Monthly Archive: September 2017
California-based band Toad the Wet Sprocket has made six appearances on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart, all between 1992 and 1997. Among the six songs, their biggest hit was their first hit, “All I Want,” which...
While they were dating each other in the early 1980s, singer Andy Gibb and actress Victoria Principal recorded a remake of the Everly Brothers’ “All I Have to Do Is Dream” that was released...
Amid their fifty appearances on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart, Chicago has hit number one three times. Exactly 35 years ago, the band’s second number one hit, “Hard to Say I’m Sorry,” climbed to the top...
Huey Lewis and the News have hit the Top 10 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart twelve times, all in the 1980s. On this date in 1988, the last of those Top 10 hits, “Perfect World,”...
Troy Gentry of the country duo Montgomery Gentry passed away yesterday at the age of 50. In addition to scoring many hits on the country chart over the past two decades, Montgomery Gentry has...
Fargo, North Dakota-born musician Bobby Vee hit the Top 10 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart six times, all in the 1960s. Exactly 50 years ago, the last of his Top 10 hits, “Come Back When...
Country music legend Don Williams passed away yesterday at the age of 78. After hitting the Top 20 on Billboard‘s country chart with 19 of the 20 songs he placed on the chart in the...
To date, country group Little Big Town has made four appearances in the Top 40 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart. Exactly five years ago, the first of that quartet of Top 40 hits, “Pontoon,” rose...
Eurythmics hit the Top 40 with the first five songs they placed on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart. On this date in 1984, the last of those five songs, “Right By Your Side,” climbed to a...
Los Angeles-based band Motley Crüe hit the Top 40 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart seven times. On this date in 1985, the first of those seven hits, a remake of Brownsville Station’s “Smokin’ in the...