Blog Actresses who had a Top 40 song 1930 Jeanette MacDonald...Beyond the Blue Horizon #9
1933 Mae West...I Like a Man What Takes His Time #5
1954 Rita Hayworth...The Heat's On #30
Marilyn Monroe...River of No Return #30
1957 Debbie Reynolds...Tammy #1
1960 Connie Stevens...Sixteen Reasons #3
1961 Ann-Margret...I Just Don't Understand #17
1962 Shelley Fabares...Johnny Angel #1
1965 Patty Duke...Don't Just Stand There #8
1972 Joey Heatherton...Gone #24
1978 Cheryl Ladd...Think It Over #34
1984 Tracey Ullman...They Don't Know #8
1989 Cynthia Rhodes (as member of Animotion)...Room to Move #9
Some Great (Non-Beatles) Remakes 1956 Elvis...Hound Dog (original Big Mama Thornton 1952)
1960 Elvis...Are You Lonesome Tonight? (orig Vaughn Deleath 1927)
1962 The Duprees...You Belong to Me (orig Jo Stafford 1952)
1963 Bobby Vinton...Blue Velvet (orig Tony Bennett 1951)
1964 Dean Martin...Everybody Loves Somebody (orig Frank Sinatra '48) 1965 Mel Carter...Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me (orig Karen Chandler 1953)
Jay & the Americans...Cara Mia (orig David Whitfield 1954)
Herman's Hermits...I'm Into Somethin' Good (orig Earl-Jean 1964) 1966 Peter & Gordon...True Love Ways (orig Buddy Holly 1956)
1967 Dave Clark 5...You Got What It Takes (orig Marv Johnson 1960)
1968 Marvin Gaye...I Heard It Thru the Grapevine (orig Gladys Knight '67)
Jimi Hendrix...All Along the Watchtower (orig Bob Dylan '67)
The Vogues...Turn Around Look at Me (orig Glen Campbell 1961) 1971 Santana...Black Magic Woman (orig Fleetwood Mac 1968)
1978 Blondie...Denis (orig Denise by Randy & the Rainbows 1965)
1986 Joan Jett...Roadrunner (orig Jonathan Richman 1977)
Whitney Houston...The Greatest Love of All (orig G.Benson 1977) 1987 Tiffany...I Think We're Alone Now (orig Tommy James 1967)
1988 The Bangles...A Hazy Shade of Winter (orig Simon & Garfunkel '66) Great songs that never made the Top 100 (Part 2) 1954 The Rainbows...Mary Lee
1956 Screamin' Jay Hawkins...I Put a Spell on You
1961 The Quotations...Imagination
1981 The Tubes...Talk to You Later
1982 George Thorogood...Bad to the Bone
Pete Townshend...Slit Skirts (apparently never released as a single)
1983 Violent Femmes...Gone Daddy Gone
1987 Natalie Archangel...I Can't Reach You
The Go-Betweens...Right Here
1988 House of Schock...Middle of Nowhere
Patti Smith...People Have the Power
Stevie Ray Vaughn...Crossfire
1990 Sonic Youth...Kool Thing
1993 Eve's Plum...I Want It All (lead singer was Vitamin C)
Didn't make the US Top 100
1977 Jonathan Richman...Roadrunner (UK #11)
1981 Girlschool...Hit and Run (UK #21)
1986 Suzanne Vega...Left of Center (UK #32)
1987 Siouxsie & the Banshees...The Passenger (UK #41)
1988 Sinead O'Connor...Mandinka (UK #17)
Tanita Tikaram...Twist in My Sobriety (UK #22)
Voice of the Beehive...Don't Call Me Baby (UK #15) Great songs that never made the Top 100 (Part 1) 1956 The Chips...Rubber Biscuit (featured in Mean Streets)
1960 The Shirelles...Boys (covered by the Beatles)
1963 Bessie Banks...Go Now (#10 for the Moody Blues in '65)
1965 Evie Sands...I Can't Let Go (#31 for Linda Ronstadt in '80)
1966 Laura Nyro...Wedding Bell Blues (#1 for 5th Dimension in '69)
Matt Monro...Born Free (instrumental version made #7)
1969 Country Joe & the Fish...I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag
1970 Tower of Power...Sparkling in the Sand
1976 The Runaways...Cherry Bomb (also by ex Runaway Joan Jett in '84) 1979 Ellen Foley...We Belong to the Night
1981 Karla Devito...Cool World (co-vocalist on Paradise By the Dashboard
Light video)
Holly & the Italians...Tell That Girl to Shut Up (#87 for Transvision Vamp in
'88)
1982 Josie Cotton...Johnny Are You Queer?
Romeo Void...Never Say Never |
