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Although "Let Me Show You" became a regional hit in Atlanta, Cleveland Pittsburgh, Detroit, Boston, and New Orleans, interest began to grow in "When You Dance". [citation needed] At first it started to break in New York City, Philadelphia, Washington D.C. and Baltimore, until finally, in November, it hit the national R&B and Pop charts.
It reached #9 on the U.S. pop chart and #28 on the U.S. R&B chart in 1961. [1] The song ranked #69 on Billboard magazine's Top 100 singles of 1961. [2] At the time, the song referred to songs from the Great Depression and WWII era (about 1930–1945), acts like Bing Crosby and Rudy Vallee, which would have been oldies at the time.
Their next album, In the Jungle Babe, is best known for both "Love Land," an uptempo, doo-wop-influenced soul ballad, [citation needed] as well as "Comment," where Wright discussed the state of racial affairs in America. Though the album was credited to the Watts 103rd St. Rhythm Band, the singles from this album and the group's next two albums ...
Oldies But Goodies (1983) Vista Sounds (split with Delroy Wilson) Max Romeo Meets Owen Gray at King Tubby's Studio (1984) Culture Press (with Max Romeo) Little Girl (1984) Vista Sounds; Owen Gray Sings Bob Marley (1984) Sarge; This is Owen Gray, Pama; Room at the Top (1986) World Enterprise; Let's Make a Deal World Enterprise; Watch This Sound ...
The song was included on the highly influential 1959 LP Oldies But Goodies on Original Sound. Excluding Christmas records, "In the Still of the Night" is one of only three songs (the others being " Monster Mash " by Bobby "Boris" Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers and " Bohemian Rhapsody " by Queen) to have charted on the Hot 100 three separate ...
The first few "Oldies But Goodies" LPs were hugely successful (Volume 1 reached #12 on the Billboard Album charts and stayed on the chart for 183 weeks). Their success influenced other labels to put out compilations of their hits and near-hits, as well as helped validate the standing of songs like The Five Satins ' "In the Still of the Night ...
Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs were an American doo-wop/R&B vocal group in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Originally the (Royal) Charms, the band changed its name to the Gladiolas in 1957 and the Excellos in 1958, before finally settling on the Zodiacs in 1959.
Oldies is a term for musical genres such as pop music, rock and roll, doo-wop, surf music, broadly characterized as classic rock and pop rock, from the second half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to the 1980s, as well as for a radio format playing this music.