"former writing partner Lee Garrett, and Lloyd Chiate as to who actually wrote the song. Chiate claimed in a lawsuit that he and Garrett wrote the song years before its 1984 release; however, a jury ultimately sided with Wonder. !scope=""row""| Total available sales: I Just Called to Say I Love You ""I Just Called to Say I Love You"" is a ballad written, produced, and performed by Stevie Wonder. It remains Wonder's best-selling single to date, having topped a record 19 charts. The song was the lead single from the 1984 soundtrack album ""The Woman in Red"", along with two"
"the singer meeting producer Giorgio Moroder, while he was performing the song at a rock festival in Tokyo the following year. Moroder would help Limahl reach greater international success later in his career. Only for Love ""Only For Love"" is the debut single by former Kajagoogoo singer Limahl, following being fired from the group by his bandmates in 1983. The song was included on Limahl's 1984 debut solo album, ""Don't Suppose"". The song became his first UK Top 20 hit, peaking at No. 16 on the UK Singles Chart. It remains his second most popular single in the UK as"
"2014. UK CD single European CD maxi-single UK CD maxi-single UK 12"" single European/UK promotional CD single Other remixes Let's Just Call It Love ""Let's Just Call It Love"" is a song recorded by British singer Lisa Stansfield for her 2001 album, ""Face Up"". It was released as the first single in Europe on 11 June 2001. The song, written by Stansfield, Ian Devaney and Richard Darbyshire, and produced by Devaney, received positive reviews from music critics. They praised the track for incorporating the British 2-step garage beats which made it an unusual but interesting and adventurous leadoff single. An"
"Only for Love ""Only For Love"" is the debut single by former Kajagoogoo singer Limahl, following being fired from the group by his bandmates in 1983. The song was included on Limahl's 1984 debut solo album, ""Don't Suppose"". The song became his first UK Top 20 hit, peaking at No. 16 on the UK Singles Chart. It remains his second most popular single in the UK as a solo act (the first being ""The Neverending Story""). Limahl performed the song with Beth Anderson on the TV show ""American Bandstand"" on March 9, 1985. The song also played a part in"
"first solo number 1 single with ""I Just Called to Say I Love You"", from the soundtrack of the film ""The Woman in Red"", selling over a million. He had first charted at the age of 15 with ""Uptight (Everything's Alright)"" in 1966, and had previously had a number 1 in 1982 with a duet with Paul McCartney, ""Ebony and Ivory"". In 1985 his harmonica playing featured in Eurythmics' number 1 hit ""There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)"". The Christmas number one single contained over 40 artists. ""Do They Know It's Christmas?"", written by Bob Geldof and"
"failed to achieve a number one album in the UK. However, the single ""I Just Called to Say I Love You"", taken from ""The Woman in Red"", was a massive hit in the UK, reaching #1 and becoming the second best-selling single of 1984 (only behind Band Aid's ""Do They Know It's Christmas?"") and the third most successful single of the entire 1980s there. All songs written by Stevie Wonder, except ""It's More Than You"" by Ben Bridges. The Woman in Red (soundtrack) The Woman in Red: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the second soundtrack album released by American musician"
"Let's Just Call It Love ""Let's Just Call It Love"" is a song recorded by British singer Lisa Stansfield for her 2001 album, ""Face Up"". It was released as the first single in Europe on 11 June 2001. The song, written by Stansfield, Ian Devaney and Richard Darbyshire, and produced by Devaney, received positive reviews from music critics. They praised the track for incorporating the British 2-step garage beats which made it an unusual but interesting and adventurous leadoff single. An accompanying music video, directed by Howard Greenhalgh, was also released. The CD single included a non-album track, ""More Than"
"Just Loving You Just Loving You is a 1967 song by Anita Harris. Prior to Chasing Cars, it was the highest selling UK #6. It was given to Harris to sing by Tom Springfield after Harris appeared on Top of the Pops. Recorded at Olympic Studios in a session produced by Margolis and featuring harmonica virtuoso Harry Pitch, ""Just Loving You"" hit the UK Top 50 on 1 July 1967. Even after peaking at No. 6 on 26 August 1967 ""Just Loving You"" remained in the UK Top 40 until the end of the year, dropping out of the chart"
"already enjoyed a solo number one on the UK Singles Chart in 1984 with ""Careless Whisper"", which was credited as Wham! featuring George Michael in the US. After radio DJ Simon Bates first aired ""A Different Corner"" on Radio 1, he rated the song so highly that he immediately played it again from the beginning. Michael went back to the top of the UK chart with ""A Different Corner"", becoming the first solo act in the history of the UK chart to reach number one with his first two releases, although he was hardly an unknown or new act on"
"Chesney Hawkes Chesney Lee Hawkes (born 22 September 1971), is an English pop singer, songwriter, and occasional actor. He is best known for one single ""The One and Only"", which topped the UK Singles Chart, and reached the Top 10 in the United States. Hawkes was born in Windsor, Berkshire. He was named after the singer and comedian Chesney Allen. His father is the singer Len 'Chip' Hawkes, formerly with the 1960s band The Tremeloes. His mother is former actress/game-show hostess Carol Dilworth, who appeared in an episode of the 1960s version of ""Randall and Hopkirk"" called ""For The Girl"
"on 27 January 1968. Just Loving You Just Loving You is a 1967 song by Anita Harris. Prior to Chasing Cars, it was the highest selling UK #6. It was given to Harris to sing by Tom Springfield after Harris appeared on Top of the Pops. Recorded at Olympic Studios in a session produced by Margolis and featuring harmonica virtuoso Harry Pitch, ""Just Loving You"" hit the UK Top 50 on 1 July 1967. Even after peaking at No. 6 on 26 August 1967 ""Just Loving You"" remained in the UK Top 40 until the end of the year, dropping"
"start a solo career, with Gary Barlow the first to hit #1 with ""Forever Love"" in July. However, it would be Robbie Williams who would go on to score the most success as a solo artist. After George Michael scored another number 1 with ""Fastlove"" in April, Gina G reached the top spot with ""Ooh Aah... Just a Little Bit"" in May. This song was the UK's entry to the 1996 Eurovision Song Contest, and originally reached #6 when it was released at the beginning of April. It hovered around the top 5 for the next few weeks, before moving"
"in Red"". The lead single, ""I Just Called to Say I Love You"", was a No. 1 pop and R&B hit in both the United States and the United Kingdom, where it was placed 13th in the list of best-selling singles in the UK published in 2002. (The single was also a hit in lots of other countries as well). It went on to win an Academy award for best song in 1985. Wonder accepted the award in the name of Nelson Mandela and was subsequently banned from all South African radio by the Government of South Africa. Incidentally, on"
"singles within the UK itself make him the highest selling British male solo artist of singles of all time. In the rock and roll era in which Richard's career began, singles were the dominant sales medium, generally way ahead of album sales. Richard's debut single ""Move It"" released in August 1958 reached number 2 on the UK Singles Chart and spent 17 weeks on the chart. However, from the time his fifth single ""Living Doll"" reached number 1 in August 1959 through to ""Don't Talk to Him"" reaching number 2 in December 1963, Richard racked up 19 consecutive top 4"
"UK Singles Chart in November 1968, Following the release of the group's debut single, Bonnet made a remark to a reporter as to ""Only One Woman"" being a bit boring, angering Barry. Their second single ""The Walls Fell Down"" only reached Number 28 in the same chart. But in the Netherlands it was more successful, where it reached Number 3 in their Top 40 in April 1969. In 1970, Gordon released his first and only solo album ""Alphabet"" on Polydor Records. He later became a high school music teacher. On 9 January 2013, after not being heard from for several"
"artists followed this trend. His chart single recording career alone spanned from 1954 to 1965, which flew in the face of the rapidly changing trends of pop music. From a comparatively unknown Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, ""Me and Juliet"" written in 1953, Ronnie Hilton took the hit tune ""No Other Love"", and scored his one and only UK Number One hit in 1956. In securing the Number One, Hilton fought off competition from the UK-based Canadian Edmund Hockridge, and from the Johnston Brothers. Oddly, no American versions of ""No Other Love"" reached the UK Singles Chart at the time. Perry"
"to Do It"" became the fastest-selling debut album ever by a British male solo act, a record the album still holds. The album has since been listed as the 45th fastest-selling album ever. With the album's lead single going to number one in the UK, David (at 18 years and 334 days old), became the youngest British male to have a UK number-one single since Jimmy Osmond, and was the youngest solo artist at the time to have his debut single go to number one in the UK. This record has since been surpassed by Gareth Gates, who was 17"
"""Elvis Aron Presley"" (on the record 8 titled ""Lost Singles""). It's Only Love (B. J. Thomas song) ""It's Only Love'"" is a 1969 song by B. J. Thomas from his LP ""Young and In Love"". Elvis Presley made the song into a major hit in the UK, reaching #3 in 1980. Thomas' original of ""It's Only Love"" was released in the spring of 1969. It became a modest hit in the United States (U.S. ""Billboard"" #45, ""Cash Box"" #28; AC #19), performing somewhat better in Canada (#24). ""It's Only Love"" was covered two and a half years later by Elvis"
"It's Only Love (B. J. Thomas song) ""It's Only Love'"" is a 1969 song by B. J. Thomas from his LP ""Young and In Love"". Elvis Presley made the song into a major hit in the UK, reaching #3 in 1980. Thomas' original of ""It's Only Love"" was released in the spring of 1969. It became a modest hit in the United States (U.S. ""Billboard"" #45, ""Cash Box"" #28; AC #19), performing somewhat better in Canada (#24). ""It's Only Love"" was covered two and a half years later by Elvis Presley in the fall of 1971 and released as a"
"debut release was also her debut album: ""Somebody's in My Orchard"". Her chart breakthrough came in the summer of 1967 with the single ""Just Loving You"", a Tom Springfield composition which singer Dusty Springfield had suggested that Tom (her brother) give to Harris after Dusty and Harris had performed on the same episode of ""Top of the Pops"". Recorded at Olympic Studios in a session produced by Margolis and featuring harmonica virtuoso Harry Pitch, ""Just Loving You"" had been released in January 1967 but did not reach the UK Top 50 until 29 June 1967. Even after peaking at No."
"Only Love (Ben Howard song) ""Only Love"" is a song by English singer-songwriter Ben Howard from his debut studio album ""Every Kingdom"". It was released as a single in the United Kingdom on 4 May 2012 as a digital download and on CD. It entered the UK Singles Chart at number 80 and rose to 37 the following week. The song was written by Ben Howard and produced by Chris Bond and Darren Lawson. The cover art was designed by Owen Tozer. A live performance of the song at the 2013 BRIT Awards where Howard won two awards, was released"
"in 1983. Her first commercial success came in early 1988, when she supplied the vocals on Coldcut's ""Doctorin' the House"". She soon launched a solo career on Big Life records, a label set up by her husband Jazz Summers, releasing her debut single, ""The Only Way Is Up"", in the summer of 1988. It went on to spend five weeks at the top of the UK Singles Chart, eventually becoming the second biggest selling UK single of the year. Suddenly one of Britain's biggest pop acts, her follow-up ""Stand Up for Your Love Rights"" was another big hit (UK number"
"Britain alone. The band re-recorded ""Ciao Baby"" in 1969. Their several radio hits in England made little impact on the charts, but ""You've Got to Be Loved"", which was released on October 13, 1967, reached number 58 on the U.S. ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in 1968, followed by ""Run to Me"" making it to number 121 on the ""Billboard"" Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles charts, number 41 on ""Cashbox"", and number 33 on ""Record World"". The band, however, was unable to promote the single in the US, so no other national hits followed. Their lineup changed considerably in 1967 and again"
"Silva has achieved some fame as a remixer, creating his own versions of Jennifer Lopez's ""Play"", Lighthouse Family's ""Happy"" and Yoko Ono's ""Walking on Thin Ice"". Rui da Silva Rui da Silva (born 25 April 1968) is a Portuguese producer and DJ, whose single ""Touch Me"" went to number one in the United Kingdom in 2001. At the time, he was the only Portuguese musician to have a hit in Britain, and hence was the first to score a chart-topping hit there. Silva started producing house music in 1992, just as club culture was getting established in Lisbon. Noticing the"
"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"
"in the memory of Whitfield was unveiled outside of the New Theatre in Hull on 31 August 2012, before the opening night of a show celebrating the life and music of Whitfield. David Whitfield David Whitfield (2 February 1925 – 16 January 1980) was a popular British male tenor vocalist from Hull. He became the first British Artist to have a UK No.1 single in his home country and in the United States at the time with ""Cara Mia"". He died from a brain haemorrhage in Sydney, Australia, while on tour at the age of 54. Whitfield was born in"
"number-one chart position in the United Kingdom in any particular week: ""Call on Me"" sold 23,519 copies when it returned to the top of the charts on 17 October 2004. This record was broken once again by himself only a week later on 24 October 2004, with the single selling 21,749 copies that week. Nevertheless, it was the fourth biggest selling single of 2004 in the United Kingdom, selling 335,000 copies that year – including a DVD single with the uncut video – and staying five weeks at number-one on the UK Singles Chart, the longest run of any single"
"I Only Want to Be with You ""I Only Want to Be with You"" is a rock and roll song written by Mike Hawker and Ivor Raymonde. The debut solo single released by British singer Dusty Springfield under her long-time producer Johnny Franz, ""I Only Want to Be with You"" peaked at number 4 on the UK Singles chart in January 1964. Three remakes of the song have been UK chart hits, the first two by the Bay City Rollers (1976) and the Tourists (1979) matching the number 4 peak of the Dusty Springfield original, while the 1989 remake by"
"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"
"Calvin Harris Adam Richard Wiles (born 17 January 1984), known professionally as Calvin Harris, is a Scottish DJ, record producer, singer, and songwriter. His debut studio album ""I Created Disco"" was released in June 2007; it spawned two UK top 10 singles, ""Acceptable in the 80s"" and ""The Girls"". In 2009, Harris released his second studio album, ""Ready for the Weekend"", which debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart and was later certified gold by the BPI. Its lead single, ""I'm Not Alone"", became his first song to top the UK Singles Chart. Born in Dumfries, Scotland, Harris"
"Top Ten UK and US hit ""Come and Stay With Me"", which became Faithfull's biggest UK hit, peaking at #4 in 1965. That same year, Cher covered the song on her solo debut album ""All I Really Want to Do"". It would be three more years before Jackie DeShannon would record the song for herself, on her 'Laurel Canyon' album in 1968. She also appeared on the television show ""Ready Steady Go!"" Moving to New York City, DeShannon co-wrote with Randy Newman, producing such songs as ""She Don't Understand Him Like I Do"" and ""Did He Call Today Mama?"", as"
"""You Only Hurt (The One You Love)"" (1999). Under the name Indien, with producer and husband Mark Hadfield, the single ""Show Me Love"" was released on 28 July 2003, and reached No. 69 in the UK Singles Chart. Then, the single ""Who's The Daddy?"" was released, with her as part of the group Lovebug, on 29 September 2003, and was featured in an advertisement for Asda's George clothing range in the same year. This reached No. 35 in the UK. Since 2004, she became focused on her presenting career. In late 2004, won a competition for 'Traffic Idol' on the"
"their two daughters, Helen-Marie, was born. Tara was born two years later. Gilbert O'Sullivan Gilbert O'Sullivan (born Raymond Edward O'Sullivan, 1 December 1946) is an Irish-English singer-songwriter, best known for his early 1970s hits ""Alone Again (Naturally)"", ""Clair"", and ""Get Down"". Worldwide he has charted 16 top-40 records, including six No. 1 songs, the first of which was 1970's ""Nothing Rhymed"". His most successful recording period was between 1970 and 1980, though he has since recorded ten studio albums up to 2015. Speaking in 2009 he said, ""I write pop songs. That's all I want to do. I have no"