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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 1970s (6 songs). #
Song [1] Original artist [1] U.S. Pop [2] U.S. R&B [3] UK Singles Chart [4] Other charting versions, and notes [1] 1963 "Everybody Monkey" Freddy Cannon: 52 - - Written by Gamble and Jerry Ross "Watch Your Step" Brooks O'Dell: 58 16 - Written by Gamble, Luther Dixon and Thom Bell: 1964 "Who Do You Love" The Sapphires: 25 9 - Written by Gamble ...
Electronic and synthesized music quickly replaced the lush orchestral sounds of the 1970s and rock music resurged in popularity with new wave bands such as Blondie ("Heart of Glass"), The Knack ("My Sharona") and Devo ("Whip It"), all who formed their bands in the 1970s. Many artists such as The Bee Gees, who came to be associated with disco ...
Aerosmith had seven studio albums chart on the Billboard 200 in the 1970s. [1] Their success in the decade, particularly of their albums Toys in the Attic (1975) and Rocks (1976), helped inspire future rock artists such as Slash [2] and Kurt Cobain [3]
Singers and Songwriters was a 19-volume album series issued by Time-Life in the US, during the early 2000s, spotlighting songs from the singer-songwriter era of the 1970s. . There was an identically-named 29 volume series available in the UK and Europe, with different track listings and different, but similar artwo
His first success as a songwriter came with "What a Man", a minor R&B chart hit in 1968 for Linda Lyndell. The song, re-titled "Whatta Man", became a much bigger hit in 1994 for Salt-n-Pepa . In 1969, he and Brad Shapiro became staff producers at Atlantic Records , where they worked with Wilson Pickett and Dee Dee Warwick , and produced the ...
Walk a Mile in My Shoes: The Essential '70s Masters is a five-disc box set compilation of the recorded work of Elvis Presley during the decade of the 1970s. It was released in 1995 by RCA Records, catalog number 66670-2, following similar box sets that covered his musical output in the 1950s and both his non-soundtrack and soundtrack work of the 1960s.
This is a list of singer-songwriters who write, compose, and perform their own musical material. The list is divided into two sections to differentiate between artists categorized as singer-songwriters and others who do not fall under the definition associated with the genre: Traditional singer-songwriters; Others who both write songs and sing