Monthly Archive: January 2015
Exactly 25 years ago, Sacramento, California-based band Tesla was rising to a peak position of number 10 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart with their single “Love Song.” For Tesla, “Love Song” was the first of...
The band Kansas, which takes its name from its home state, became widely known in the late 1970s with its Top 20 hits “Carry On My Wayward Son” and “Dust In The Wind.” Kansas...
Liverpool, England-based band the Searchers hit the Top 40 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart seven times, all in the mid-1960s. Only one of those singles reached the Top 10, and it’s the song for which...
In the mid-1980s, Los Angeles-based band Dokken hit Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart three times. Their third appearance — and their last appearance on the chart to date — came in late 1987 and early 1988,...
After scoring 10 Top 10 hits in the 1960s and 1970s, Dionne Warwick hit the Top 10 for the first time in the 1980s when “Heartbreaker” reached exactly number 10 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart...
In the late 1980s, former member of the band the Jets Gene Hunt came together with singer Joe Pasquale to form the Minneapolis-based duo Boys Club. In late 1988, Boys Club debuted with their only...
British group Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers hit number one in various countries with their single “Swing the Mood,” which sampled various early rock ‘n’ roll songs set against a base sampling of Glenn...
In the last two weeks of the 1970s, British musician Rupert Holmes scored the biggest hit of his career when “Escape (The Pina Colada Song)” topped Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart. After falling out of the...
Building off the notoriety he received from his work on the ABC soap opera General Hospital, in the mid-1980s Missouri-born actor Jack Wagner tried his hand at pop music. Over the course of two and a half...
New York-based band Twisted Sister is most remembered for their Top 40 hit “We’re Not Gonna Take It,” though the band did hit Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart twice more after that. Their followup single, “I...