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.
1984 Sergio Mendes – Alibis (US:#29)
Alibis was the first single from Sergio Mendes’ album Confetti. In 1984 he recorded the “Confetti” album, which had the hit songs “Olympia”, which was also used as a theme song for the Olympic games that year and “Alibis”. The ’80s also found Sergio Mendes working with singer Lani Hall again on the song “No Place […]
1987 Smokey Robinson – Just To See Her (US:#8 UK:#52)
“Just to See Her” is a 1987 song written by Jimmy George and Lou Pardini and recorded by American R&B recording artist Smokey Robinson from his studio album One Heartbeat (1986). “Just to See Her” peaked at #7 in Cash Box and #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in June 1987. It also reached […]
1983 Sergio Mendes – Rainbow’s End (US:#52)
Sergio Mendes is the 1983 studio album by Sergio Mendes under the A&M Records label. It includes “Never Gonna Let You Go”, a song written by Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil that reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. Another single of that album was Rainbow’s End, written by Don Freeman and David Batteau. […]
1983 Sergio Mendes – Never Gonna Let You Go (US:#4 UK:#45)
“Never Gonna Let You Go“ is a popular song from 1983 credited to Brazilian musician and bandleader Sérgio Mendes and sung by Joe Pizzulo and Leza Miller. Songwriters Cynthia Weil (lyrics) and Barry Mann (music) composed the song, which appears on Mendes’ 1983 self-titled album. Weil and Mann originally submitted “Never Gonna Let You Go” […]
1990 Cher – Heart Of Stone (US: #20 UK:#43)
“Heart of Stone“ is the fourth North American and third European single release from American singer/actress Cher‘s nineteenth studio album Heart of Stone. The video featured Cher in a dark room with old clips of herself projected onto screens in the background. The video was shot in the first week of 1990. It made the […]
1980 Bette Midler – When A Man Loves A Woman (US: #35)
“When a Man Loves a Woman“ is a song written by Calvin Lewis and Andrew Wright and first recorded by Percy Sledge in 1966 at Norala Sound Studio in Sheffield, Alabama. It made number one on both the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B singles charts. Singer and actress Bette Midler covered the song and had […]
1985 Natalie Cole – A Little Bit Of Heaven (US: #81)
Dangerous is a 1985 album by American singer Natalie Cole released on September 28, 1985 through the Atco Records-distributed Modern Records. The album reached peak positions of number 140 on the Billboard 200 and number 48 on Billboard‘s R&B Albums chart. Though the song “A Little Bit of Heaven” only reached number 81 on the […]
1985 Peabo Bryson – Take No Prisoners (In The Name Of Love) (US: #78)
Take No Prisoners (In The Name Of Love) is a single by Peabo Bryson. It was the only single, from the same titled album, that hit the charts in the US and peaked #78. Musicians Bass Will Lee Drums Steve Ferrone Guitar Dann Huff Piano Robbie Buchanan Synthesizer Robbie Buchanan Background Vocals Tom Kelly Background […]