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.
1983 Kim Carnes – Invisible Hands (US: #40)
“Invisible Hands” is a 1983 single and the lead release from Kim Carnes’s album Café Racers. Martin Page and Brian Fairweather wrote the selection’s words and composed its music; Keith Olsen was its music producer. Carnes released it and its source album, Café Racers, on the EMI America Records label, the label for which she […]
1982 George Benson – Turn Your Love Around (US: #5 UK: #29)
“Turn Your Love Around“ is a vocal pop/R&B single by George Benson. The song was written to help fill out Benson’s 1981 greatest hits album, The George Benson Collection. The song won a Best R&B Song Grammy Award at the 25th Grammy Awards in 1983 for Bill Champlin, Jay Graydon, and Steve Lukather as its […]
1982 Melissa Manchester – You Should Hear How She Talks About You (US: #5)
“You Should Hear How She Talks About You“ is a song performed by American singer Melissa Manchester from her album Hey Ricky. First recorded by Charlie Dore for her 1981 Listen! album, “You Should Hear How She Talks About You” was written by Dean Pitchford and Thomas R. Snow. According to lyricist Pitchford the song’s […]
1981 Quincy Jones – Just Once (US: #17)
“Just Once“ is a 1981 single released from Quincy Jones’ album The Dude on A&M Records. The song features James Ingram on vocals, and reached number 17 on the Billboard chart in the summer of 1981. On a television program interview, Ingram stated that this song was a $50 demo done by ATV Music, composed […]
1983 Don Henley – Dirty Laundry (US: #3 UK: #59)
“Dirty Laundry“ is a hit song written by Don Henley and Danny Kortchmar, from Henley’s debut solo album I Can’t Stand Still, released in 1982. The song hit #1 on the Billboard Top Album Tracks chart in October 1982, prior to being issued as a 45. Lyrically, the song describes mass media sensationalism and yellow […]
1979 England Dan & John Ford Coley – Love Is The Answer (US: #10 UK: #45)
“Love Is the Answer“ is a song written by Todd Rundgren for his band Utopia. It is the closing track on their 1977 album Oops! Wrong Planet. Although Utopia’s version did not reach the music charts, a cover version by England Dan & John Ford Coley reached number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart […]
1982 Donna Summer – The Woman In Me (US: #33 UK: #62)
“The Woman in Me“ is the third and final single from Donna Summer’s self-titled 1982 album. The song entered the US top 40 and was a hit on the US Adult Contemporary (#17), Pop (#33) and R&B (#30) charts in early 1983. In North America, the single was also released on a 12″ blue vinyl […]
1985 Far Corporation – Stairway To Heaven (UK: #8)
Far Corporation is a British band created by record producer Frank Farian, who created the bands Boney M. and Milli Vanilli. The name was shortened from “Frank Farian Corporation”, which was originally put together to record a cover of the Paul Simon piece “Mother and Child Reunion” as a charity record and reached the top […]