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Summary: Interesting
Review: This is very interesting, and a perfect companion to Fred Bronson's #1 hits book. no offense, author, but who really wants to read about songs that hit #2? It's like reading about songs that peaked at a number, what say, 8. The songs that reached the top are the most important. Great book and I'm glad you found the time to stall a buttload of information on each songpage.
Rating:
Summary: Interesting
Review: This is very interesting, and a perfect companion to Fred Bronson's #1 hits book. no offense, author, but who really wants to read about songs that hit #2? It's like reading about songs that peaked at a number, what say, 8. The songs that reached the top are the most important. Great book and I'm glad you found the time to stall a buttload of information on each songpage.
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Summary: All the songs that just missed #1 . . .
Review: What do songs like the Beatles' "Twist And Shout," the Kingsmen's "Louie Louie," the Village People's "Y.M.C.A." and Madonna's "Material Girl" have in common? Not only are the among the most recognizable songs in pop music history, but they are also singles that failed to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop charts. If you find that amazing, you should take a look inside the pages of "The Billboard Book Of Number Two Singles." In it, every #2 hit of the past forty-five years, from Billy Vaughn's "Melody Of Love" to Brian McKnight's "Back At One" is chronicled in the order they peaked, along with the story of the song and the artist who performed it. Along the way, some interesting facts arise. For example:*Artists like Jerry Lee Lewis, Bob Dylan, Peter Frampton, Bruce Springsteen, the Pointer Sisters and Sheryl Crow have never had a #1 hit--their biggest songs peaked at #2. *Acts like Creedence Clearwater Revival scored five #2 hits without ever reaching #1. Blood, Sweat & Tears and En Vogue both scored three #2 hits without a #1 single. *The two songs that spent the most weeks on the Hot 100 were not #1 hits, but #2 hits: Leann Rimes' "How Do I Live" (69 weeks) and Jewel's "You Were Meant For Me/Foolish Games" (65 weeks) *Tag Team's "Whoomp! (There It Is!)" never reached #1 in any week of its chart run, but ended up being so successful it became the #1 hit of 1993. *The #2 hits sometimes outlast the songs that kept them from the top. The Miracles' "Shop Around" was kept from #1 by Lawrence Welk's "Calcutta," the Ronettes' "Be My Baby" stalled behind Jimmy Gilmer & the Fireballs' "Sugar Shack," and "Louie Louie" missed #1 thanks to the Singing Nun's "Dominique." These facts and others will keep music fans enterained and informed for hours. Come review every #2 hit from the last century in the pages of "The Billboard Book Of Number Two Singles."
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