tommyo@ihuxw.UUCP (10/26/83)
I finally found it! I`ve been looking for 5 years for a good book which would list all the Top 40 songs, who did them, and how high did they go. Well, it exists. It was compiled by a fellow who`s been watching the charts and buying records for about 30 years now. It`s in paperback, all 500+ pages. You can look up any artist and find out all his/her/their songs that reached #40, how high it got, when it hit and how long it was in the Top 40. Did you know Elvis had over 100 Top 40 songs? Nobody comes close to that. There is also a list of all the song titles, and with each one the artist(s) who performed them, the year they came out and how high they went. Great if you can`t remember who sang "California Nights" or "Which Way You Going Billy" or whose version of "Everlasting Love" (Robert Knight, Carl Carlton, Rex Smith & Rachel Sweet) did the best. It also lists all the #1 songs in order from `55 through `82, what songs stayed on the charts longest, top acts of each decade, and other trivial-type charts. It`s called, not suprizingly, "Billboard Top Songs, 1955-1982" or something close to that. The cost was about $10, worth it for such a compilation of musical trivia. Great Christmas gift for a music lover you know. Tom (I love music and tv trivia) O`Connor Oh, Leslie Gore (It`s My Party, You Don`t Own Me, Sunshine Lollipops and Rainbows) did Cal. Nights, the Poppy Family did Which Way You Going (a group member was Terry "Seasons in the Sun" Jacks), and Carl Carlton`s version was the biggest.