Monthly Archive: February 2015
U.S. duo Captain and Tennille enjoyed significant success in the second half of the 1970s, scoring six Top 10 hits on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart, including hitting number one for four weeks with their first...
British duo Wham! scored three number one singles on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart as a group before breaking up in 1986 — a move that precipitated George Michael’s highly successful solo career. The group’s second number...
Exactly 30 years ago today, the film The Breakfast Club debuted in theaters in the United States, on its way to becoming one of the quintessential films of the decade. The film also spawned one...
New York City-based group Seduction scored four Top 40 hits on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart, all within about a one-year time period from mid-1989 to mid-1990. The biggest of those hits, and the only...
Cleveland, OH Native DJ Girl Talk is a mashup legend. Wikipedia describes it as, “He produces mashup-style remixes, in which he uses often a dozen or more unauthorized samples from different songs to create...
The band Boston, which is based in the same city, has scored four Top 10 hits on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart. The first came in 1976 when “More Than A Feeling” reached number 5. The...
London-based band The Kinks hit the Top 10 with their first three singles to reach Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart. The run began with “You Really Got Me,” which peaked at number 7 in late 1964....
Montreal-based band Men Without Hats tends to make a lot of short lists of 1980s classics with their Top 5 hit from 1983 “The Safety Dance,” but they also reached the Top 20 on...
Liverpool, England-based band A Flock of Seagulls are most remembered for their Top 10 hit “I Ran (So Far Away),” but they have also hit the Top 40 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart two more...
Norwalk, California-born teen sensation Tiffany scored three Top 10 hits on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart in 1987 and 1988 from her debut, self-titled album. With the release of her second album, Hold An Old Friend’s Hand,...