July 7, 1984: "When Doves Cry" went to Number 1 on the Hot 100, giving Prince his first chart-topper.
“When Doves Cry” was released on May 16, 1984, as the first single off of the “Purple Rain” album, giving momentum to the film’s July 1984 release.
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It was during the production of “Purple Rain” that the idea for “When Doves Cry” arose. The song was commissioned by director Albert Magnoli, who needed one more song to provide the soundtrack for a mid-movie montage that touched on the themes of the film. Prince immediately went to work by himself in the recording studio that night and came back the next day with “When Doves Cry” fully recorded and produced.
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July 7, 1962: David Rose had the number 1 song on Billboard's Hot 100 with "The Stripper."
David Rose, a London-born and Chicago-raised composer, spent most of his career recording scores for movies and TV shows, most notably for those involving his old Army buddy Red Skelton.
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He first recorded “The Stripper” in 1958, supposedly in just 10 minutes, because he needed a B-side for a single. But the B-side took on a life of its own, as B-sides will do, and thus this piece of burlesque silliness — the sort of thing Bugs Bunny might dance to when he’s dressed like a woman — remains with us today.
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July 7, 1973: Billy Preston's "Will It Go Round In Circles" hit Number 1 in America.
“Will It Go Round In Circles,” the first of two Billy Preston #1 singles, is a sunny soul-funk vamp, and it practically bursts with joy.
Billy Preston The worst thing you can say about “Will It Go Round In Circles” is that it’s not a Stevie Wonder song. Wonder and Preston were contemporaries, and they were both former prodigies who were early adapters to the clavinet and who shared a lot of the same friends and collaborators. But Wonder was a paradigm-shifting genius, while Preston was simply an extremely good musician.
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July 7, 1969: John Lennon released "Give Peace A Chance" in the US.
John Lennon’s first non-Beatles single, the anthemic Give Peace A Chance, was recorded on the penultimate day of his and Yoko Ono’s second bed-in for peace, in room 1742 of the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Canada.
John and Yoko Bed-In Canada Lennon and Ono had arrived in Toronto on 25 May hoping to begin their second bed-in for peace. The next day they checked in to La Hotel Reine Elizabeth in Montreal, where they stayed for a week. During their stay they gave a succession of interviews to the world’s media, and received visits from dozens of friends and well-wishers. Lennon used the phrase “All we are saying is give peace a chance” during an interview on the first day of the bed-in. Over the next few days he worked up a melody and lyrics, and recorded the song during the final day of the event.
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"When I'm Back on My Feet Again" is the title of the fourth single released from Michael Bolton's 1989 album, Soul Provider. The song was written by Diane Warren, who wrote the song after the death of her father. She is quoted as saying that "the song wrote itself...I was thinking about my dad who had recently passed away, and it just came pouring out."
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