Overrated

[kepdawg]

I've never understood what the big deal was about:

The Beatles or Elvis

[Gobbla2001]

Chuck Berry...

Elvis would be nothing without Chuck Berry's influence on music...

the beatles were just different... music was the same till the beatles...

[DU_stud04]

chuck berry is the man, but we all know he got his groove from marty when he went back to the future.

:D

[Emerson1]

Originally posted by kepdawg
I've never understood what the big deal was about:

The Beatles or Elvis
I agree, same with the beach boys

[burnet44]

Beatles number 1's

1. Love Me Do
2. From Me to You
3. She Loves You
4. I Want to Hold Your Hand
5. Can't Buy Me Love
6. A Hard Day's Night
7. I Feel Fine
8. Eight Days a Week
9. Ticket to Ride
10. Help!
11. Yesterday
12. Day Tripper
13. We Can Work It Out
14. Paperback Writer
15. Yellow Submarine
16. Eleanor Rigby
17. Penny Lane
18. All You Need Is Love
19. Hello Goodbye
20. Lady Madonna
21. Hey Jude
22. Get Back
23. The Ballad of John & Yoko
24. Something
25. Come Together
26. Let It Be
27. The Long and Winding Road



Elvis Number 1's


1. Heartbreak Hotel Listen Listen
2. Don't Be Cruel Listen Listen
3. Hound Dog Listen Listen
4. Love Me Tender Listen Listen
5. Too Much Listen Listen
6. All Shook Up Listen Listen
7. (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear Listen Listen
8. Jailhouse Rock Listen Listen
9. Don't Listen Listen
10. Hard Headed Woman Listen Listen
11. One Night Listen Listen
12. (Now And Then There's) A Fool Such As I Listen Listen
13. A Big Hunk O' Love Listen Listen
14. Stuck On You Listen Listen
15. It's Now Or Never Listen Listen
16. Are You Lonesome Tonight? Listen Listen
17. Wooden Heart Listen Listen
18. Surrender Listen Listen
19. (Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame Listen Listen
20. Can't Help Falling In Love Listen Listen
21. Good Luck Charm Listen Listen
22. She's Not You Listen Listen
23. Return To Sender Listen Listen
24. (You're The) Devil In Disguise Listen Listen
25. Crying In The Chapel Listen Listen
26. In The Ghetto Listen Listen
27. Suspicious Minds Listen Listen
28. The Wonder Of You Listen Listen
29. Burning Love Listen Listen
30. Way Down Listen Listen
31. A Little Less Conversation (JXL Radio Edit Remix) (Bonus Track) Listen Listen


and you cant tell?

nn

[kepdawg]

People must have been suckers back then!

[smustangs]

the beatles are the stuff man

[Emerson1]

Originally posted by kepdawg
People must have been suckers back then!
There wasn't any kind of the music diversity as there is now a days aswell.

[burnet44]

Artist with the most #1s:
Elvis Presley: 21 (18 different songs)

Female artists with the most #1s:
Madonna: 12 (as of March 2006)

10 #1s or more:
Only five acts in chart history have achieved 10 or more #1 hits:

- Elvis Presley (21)
- The Beatles (17)
- Cliff Richard (14 : six with The Shadows, one with The Drifters, one with The Young Ones)
- Westlife (14 : one with Mariah Carey)
- Madonna (12)


The Race for 10 #1s
The Beatles took 165 weeks but unlike Westlife their number ones remained at the top for longer periods of time.

The Beatles on top:
Paul McCartney has featured on more #1s than any other artist albeit under many different guises and pseudonyms: 24 in total!

- solo (1) "Pipes Of Peace"
- Wings (1) "Mull Of Kintyre/Girls' School"
- with Stevie Wonder (1) "Ebony And Ivory"
- with The Christians, Holly Johnson, Gerry Marsden, Stock Aitken & Waterman (1) "Ferry 'Cross The Mersey"
- as part of Ferry Aid (1) "Let It Be"
- as part of Band Aid (1) "Do They Know It's Christmas?"
- as part of Band Aid 20 (1) "Do They Know It's Christmas?"
- The Beatles (17).

- John Lennon: 20 #1s - 17 with The Beatles plus three solo #1s
- George Harrison: 18 #1s - two solo #1s ('My Sweet Lord' is counted as two different records due to a different catalogue number and B-Side) plus 16 #1s with The Beatles (he didn't appear on 'The Ballad Of John And Yoko')
- Ringo Starr: just the 16 #1s with The Beatles for our kid Ringo! Why only 16? Because Paul played drums on 'The Ballad Of John And Yoko'

[shankbear]

The Beatles are still one of the all-time best IMHO. The development from start to finish was amazing. Abbey Road is an absolute classic. Sgt. Peppers, Magical Myst. Tour and the White Alb. were great.

[BILLYFRED0000]

Originally posted by shankbear
The Beatles are still one of the all-time best IMHO. The development from start to finish was amazing. Abbey Road is an absolute classic. Sgt. Peppers, Magical Myst. Tour and the White Alb. were great.

The reason why they are classic is because you can still listen today to much of their music. While the King was good, I cannot really listen to most of his.

[burnet44]

Songwriters with the most number-one hits
Paul McCartney (32)
John Lennon (26)

[shankbear]

Just as GRAIL is still a classic movie. If you don't think so.....I fart in your general direction!!!!!!!

[burnet44]

In the same week of April 1964 that The Beatles held the top five chart positions,
they also had another nine singles scattered on the chart, bringing their total to fourteen singles on the Hot 100, a record unlikely to be surpassed at any time in the conceivable future.

[kepdawg]

Originally posted by shankbear
Just as GRAIL is still a classic movie. If you don't think so.....I fart in your general direction!!!!!!!

I think I know what you're talking about, but I've never seen it!

[burnet44]

Paul McCartney is the only artist to have separate top-ten singles as a solo act, as half of a duo, as a third of a trio, as a fourth of a quartet, and as a fifth of a quintet. (Graham Nash also charted in these five configurations, but only in the top forty.)

Elvis Presley had the most double-sided hits, in which both the A-side and the B-side were charting singles (52). Presley also had the most consecutive top-ten hits, with thirty.

[burnet44]

This is a list of artists and the titles of their number one singles in order of total number one singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.


The Beatles 20

"I Want to Hold Your Hand" 1964 7
"She Loves You" 1964 2
"Can't Buy Me Love" 1964 5
"Love Me Do" 1964 1
"A Hard Day's Night" 1964 2
"I Feel Fine" 1964 3
"Eight Days a Week" 1965 2
"Ticket to Ride" 1965 1
"Help!" 1965 3
"Yesterday" 1965 4
"We Can Work It Out" 1965 3
"Paperback Writer" 1966 2
"Penny Lane" 1967 1
"All You Need Is Love" 1967 1
"Hello, Goodbye" 1967 3
"Hey Jude" 1968 9
"Get Back" (with Billy Preston) 1969 5
"Something" / "Come Together" 1969 1
"Let It Be" 1970 2
"The Long and Winding Road" 1970 2


Elvis Presley 17

"Heartbreak Hotel" 1956 8
"I Want You, I Need You, I Love You" 1956 1
"Don't Be Cruel" / "Hound Dog" 1956 11
"Love Me Tender" 1956 5
"Too Much" 1957 3
"All Shook Up" 1957 3
"(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear" 1957 7
"Jailhouse Rock" 1957 7
"Don't" 1958 5
"Hard Headed Woman" 1958 2
"A Big Hunk o' Love" 1959 2
"Stuck on You" 1960 4
"It's Now or Never" 1960 5
"Are You Lonesome Tonight?" 1960 6
"Surrender" 1961 2
"Good Luck Charm" 1962 2
"Suspicious Minds" 1969 1


Mariah Carey 17

"Vision of Love" 1990 4
"Love Takes Time" 1990 3
"Someday" 1991 2
"I Don't Wanna Cry" 1991 2
"Emotions" 1991 3
"I'll Be There" 1992 2
"Dreamlover" 1993 8
"Hero" 1993 4
"Fantasy" 1995 8
"One Sweet Day" (with Boyz II Men) 1995 16
"Always Be My Baby" 1996 2
"Honey" 1997 3
"My All" 1998 1
"Heartbreaker" (featuring Jay-Z) 1999 2
"Thank God I Found You" (featuring Joe and 98 Degrees) 2000 1
"We Belong Together" 2005 14
"Don't Forget About Us" 2005 2



Michael Jackson 13

"Ben" 1972 1
"Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" 1979 1
"Rock with You" 1980 4
"Billie Jean" 1983 7
"Beat It" 1983 3
"Say, Say, Say" (with Paul McCartney) 1983 6
"I Just Can't Stop Loving You" (with Siedah Garrett) 1987 1
"Bad" 1987 2
"The Way You Make Me Feel" 1988 1
"Man in the Mirror" 1988 2
"Dirty Diana" 1988 1
"Black or White" 1991 7
"You Are Not Alone" 1995 1



The Supremes 12

"Where Did Our Love Go" 1964 2
"Baby Love" 1964 4
"Come See About Me" 1964 2
"Stop! In the Name of Love" 1965 2
"Back in My Arms Again" 1965 1
"I Hear a Symphony" 1965 2
"You Can't Hurry Love" 1966 2
"You Keep Me Hangin' On" 1966 2
"Love Is Here and Now You're Gone" 1967 1
"The Happening" 1967 1
"Love Child" 1968 2
"Someday We'll Be Together" 1969 1


Madonna 12

"Like a Virgin" 1984 6
"Crazy for You" 1985 1
"Live to Tell" 1986 1
"Papa Don't Preach" 1986 2
"Open Your Heart" 1987 1
"Who's That Girl" 1987 1
"Like a Prayer" 1989 3
"Vogue" 1990 3
"Justify My Love" 1991 2
"This Used to Be My Playground" 1992 1
"Take a Bow" 1995 7
"Music" 2000 4



Whitney Houston 11

"Saving All My Love for You" 1985 1
"How Will I Know" 1986 2
"Greatest Love of All" 1986 3
"I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" 1987 2
"Didn't We Almost Have It All" 1987 2
"So Emotional" 1988 1
"Where Do Broken Hearts Go" 1988 2
"I'm Your Baby Tonight" 1990 1
"All the Man That I Need" 1991 2
"I Will Always Love You" 1992 14
"Exhale (Shoop Shoop)" 1995 1


Stevie Wonder 10

"Fingertips, Part 2" 1963 3
"Superstition" 1973 1
"You Are the Sunshine of My Life" 1973 1
"You Haven't Done Nothin'" 1974 1
"I Wish" 1977 1
"Sir Duke" 1977 3
"Ebony and Ivory" (with Paul McCartney) 1982 7
"I Just Called to Say I Love You" 1984 3
"Part-Time Lover" 1985 1
"That's What Friends Are For" (as Dionne & Friends: Dionne Warwick, Elton John, Gladys Knight and Stevie Wonder) 1986 4



Janet Jackson 10

"When I Think of You" 1986 2
"Miss You Much" 1989 4
"Escapade" 1990 3
"Black Cat" 1990 1
"Love Will Never Do (Without You)" 1991 1
"That's the Way Love Goes" 1993 8
"Again" 1993 2
"Together Again" 1998 2
"Doesn't Really Matter" 2000 3
"All for You" 2001 7


Elton John 9


Crocodile Rock
Bennie and the Jets
Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
Island Girl
Philadelphia Freedom
Don't Go Breaking my Heart (with Kiki Dee)
That's What Friends are For (with Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, and Gladys Knight)
Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me (with George Michael)
Something About the Way You Look Tonight
Candle in the Wind '97

[burnet44]

Artist
Certified Units (in Millions)

BEATLES, THE
169.0

PRESLEY, ELVIS
118.5

JOHN, ELTON
117.5

BROOKS, GARTH
116.0

LED ZEPPELIN
109.5

EAGLES
91.0

JOEL, BILLY
79.5

PINK FLOYD
73.5

STREISAND, BARBRA
71.0


AC/DC
68.0

[piratebg]

The Beatles are timeless. :thumbsup:

[BTEXDAD]

Originally posted by burnet44
Songwriters with the most number-one hits
Paul McCartney (32)
John Lennon (26)

No willie nelson in this list of songwriters?

[Gobbla2001]

Originally posted by BTEXDAD
No willie nelson in this list of songwriters?

how many number one hits did willy pen?

[BTEXDAD]

Originally posted by Gobbla2001
how many number one hits did willy pen?

I know Willie wrote a ton of songs, for many people besides himself. Don't know how many were number ones. Will try to find out.

Was curious where Burnet got all this info. Good stuff, but hard to believe as far as singers janet jackson, Madonna and a few others have that many number ones.

[BTEXDAD]

WILLIE NELSON - STILL IS STILL MOVING by Turk Pipkin

He is an American icon; his voice as comforting as the American landscape, his songs as familiar as the color of the sky, his face as worn as the Rocky Mountains. Perhaps that's why Dan Rather suggested, "We should add his face to the cliffs of Mt. Rushmore and be done with it."

He's recorded 250 albums, written 2,500 songs, and for half a century played countless concerts across America and around the world. He's been instrumental in shaping both country and pop music, yet his appeal crosses all social and economic lines. Sometimes he's called an outlaw, though from Farm Aid to the aftermath of September 11, from the resurrection of a burned-out courthouse in his own hometown to fanning the flame of the Olympics, it is Willie Nelson who brings us together.

Perhaps Emmylou Harris said it best: "If America could sing with one voice, it would be Willie's."

[pirate4state]

Day Tripper YEAH! :D

[BTEXDAD]

Don't get me wrong. I like the beatles music and it's timeless, and some of Elvis' songs were great also, but there is only one Willie. He is not only timeless, but he's a legend.
If not familiar with him, read his story below.

Willie Nelson
AKA Willie Hugh Nelson

Born: 30-Apr-1933
Birthplace: Abbot, TX


Gender: Male
Religion: Protestant
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Country Musician

His parents divorced when Willie Nelson was a very young boy, and it was the heart of the depression, so Nelson and his sister were entrusted to their paternal grandparents. Raised in a tiny farm town and calling his grandparents Daddy and Mama, the children came to love music, and each child was allowed to select an instrument to learn. Willie Nelson chose the guitar; his sister chose the piano. He gave his first public performance at four, and worked his first professional gig at a local dance when he was ten. By his high school years he was playing in a band, and the group's fiddler ended up marrying Nelson's sister.

After serving in the Air Force and dropping out of college, he worked as a Bible salesman and disc jockey, played in honky-tonks, and wrote a few songs of his own. He recorded his first single in 1956, spending his own money to press 500 copies of a song he had written, "No Place For Me", and selling the records during his radio show in Vancouver, Washington. The station billed him as that "cotton-pickin', snuff-dippin', tobacca-chewin', stump-jumpin', gravy-soppin', coffee-pot-dodgin', dumplin-eatin', frog-giggin', hillbilly from Hill County, Texas."

Nelson sold another song, "Family Bible", to a guitar teacher for $50, who in turn sold the tune to Claude Gray, who had a hit with it in 1960. Faron Young had a 1961 number one hit with Nelson's "Hello Walls", and Patsy Cline's rendition of Nelson's "Crazy" was an even bigger success. Ray Price recorded Nelson's "Night Life" and soon Nelson was playing bass guitar for Price's band. As a singer, Nelson first hit the charts in 1962 with "Willingly", a duet sang with his then-wife Shirley Collie. He joined the cast of the Grand Ole Opry in 1963, both on stage and in Ernest Tubb's Grand Ole Opry TV show. And all through the '60s, he always performed in a suit, with an ordinary haircut. By the early 1970s he was primarily known for writing other performers' hits, but it had been several years since the last hit, and Nelson briefly walked away from show business and tried his hand as a pig farmer.

Then he began appearing in blue jeans and let his hair grow longer, usually wrapped in a red bandana, and he often shared the stage with rock'n'rollers. For a country singer, this was considered career suicide -- down-home conservative country music and hippie-druggie rock'n'roll were considered polar opposites. But the new look, rebel style, and irresistible music made Nelson a star in both genres by the mid-1970s. He had his first number one hit in 1975 with "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain". He has had MORE THAN TWENTY number one songs, including "Always on My Mind", "Georgia on My Mind", "Whiskey River", "My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys", "On the Road Again", Highwayman" (with Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson), "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" and "Luckenbach" (with Waylon Jennings), and "To All the Girls I've Loved Before" (with Julio Iglesias).

Nelson has also worked as an actor, with memorable performances in Honeysuckle Rose with Amy Irving and The Electric Horseman with Robert Redford, among other films. He was also featured in a 1986 country-western remake of Stagecoach co-starring Cash, Kristofferson, and Jennings.

His first wife was a full-blooded Cherokee Indian, 16 years old when she married Nelson, who was 17. Their marriage was a wildly unstable adventure in drinking, cheating, and physical fights. One brawl ended when she cracked a whisky bottle over his head, and another fight started when she caught him with another woman, and ended with her beating him with their children's jump rope.

His second marriage was to country singer Shirley Collie, who had earlier been married to famed country DJ and promoter Biff Collie. They recorded a few songs together, but his career sputtered and hers faded. Their marriage ended when she opened the mail one day, and found a hospital bill from the maternity ward, where Connie Koepke, a mistress Nelson's wife had not known about, had delivered his son.

Weeks before his divorce from Collie was finalized, Nelson made Koepke his third wife. Their marriage lasted 17 years, but ended when Nelson had an affair with Amy Irving during the filming of Honeysuckle Rose. His fourth wife, Ann Marie D'Angelo, is a make-up artist.

He started his tradition of an annual Independence Day picnic-concert in 1973. His 1978 album Stardust, a collection of American pop classics, stayed on the charts for a remarkable ten years, and sold more than five million copies. He has nine platinum and two double-platinum albums. Since 1985, Nelson, Neil Young, and John Mellencamp have organized numerous Farm Aid concerts, with the proceeds used to help and lobby for family farmers.

In 1990, the Internal Revenue Service seized most of Nelson's property -- several houses, his recording studios, even his pig farm -- against more than $16-million in un-paid taxes. Nelson responded with the album The IRS Tapes: Who'll Buy My Memories, with all profits directed to paying his back taxes. Heavily marketed on TV ads, the albums sold very well, and allowed Nelson to settle his tax debt.

In 2004, he started the Willie Nelson Biodiesel Company, which produces and markets a substitute for diesel fuel made from vegetable oil and animal oils. He has also been an outspoken proponent for legalization of marijuana, and for banning the slaughter of horses for meat.

Nelson's sister Bobbie has played the piano in his band since long before he was famous, but says she thinks of all the boys in the band as her brothers. The band's bus, of course, runs on Nelson's biodiesel. In 2006, police found a pound and a half of marijuana and several ounces of psychedelic mushrooms on Nelson's tour bus.