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Record Mirror named "Sultans of Swing" the tenth-best song of 1978. [24] In 1992, Life named it one of the top five songs of 1979. [25] In 1993, Paul Williams included it in his book Rock and Roll: The 100 Best Singles. [26] The song is on The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll list, Dire Straits' only appearance. [27]
Between the 1960s and 2020s, they had 37 songs reach the US Top 40 (the most by an American group) with four topping the Billboard Hot 100; they also hold Nielsen SoundScan's record as the top-selling American band for albums and singles. [429] Brian Wilson's artistic control over the Beach Boys' records was unprecedented for the time. [430]
Michael Jackson had the highest number of top hits at the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1980s (9 songs). In addition, Jackson remained the longest at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1980s (27 weeks). Madonna ranked as the most successful female artist of the 1980s, with 7 songs and 15 weeks atop the chart.
Sail Away (David Gray song) Sail Away (Sam Neely song) Sailing (AAA song) Sailing (Christopher Cross song) Sailing (Sutherland Brothers song) Same Boat; The Saucy Arethusa; Ship Ahoy! (All the Nice Girls Love a Sailor) The Ship that Never Returned; Sink the Bismark (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay; Six Months in a Leaky Boat; Sloop John B
RV Breda rowing club, Breda: Red with white cross [citation needed] De Drietand rowing club, Amsterdam: White with blue scissored tip [citation needed] RZV Gouda rowing club, Gouda: White with two red stripes [citation needed] Rowing club Leerdam, Leerdam: Divided blade with top blue and bottom white [citation needed] Die Leythe, Leiden
Bing Crosby included the song in a medley on his 1961 album 101 Gang Songs. Crosby also used the song as part of a round with his family, as captured on the 1976 album Bing Crosby Live at the London Palladium. Aimee Mann included a brief interpolation in her 1996 song "Choice in the Matter".
This song, the tune of which is now lost, was sung by: Jamaican stevedores at a capstan in 1811; [47] Afro-Caribbeans rowing a boat in Antigua ca.1814; [48] Black stevedores loading a steamboat in New Orleans in 1841; [49] and a European-American crew hauling halyards on a clipper-brig out of New York ca.1840s. [50]
The "Eton Boating Song" is the best known of the school songs associated with Eton College that are sung at the end-of-year concert and on other important occasions. It is also played during the procession of boats. The words of the song were written by William Johnson Cory, an influential master at the school. The melody was composed by an Old ...