Season 2 - Episode #23 - Songs #1560-#1541

0:00This is season 2 episode 23, songs 1560 to 1541. Hello and welcome to another episode of Chris's Billboard Top 3000 Countdown Podcast, where I discuss and review a set of 20 songs as they are ranked on Billboard's Hot 100 Billboard chart from August 1958 to the end of 2022, a span covering over 65 years of the rock era, and over 13,500 songs that have hit the top 40 in that time span. Every time Billboard publishes a new Hot 100 chart, there's a point value that's assigned behind the scenes, the higher the ranking in that Hot 100, the more points it's given, and more points are given the more weeks it's

1:01been in each Hot 100 chart. It's also way differently during different time spans of the rock era. We then rank every single song from top to bottom for the overall point total, then we shave off the top 3000 and then we present them to you in sets of 20 per podcast. I hope you enjoy. One of my favorite parts of this countdown is the blending of the different eras. Old Blue Eyes Frank Sinatra had his first number one single on the Billboard Pop Chart back in 1940, 18 years before the Hot 100 ever existed. The song I'll never smile again. He then hit number one seven more times over the next 16 years, all of them however before the Hot 100 era, but he did have two number one hits in the Hot 100 era starting in 1958. Both songs are from the 60s. This first one, 1966 is his solo effort. The one that everybody knows, Strangers in the Night, that spent 11

2:02weeks in the top 40 and on July 2nd, 1966, just like he did in 1940, he was on top of the world. This is song 1560, Frank Sinatra with Strangers in the Night. For the chances we'd be sharing love before the night was through. The song was originally composed by German composer Bert Kampfert and the lyrics were by Charles Singleton and Eddie Snyder. Now Kampfert originally recorded the song himself, but Sinatra got a hold of it in 1966. He had pretty much invented the word crooner in my opinion. He took it off away to number one. It was so popular that he created an album called Strangers in the Night and it became his most commercial successful album of all time, featuring his other number one

3:05hit, something stupid, a duet with his daughter Nancy Sinatra, which we're going to be hearing later in the countdown. The song also won a slew of awards, Grammy for Best Male Pop Vocal and for Record of the Year. And it just might well be his most famous song he's ever recorded, although that's subjective. Strangers in the Night Songs, number 1560, on Billboards, top 3000 songs of all time. I love a set list that includes Frank Sinatra and Kodak Black, artists born 82 years apart and the only thing that binds them together is their love of music and the number of points they have on this countdown. Hello everybody, welcome to another wonderful set as we burrow through the 1500s, on our way to the number one song of all time. Just like the last two podcasts, we are heavy into the 80s, not much from the 21st century other than the Kodak Black song, which I was just referring from 2022 and one other hit from 2016. The average peak position of this set is 3.25, only three number ones including another one from the 80s. They're starting to

4:10trickle in very, very slowly. And we have one artist that's featured three times, not many times if we've been able to say that. We have what I think is the best funk song of the 90s and we go in the way back machine four different times with hits from 1960 or earlier within the first 18 months of the hot 100 era. So stay tuned for all of that. Our special segment, I've been doing this countdown for about 20, 21 months now. And there's been a lot of artists that have passed away in that time frame, an artist that I've introduced in the countdown when they were alive and have since passed away or others that I haven't quite gotten to that have since passed away in the wake of the immortal Dolly Parton passing away. I wanted to do a little bit of a memoriam of some of the artists that we have lost over the last year. I also asked the question in the Facebook group, what is your favorite song from Dolly Parton? I have a Facebook group for those who don't know. It's got 432

5:13members. Please join if you're not a part of it. Just request to join and I will invite you in. It's called Chris Billboard Top 3,000 Podcast Facebook group. And it's quite active with a lot of nuggets and tin pits about this particular podcast as well as music and music charts in general. I know you'll find something to like there. Moving on with the countdown, let's get it going. Song number 1559 is one of the way back machine ones and it's an instrumental back when instrumentals were quite common. And it's from Santa Monica, California, native, Sandy Nelson, one of the great drummers of the 50s and 60s both in rock and jazz. He's actually released over 30 albums of instrumentals as well as a session musician drummer for many hits including the number one hits to know him is to love him by the teddy bears and the Hollywood Arguiles Alley Upe. Now as a solo drummer, he actually placed three songs into the top 40. Two of them top tens including this one his best hit ever called Teen Beat from 1959. It beat that number four

6:18after spending 12 weeks in the top 40. This is the one and only hit from Sandy Nelson. This is Teen Beat. Let's take a listen. I can vouch that the majority of the song features Nelson's drumming. I did get the guitar bit in there that California's surfing late 50s, early 60s guitar sound because it sounded so cool. That was Sandy Nelson, song number 1559 with Teen Beat. They had a re-recording of that song as a single in 1964 called Teen Beat 65 which also made the Billboard charts. But the original is the one that's song number 1559. Moving on to the countdown to 1558 and we go back into the 80s again and the second of three hits in this countdown from

7:23the superstar arena rock band Journey. You'd think Journey would have more hits in here. I've mentioned they are a middling band and I don't mean middling like their songs were average but a lot of their hits and the teens and the low top tens in fact 10 songs peaked between 9 and 19 and none of those made the countdown unfortunately. This was a top 5,000 countdown. We would hear a lot more journey but alas, they only had three mega hits that qualified separate ways was their first one. A 1983 hit that was song 2227. Open Arms was their biggest hit which we're going to hear later in this countdown. The third one is this number four hit also from the same album Escape that has open arms. It was their biggest and most successful album. This one is called Who's Cry And Now. And I know this for a fact it was the third song on side one of the album because we played it all the time in my family room, my sisters and brother and myself. Spent 14 weeks in the top 40, lands here at

8:24song 1558. This is Steve Perry and Journey with Who's Cry And Now. One love beats the fire, one heart best is love, one love is the stride now. Two hearts pulled together. Amazing clear enough their rock anthem don't stop believing only peaked at number nine. It was only the third best charted song off that album. The second one is the following Who's Cry And Now. Song number 1558 and it is one of my favorites on that album but there's so many good ones. Stone and love might just be my favorite one on that album and that never even charted but that was Journey Who's Cry And Now. We're going to hear them one more time with Open Arms later in season three. Song number 1557 is a number one song from 1990 and the first of three hits

9:26from Janet Jackson in this very set. We heard from her last podcast with the song Nasty so within a 40 song span and it's the first of 10 number ones we're going to be hearing from her. This is off the Rhythm Nation 1812 album from 1989 and one of the later songs released. This reminds me so much of Michael Jackson's number one song Dirty Diana. Just the rock composition and and the throaty raw vocals. This isn't sweet Janet Jackson. This is I'm going to kick you ass Janet Jackson. It's spent 12 weeks in the top 40 and on October 27th of 1990 it hit number one. This is song number 1557 Janet Jackson Black Cat. Six of Janet Jackson's 10 number one hits are from the 90s starting with this one. Black Cat

10:36song number 1557 on billboards top 3000 songs of all time. Don't go nowhere. Don't go anywhere. We're going to hear her twice more in this set. Both 80 songs too. I said it wasn't sweet sexy Janet Jackson for song 1557 but sweet sexy Barry White is certainly song 1556. Barry White the King of Lovemaking Music with long titles. We've already heard him ex-to-see when you lay down next to me. Can't get enough of your love babe and never never gonna give you up. Here's another long title. A number three hit called I'm gonna love you just a little more baby from 1973. Spent 12 weeks in the top 40 and at lands here at song 1556. Sing it for me Barry. I'm gonna love you just a little more baby. Everything I know the world you want to want to and everywhere.

11:45He wrote it, he produced it, he sang it, recorded it and squeezed every drop a sexy possibly could out of it. Barry White the Galveston Texas native with song number 1556. I'm gonna love you just a little more baby. He's got one other song as a solo artist. You're the first the last my everything. No short titles for Barry White but he also as the lead composer of Love's Unlimited Orchestra has a number one hit that we're going to be hearing a lot later in this countdown in season three. Song number 1555 and we get to another number one song from the 80s and this one actually surprised me that it ended up solo considering it was on the charts for 16 weeks. Back in 1982 and 1983 12 of those weeks in the top 20 but it only had six weeks in the top 10 which probably kept it down and it's one of my favorite songs from the 80s and favorite number one songs and a number one song that actually has a lot more staying power now than I ever thought it would and it's

12:48because of Weezer's remake a cover version they did in 2018 that featured Weirdo Yankevik that brought the song back to the Gen Z young crowd. I'm talking about the group Toto and they're only number one hit Africa. Toto used to be a bunch of session musicians that decided you know what we can make a group of our own and they did and in the late 70s and throughout the 80s they came up with 10 top 40 hits. Hold the line we've already heard at song 2494 this one Africa which hit number on February 5th 1983 and I remember exactly where I was at my grandmother's spare bedroom listening to Africa hit number one. Thought you might like to know that and it lands right here at song number 1555 this is Toto with Africa.

13:50I've always loved the harmonies in that chorus and sometimes I'll actually rewind the song just to hear those harmonies over and over again especially in the last verse when they repeated over and over again I bless the rains down in Africa I bless the rains down in Africa. Love that song still surprised it was so low but their other hit Rosanna which was number two for five weeks is not so low. We will hear that one later in season three but that was Africa by Toto. Song number 1555 on billboards top 3000 songs of all time. Moving on to song number 1554 and we get to the best song in the career of a group that we have been following and chronicling ever since this countdown started the Long Beach California Funk Soul Group War. Now war has already been on the charts four different times all of that in season one we had low rider at song 2828

14:50in summer at song 2820 then why can't we be friends at song 2355 and with a little help from the animals Eric Burton had spilled the wine a song at 2046. I said there's going to be one left. Here it is it's a number two hit called the Cisco Kid from 1973 which spent 12 weeks in the top 40 kept out of the top spot on April 28th and May 5th of 1973 by Tony Orlando and Donz Tyah Yellow Ribbon round the old oak tree which ended up being the number one song of the year. This is song number 1554 war with the Cisco Kid. The Cisco Kid was a brand of mine. He drank whiskey, punch on drink a mine. Ah yes the Chronicles of Cisco and Pancho a Latin Funk song. There aren't too many of them but

15:56this one would be toward the top of the all time list that was the Cisco Kid by War off the album The World is a ghetto one of the albums of the year according to Billboard in 1973 and they land at song 1554 the best song in the career of war. I've mentioned many times throughout this countdown podcast my favorite group of all time is Darryl Hall and John Oates. They were crowned the best duo of the year according to Billboard sometime in their mid 80s. The artists that they surpassed were the Everly Brothers mainly from the 50s and the 60s and we haven't heard too much of them on this countdown it's so odd of the 21 songs they had that hit the top 40 since the hot 100 era began they even had some songs prior to the hot 100 era in 56 and 57 of those 21 songs 12 of them hit top 10 but only four of those 12 top 10 hits made this countdown of this were a top 4,000 countdown we'd hear them five more times and that

17:01amazing we heard them one other time at song 1873 with the song Problems but the Everly Brothers struck with the dandy of a number four hit in 1959 called Till I Kissed You. It's been 13 weeks in the top 40 lands right here at song number 1553 this is the second of four hits we're going to hear on this countdown by the Everly Brothers this is Till I Kissed You. How did I exist until I kissed you? Ever had you on my mind? Now you're there all the time? Never knew what a misty like you kissed you? I don't know who's singing the harmony portion of that clip whether it's Don or Phil one of the brothers but they do a really good job with their close harmony sounds and all of their songs but that one in particular that was Till I Kissed You. One interesting note the

18:02song Till I Kissed You the word Till is in parenthesis the song starts with a subtitle there are exactly 117 songs that have made the top 40 that start with a subtitle in parenthesis. I've actually heard nine of them on this countdown already. Songs like theme from the Valley of the Dolls sweet sweet baby since you've been gone and Ronnie Mills saps there's no get no for me at song 1580 the theirs is in parenthesis as well. What's the best one that's ever hit that has a subtitle in the beginning? That's everything I do I do it for you by Brian Adams. We're going to hear that one much much later just a little bit of bird trivia on song titles that was Till I Kissed You Everly Brothers song number 1553 on billboards top 3000 songs of all time as I'm sure all the listeners felt the same I was really really saddened by the death of Dolly Parton last week. She was one of the great ones not just a musician but a great human a great humanitarian and just an all around

19:04good genuinely good person kind of like when Robin Williams died or Fred Rogers died and we've brought up some artists that have passed away from time to time throughout the podcast and it may be a little bit somber we've been doing this since December of 2024 and there's been a number of artists that have passed away that have announced and reviewed while they were still alive. I created a bit of a list sort of an in-memorium over the last 73 podcasts going back 21 months and I wanted a list of couple of them for you Peter Yarrow from Peter Paul and Mary died in January of 2025 and Sam Moore of Sam and Dave also died in January we had Roberta Flack, Robert John David Johansson from the New York Dolls Duane Wiggins of Tony Tony Tony Tony Johnny Talatzen an artist that I did not know about until I started doing this countdown. Wink Martin Dale a sliced stone was probably the biggest one for me at the time last year on

20:06June 9th of 2025 and then Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys just two days later. Lucristi, Connie Francis, Chuck Mangione, Rick Davies from Super Tramp, Ace Freely from Kiss, Chuck Negron from Three Dog Night remember his voice, Neil Sedacca, Dash Crofts from Seals and Crofts, Alan Osman of the Osmonds, Clarence Carter, Peepo Bryson and then just recently David Clayton Thomas of Blood, Sweat and Tears one of my all-time favorite voices. Victor Willis from The Village People, Bonnie Tyler, Freddie Cannon who we just did have won a couple of podcasts ago. Frank Beard the drummer of ZZ Top I have to bring him up ZZ Top's one of my all-time favorite bands and then the most recent Shelley February and Dolly Parkin. That's by no means an exhaustive list but just the ones that stood out in this particular countdown podcast then I wanted to pay tribute to all of them in this special segment. What saddens me more is that there's going to be more of them when we

21:08finish episode 150, most likely a couple of years from now. So enjoy the artists while they're here and you can enjoy their music for all time. Rest in peace Dolly. I did ask the question from the Facebook group. What is your favorite song by Dolly Parkin and I will get to those responses later in this podcast. Now on with the countdown and song number 1552 and New York dance pop singer Taylor Dana's back on the countdown with that deep alto voice of hers with the third of her six hits on this countdown. We've heard her twice in season one. I'll be your shelter. Number four hit at song 2526 and remember tell it to my heart it was her first hit. A number seven hit at song 2160. Well she's back at song 1552. A number five hit called with every beat of my heart from 1989. All of her hits except for one were between 1987 and 1990 with seven of the eight hits that came

22:08in the top 40 all hit in top 10. She had a very very high success rate. Spent 13 weeks in the top 40 and it lands at song 1552. This is Taylor Dana with every beat of my heart. With every beat of my heart I keep getting closer to you. With every beat of my heart now I know we're getting closer to love with every beat. A wonderful dance pop hit from Taylor Dana which was so popular back in the late 80s this style of music when it came out at Markter 5th consecutive top 10 hit at 1989 and it lands on number 1552 on billboards top 3000 songs of all time. How much more do we have of Taylor Dana on this countdown? Well she's got a number one song a number two song and a number three song all mixed in between seasons two and season three song number 1551 and we finally

23:09finally got to a happy Brenda Lee song. I had been joking a bit over the last several podcasts that when Brenda Lee comes out with the song it's usually a sad one whether that's I want to be wanted all alone am I break it to be gently full number one and dumb dumb those are the five songs she's hit so far. It doesn't even include I'm sorry her number one hit which we're going to be hearing much later in season three but we've got a good one now where she's with the guy that she loves and they whisper sweet nothings to each other remember this song a number four hit from 1960 called sweet nothings spend 15 weeks in the top 40 give it up for Brenda Lee and finally her happy mood this is Brenda Lee with sweet nothings

24:18a sweet but tantalizing 60s hit with that classic 60s style saxophone in the middle Brenda Lee with song number 1551 on billboards top 3,000 songs of all time she only has two songs left the aforementioned I'm sorry and rocking around the Christmas tree where's that gonna wind up on this countdown well I can tell you it'll be later in season two and we are halfway done with this set and halfway done with the 1500s song number 1550 remember when I said at the beginning of the podcast that I linked Frank Sinatra with Kodak Black well here's Kodak Black born diosan octave Bill Khan Capri professional named Kodak Black we heard him about 1300 songs ago with the classic hit ZZ a little duet with Travis Scott a number two hymn now he has the best hit of his career at least to this point because the song he's got right now was a 2022 hit called supergremlin off the

25:20album sniper gang presents sicco bobbin snap cat nightmare babies it's a Halloween themed project album of which Kodak Black is wrapping on eight of the eleven tunes it peaked at number three in 2022 and it lands right here at song number 1550 this is the best hit of Kodak Black's career this is supergremlins it was critically acclaimed by several hip hop magazines like hot new hip hop and revolt they said it was a standout from the nightmare babies album and that's a good thing because it charted higher than any of the others a number three hit that was Kodak Black with song number 1550 that was supergremlins song number 1549 and I love this song this might be the best

26:27funk song of the 90s we didn't have a whole lot of funk in the 90s New York based dance band delight started out as a duo with lady miskew and DJ Demitri in 1986 then added DJ towa Tay in 1988 in 1990 they released the album world click an album I remember purchasing which featured the song groove is in the heart it was partially written by herbie handcock the famous jazz musician and funkified it with James Brown and funk adellac band butsy Collins and although they scored many dance hits they only had the one pop hit groove is in the heart which peaked at number four in 1990 after spending 13 weeks in the top 40 let's hear a little bit I haven't heard it in a long time and I love it this is delight and groove is in the heart

27:31I remember the video for this song was completely psychedelic and awesome and it even features a rap interlude by a tribe called quests qtip a lot of collaboration on this particular track it's just delightful that was delight groove is in the heart with their one and only hit I guess you can call them a one hit wonder and a question for my listeners name me another funk song of the 90s something that was reasonably popular but come back to me on the facebook group and answer what was a good funk song of the decade of the 1990s and is it any better than groove is in the heart because I'm going to say no that was song number 1549 one of the best classic rock and commercially successful debut albums of the 70s comes from the band boston their self titled album was certified platinum 17 times over goodness gracious and their lead track off that album more than a feeling is always in the top 20 or top 30 of the all-time classic rock countdown chart I know this because

28:37I'm listening to this serious satellite top 1000 classic rock countdown in my spare time and more than a feelings in the top 10 actually I think it's number 11 but the last time they did it it was in the top five it's always up there but it was also commercially successful as well peaked at number five back in 1976 after spending 14 weeks in the top 40 and at lands right here at song number 1548 this is Brad delp's awesome tenor voice in the wonderful rock of boston and more than a feeling and I think it's really oh they harmonized like the best of the arena groups that was boston and more than a feeling Brad delp unfortunately committed suicide in 2007 but many of the band members have

29:39remained intact including their founder Tom Schultz they have one more hit on this countdown they actually hit number one in the 80s with the power ballad amanda we will be hearing that later in season three that was more than a feeling do you want to hear the whole song more than a feeling do you want to hear groove is in the heart followed by more than a feeling do you want to hear super gremlins followed by groove is in the heart followed by more than a feeling all in its entirety you can we actually have a supplemental playlist in Spotify crisis billboard top 3000 countdown playlist curated by miche worthington look for my title and look for his name and you will get every single song on this entire countdown from song 3000 is this love by survivor two the current one song 1541 which we will reveal at the end of this podcast but you can listen to all of it or some of it or just the last 15 songs in order thank you miche very much for continuing to add

30:40to this playlist as i continue on with my podcast and now on with the countdown and song number 1547 the rolling stones are back and i have to say this is without question my least favorite rolling stone songs of all time i'm very much a stones fan i love classic rock i love their riffs i love their vocals i love their harmonies i love charlie watts drums i love everything about the band but i do not love emotional rescue and they got a little funky disco in this song but i like miss you that version of funky disco but not this one and mcjagger's decision to do the entire song in falsetto i thought was a huge air enjudgment however it was quite popular and it's on all the compilation albums so enough people thought that this song was quite good it is their ninth biggest of their entire career peaked at number three back in 1980s spent 14 weeks in the top 40 so

31:41this is the rolling stones with emotional rescue yeah it just doesn't do it for me and they have so many other wonderful songs that i'm allowed to not like all of them that was emotional rescue song number 1547 on billboards top 3,000 songs of all time mention they have eight songs left on this countdown seven of them number ones and i promise you all eight of them are better i promise now we go on to song number 1546 now here's a song you can get into from 1983 it's the one and only hit on this countdown from the san francisco group Greg Kinband a lot was made on kacy kasem's american top 40 broadcasts about Greg Kinband's

32:47being the only group on an independent label called zirkely and how the label was formed by getting compensation from an unauthorized use of one of their songs in a movie the getaway they were to able to use that money to help fund this independent label and Greg Kinband for a while was their only client they had three top 40 hits in their career which started in 1976 but their debut one was the breakup song remember that one a number 15 hit from 1981 their best hit was this one a number two hit from 1983 called jeopardy and it was one that i thought was gonna hit number one but it was kept out of the top spot on may 7th 1983 by michael jackson's beat it i think if it would have been released two weeks later and didn't have to contend with michael jackson's beat it i think it would have hit number one but alas poor timing but it's still hit number two in at lance at song number one five four six here's that cool 80s guitar riff Greg Kinband and jeopardy

33:48I loved the song at the time still do but that was such a big song for me in the 80s in 1983 and I even loved the parody of it weirdo yanko vix i lost on jeopardy the game show and played those two back to back quite often that was Greg Kinband and jeopardy song number one five four six on billboards top three thousand songs of all time and the only hit that we have of him on this countdown so what does the facebook community have to say about dolly parton and their favorite song by her well we had a lot of wonderful responses so many folks picked the song here you come again of which is my

34:50personal favorite song by dolly parton but darren held picked them deglen karen here you come again with its over 20 distinct chord changes a beautiful tune dan russ can i always like here you come again from an early age such an upbeat song tim jones lists it jimmy steel lists it scott whiner lists it victor kruz lists it maria hasha meloften lists it and the billboard three top three thousand countdown listed it's the only song we've listed of dolly partons yet way back at song number two three one two now she has two number one hits islands in the stream the duet with Kenny Rogers and the song nine to five both of those were picked several times as well darren held lists it july beckman lists it lia swanson wit lists it daily carasco lists nine to five tim jones also says nine to five hans anderson nine to five gets my blood pumping and motivates me to keep moving and keen says it's nine to five but islands in the stream with Kenny come on so she

35:50lists them both kris hutchitz and williamson says islands in the stream and Richard congrams is sorry for the essay but this is the therapy i have to do if you ask me before seven eight twenty six i would have said islands in the stream hands down but after delivering my mother's ulygy and reading her own words that she left behind explaining how difficult growing up in apolachia was and her own mother had to stitch garments together for her from her old pieces of fabric it is of course coat of many colors rest in peace mama thank you very much Richard for sharing that and rest in peace mama congram dana dobeck luandowski also lists coat of many colors as does robin clutch collins coat of many colors for sentimental reasons and because she wrote it but here you come again it's a super close second so she likes them both miche worthington also says here you come again that's a low blow right now i guess here you come again but it's really hard the entire state is still in shock he is from tenisee thank you miche other responses as well a july beckman lists the usual nine to five the song she did off the movie straight talk and the

36:54collective soul song she redid that i also can't think of the name currently i think i need some coffee my listeners does anyone know the collective soul song that she redid that july was referencing if so mentioned it in the facebook group elisabeth reed uh mine would be a tune off of her here you come again album titled god's coloring book steven taylor lists two doors down irine's a bit so washing tin when jesus comes calling for me steve edlyn jolene coat of many colors old flames don't hold a candle to you steve russian of course night to five even though i'm not a morning person for the second choice i found a beautiful duet that dolly did with hulio places called when you tell me that you love me and david custis as i remember that duet dianna ross also covered when you tell me that you love me was a big hit for her internationally but not here in the states kenny high lists heartbreaker kary and wilson go listen to down from dover from 1968 boy that's date knit a bit peter mercia baby i'm burnin and two doors down robert britain him light of a clear

37:58blue morning marcella newny's i'm not much of a country fan so i don't know her catalog but i do love islands in the stream that one's kind of time listen universal it's also her best hit of her career overall steve johnson aliverus one favorite command there are too many favorites of hers one classic is hard candy christmas but most recently the singles from rock star where she sings duets with other artists as steve perry sting kevin kronin stevey nicks peter frampton elton john paul mccartney jone jet debi harry pink in my favorite pat benatar are all awesome there's a whos who list of seventies and eighties rockin pop stars marju laric bowler it's probably obvious but i'll take i will always love you to meet her version's far exceeds wittney houston and ronda work ends it with joelyn which might possibly be her most famous work i've been told frequently in the last couple of weeks that she wrote joelyn and i will always love you on the very same day that's a productive day dolly you are missed and the responses have been wonderful thank you very much and

39:03remember if you do respond you might be on this podcast now let's go finish the countdown and song number one five four five well i did say at the beginning of the podcast we have three Janet Jackson songs and we've heard one already black cat let's go to one of her earliest ones from nineteen eighty six and i remember specifically at a record store on rozevelt road in between berwin and oak park illinois purchasing this forty five along with on my own by patty lebell and el de barges whose johnny i bought off the control album the forty five of Janet jackson's what have you done for me lately now Janet wrote the song with famous producers jimmy jam and terry louis and it was the first release single off of her multi platinum album control and it was her very first top forty hit she had a couple of others that hit top one hundred but nothing that creeped into the top forty until this one and it went all the way up to number four and

40:04number one of the u.s. r&b charts here is song number one five four five Janet jackson and what have you done for me lately a minimalistic approach to the dance beat it's just beats in them singing with the occasional synthesizer and bass but you don't even hear it that much that's Janet just kind of driving the entire song it's really really good and holds up very well to this day what have you done for me lately song number one five four five on billboard's top three thousand songs of all time we will hear her in just a couple of songs and another song off her breakthrough album control for song number one five four four we're going in the way way back machine to the very first year of the hot one hundred

41:08nineteen fifty eight and the duop group from Brooklyn New York little Anthony and the Imperials now the majority of their top forty hits seven in total came from 1964 and 1965 including the number six hit going out of my head which we heard it song two seven eight one but their first hit and their best hit is called tears on my pillow very much a slow duop song and if you remember the movie crease when they're doing the line dance at the high school dance they're dancing to tears on my pillow this is song number one five four four a number four peak that's been 14 weeks in the top forty little Anthony and the Imperials and tears on my pillow it was not so long ago you wrote my heart into tears on my pillow pain in my heart for you

42:15that's a hard chord duop song little Anthony sounds so young in this song because he was he was only seventeen when it was recorded and it's the best song of his and his band the Imperials musical career that was tears on my pillow song number one five four four on billboards top three thousand songs of all time song number one five four three and the accolades for this duo are almost endless rock and roll hall of fame vocal group hall of fame Memphis music hall of fame R&B music hall of fame i'm talking about the duo from Miami Sam Moore and Dave Prayer otherwise known as Sam and Dave they introduced a gospel sound to their R&B much the same way Aretha Franklin did and both of them enormously successful they only had three top forty pop hits all three of them are bangers though like long time memorable hits their number twenty one hit hold on i'm coming i

43:16know many people know that song and then i thank you a number nine hit from 1968 that was so popular that Texas bands easy top remade it but then of course their signature one a number two hit called soul man recognized by the Grammys as one of the most influential songs of the past 50 years the remake by John Belushi and Dan accroids soul man for their movie The Blues Brothers in 1980 helped bring blues back to the mainstream again it's such a good song Sam and Dave's version though i think it's the best we will hear that now the 1967 song that peaked at number two kept out of the top spot after a three week run at number two on November 4th 11th and 18th of 1967 by the eventual number one song of the year to Sir with love by Lulu but it lands right here at song number one five four three here is Sam and Dave with soul man love me i got a ton of love and we give up your guts so don't worry because i'm coming i was soul man

44:30i was soul man i say that sam and Dave only hit the pop charts three times but they were all over the r and b charts in the sixties thirteen times hitting top 40 including a couple of number ones the hold on i'm coming and soul man this was their biggest hit on the pop charts the number two hit soul man song number one five four three on billboards top three thousand songs of all time sadly we lost sam more just January of 2025 he was 89 years old he's was part of the in memoriam that i did earlier in this podcast song number one five four two we go back to Janet Jackson for her third hit in this set off of the control album in fact it's the title song control was Janet Jackson's way of extracting control over her musical career it's been so tied to her parents and her brothers the Jackson's she actually severed business ties with them hired producers Jimmy jam and Terry Lewis

45:31and made one of the defining albums of the entire decade we heard nasty in the last podcast and what have you done for me lately just a couple of songs ago there's also when i think of you let's wait a while that have also charted this was a very popular album but in addition at song one five four two is the title song control a number five hit in 1986 that's been thirteen weeks in the top 40 let's have one more for Janet Jackson's shall we at song one five four two this is control oh again a lot of beats but still minimalistic when it comes to instruments that was Janet Jackson's and control what's the best song of Janet Jackson off the control album well it's when i think of

46:32you we're gonna hear that in season three along with a whole host of others and we're not done with her in season two either she's got several songs coming up but quite a trio of Janet Jackson in this particular podcast that was control do you want to know what my favorite songs are not the ones that are ranked highest on the billboard charts but my personal favorites well after we get through the halfway mark i'm going to have a special episode where i'm going to give you my favorite songs give you a little review of some of them and then a big old montage i hope you enjoy that particular special episode when it comes out in just a couple of podcasts from now and now we hit our final song of this set who's gonna do it who is going to get the drum roll this time well it's from an American girl group that we haven't heard from yet from the 2016 2017 era i know with my listenership that's not gonna help much they are one of the biggest selling female groups of all time with over 33 million records sold and over 1.6 billion downloads they had only four top

47:3640 hits in their career between 2015 and 2016 but in one top 10 hit and it's this one which became the first top five single by an American girl group since buttons by the pussycat thousand 2006 and you're getting closer maybe that's okay i'll reveal it to you now song number 1541 the top song in this set is from fifth harmony work from home it's heavy dance pop stylized and quite simplistic work from home by fifth harmony featuring Ali Brooke dynad jane Lauren Juregui Normani and Camilla Cabello who all got their start on the

48:39TV show the X factors where they went to the semi finals and then signed on mentors Simon Cowell's label that's how they got their start that was fifth harmony with their one and only song on this countdown it's song number 1541 that'll do it another set of 20 songs as we barrel through the 1500s and we're only two podcasts away from the halfway mark on this entire countdown and we are close to 16,000 downloads on my buzz sprout account thank you so much for listening our newest locations include London England, Plymouth New Hampshire and West New York New Jersey that's an actual city and that's a mouthful i want to thank Jeffrey Mosher Robert Rusk and Mitch Worthington for without their combined help and efforts this podcast wouldn't be the best it could be but most of all i want to thank you the listener for actually listening to me for 73 episodes talk about pop music i'm so grateful tune in next week where we will continue to barrel through the 1500s on our

49:45way to the number one song in billboard history as i do with every episode i will end this one by playing a montage of the clips that you just heard in this podcast until next time thank you so much everybody it is one of the great pleasures in life to connect with people both through voice or through song i hope i've done both and so on and so on and scooby dooby do good day changing glances wondering in the night what were the chances we'd be sharing love before the night was through

50:46so what love to I've been known that it's not a great time You are a big risk for what you've done before You're a little better than a step Or you're more than dying You're so together for it But to stand and play again I'm gonna have you have you have you have Cause I'm in a moment, okay I'm gonna need you need you need you Everything I know, I know, I know, you won't You won't, you won't, you won't

51:47It's waiting for you It's waiting there for you Gonna take the love to take me away from you There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do I just arranged down in Africa Cisco Kid was a friend of mine Cisco Kid was a friend of mine He drank whiskey, punch on a drink of mine How did I exist under like history? Never had you on my mind Now you're there all the time Never knew what I missed till I kissed you

52:51Uh-huh With every beat of my heart I keep getting closer to you Uh-huh With every beat of my heart now Now I know We're getting closer to you Uh-huh With every beat Yeah, we both understand Mmm, sweet nothin' Mmm, sweet nothin' Sitting in peace will try to read my book My baby, give me that special look Sweet nothin' Mmm Bitch, you go against anything like fuck this little skit all dirty on pizza I put it in for you, I spin for you, what love you with, I'm with it How you wanna cross the near out rockin' which I got you lit and instead of it I been multitasking, rapping and being the daddy to my little children I been spinnin' on business and spinnin' and spinnin' until I'm dead I do all the smack, he knows the stuff I help with none of your killin' We can't move in the heart

53:53We can't move in the heart We can't move in the heart Come with me Watch out I'm begging for you, baby Watch out for you, baby Watch out Don't promise it's what never made to keep you Just let the night that does all the things sleep I'll be your savior, step past and treat I come to your emotional rescue I can take it as a warning or take it any way to lie

54:53It's the light now, I wonder I never know if it's gonna strike that I am almost a temporary, I'm a baby I'm a such a dancer, feet are always up my couch I promise you, your dance feet are always up my couch The thing I could go rust with start to death and that shit What have you done for me lately? Oh yeah What have you done for me lately? It was not so long ago You wrote my heart into the tears of my blood Pain in my heart Go by you Yeah

55:53Good love me, I got a ton of hope And we give up, you got so So don't worry Of course I'm coming, I was so mean I was so mean I give up my father said I love another movie That was a long ago, I'm a girl I never got a star And you get the ball No Black, black, black, black You don't like it or I like it Black, black, black, black, black I'm a boy, black, black, black, black Black, black, black, black We can walk together We can walk together