Thanks to Frédèric and his incredible research who contacted a lot of session players who played on the charting tracks. We only post the charting singles of the session players we are following.
1975 Glen Campbell – Rhinestone Cowboy (US:#1 UK:#4)
“Rhinestone Cowboy” is a song written by Larry Weiss and most famously recorded by American country music singer Glen Campbell. When released in 1975, it enjoyed huge popularity with both country and pop audiences. Weiss wrote and recorded “Rhinestone Cowboy” in 1974, and it appeared on his 20th Century Records album Black and Blue Suite. […]
1975 Glen Campbell – Country Boy (You Got Your Feet In L.A.) (US:#11)
“Country Boy (You Got Your Feet in L.A.)” is a song written by Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter, and recorded by American country music singer Glen Campbell. It was released in October 1975 as the second and final single from the album, Rhinestone Cowboy. It was Campbell’s fifth number one on the Easy Listening chart […]
1980 Jackson Browne – That Girl Could Sing (US:#22)
“That Girl Could Sing” is a hit single written and performed by Jackson Browne from his 1980 album Hold Out. The song peaked at #22 on the Billboard Hot 100, charting for 13 weeks after its Sept. 20, 1980 debut. It was also released as a single in Japan. “That Girl Could Sing” was the […]
1980 Jackson Browne – Boulevard (US:#72)
“Boulevard” is a song written and performed by American singer-songwriter Jackson Browne. It is from his 1980 album Hold Out. When it was released as a single, it entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart at position number 72 on July 5, 1980. It peaked at number 19 and spent 16 weeks on the chart, the […]
1980 Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band – The Horizontal Bop (US:#42)
“The Horizontal Bop” is a song written by Bob Seger that was first released on his 1980 album Against the Wind. It was also released as the fourth single from the album, backed by “Her Strut.” The single did not perform as well as the earlier singles from the album, stalling at #42 on the […]
1980 Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band – You’ll Accomp’ny Me (US:#14)
“You’ll Accomp’ny Me” is a song written and recorded by American rock singer Bob Seger. It appears on his album Against the Wind. It reached number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100. An entry in the Encyclopedia of Classic Rock describes the song as “forecast[ing] his career direction by crossing over onto Billboard’s Adult Contemporary […]
1980 Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band – Fire Lake (US:#6)
“Fire Lake” is a song written and recorded by the American musical artist Bob Seger. He had planned to record “Fire Lake” for his 1975 album Beautiful Loser, but the track was not finished. The song had been partly written years before, in 1971, and was finally finished in 1979 and released in 1980 on […]
1992 Trey Lorenz – Photograph Of Mary (UK:#38)
“Photograph Of Mary” is a song performed by American contemporary R&B singer Trey Lorenz, issued as the second single from his eponymous debut studio album. In 1993, the song peaked at #46 on the Billboard R&B chart, but it fared better on the dance chart where it peaked at #6. Musicians Bass Walter Afanasieff Guitar […]