| 1 |
record label: Colpix 186
chart position: RandB #1 (2 weeks), US #1, UK #1
weeksinr&bchart: 11
written by: Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart
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| 2 |
record label: Imperial 107
chart position: RandB #1, US #2, UK #6
written by: Vincent Rose, Al Lewis and Larry Stock
album: This Is Fats Domino!
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| 3 |
record label: Soul City 779
chart position: RandB #23, US #1, UK #16, US AC #1
written by: Laura Nyro
album: The Age of Aquarius
comments: [pop soul]
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| 4 |
record label: Imperial 5417
chart position: RandB #1, US #5, UK #23
written by: Fats Domino (as Antoine Domino) and Dave Bartholomew
album: This Is Fats Domino!
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| 5 |
record label: Duke 332
chart position: RandB #1 (1 week), US #46
weeksinr&bchart: 16
written by: Don Robey (as Deadric Malone)
album: Two Steps from the Blues Deep Soul Treasures Vol.4 (compiled by Dave Godin)
comments: [deep soul]
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| 6 |
record label: P.I.R. 3520
chart position: RandB #1, US #3, UK #9
written by: Kenny Gamble & Leon Huff
album: I Miss You / The Best Of Philadelphia
comments: [philly sound ballad]
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| 7 |
record label: Arista 13974
chart position: RandB #6, US #2, UK #12
written by: Dallas Austin
album: So Blu
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| 8 |
record label: Malaco 1029
chart position: RandB #2, US #3, UK #5, US AC #14
written by: Bob Montgomery
album: Misty Blue
comments: [deep soul]
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| 9 |
record label: Philips 334701
chart position: UK #3
written by: Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway
album: Melting Pot
comments: [pop soul]
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| 10 |
record label: P.I.R. 3533
chart position: RandB #1, US #7, UK #21, US AC #48
written by: Kenny Gamble & Leon Huff
album: Black & Blue
comments: [philly sound disco dance]
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| 11 |
record label: Cadet 5641
chart position: RandB #5, US #22, UK #15
written by: Arthur Hamilton, Bryan Blackburn, Andre Popp & Pierre Cour
album: Love Is Blue / The Best of The Dells
comments: [ballad]
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| 12 |
record label: Tamla 54209
chart position: RandB #1, US #9
written by: Marvin Gaye & James Nyx
album: What's Going ON
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 13 |
record label: Atco 6961
chart position: RandB #1, US #8, US AC #35
written by: Bobby Eli & Vinnie Barrett
album: Blue Magic
comments: [sweet soul ballad] [philly sound]
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| 14 |
record label: Newtown 5777
chart position: RandB #14, US #37
weeksinr&bchart: 21
written by: Anthony Levinson
album: Sweethearts Of The Apollo
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| 15 |
record label: P.I.R. 4909(UK)
chart position: UK #5
written by: Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff and Cary Gilbert
album: Wake Up Everybody / The Best Of Philadelphia
comments: [philly sound] [disco dance]
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| 16 |
record label: Arista 50984
chart position: UK #1, RandB #83, US dance #17, US #70
written by: Arnavour, Richard Bembery, Melvin Bradford, Stefan Harris, Xzibit, Andrea Martin and Eminem
album: Bittersweet
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| 17 |
record label: P.I.R. 3579
chart position: RandB #1, US #12, UK #23, US AC #34
written by: John Whitehead, Gene McFadden & Victor Carstarphen
album: Wake Up Everybody / The Best Of Philadelphia
comments: [philly sound]
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| 18 |
record label: P.I.R. 3202
chart position: RandB #4, US #15, UK #51, US dance #1
written by: Victor Carstarphen, Gene McFadden & John Whitehead
album: To Be True / The Best Of Philadelphia
comments: [philly sound disco]
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| 19 |
record label: Impact 1007
chart position: RandB #16, US #12
written by: Edwin Starr
album: Happiness Is The Shades Of Blue
comments: [northern soul]
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| 20 |
record label: Big Top 45 3016
chart position: RandB #14, US #3
written by: Eliot Daniel and Larry Morey (traditional)
album: Lavender Blue Moods
comments: [ballad]
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| 21 |
record label: Columbia 41793
chart position: RandB #10
weeksinr&bchart: 12
written by: Curtis Lewis
album: Aretha (with the Ray Bryant Combo)
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| 22 |
record label: Philles 107
chart position: RandB #7, US #8
weeksinr&bchart: 9
written by: Ray Gilbert & Allie Wrubel
album: Zip A Dee Doo Dah
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| 23 |
record label: Federal 12415
chart position: RandB #8, US #88
weeksinr&bchart: 10
written by: Rudy Toombs, Elson Teat and Alan Moore
album: Freddy King Sings
comments: [blues]
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| 24 |
record label: Gordy 7035
chart position: RandB #11, US #26
written by: Eddie Holland Jr. & Norman Whitfield
album: The Temptin' Temptations
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 25 |
record label: Atco 456212
chart position: RandB #3, US #19
written by: Tina Turner written by Ike Turner
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| 26 |
record label: Newtown 5000
chart position: RandB #13, US #15
written by: Leon T. Rene & Otis J. Rene
album: Sweethearts of the Apollo
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| 27 |
record label: P.I.R. 2187
chart position: RandB #6, US #58, UK #32
written by: Kenny Gamble & Leon Huff
album: Black & Blue / The Best Of Philadelphia
comments: [philly sound]
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| 28 |
record label: Atco 7004
chart position: RandB #5, US #36, US AC #26
written by: Norman Barrett & Bobby Eli
album: The Magic of the Blue
comments: [philly sound] [sweet soul]
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| 29 |
record label: ABC 10840
chart position: RandB #22, US #32
written by: Jimmy Holiday & Ray Charles
album: A Man And His Soul
comments: [northern soul]
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| 30 |
record label: Value 213
chart position: RandB #19, US #78
weeksinr&bchart: 7
written by: Oscar Straus
comments: [ballad]
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| 31 |
record label: Imperial 5386
chart position: RandB #5, US #19
weeksinr&bchart: 14
written by: Walter Donaldson and George Whiting (as George A. Whiting)
album: Fats Domino Rock and Rollin'
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| 32 |
record label: Wing 8
chart position: RandB #1, US #46, US dance #43
written by: D'wayne Wiggins and Raphael Saadiq
album: The Revival
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| 33 |
record label: P.I.R. 83569
chart position: RandB #1, US #42
written by: Kenny Gamble (as Kenneth Gamble) & Leon Huff
album: To Be True
comments: [Soul Ballad]
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| 34 |
record label: Columbia 45512
chart position: RandB #49, US #50, US AC #6
written by: Frank Robinson
album: I've Found Someone of My Own
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| 35 |
record label: Ruffhouse 41157
chart position: UK #6
written by: Pras, Jerry Duplessis and Barry Gibb
album: Ghetto Supastar
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| 36 |
record label: P.I.R. 3516
chart position: RandB #7, US #58
written by: Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff
album: I Miss You / The Best Of Philadelphia
comments: [philly sound ballad]
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| 37 |
record label: P.I.R. 2819
chart position: RandB #8, US #80, UK #52, US Dance #11
written by: Victor Carstarphen, Gene McFadden and John Whitehead
album: To Be True
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| 38 |
record label: ABC 12240
chart position: RandB #6, US #74, UK #78
written by: Derek Floyd
album: Reaching for the World
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| 39 |
record label: President 325 (UK)
chart position: UK #9
written by: Eddie Grant
comments: [rock soul]
|
| 40 |
record label: Duke 355
chart position: RandB #5, US #22
written by: Aaron Walker
album: Here's the Man
comments: [blues]
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| 41 |
record label: P.I.R. 3588
chart position: RandB #7, US #94, US Dance #6
written by: Victor Carstarphen, Gene McFadden and John Whitehead
album: Wake Up Everybody
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| 42 |
record label: Arista 2011
chart position: US #17, US AC #9
written by: Diane Warren
album: What You Don't Know
comments: [ballad]
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| 43 |
record label: P.I.R. 3525
chart position: RandB #12, US #63
written by: Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff
album: I Miss You
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| 44 |
record label: Atco 6949
chart position: RandB #14, US #74
written by: Jimmy Grant and Allan Felder (as Al Felder)
album: Blue Magic
comments: [sweet soul] [philly sound]
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| 45 |
record label: Atlantic 1080
chart position: RandB #7
written by: Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
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| 46 |
record label: Atco/WMOT 7046
chart position: RandB #15, US #104
written by: Vinnie Barrett and Bobby Eli
comments: [philly sound ballad]
|
| 47 |
record label: Arista 583432(UK)
chart position: UK #24
written by: Blu Cantrell, Kandi and Rodney Richard
album: Bittersweet
|
| 48 |
record label: Argo 5424
chart position: RandB #13, US #71
written by: Pearl Wood
|
| 49 |
record label: Columbia 73564
chart position: RandB #9
written by: W.C. Handy
comments: [ballad] [from the movie Mo' Better Blues]
|
| 50 |
record label: Atco/WMOT 7031
chart position: RandB #11
written by: Ted Mills
album: Thirteen Blue Magic Lane
|
| 51 |
record label: Atlantic 1080
chart position: RandB #8
written by: Jesse Stone (as Charles E. Calhoun)
comments: [blues]
|
| 52 |
record label: Duke 196
chart position: RandB #10
weeksinr&bchart: 9
written by: Scott Harper
album: Two Steps from the Blues
comments: [blues soul]
|
| 53 |
record label: Pye 45445(UK)
chart position: US dance #5
written by: Biddu
album: Kung Fu Fighting and Other Great Love Songs
|
| 54 |
record label: Def Jam 68566
chart position: RandB #20, UK #89
written by: Vincent F. Bell (as Vincent Bell), Gordon Dukes and Howard A. Adderly
album: From Out of the Blue
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| 55 |
record label: Federal 12312
chart position: RandB #17, US #43
weeksinr&bchart: 2
written by: Moe Koffman
comments: [blues instrumental]
|
| 56 |
record label: Atco 7030
chart position: RandB #11
written by: Ted Mills
album: Thirteen Blue Magic Lane
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| 57 |
record label: Parkway 896
chart position: RandB #32, US #34
written by: Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
album: Sweethearts Of The Apollo
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| 58 |
record label: Duke 432
chart position: RandB #23, US #96
written by: Charles Brown, Johnny Moore and Eddie Williams
|
| 59 |
record label: Big Hill 553
chart position: US #104, UK #36
written by: Hal David and Burt Bacharach
|
| 60 |
record label: Hi 45 2051
chart position: Cashbox R&B #42, US #36
written by: Rabon Delmore, Alton Delmore, Wayne Raney & Henry Glover
album: Tuff Sax
comments: [instrumental]
|
| 61 |
record label: Bluesway 61024
chart position: RandB #13, US #61
written by: Dave Clark and B.B. King
album: Live and Well
|
| 62 |
record label: London 886 005
chart position: UK #41
written by: Roland Gift, David Steele and Andy Cox
album: Fine Young Cannibals
|
| 63 |
record label: Duke 426
chart position: RandB #30
written by: D. Malone
album: Touch Of The Blues
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| 64 |
record label: Kent 403
chart position: RandB #15, US #82
written by: B.B. King (as Riley "B.B." King) and Jules Taub
|
| 65 |
record label: Atco 6910
chart position: RandB #30
written by: Ted Mills
album: Blue Magic
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| 66 |
record label: Reprise 0907
chart position: RandB #28, US #47
written by: Eskew Reeder Jr. (aka Esquerita) and Little Richard (as Richard Penniman)
album: The Rill Thing
comments: [funky soul]
|
| 67 |
record label: ABC 12268
chart position: RandB #15
written by: Harold Melvin and Kenny Gamble
album: Reaching for the World
|
| 68 |
record label: Chess 2159
chart position: RandB #19, US #96
written by: Solomon Burke and Jerry Styner
|
| 69 |
record label: RCA 12336
chart position: RandB #15
written by: Floyd Bonner, Darryl Williams, George Mitchell, Henry Prejean, Howard Redmon Jr., Isaac Powell
album: Blue Jeans
comments: [funk]
|
| 70 |
record label: Stax 0189
chart position: RandB #15
written by: Bobby Patterson and Jerry Strickland
album: I Wanna Get Funky
|
| 71 |
record label: OBR 68900
chart position: RandB #31
album: From Out of the Blue
comments: [sweet soul ballad]
|
| 72 |
record label: Go Beat 45 (UK)
chart position: UK #51
written by: Fatboy Slim
album: Let Them Eat Bingo
|
| 73 |
record label: Atco 6930
chart position: RandB #36, UK #51
written by: Norman Harris and Allan Felder (as Al Felder)
album: Blue Magic
comments: [philly sound]
|
| 74 |
record label: Roc A Fella/Def Jam Digital
chart position: RandB #31, US #55
written by: Jay Z, Pharrell Williams, Denzil Foster, Thomas McElroy, Terry Ellis, Cindy Herron
album: American Gangster
|
| 75 |
record label: Source 102
chart position: RandB #18
written by: Gene McFadden and John Whitehead
album: The Blue Album
|
| 76 |
record label: Class 2082
chart position: US #54
written by: Jimmie Thomas
|
| 77 |
record label: Philly World 96949
chart position: RandB #85, UK #59
written by: Harold Melvin, Michael Forte and James Horton
album: Talk It Up (Tell Everybody)
comments: [disco, dance, boogie]
|
| 78 |
record label: Spring 118
chart position: RandB #19
written by: Larry Neal
album: The Sounds Of Simon / The Power of Joe Simon
|
| 79 |
record label: Philles 110
chart position: US #38
written by: Phil Spector, Ellie Greenwich and Tony Powers
|
| 80 |
record label: JEB 101
chart position: Cashbox RandB #20
written by: Steve Stone, Scotty Turner
|
| 81 |
record label: Mercury 6007234
chart position: UK #61
written by: Bruce Wooley, Morton Downey and Trevor Horn
|
| 82 |
record label: WMOT 4003
chart position: RandB #40
written by: Bobby Eli and Len Barry
album: Mystic Dragons
|
| 83 |
record label: Duke 427
chart position: RandB #20
written by: Buddy Lamp, Don Robey (as Deadric Malone) and Rudy Clark
|
| 84 |
record label: ABC Paramount 10527
chart position: RandB #12, US #34
written by: Jack Clement
|
| 85 |
record label: Atlantic 4055
chart position: Cashbox R&B #38, US #68
written by: Lori Burton and Pam Sawyer
album: Over the Rainbow
|
| 86 |
record label: Philly World 99735
chart position: RandB #81, UK #66
written by: Mark Collins
album: Talk It Up (Tell Everybody)
|
| 87 |
record label: Excello 2169
chart position: RandB #23
weeksinr&bchart: 1
written by: Jerry West
|
| 88 |
record label: Atco 7014
chart position: RandB #45
written by: Bobby Eli and Allan Waldman
album: The Magic of the Blue
|
| 89 |
record label: Chess 1991
chart position: RandB #41, US #74
written by: Peter
|
| 90 |
record label: Freeworld 34277
chart position: RandB #32, US #75
weeksinr&bchart: 20
written by: Lysette Titi, Benny Tillman and Carlos Thornton
|
| 91 |
record label: Kent 426
chart position: RandB #25, US #97
written by: Lowell Fulson (as Lowell Fulsom)
|
| 92 |
record label: Parkway 935
chart position: US #76
written by: Frederic Weatherly (as Frederick Weatherly)
album: Sweethearts Of The Apollo
|
| 93 |
record label: Source 41231
chart position: RandB #25
written by: Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff and Harold Melvin
album: The Blue Album
|
| 94 |
record label: Soul 35001
chart position: RandB #26, US #125
written by: Shorty Long (as Frederick Long) and William Stevenson
album: Here Comes The Judge
comments: [Motown Sound]
|
| 95 |
record label: Fontana 812 (UK)
chart position: UK #80
written by: Andy Connell and Corinne Drewery
album: Kaleidoscope World
comments: [ballad]
|
| 96 |
record label: Duke 394
chart position: Cashbox RandB #28
written by: Malone, Parker
comments: [soul blues]
|
| 97 |
record label: Stax 190
chart position: RandB #29
written by: Sandie Jones
album: Born Under a Bad Sign
|
| 98 |
record label: Duke 368
chart position: RandB #32, US #113
written by: Deadric Malone and Gil Caple
|
| 99 |
record label: ABC 4209
chart position: RandB #34 US #105
written by: David Wolinski and Richard Calhoun
album: Street Player
|
| 100 |
record label: Roll Records 440
chart position: US dance #19
written by: Ish Ledesma
comments: [dance]
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