"Girls Just Want to Have Fun" is a single by the American singer-songwriter Cyndi Lauper,written by Robert Hazard. It was released by Portrait Records as Lauper's first major single as a solo artist and the lead single from her debut studio album,She's So Unusual (1983). Lauper's version gained recognition as a feminist anthem and was promoted by a Grammy-winning music video. It has been covered by more than 30 other artists.
"What's Love Got to Do with It" is a song written by Graham Lyle and Terry Britten,and recorded by Tina Turner for her fifth studio album,Private Dancer (1984). Capitol Records released it as a single from Private Dancer in May 1984 and it eventually became Turner's biggest-selling single.
"99 Luftballons" is a song by the West German band Nena from their 1983 self-titled album. An English-language version titled "99 Red Balloons",with lyrics by Kevin McAlea,was also released by Nena on the album 99 Luftballons in 1984 after widespread success of the original in Europe and Japan. The English version is not a direct translation of the German original and contains lyrics with a somewhat different meaning. In the US,the English-language version did not chart,while the German-language recording became Nena's only US hit.
"Uptown Girl" is a song written and performed by American musician Billy Joel from his ninth studio album An Innocent Man (1983),released in September 1983 as the album's second single. The lyrics describe a working-class "downtown man" attempting to woo a wealthy "uptown girl". The 12" EP has the tracks "My Life","Just the Way You Are" and "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me",whereas some 7" single versions featured "Careless Talk" as a B-side.
Best of Blue is the first greatest hits compilation album released by English boy band Blue. The album was released in the United Kingdom on 15 November 2004,by Innocent Records. It was due to be supported by a European tour of the same name,but this was cancelled in February 2005.
"Hard to Say I'm Sorry" is a 1982 power ballad by the group Chicago. It was written by bassist Peter Cetera,who also sang the lead vocals on the track,and producer David Foster. It was released on May 17,1982,as the lead single from the album Chicago 16. On September 11 it reached No. 1 for two weeks on the Billboard Hot 100. It was the group's second No. 1 single. It was their first top 50 hit since "No Tell Lover" in 1978 and it spent twelve weeks in the top 5 of the Billboard Hot 100. The single was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal,and was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in September of the same year. Songwriter Cetera,a member of the American Society of Composers,Authors and Publishers (ASCAP),won an ASCAP Pop Music Award for the song in the category,Most Performed Songs.
James "J.T." Warren Taylor is an American singer who achieved fame as the lead singer of Kool &the Gang between 1979 and 1988.
"Celebration" is a 1980 song by American band Kool &the Gang. Released as the first single from their twelfth album,Celebrate! (1980),it was the band's first and only single to reach No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100. In 2016,the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
"Ladies' Night" is a song by American band Kool &the Gang,released as the first single from their eleventh album of the same name (1979). It is a play on the popular use of "Ladies Nights" at bars and clubs that were meant to draw in more female patrons in order to draw in even more male clientele.
"Get Down on It" is a 1981 song by American band Kool &the Gang. It was originally released on their Something Special album in 1981. The single was certified Gold by the RIAA.
In the Heart is the fifteenth studio album by the funk/R&B band Kool &the Gang,released on November 21,1983. Four singles were released from the album,with two singles becoming major hits on the US Hot 100. The first single,"Straight Ahead",failed to chart on the Hot 100,but the second single,"Joanna",soared to number two on the charts in the US and UK,and hit number one on the US R&B chart as well. The third single,"Tonight",brought another major hit as it peaked at #13 on the US Hot 100. The fourth single "(When You Say You Love Somebody) In the Heart" did not chart on the Hot 100,but became a moderate hit on the US R&B chart.
"Karma Chameleon" is a song by English band Culture Club,featured on the group's 1983 album Colour by Numbers. The single was released in the United Kingdom in September 1983 and became the second Culture Club single to reach the top of the UK singles chart,after "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me". The record stayed at number one for six weeks and became the UK's biggest-selling single of the year 1983,selling 955 000 copies according to the Official Charts Company. To date,it is the 38th-biggest-selling single of all time in the UK,selling over 1.52 million copies.
"Cherish" is a song by American R&B band Kool &the Gang,released in May 1985. It was the third single released from the band's sixteenth studio album,Emergency. It was certified Gold by the RIAA and held the number 1 position on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart for six weeks running. It would ultimately rank as the biggest Adult Contemporary chart hit of the 1980s.
This article presents the discography of American band Kool &the Gang.
"Beat It" is a song by American singer-songwriter Michael Jackson from his sixth studio album,Thriller (1982). It was written and composed by Jackson and produced by Quincy Jones and co-produced by Jackson. Jones encouraged Jackson to include a rock song on the album. Jackson later said:"I wanted to write a song,the type of song that I would buy if I were to buy a rock song... and I wanted the children to really enjoy it—the school children as well as the college students." It includes a guitar solo by Eddie Van Halen.
Ian Harshman,better known by his stage name Ian Carey,was an American house DJ,musician,and record producer based in Miami,Florida.
"Fresh" is a song by the American group Kool &the Gang. Released as a single in 1984 from the album Emergency,the song peaked at #9 on the U.S. Hot 100 chart,and #11 on the UK chart. It also reached number one on both the U.S. R&B chart and U.S. Dance chart.
"Too Hot" is a song recorded by the American band Kool &the Gang for their first Platinum-selling 1979 album Ladies' Night. It was written by George Brown and Kool &the Gang,and produced by Eumir Deodato and Kool &the Gang.
"Gucci Gang" is a song by American rapper Lil Pump. It is produced by Bighead and co-produced by Gnealz,and is the fifth single from Lil Pump's self-titled debut album. It was originally released on Pump's SoundCloud account on August 28,2017,and was later made available for digital download and streaming by Tha Lights Global and Warner Bros. Records on August 30,2017. It is Lil Pump's highest-charting single to date on the US Billboard Hot 100,peaking at number three. It has been certified five-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.
"This Is Me" is a song performed by Keala Settle for the film The Greatest Showman. It was released on October 26,2017,by Atlantic Records as a promotional single from The Greatest Showman:Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and the official lead single on December 8,2017. It won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song at the 75th Golden Globe Awards and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 90th Academy Awards. It was later nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards.
