The biggest hit for the O'Jays was a US number one and their only Top 10 hit in the UK. Released in December 1972 (hence that year on here) but charted in early 1973.
This debut single by the first commercially successful manufactured group went all the way to number one in the USA. In the UK, however, it did not enter the charts until after their next single ("...
This one-hit wonder is perhaps best remembered as the theme song for the Nimble Bread TV commercial. It reached the Top 10 in 1968, but this band never made the Top 50 again.
Can it really be 60 years ago since Elvis burst onto the scene for the first time? This song was his breakthrough hit, it was his first US number one and his first chart entry in the UK (where it p...
Another twice-a-hit soul classic, this one first appeared in 1966 and reached the Top 10 on both sides of the Atlantic. It was reissued in 1974 and then it enjoyed a second run in the UK, this time...
This Philadelphia group's only big hit in the UK surprisingly flopped in the US. Had this been released in the US during the 1970s I'm sure it would have been a smash. It's one of the best soul son...
Gladys Knight topped the US charts with this wonderful soul classic in 1973. It did not become a hit in the UK until it was reissued in 1976, then it made the Top 10 here.
Following in the footsteps of the Love Affair who had just had a smash hit with their cover of Robert Knight's "Everlasting Love", the Mindbenders tried to boost their flagging career with an equal...
The second single from the "Jazz" album went two places higher up the charts than its predecessor "Fat Bottomed Girls", the first time the second single from a Queen album outpaced the first. "Don'...
