Which soul group that included James Smith and James Dunn had a number one song for three weeks in the UK in August 1975?
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Can't Give You Anything (But My Love) "Can't Give You Anything (But My Love)" is a 1975 single by The Stylistics. It reached number one for three weeks in the UK in August 1975.
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The Stylistics The Stylistics are a Philadelphia soul group that achieved its greatest chart success in the 1970s. They formed in 1968, consisting of singers Russell Thompkins, Jr., Herb Murrell, Airrion Love, James Smith, and James Dunn. All of their US hits were ballads characterized by the falsetto of Russell Thompkins, Jr. and the production of Thom Bell. During the early 1970s, the group had twelve consecutive R&B top ten hits, including "Stop, Look, Listen", "You Are Everything", "Betcha by Golly, Wow", "People Make the World Go Round", "I'm Stone in Love with You", "Break Up to Make Up", and "You Make Me Feel Brand New".
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The Unifics The Unifics were an American soul group from Washington, D.C..
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Give a Little Love (Bay City Rollers song) "Give a Little Love", by the Bay City Rollers, was a UK number-one single for three weeks in July 1975. It was written by John Goodison and Phil Wainman and produced by Wainman. It was the band's second and final UK number one, and was the 11th biggest British hit of 1975. The original UK album version (on the LP "Wouldn't You Like It") was augmented with a string section, while the US-only "Bay City Rollers" album had only the basic rhythm track and no strings.
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A Group Called Smith A Group Called Smith is the debut album by the rock band Smith, released in 1969. It contains their biggest hit, a cover of The Shirelles' "Baby, It's You", which peaked at #5 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 on November 1, 1969 (it spent a total of 15 weeks on the chart). "Baby, It's You" was also featured in Quentin Tarantino's 2007 film, "Death Proof".
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Sad Café (band) Sad Café are an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1976, who achieved their peak of popularity in the late 1970s and early 1980s. They are best known for the UK Top 40 singles "Every Day Hurts", "Strange Little Girl", "My Oh My" and "I'm in Love Again", the first of which was their biggest hit, reaching number 3 in the UK Singles Chart in 1979. The band also had two US "Billboard" Hot 100 hits with "Run Home Girl" and "La-Di-Da". Frontman Paul Young went on to achieve greater chart success as the co-lead singer (with Paul Carrack) of Mike + The Mechanics.
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The Independents (vocal group) The Independents were an American R&B vocal group active from 1971 to 1975. They scored several hits on the U.S. Pop and R&B charts. Their 1973 song "Leaving Me" reached #21 on the "Billboard" Hot 100, and remained on the chart for 14 weeks. Sales of over a million copies led to a gold record being awarded by the R.I.A.A. on May 23, 1973.
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All I Do Is Think of You "All I Do Is Think of You" is a ballad single released by The Jackson 5 as the b-side to the group's single, "Forever Came Today" on the Motown label in 1975, and was the final charted single the group issued as "The Jackson 5" before they left Motown for CBS the following year. It was featured on their final Motown album, "Moving Violation".
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Soul Pride "Soul Pride" is an instrumental written by James Brown and Alfred Ellis and recorded by James Brown with his band. Released as a two-part single in 1969, it charted #33 R&B.
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In the Rain (song) "In the Rain" is a 1972 soul single by American vocal group The Dramatics. Released from their debut album "Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get" it reached number five on the "Billboard" Hot 100 singles chart and spent four weeks at number one on the Best Selling Soul Singles chart. It sold over one million copies, and is the group's biggest hit. "Billboard" ranked it as the No. 53 song for 1972.
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Con Funk Shun Con Funk Shun formerly known as (Project Soul) is an American R&B and funk band who became popular beginning in the mid–1970s through the 1980s. Influences included Earth Wind & Fire, Commodores, Chaka Khan, and Sly & the Family Stone. Signed to Mercury Records in 1976, Con Funk Shun enjoyed a decade of successful national and overseas tours, 11 chart–topping albums, and numerous hit singles, including a "Billboard" magazine "#1 With A Bullet" hit single on the Top R&B Singles chart. The group formally disbanded in 1986.
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How Can I Forget "How Can I Forget" was originally recorded as a love ballad by Motown group The Temptations in 1968 and was re-recorded in a psychedelic soul/funk styling by fellow Motown artist, Marvin Gaye in 1969. His version, released on Motown's first subsidiary, Tamla, became a modest hit that almost reached the Top 40 of the pop charts while peaking at number-eighteen on the Hot Selling Soul Singles chart in 1970. Marvin's recording was featured on his "That's the Way Love Is" album. The song is also notable for being (at the time) one of the shortest recordings for both The Tempts and for Gaye; recorded when most songs are over three minutes, its length is just under two.
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Modern soul Modern soul is a style of music with associated clothing and dance styles (precursors to the Disco era), that developed in Northern England in the early 1970s.
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Little Royal and The Swingmasters Little Royal and The Swingmasters was an American soul and R&B group and artist of the 1960 and 1970s. Little Royal was half-brother of James Brown.
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Alone Too Long (song) "Alone Too Long" is a 1975 single by Hall & Oates from their album "Daryl Hall & John Oates". The song features John Oates on lead vocals, and reached number ninety-eight on the Billboard R&B chart in 1975.
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The Singles: 1969–1973 The Singles: 1969–1973 is an album by the brother/sister pop duo The Carpenters. A greatest hits collection, it topped the charts in the United States and the United Kingdom and became one of the best-selling albums of the 1970s. Features of this compilation include a newly recorded version of "Top of the World", "Ticket to Ride" and a number of musical introductions and segues between the songs "Superstar", "Rainy Days and Mondays" and "Goodbye to Love", the latter two were sped up in pitch, much to the regret of Richard in subsequent years. It has been certified 7× platinum in the US alone. In the UK, the album reached number 1 for 17 (non-consecutive) weeks.
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Super Bad (song) "Super Bad", originally titled Call Me Super Bad is a 1970 James Brown song. Originally released as a three-part single, it went to #1 on the R&B chart and number 13 on the "Billboard" Hot 100. The song's lyrics include the refrain "I've got soul and I'm super bad." The positive use of the word "bad" is an example of linguistic reappropriation, which Brown had done before in "Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud".
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Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud "Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud" is a funk song performed by James Brown and written with his bandleader Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis in 1968. It was released as a two-part single which held the number-one spot on the R&B singles chart for six weeks, and peaked at number ten on the "Billboard" Hot 100. Both parts of the single were later included on James Brown's 1968 album "A Soulful Christmas" and on his 1969 album sharing the title of the song. The song became an unofficial anthem of the Black Power movement.
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And the Beat Goes On (The Whispers song) "And the Beat Goes On" is a 1980 single by the American music group The Whispers. The song was their first of two number-one singles on the Soul chart, and their first Top 20 hit on the "Billboard" Hot 100, peaking at number 19. "And the Beat Goes On" was the group's only number-one song on the dance chart. It was also their first and biggest hit in the United Kingdom, peaking at number 2 on the UK Singles Chart. The song also peaked at number 27 on the Canadian "RPM" chart.
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Jesse James (singer) Jesse James (born James Herbert McClelland, October 3, 1943) is an American soul singer who had several minor US hits from the late 1960s to the late 1980s, and has continued to record since then.
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Don't Give Up on Us (song) "Don't Give Up on Us" is a song by American-British singer David Soul. Riding high on the success of playing in the hit TV show "Starsky and Hutch", Soul returned to one of his early career choices as a singer. His debut, the Tony Macaulay-written-and-produced "Don't Give Up on Us" was a worldwide smash, spending four weeks at No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart in January and February 1977, and a single week at No. 1 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 in April 1977. In addition, the song spent one week at No. 1 on the U.S. adult contemporary chart. It has sold 1.16 million copies in the UK.
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It Only Takes a Minute "It Only Takes a Minute" is a 1975 song by Tavares. The song was the group's only Top 10 pop hit in the United States, peaking at number 10, and their second number one song on the American soul charts. On the US Disco chart, "It Only Takes a Minute" spent five weeks at #2 and was the first of four entries on the chart. The song was subsequently covered by Jonathan King performing as 100 Ton and a Feather in 1976 and by boy band Take That in 1992.