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Kaki King Finds Her Groove On Fourth Album | Billboard  Guitarist Kaki King is "pretty much done" with her fourth studio album, due early next ... 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, and called upon the first of many New York-bred ... visuals on Friday (Oct. 7), just days ahead of her surprise NYC concert. .... as the first top 40 hit for the genre ... followed by Queen's "Good Times"-inspired...
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Ask Billboard: 'Good Times,' 'Sexual Healing,' 'Heartbreak Hotel ...  Oct 9, 2016 ... Then, Sugarhill Gang's sampling of it led to "Rapper's Delight" becoming what's credited as the first top 40 hit for the genre ... followed by ... Daft Punk, which reworked "Good Times" for its "Give Life Back to Music. ... It was interpolated as recently as last year in Nelly's Hot 100 hit "The Fix," featuring Jeremih.
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The Sugarhill Gang - Wikipedia  The Sugarhill Gang is an American hip hop group, known mostly for its 1979 hit "Rapper's Delight," the first rap single to become a Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. ... Genres, Old-school hip hop, disco. Years active, 19791985, .... "Big Bank Hank from Sugarhill Gang dead at age 58". http://nyc.suntimes.com/. Sun Times...
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The Sugarhill Gang - Chart history | Billboard  The Hot 100 ... Sugarhill Gang ... The online extension of Billboard magazine, www.billboard.com/biz is the essential online destination for the music business.
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Sugarhill Gang's 'Rapper's Delight' Made Its First Chart ... - Billboard  Oct 13, 2014 ... Sugarhill Gang's watershed, controversial single "Rapper's Delight" made its first ... 1 hit more than 20 years earlier with Mickey & Sylvia's "Love Is Strange" ... 10, 1979, it entered the Billboard Hot 100, eventually peaking at No. ... Some point to NYC funk outfit Fatback Band's 1979 b-side "King Tim...
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The Police on Apple Music  Late in 1977, the band released its first single, "Fall Out," on IRS, ... By the spring of 1979, the re-released "Roxanne" had climbed to number 12 on the U.K. charts, ... of 1983 with Synchronicity, which entered the U.K. charts at number one and ... "Every Breath You Take" became one of the biggest American hits of all time;...
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Number One Hits for the Year: 1979 | The New York Public Library  Sep 11, 2013 ... Most critics place The Knack into the one-hit wonders category ... If you've never heard the 1972 Jorge Ben Jor song "Taj Mahal" give it a listen.
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1960s Hot 100: Top 20 Billboard Hits | Billboard  Oct 27, 2014 ... 1, we're revealing the top 20 Billboard Hot 100 hits from each decade since the ... Chubby Checker's rock-indebted dance track "The Twist," the only song ever to hit No. 1 ... Hot 100 Peak Position: 1, Peak Date: April 12, 1969 8."Sugar, Sugar" - The Archies ... Sugar Shack" - Jimmy Gilmer And The Fireballs
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Salsa music - Wikipedia  Salsa music is a popular dance music that initially arose in New York City during the 1970s. ... The first salsa bands were predominantly Cubans and Puerto Ricans" who ... of salsa as a musical genre can be traced back to New York City Latin music ... Globally, the term salsa has eclipsed the original names of the various...
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The Top 20 Billboard Hot 100 Hits of the 1970s  Oct 28, 2014 ... One family dominated the Billboard Hot 100 in the '70s: the Gibb ... Seven Albums Debut in Top 10 of Billboard 200 Chart, Led by Lady Gaga, ... and as a white group embracing the disco sound, they became an .... Hot 100 Peak Position: 1, Peak Date: May 22, 1976 ... "Play That Funky Music" - Wild Cherry
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Theme from New York, New York - Wikipedia  Theme from New York, New York is the theme song from the Martin Scorsese film New York, ... In 1979, it was recorded by Frank Sinatra, for his album Trilogy: Past Present ... (Ebb has said he "didn't even like" Sinatra's use of "A-number-one"). ... the singer strives to achieve  "A-number-one, top of the list, king of the hill,...
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The Biggest Hot 100 Hits to Peak at Nos. 25-1 | Billboard  The CBS series that ran from 1979 to 1985, at its heart, promoted down home ... First a No. 5 hit on Alternative Songs in 2011, it rose to its Hot 100 peak more ... Said the one-man act (Aaron Bruno) of the left-of-center synth-rock track in ... this song, first rush-released in 1969 as Neil Armstrong made one small step for man.
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The Belmonts - Wikipedia  The Belmonts are an American doo-wop group from the Bronx, New York, that originated in the mid-1950s. ... Initially billed as "Dion with the Belmonts", the new group recorded "We Went ... It led to their first appearance on the nationally televised American Bandstand show, hosted by Dick Clark. ..... Classic Pop Icons.
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The 100 Greatest Songs Of The 1970s. | Don't Stay Up Too Late.  I'm listing the format the songs were originally released in, not where you can find them now. ... Which is one of the most lovely surprises of classic rock radio. .... The Wild Tchoupitoulas were  are, dammit  a Creole group whose main ..... The fact that Galaxie 500 brought the song to indie-snob attention in 1990 with their...
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List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of the 1970s - Wikipedia  The Bee Gees had the highest number of top hits at the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the ...... Tools. What links here  Related changes  Upload file  Special pages  Permanent link  Page information  Wikidata item  Cite this page...
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One-Hit Wonders of the 2000s Page 1 | Billboard  Dec 4, 2009 ... After reaching the Hot 100's Top 10 with their very first singles, none ... The one-hitmakers on this list have been ranked by how high their big song climbed on the chart ... After that, the manufactured girl group woke up and only rose to No. ... peace by walking through the streets of New York hand-in-hand.
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Los Del Rio  Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix) | We Are Number Ones  Sep 22, 2013 ... First Hit #1: August 3, 1996 Confession time: I did not re-listen to the entirety of the Macarena before writing this. In fact, I made it precisely 49...
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Grease (musical) - Wikipedia  Grease is a 1971 musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey with additional songs written by John Farrar (movie and post revivals). Named after the 1950s United States working-class youth subculture known as greasers, the musical is set in 1959 at fictional Rydell High School (based on William ... In its original production in Chicago, Grease was a raunchy, raw, aggressive,...
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List of songs recorded by The Jackson 5 - Wikipedia  The Jackson 5 was an American music group, formed in 1963 by the Jackson family brothers Jackie, Jermaine, Marlon, Michael and Tito. The quintet's first singles were recorded at Steeltown Records, a local label in their hometown of Gary, Indiana. Songs recorded at Steeltown included "You've Changed", "We Don't Have ... Jackson 5 hit singles such as "I Want You Back", "ABC" and "The Love You...
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Kool & the Gang - Wikipedia  Kool & the Gang is an American funk and rhythm and blues band that was popular in the 1970s and '80s. Contents. [hide]. 1 Music career. 1.1 Early years; 1.2...
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Beastie Boys - Wikipedia  The Beastie Boys were an American hip hop group from New York City, formed in 1980. For the .... Ill Communication, released in 1994, saw the Beastie Boys' return to the top of ... 1 on the Billboard Top 200 & peaked at No.2 on the R&B/hip hop album chart. .... Pt 1, had too many songs, so we recorded some more songs.