought to have referenced the Civil War was Paper Lace's 1974 hit ""Billy Don't Be a Hero,"" made a bigger hit in the U.S. by Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods. Hard-rock acts recorded vehicular death scenarios such as ""D.O.A."" (Bloodrock, 1971), ""Detroit Rock City"" (Kiss, 1976) and ""Bat Out"
"Don't Mess with Bill ""Don't Mess with Bill"" is a million-selling Gold-certified 1966 single recorded by The Marvelettes for Motown Records' Tamla label. Written and produced by Smokey Robinson, ""Don't Mess with Bill"" features a lead vocal by Wanda Young. The single peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 1966, and at number three on ""Billboard's"" R&B singles chart. ""Don't Mess with Bill"" was the Marvelettes' final Top 10 single. The titular ""Bill"" referenced in the song is not an allusion to the song's author, Bill ""Smokey"" Robinson. Robinson reports that he chose the name because"
"original hand-written lyrics of the song. ""Ode to Billy Joe - Main Title"" was issued as a single in April 1976. It peaked at No. 65 on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart. Capitol Records, Gentry's label when the original 1967 recording was released, reissued it as a single in June 1976 to capitalize on the film's success. The original recording reached a peak position of No. 54 on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart. The album did not chart. Ode to Billy Joe (film) Ode to Billy Joe is a 1976 film with a screenplay by Herman Raucher, inspired"
"You Don't Have to Say You Love Me ""You Don't Have to Say You Love Me"" (originally a 1965 Italian song by Pino Donaggio and lyricist Vito Pallavicini: '""Io che non vivo (senza te)"") is a 1966 hit recorded by English singer Dusty Springfield that proved to be her most successful hit single, reaching number one on the UK Singles Chart and number four on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100; the song subsequently charted in the UK via remakes by Elvis Presley (No. 9/1971), Guys 'n' Dolls (No. 5/1976) and Denise Welch (No. 23/1995), with Presley's version, released in 1970, also"
"another charting standard (#24 R&B, also from '63), and ""Signed, Sealed, And Delivered"" (not the Stevie Wonder song; #77 Pop), also from '63. Side 1 closes with ""I'll Never Never Let You Go"", another song from the group's 1960 ""Think!"" LP. Side Two features Brown's signature hit, the million-selling ""Please, Please, Please"", the aforementioned ""Oh Baby Don't You Weep"" (#23 Pop), and closes with the group's 1959 regional hit single ""Good Good Lovin'"", all delivered to an enthusiastic audience response. The Famous Flames (Bobby Byrd, Bobby Bennett and Lloyd Stallworth) play an important co-starring role on ""Pure Dynamite!"". Although they"
"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 Irish Singles Chart, for one week, the same month. The group appeared on BBC's ""Top of the Pops"" with the song"
"the song, increasing its popularity. The track was then re-released as an A-side. However, the single never charted on ""Billboard's"" national rhythm and blues or pop charts. Berry's label reported that the single had sold 40,000 copies. After a series of unsuccessful follow-ups, Berry sold his portion of publishing and songwriting rights for $750 to the head of Flip Records in 1959. While the title of the song is often rendered with a comma (""Louie, Louie""), in 1988, Berry told ""Esquire"" magazine that the correct title of the song was ""Louie Louie,"" with no comma. Although similar to the original,"
"WINGS OF A DOVE 225 DERRICK MORGAN – STARVATION 226 SKATALITES – DICK TRACY 227 JACKIE OPEL – OLD ROCKING CHAIR 228 BUNNY & RITA – BLESS YOU 229 BABA BROOKS – GUNS FEVER 230 HORTENSE & ALTON – DON’T GAMBLE WITH LOVE 233 BABA BROOKS – INDEPENDENCE SKA 241 BABA BROOKS – TEENAGE SKA 242 DON DRUMMOND – UNIVERSITY GOES SKA 243 THEOPHILUS BECKFORD – GRUDGEFUL PEOPLE 245 DERRICK HARRIOTT – MAMA DIDN’T LIE 247 THE RIOTS – YEAH YEAH 248 THEOPHILUS BECKFORD – BAJAN GIRL 249 TWO KINGS – HIT YOU LET YOU FEEL IT 252 LAUREL AITKEN"
"of them including ""Didn't We"" as the A-side track; the United Kingdom release features ""In the Final Hours"" while the United States version has ""Paper Chase"" instead. It was reissued as a promotional single in 1973 and features Harris's 1971 single ""My Boy"". It was written and produced by Jimmy Webb, who Harris had collaborated previously with. A traditional pop recording, ""Didn't We"" is written in the key of C major with Harris's vocals ranging from E to G; it is additionally accompanied by the instrumentation of a piano and a guitar. Lyrically, Harris recalls the past and opens the"