Category: Did you know?

by Jon Kutner • March 29, 2020 • 0 Comments

There are hundreds of songs and hits with prominent vocals (notjust backing vocals) provided by someone who doesnt get the credit where its due. Here is a list of 20 you may or may not have known about.

Artist	Title	Uncredited vocalist
Direct Drive	Anything	Helen Rogers
Meat Loaf	Dead Ringer For Love	Cher
Herb Alpert	Diamonds	Janet Jackson
Peter Gabriel	Games Without Frontiers	Kate Bush
Edie Brickell	Good Times	Barry White
David Bowie	Hallo Spaceboy	Pet Shop Boys
Andy Williams	I Like Your Kind Of Love	Peggy Powers
Python Lee Jackson	In A Broken Dream	Rod Stewart
Wilton Felder	Inherit The Wind	Bobby Womack
Adamski	Killer	Seal
Will Powers	Kissing With Confidence	Carly Simon
Dire Straits	Money For Nothing	Sting
Chainsmokers	Paris	Emily Warren
Gary Moore	Parisienne Walkways	Phil Lynott
Paul Gardiner	Stormtrooper In Drag	Gary Numan
Crusaders	Street Life	Randy Crawford
Heaven 17	Temptation	Carol Kenyan
Prince	U Got The Look	Sheena Easton
Donna Summer	Unconditional Love	Musical Youth
Tears for Fears	Woman In Chains	Oleta Adams

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Classical goes pop

by Jon Kutner • March 22, 2020 • 0 Comments

So many pop songs have ‘borrowed’, ‘stolen’, ‘nicked’, ‘swiped’ or just ‘ripped off’ classical pieces of music, here are a random 20 you may not have realised.

Artist	Title	Composer	Classical piece
Allan Sherman	Hello Muddah! Hello Fadduh	Amilcare Ponchielli	Dance Of The Hours
Barry Manilow	Could It Be Magic	Frederic Chopin	Prelude in C minor
Beach Boys	Lady Lynda	Bach	Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring
Brian & Michael	Matchstalk Men And Matchstalk Cats And Dogs	William Rimmer	Punchinello
Coolio	C U When U Get There	Johann Pachelbel	Canon in D
Dead Or Alive	You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)	Richard Wagner	Ride Of The Valkyries
Elvis Presley	Can’t Help Falling In Love	Hector Berlioz	Plaisir D’Amour
Eric Carmen	All By Myself	Sergei Rachmaninoff	Piano Concerto No. 2
Korgis	If I Had You	Niccolo Paganini	Caprice No.24 In A Minor
Little Mix	Little Me	Pavane	Gabriel Fauré
Mika	Grace Kelly	Gioachino Rossini	Largo Al Factotum
Muse	Plug In Baby	Bach	Toccata and Fugue in D
Nas	I Can	Ludwig van Beethoven	Für Elise
Neil Diamond	Song Sung Blue	Wolfgang Mozart	Piano Concerto No.41
Puff Daddy	I’ll Be Missing You	Samuel Barber	Agnus Dei
Queen	It’s A Hard Life	Vesti La Giubba	Ruggiero Leoncavallo
S Club 7	Natural	Pavane	Gabriel Fauré
Sting	Russians	Serge Prokofiev	Romance from Lieutenant Kijé
Take That	Never Forget	Guiseppe Verdi	Tuba Mirum from Requiem
Tom Jones	Help Yourself	Wilma Goich	Gli Occhi Miei

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Artists who namecheck themselves in number one albums

by Jon Kutner • March 15, 2020 • 0 Comments

Since the UK album chart was devised back in 1956, only 35 have topped the chart where the act get a credit in the title. I’ve discounted compilations like the Best of. (act)! Here’s the list

	Act	Year
1	Shadows	1961
2	Rolling Stones	1964
3	Monkees	1967
4	Beatles	1968
5	Blind Faith	1969
6	Neil Reid	1972
7	Paul Simon	1972
8	Peter Gabriel	1980
9	Genesis	1983
10	Seal	1991
11	Metallica	1991
12	Seal	1994
13	Elastica	1995
14	Robson & Jerome	1995
15	Blur	1997
16	Jane McDonald	1998
17	Anastacia	2004
18	Scissor Sisters	2004
19	Libertines	2004
20	Il Divo	2004
21	Corinne Bailey Rae	2006
22	Razorlight	2006
23	Scouting for Girls	2008
24	JLS	2009
25	Glee	2010
26	Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds	2011
27	Rita Ora	2012
28	Jake Bugg	2012
29	Eminem	2013
30	Royal Blood	2014
31	Faithless	2015
32	Jamie Lawson	2015
33	Viola Beach	2016
34	The Blossoms	2016
35	Harry Styles	2017

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Number one single and album with the same title

by Jon Kutner • March 8, 2020 • 0 Comments

In UK chart history only 10 songs that have the same title as the album from which they come have been number one in the same week. Here’s the list.

Aritst	Album	Single	Year
Cliff Richard And The Shadows	The Young Ones	The Young Ones	1962
Cliff Richard	Summer Holiday	Summer Holiday	1963
Beatles	A Hard Day’s Night	A Hard Day’s Night	1964
Beatles	Help!	Help!	1965
Simon And Garfunkel	Bridge Over Troubled Water	Bridge Over Troubled Water	1970
Abba	Super Trouper	Super Trouper	1980
Spandau Ballet	True	True	1983
David Bowie	Let’s Dance	Let’s Dance	1983
Madonna	Like A Prayer	Like A Prayer	1989
Gary Barlow With The Commonwealth Band	Sing	Sing	2012

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Most UK hits

by Jon Kutner • March 1, 2020 • 1 Comment

It’s been a while since I did this list and it was prompted by someone thinking that Glee held the record for the most UK hits. Well here’s a list of the top 25 acts to have 50 or more UK hits to their credit (but only if they are credited as a primary or featuring artist).

Artist	Hits
UB40	51
Queen	52
Rolling Stones	52
Jay-Z	53
Ed Sheeran	53
Beyonce	55
Nicki Minaj	55
Kylie Minogue	56
Stevie Wonder	56
Justin Bieber	58
Eminem	58
Michael Jackson	59
Rihanna	59
Diana Ross	60
Kanye West	60
Chris Brown	62
Rod Stewart	62
Status Quo	67
Madonna	70
David Bowie	72
Elton John	87
Drake	94
Glee	100
Elvis Presley	119
Cliff Richard	134

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Songs that namecheck a date

by Jon Kutner • February 23, 2020 • 0 Comments

Here are 10 songs that mentioned a specific date on the lyrics, feel free to suggest any more you come up with.

Artist	Title	Date mentioned
Bobby Gentry	Ode To Billy Joe	3rd June
C.W. McCall	Convoy	6th June
Earth Wind & Fire	September	21st September
Joan Baez	The Night They Drove Old dixie Down	10th May
Laurie Lingo & The Dipsticks	Convoy GB	6th May
Levellers	What A Beautiful Day	5th November
Neil Diamond	Desiree	3rd June
Pogues & The Dubliners	The Irish Rover	4th July
Temptations	Papa Was A Rolling Stone	3rd September
U2	Pride (In The Name Of Love)	4th April

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