One of Elton’s most recognisable Rock numbers, ‘Saturday’s Alright For Fighting’ was yet another of the cavalcade of hits from his 1973 album ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’. Upon its release in the 70’s the song was banned on a number of radio stations, fearing that the title would ‘insite their listeners to violence’.
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This Hit for the UK’s Pop Songstress Dusty Springfield was originally recorded in 1968 alongside sessions for ‘Dusty … Definitely’ and ‘Dusty In Memphis’. It wasn’t released until a 1970 45 single, and later included on a re-release of ‘Dusty … Definitely’. Dusty’s cut also featured prominently in the soundtrack for the 1998 film ‘Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels’.
This track is one of the seven hit singles from Shania Twain’s 1997 album ‘Come On Over’. The R. J. Lange and Twain co-composition garnered the singer the 2000 Grammy for Best Female Country Vocal Performance. It also took its place as a standard in the history of Female anthems with its catchy hook, “Man! … I feel like a Woman!”
Sara Bareilles’ response to her record label’s request for a “marketable love song” rocketed this young artist to stardom in 2007. The single debuted in June of that year and stayed on the Billboard 100 for 54 weeks. The song is a fun kick at the classic notions of the love ballad in the form of a punchy pop number that’s guaranteed to stand the test of time.
There is one song that people around the world associate with Calypso and Soca — Arrow’s 80’s hit ‘Hot Hot Hot’. Monserrat-born Arrow featured the song on his 1982 studio album of the same name and it instantly became a hit worldwide. The Soca classic has seen numerous covers, from the successful 1987 Buster Poindexter cut to Latin boyband Menudo and even a Hindi rendition from India’s Babla & Kanchan.
This driving Pop cut was a 1988 hit from Elton John’s album ‘Reg Strikes Back’. ‘I Don’t Wanna Go On With You Like That’, co-written with lyricist Bernie Tauprin made it to #30 in the UK and soared to #2 on the US Billboard 100 charts. The song was kept from the top spot by George Michael’s hit ‘Monkey’, but made it to #1 on the Adult Contemporary charts.
One of Elton’s most popular Pop tunes from the 80’s, ‘I Guess That’s Why They Call It The Blues’ was a collaboration by the Rocket Man, his long-time lyricist Bernie Taupin and Scottish Guitar-slinger Davey Johnstone. The track’s easy, lilting feeling is complimented by a Harmonica solo from the great Stevie Wonder. ‘I Guess That’s Why They Call It The Blues’ remains one of Elton’s most played radio hits of all time.
Elton John’s 1975 #1 hit is sometimes mistaken as a patriotic, flag-waving number by American audiences. John and Taupin apparently wrote the tune as an homage to tennis star Billie Jean King and her ‘Philadephlia Freedoms’ tennis team. Regardless of its roots this Rock and Pop icon has stood the test of time as one of the genre’s best anthems.
The conclusion to the orchestral Opus ‘Funeral For A Friend’; ‘Love Lies Bleeding’ is included as the opening cut to Elton John’s 1973 album ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’. Although not original written as one continuous song, John recollected that the two ‘just fit together’.
This track from the 1983 album ‘Too Low For Zero’ maked the return of a full album’s collaboration for John and lyricist Bernie Taupin, who last did a full LP together with 1976’s ‘Blue Moves’. This Live version, as performed on John’s concert album ‘One Night Only’ incorporates his high energy sound and an open adlib section.