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Also in September 1967, Parton was asked to replace country vocalist Norma Jean as the "girl singer" on Porter Wagoner's syndicated television series The Porter Wagoner Show. The pair recorded 13 albums together for RCA Victor , and in the late 1960s and early 1970s had a series of top 10 hits on the country charts, including " The Last Thing ...
Greatest Hits is a compilation album by the American singer and songwriter Dolly Parton, released in September 1982. It focused mostly on her late 1970s pop hits. The original track list was revised a year later to include Parton's 1983 duet hit with Kenny Rogers, "Islands in the Stream".
An all-female band is a band which has consisted entirely of female musicians for at least three-quarters of its active career. This article only lists all-female bands who perform original material that is either authored by themselves or authored by another musician for that band's use. Therefore vocal groups (girl groups) are not
Michael Jackson had the highest number of top hits at the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1980s (9 songs). In addition, Jackson remained the longest at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1980s (27 weeks). Madonna ranked as the most successful female artist of the 1980s, with 7 songs and 15 weeks atop the chart.
The Spice Girls (here in 2008) are the best-selling girl group in history. [1][2] A girl group is a popular music act featuring several female singers who generally harmonize together. Girl groups have been popular at least since the heyday of the Boswell Sisters beginning in the 1930s, but the term "girl group" also denotes the wave of ...
Belinda Carlisle. Belinda Jo Carlisle (/ ˈkɑːrlaɪl / KAR-lyle; born August 17, 1958) is an American singer and songwriter. She gained fame as the lead vocalist of the Go-Go's, the most successful all-female rock band of all time, [1] and went on to have a prolific career as a solo artist. Raised in Southern California, Carlisle became the ...
Number ones. The Bee Gees scored the most number-one hits (9 songs) and had the longest cumulative run atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart (27 weeks) during the 1970s. Rod Stewart remained at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 17 weeks during the 1970s. Elton John amassed the second-most number-one hits on the Hot 100 chart during the ...
At Warner's they recorded dance floor hits including "Gotta Get Away From You Baby", "Ain't He Bad" and the album title song, "So Let Us Entertain You". In 1977, the trio switched labels again this time recording for their producer Norman Harris' label, Gold Mind Records , [ 1 ] where they got their biggest dance single, the infectious "Doctor ...