Artist Countdown: Seal Top 35 Hits 6p ET @Seal

Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel (born 19 February 1963), known by his mononym Seal, is a British R&B and soul singer-songwriter.

Seal has won numerous music awards throughout his career, including three Brit Awards—winning Best British Male in 1992, four Grammy Awards, and an MTV Video Music Award. Seal is known for his numerous international hits, including “Kiss from a Rose”, which appeared on the soundtrack to the 1995 film Batman Forever. He has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide. He is a coach on The Voice Australia.  (Source: Wikipedia)

1	Crazy
2	Kiss from a Rose
3	Future Love Paradise
4	Love’s Divine
5	Get It Together
6	Amazing
7	The Beginning
8	Prayer for the Dying
9	Fly Like an Eagle
10	Killer
11	Newborn Friend
12	Walk on By
13	My Vision (Jakatta featuring Seal)
14	Human Beings
15	The Right Life
16	Don’t Cry
17	Waiting for You
18	Secret
19	Les Mots (Mylène Farmer et Seal)
20	This Could Be Heaven
21	It’s Alright
22	It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World
23	A Change Is Gonna Come
24	I Can’t Stand the Rain
25	Let’s Stay Together
26	Stand by Me
27	Wishing on a Star
28	I’m Alive
29	If I Could
30	Lost My Faith
31	If You Don’t Know Me by Now
32	I Am Your Man
33	Weight of My Mistakes
34	If I’m Any Closer
35	Manic Depression (Jeff Beck feat. Seal)

Artist Countdown: Juice Newton Top 35 12p ET @RadioMax

Judy Kay “Juice” Newton (born February 18, 1952) is an American pop and country singer, songwriter and guitarist. To date, Newton has received five Grammy Award nominations in the Pop and Country Best Female Vocalist categories (winning once in 1983), as well as an ACM Award for Top New Female Artist and two Billboard Female Album Artist of the Year awards (won consecutively). She has several Gold and Platinum records to her credit, including Juice, Quiet Lies and her first Greatest Hits album. During the 1980s, Newton charted 14 Top-10 hits across the Billboard Country, AC, and Hot 100 charts, with many of the recordings achieving crossover success and six of the songs hitting the No. 1 position. (Source: Wikipedia)

1	Queen of Hearts
2	Angel of the Morning
3	Love’s Been a Little Bit Hard on Me
4	The Sweetest Thing (I’ve Ever Known)
5	Break It to Me Gently
6	Heart of the Night
7	A Little Love
8	Tell Her No
9	You Make Me Want to Make You Mine
10	Hurt
11	Both to Each Other (Friends and Lovers)  (w/ Eddie Rabbitt)
12	Old Flame
13	Tell Me True
14	Cheap Love
15	What Can I Do with My Heart
16	First Time Caller
17	Can’t Wait All Night
18	Let’s Keep It That Way
19	Restless Heart
20	Lay Back in the Arms of Someone
21	Ride ‘Em Cowboy
22	Sunshine
23	When Love Comes Around the Bend
24	You Fill My Life
25	Until Tonight
26	Stranger at My Door
27	It’s a Heartache
28	Any Way That You Want Me
29	Dirty Looks
30	Hey! Baby
31	When I Get Over You
32	Funny How Time Slips Away  (w/ Willie Nelson)
33	Love Is A Word
34	Up Where We Belong  (w/ Glen Campbell)
35	Still The One  (w/ Gary Morris)

Artist Countdown: Alice Cooper Top 30 Hits 1p ET @RealAliceCooper

Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier, February 4, 1948) is an American shock rock singer, songwriter, and musician whose career spans five decades. With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, boa constrictors, and baby dolls, he is considered by fans and peers alike to be “The Godfather of Shock Rock”; Cooper has drawn equally from horror movies, vaudeville, and garage rock to pioneer a grandly theatrical and macabre brand of rock designed to shock.

Originating in Phoenix in the late 1960s after Furnier moved from Detroit, Alice Cooper was originally a band consisting of Furnier on vocals and harmonica, lead guitarist Glen Buxton, Michael Bruce on rhythm guitar, Dennis Dunaway on bass guitar, and drummer Neal Smith. The original Alice Cooper band broke into the international music mainstream with the 1971 hit “I’m Eighteen” from the album Love It to Death, which was followed by the even bigger single “School’s Out” in 1972. The band reached their commercial peak with the 1973 album Billion Dollar Babies.

Furnier adopted the band’s name as his own name in the 1970s and began a solo career with the 1975 concept album Welcome to My Nightmare. In 2011 he released Welcome 2 My Nightmare, his 19th album as a solo artist, and his 26th album in total. Expanding from his Detroit rock roots, in his career Cooper has experimented with a number of musical styles, including conceptual rock, art rock, hard rock, heavy metal, New Wave, pop rock, experimental rock and industrial rock.

Alice Cooper is known for his social and witty persona offstage; The Rolling Stone Album Guide has called him the world’s most “beloved heavy metal entertainer”. He is credited with helping to shape the sound and look of heavy metal, and has been described as the artist who “first introduced horror imagery to rock’n’roll, and whose stagecraft and showmanship have permanently transformed the genre”. Away from music, Cooper is a film actor, a golfing celebrity, a restaurateur and, since 2004, a popular radio DJ with his classic rock show Nights with Alice Cooper.

In 2011, the original Alice Cooper band was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. (Source: Wikipedia)

1	Poison
2	School’s Out
3	Elected
4	No More Mr. Nice Guy
5	Hello Hooray
6	Hey Stoopid
7	How You Gonna See Me Now
8	Bed of Nails
9	Teenage Lament ’74
10	You and Me
11	Only Women Bleed
12	He’s Back (The Man Behind the Mask)
13	Lost in America
14	Clones (We’re All)
15	I Never Cry
16	Department of Youth
17	Billion Dollar Babies
18	(No More) Love at Your Convenience
19	House of Fire
20	It’s Me
21	I’m Eighteen
22	Under My Wheels
23	Feed My Frankenstein
24	Only My Heart Talkin’
25	Love’s a Loaded Gun
26	Welcome to My Nightmare
27	Be My Lover
28	Freedom
29	Seven and Seven Is
30	I’ll Bite Your Face Off

Artist Countdown: Robert Palmer Top 35 Hits 6p ET @RadioMax

Robert Allen Palmer (19 January 1949 – 26 September 2003), was an English singer-songwriter and musician. He was known for his sharp dress sense and distinctive voice, and the eclectic mix of musical styles on his albums, combining soul, jazz, rock, pop, reggae and blues. He found success both in his solo career and with Power Station, and had Top 10 songs in both the UK and the US.

His iconic music videos directed by British fashion photographer Terence Donovan for the hits “Addicted to Love” and “Simply Irresistible” featured identically dressed dancing women with pale faces, dark eye makeup and bright red lipstick, which resembled the women in the art of Patrick Nagel, an artist popular in the 1980s. Palmer’s involvement in the music industry commenced in the 1960s, covered four decades and included a spell with Vinegar Joe.

Palmer received a number of awards throughout his career, including two Grammy Awards for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance, an MTV Video Music Award, and was twice nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Male.  (Source: Wikipedia)

1	Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) / I Want You
2	Addicted to Love
3	Simply Irresistible
4	I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight (Robert Palmer and UB40)
5	I Didn’t Mean to Turn You On
6	Some Like It Hot (Power Station)
7	Get It On (Bang a Gong)  (Power Station)
8	Every Kinda People
9	Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)
10	Johnny and Mary
11	Looking for Clues
12	She Makes My Day
13	Change His Ways
14	Some Guys Have All the Luck
15	Know by Now
16	You Are in My System
17	You’re Amazing
18	Early in the Morning
19	What’s It Take
20	Hyperactive
21	Communication  (Power Station)
22	Sweet Lies
23	Discipline of Love
24	Best of Both Worlds
25	Jealous
26	Respect Yourself
27	Can We Still Be Friends
28	Tell Me I’m Not Dreaming
29	Man Smart, Woman Smarter
30	She Can Rock It  (Power Station)
31	You Can Have It (Take My Heart)
32	Riptide
33	Sneakin’ Sally Through the Alley
34	Which of Us Is The Fool
35	Pride

Artist Countdown: Pat Benatar Top 35 Hits 6p ET @officialbenatar @PBenatar

Patricia Mae Andrzejewski (born January 10, 1953), known professionally as Pat Benatar, is an American singer and four-time Grammy Award winner. She is a mezzo-soprano. She has had considerable commercial success, particularly in the United States. During the 1980s, Benatar had two RIAA-certified Multi-Platinum albums, five RIAA-certified Platinum albums, three RIAA-certified Gold albums and 14 Top 40 singles, including the Top 10 hits, “Hit Me with Your Best Shot”, “Love Is a Battlefield”, “We Belong” and “Invincible”. Benatar was one of the most heavily played artists in the early days of MTV.  Source: Wikipedia

1	Love Is a Battlefield
2	We Belong
3	Invincible
4	All Fired Up
5	Shadows of the Night
6	Fire and Ice
7	Sex as a Weapon
8	Hit Me with Your Best Shot
9	We Live for Love
10	Treat Me Right
11	Ooh Ooh Song
12	Heartbreaker
13	Promises in the Dark
14	You Better Run
15	Looking for a Stranger
16	Don’t Walk Away
17	Little Too Late
18	Le Bel Age
19	Somebody’s Baby
20	Everybody Lay Down
21	Payin’ the Cost to Be the Boss
22	Diamond Field
23	True Love
24	I Need a Lover
25	One Love
26	If You Think You Know How to Love Me
27	Rated X
28	I’m Gonna Follow You
29	Hell Is for Children
30	It’s a Tuff Life
31	Anxiety (Get Nervous)
32	Lipstick Lies
33	Temporary Heroes
34	Big Life
35	Let’s Stay Together

Artist Countdown: Donny Osmond Top 35 6pm ET @donnyosmond

Donald Clark “Donny” Osmond (born December 9, 1957) is an American singer, musician, actor, dancer, radio personality, and former teen idol. Osmond has also been a talk and game show host, record producer and author. In the mid-1960s, he and four of his elder brothers gained fame as The Osmonds, on the long-running variety program, The Andy Williams Show. Donny went solo in the early 1970s, covering such hits as “Go Away Little Girl” and “Puppy Love”.

For over thirty-five years, he and younger sister Marie have gained fame as Donny & Marie, partly due to the success of their 1976–79 self-titled variety series, which aired on ABC. The duo also did a 1998–2000 talk show and have been headlining in Las Vegas since 2008. Between a highly successful teen career in the 1970s, and his rebirth in the 1990s, Osmond’s career was stymied during the 1980s by what some have perceived as his “boy scout” image. Osmond stated on the May 1, 2009 Larry King Live show that longtime friend Michael Jackson suggested he change his name to boost his image. Osmond’s agent even suggested that spreading false rumors about drug arrest charges might recharge his career. Osmond felt such allegations would have familial ramifications, and could not reconcile how lying to create a nefarious drug image could be explained to his children, nieces and nephews. In 1989, Osmond had two big-selling recordings, the first of which, “Soldier of Love“, was initially credited to a “mystery artist” by some radio stations.

Starting in July 1992, Osmond played Joseph in the Elgin Theatre’s Toronto production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. The musical then toured North America until 1998. Creator Andrew Lloyd Webber, impressed by Osmond’s talents and the show’s successful six-year run, chose him for the 1999 film version.

In 2009, Osmond won the ninth season of Dancing with the Stars.  (Source: Wikipedia)

1	I’m Leavin’ it (All) up to You  (with Marie Osmond)
2	Morning Side of the Mountain  (with Marie Osmond)
3	The Twelfth of Never
4	Why
5	Too Young
6	Deep Purple  (with Marie Osmond)
7	Soldier of Love
8	Young Love
9	When I Fall in Love
10	Make the World Go Away  (with Marie Osmond)
11	Puppy Love
12	Go Away Little Girl
13	Sacred Emotion
14	Hey Girl
15	Breeze On By
16	(You’re My) Soul and Inspiration  (with Marie Osmond)
17	C’mon Marianne
18	On the Shelf  (with Marie Osmond)
19	My Love Is a Fire
20	I Have a Dream
21	Sweet and Innocent
22	Are You Lonesome Tonight
23	What I Meant To Say
24	Where Did All the Good Times Go
25	A Million to One
26	Sure Lookin’
27	I’m in It for Love
28	Hold on
29	(You’ve Got Me) Dangling on a String
30	This Guy’s In Love With You
31	The Good Life  (with Marie Osmond)
32	I Knew You When
33	Lonely Boy
34	Seasons Of Love
35	Whenever You’re In Trouble

Artist Countdown: Cliff Richard Top 35 Hits 6pm ET @TheRealSirCliff

Sir Cliff Richard OBE (born Harry Rodger Webb, 14 October 1940) is a British pop singer, musician, performer, actor and philanthropist. He is the third-top-selling singles artist in the United Kingdom’s history, with total sales of over 21 million units in the UK[2] and has reportedly sold an estimated 250 million records worldwide.

With his backing group the Shadows, Richard, originally positioned as a rebellious rock and roll singer in the style of Little Richard and Elvis Presley, dominated the British popular music scene in the pre-Beatles period of the late 1950s and early 1960s. His 1958 hit single “Move It” is often described as Britain’s first authentic rock and roll song, and John Lennon once claimed that “before Cliff and the Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music.” Increased focus on his Christian faith and subsequent softening of his music later led to a more middle of the road pop image, sometimes venturing into contemporary Christian music.

Over a career spanning more than 50 years, Richard has become a fixture of the British entertainment world, amassing many gold and platinum discs and awards, including three Brit Awards and two Ivor Novello Awards. He has had more than 130 singles, albums and EPs make the UK Top 20, more than any other artist and holds the record (with Elvis Presley) as the only act to make the UK singles charts in all of its first six decades (1950s–2000s). He has achieved 14 UK No. 1 singles (or 18, depending on the counting methodology) and is the only singer to have had a No. 1 single in the UK in 5 consecutive decades: the 1950s through to the 1990s. In 2008, he celebrated his 50th anniversary in music by releasing a greatest hits album, featuring new track “Thank You for a Lifetime“, which reached number 3 in the UK singles chart. His latest album, Soulicious, was released in October 2011. The album was supported by a short UK arena tour and gave Richard his 41st top ten UK hit album.

Richard has never achieved the same impact in the United States despite eight US Top 40 singles, including the million-selling “Devil Woman” and “We Don’t Talk Anymore”, the latter becoming the first to reach the Billboard Hot 100‘s top 40 in the 1980s by a singer who had been in the top 40 in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. In Canada, Richard achieved moderate success in the 1980s with several albums reaching platinum status. He has remained a popular music, film, and television personality in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Northern Europe and Asia, and he retains a following in other countries.n by Mercury as a tribute to Elvis Presley.  (Source: Wikipedia)

1	We Don’t Talk Anymore
2	Power to All Our Friends
3	Living Doll with The Young Ones and featuring Hank Marvin
4	Dreamin’
5	Daddy’s Home
6	Wired For Sound
7	Carrie
8	Some People
9	The Millennium Prayer
10	Goodbye Sam, Hello Samantha
11	The Only Way Out
12	Never Say Die (Give a Little Bit More)
13	Devil Woman
14	A Little in Love
15	The Best of Me
16	True Love Ways
17	She’s So Beautiful
18	Suddenly (with Olivia Newton-John)
19	My Kinda Life
20	I Can’t Ask For Anymore Than You
21	Take Me High
22	Lean on You
23	Hey Mr. Dream Maker
24	Little Town
25	Silhouettes
26	Where Do We Go From Here?
27	Hot Shot
28	Give A Little Bit More
29	Green Light
30	Whenever God Shines His Light (with Van Morrison)
31	Slow Rivers (with Elton John)
32	You Keep Me Hangin’ On
33	Don’t Turn Out The Light
34	Help It Along
35	Tomorrow Rising

Artist Countdown: Clay Walker Top 35 Hits 8pm ET @ClayWalker

Ernest Clayton “Clay” Walker, Jr. (born August 19, 1969) is an American country music artist. He made his debut in 1993 with the single “What’s It to You“, which reached Number One on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) chart, as did its follow-up, 1994’s “Live Until I Die“. Both singles were included on his self-titled debut album, released in 1993 via Giant Records. He stayed with the label until its 2001 closure, later recording for Warner Bros. Records and RCA Records before joining his current label, Asylum-Curb Records, in 2007.

Clay Walker has released a total of 11 albums, including a greatest hits package and an album of Christmas music. His first four studio albums all achieved platinum certification in the United States and his greatest hits collection and fifth studio album were each certified gold. He has charted 30 country singles, including six Number Ones: “What’s It to You”, “Live Until I Die”, Dreaming with My Eyes Open“, “If I Could Make a Living”, “This Woman and This Man”, and “Rumor Has It”. His most recent album, She Won’t Be Lonely Long, was released in mid-2010. (Source: Wikipedia)

1	What’s It to You
2	Live Until I Die
3	Dreaming with My Eyes Open
4	If I Could Make a Living
5	Rumor Has It
6	This Woman and This Man
7	Who Needs You Baby
8	Then What?
9	Hypnotize the Moon
10	You’re Beginning to Get to Me
11	Only on Days That End in Y
12	Where Do I Fit in the Picture
13	Watch This
14	My Heart Will Never Know
15	One, Two, I Love You
16	Live, Laugh, Love
17	Bury the Shovel
18	The Chain of Love
19	She’s Always Right
20	Ordinary People
21	She Won’t Be Lonely Long
22	Fall
23	A Few Questions
24	I Can’t Sleep
25	Jesse James
26	‘Fore She Was Mama
27	Where Do I Go from You
28	If You Ever Feel Like Lovin’ Me Again
29	White Palace
30	Jesus Was a Country Boy
31	Say No More
32	She Likes It in the Morning
33	Like We Never Said Goodbye
34	Once in a Lifetime Love
35	Mexico

Artist Countdown: Go Go’s with Belinda Carlisle & Jane Wiedlin Top 35 Hits 3pm ET @officialgogos @belindaofficial @janewiedlin

The Go-Go’s are an all-female American rock band formed in 1978. They made history as the first all-female band that both wrote their own songs and played their own instruments to top the Billboard album charts.

The Go-Go’s rose to fame during the early 1980s. Their debut album, Beauty and the Beat, is considered one of the “cornerstone albums of (US) new wave” (Allmusic), breaking barriers and paving the way for a host of other new American acts. When the album was released, it steadily climbed the Billboard 200 chart, ultimately reaching number one, where it remained for six consecutive weeks. The LP sold in excess of three million copies and reached triple platinum status, making it one of the most successful debut albums ever. The Go-Go’s have sold more than seven million albums.

 

Belinda Jo Carlisle (born August 17, 1958) is an American singer who gained worldwide fame as the lead vocalist of the Go-Go’s, one of the most successful all-female bands of all time. Topping the Billboard charts with the Go-Go’s, she sold more than seven million albums in just three years and later went on to have a successful solo career with hits such as “Mad About You”, “I Get Weak”, “Circle in the Sand“, “Leave a Light On” and “Heaven Is a Place on Earth” among others, which were major successes in the United States and the United Kingdom as well as internationally.

Her autobiography, Lips Unsealed, published in June 2010, reached No. 27 on the The New York Times Best Seller list and received favorable reviews. On August 11, 2011, she received, as a member of the Go-Go’s, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Jane Marie Genevieve Wiedlin (born May 20, 1958) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and actress. She is best known as the rhythm guitarist of the all-female New Wave band The Go-Go’s.  (Source: Wikipedia)

1	Heaven Is a Place on Earth	Belinda Carlisle
2	Leave a Light On	Belinda Carlisle
3	Circle in the Sand	Belinda Carlisle
4	I Get Weak	Belinda Carlisle
5	Our Lips Are Sealed	Go Go’s
6	We Got the Beat	Go Go’s
7	Vacation	Go Go’s
8	Summer Rain	Belinda Carlisle
9	Mad About You	Belinda Carlisle
10	La Luna	Belinda Carlisle
11	Live Your Life Be Free	Belinda Carlisle
12	(We Want) the Same Thing	Belinda Carlisle
13	Head Over Heels	Go Go’s
14	Rush Hour	Jane Wiedlin
15	Runaway Horses	Belinda Carlisle
16	In Too Deep	Belinda Carlisle
17	Big Scary Animal	Belinda Carlisle
18	Do You Feel Like I Feel?	Belinda Carlisle
19	The Whole World Lost Its Head	Go Go’s
20	World Without You	Belinda Carlisle
21	Always Breaking My Heart	Belinda Carlisle
22	Get Up and Go	Go Go’s
23	Half the World	Belinda Carlisle
24	Little Black Book	Belinda Carlisle
25	Vision of You	Belinda Carlisle
26	Blue Kiss	Jane Wiedlin
27	Inside a Dream	Jane Wiedlin
28	Unforgiven	Go Go’s
29	Turn to You	Go Go’s
30	I Feel the Magic	Belinda Carlisle
31	Love Never Dies	Belinda Carlisle
32	Cool Jerk	Go Go’s
33	I Feel Free	Belinda Carlisle
34	Band of Gold	Belinda Carlisle
35	Automatic	Go Go’s

Artist Countdown: Pam Tillis Top 35 Hits 6pm ET @PamTillis

Pamela Yvonne “Pam” Tillis (born July 24, 1957 in Plant City, Florida) is an America country music singer-songwriter and actress. She is the daughter of country music singer Mel Tillis and one of five children.

Originally a demo singer in Nashville, Tennessee, Tillis was signed to Warner Bros. Records in 1981, for which she released nine singles and one album, Above and Beyond the Doll of Cutey. By 1991, she had signed to Arista Nashville, entering Top 40 on Hot Country Songs for the first time with “Don’t Tell Me What to Do”, the first of five singles from her album Put Yourself in My Place. Tillis recorded five more albums for Arista Nashville between then and 2001, plus a greatest hits album and 22 more singles. Her only number 1 hit on the country charts was 1995’s “Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)“, although 12 other singles made Top 10 on that chart. After exiting Arista, Tillis released It’s All Relative: Tillis Sings Tillis for Lucky Dog Records in 2002, plus RhineStoned and the Christmas album Just in Time for Christmas on her own Stellar Cat label in 2007. Her albums Homeward Looking Angel (1992), Sweetheart’s Dance (1994) and Greatest Hits (1997) are all certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), while Put Yourself in My Place and 1995’s All of This Love are certified gold.

Besides her own work, Tillis co-wrote and sang on the 1990 Warner Bros. single “Tomorrow’s World”, written in honor of Earth Day, and Dolly Parton’s 1992 single “Romeo”. She has won two major awards: a Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals in 1999 for the multi-artist collaboration “Same Old Train”, and the 1994 Country Music Association award for Best Female Vocalist. (Source: Wikipedia)

1	Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)
2	Shake the Sugar Tree
3	Maybe It Was Memphis
4	Deep Down
5	All the Good Ones Are Gone
6	In Between Dances
7	One of Those Things
8	Let That Pony Run
9	Spilled Perfume
10	When You Walk in the Room
11	Put Yourself in My Place
12	I Said a Prayer
13	Land of the Living
14	The River and the Highway
15	Don’t Tell Me What to Do
16	Cleopatra, Queen of Denial
17	Do You Know Where Your Man Is
18	It’s Lonely Out There
19	I Was Blown Away
20	Please
21	Blue Rose Is
22	Romeo (with Parton, Cyrus, Mattea, Carpenter, Tucker)
23	Every Time
24	After a Kiss
25	Betty’s Got a Bass Boat
26	Those Memories of You
27	I Wish She Wouldn’t Treat You That Way
28	Goodbye Highway
29	There Goes My Love
30	Killer Comfort
31	Love Sneakin’ Up on You
32	Thunder & Roses
33	Unmitigated Gall
34	So Wrong
35	Band in the Window

Artist Countdown: Aaron Tippin Top 35 Hits 6pm ET @RadioMax @TippinAaron

Aaron Dupree Tippin (born July 3, 1958 in Pensacola, Florida) is an American country music artist and record producer. Initially a songwriter for Acuff-Rose Music, he gained a recording contract with RCA Records in 1990. His debut single, “You’ve Got to Stand for Something” became a popular anthem for American soldiers fighting in the Gulf War and helped to establish him as a neotraditionalist country act with songs that catered primarily to the American working class. Under RCA’s tenure, he recorded five studio albums and a Greatest Hits package. By the later half of the 1990s, however, his sales and chart performance began to decline, and he was dropped from the label’s roster.

Tippin switched to Lyric Street Records in 1998, where he recorded four more studio albums, counting a compilation of Christmas music. In the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks, he released the patriotic anthem “Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly“; although it was his most successful crossover single, he saw his popularity decline a second time after its release. After parting ways with Lyric Street in 2006, he founded a personal label known as Nippit Records, on which he issued the compilation album Now & Then. A concept album, In Overdrive, was released in 2009.

Tippin has released a total of nine studio albums and two compilations, with five gold certifications and one platinum certification among them. In addition, he has charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including three Number Ones: “There Ain’t Nothin’ Wrong with the Radio” (1992), “That’s as Close as I’ll Get to Loving You” (1995), and “Kiss This” (2000), as well as the Top Ten hits “You’ve Got to Stand for Something”, “I Wouldn’t Have It Any Other Way”, “My Blue Angel”, “Working Man’s Ph.D“, “For You I Will”, and “Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly”.

On July 15, 1995, Tippin married the former Thea Corontzos at a Greek Orthodox ceremony in Nashville. Along with his manager, Billy Craven, Aaron and Thea Tippin created Tippin’s company, Tip Top Entertainment. They reside in Dowelltown, Tennessee. Tippin also opened two hunting supply stores called Aaron Tippin Firearms: one in Smithville, Tennessee, and the other was run by his late father, Willis Emory Tippin, in Oak City, North Carolina. (Willis died in 2005.) According to the Federal Aviation Administration, Tippin is an instrument rated commercial pilot with single and multi-engine ratings. He also has private pilot privileges for rotorcraft-helicopter. Finally, he is a certified airframe and power plant mechanic.

1	For You I Will
2	There Ain’t Nothin’ Wrong with the Radio
3	That’s as Close as I’ll Get to Loving You
4	I Wouldn’t Have It Any Other Way
5	Workin’ Man’s Ph.D
6	You’ve Got to Stand for Something
7	Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly
8	My Blue Angel
9	I Got It Honest
10	I’m Leaving
11	The Call of the Wild
12	Kiss This
13	I Wonder How Far It Is Over You
14	Without Your Love
15	Whole Lotta Love on the Line
16	She Feels Like a Brand New Man Tonight
17	Everything I Own
18	Honky Tonk Superman
19	Her
20	I Was Born with a Broken Heart
21	She Made a Memory Out of Me
22	People Like Us
23	That’s What Happens When I Hold You
24	Love Like There’s No Tomorrow (with Thea Tippin)
25	Always Was
26	If Her Lovin’ Don’t Kill Me
27	Come Friday
28	A Door
29	I’ll Take Love Over Money
30	What This Country Needs
31	He Believed
32	How’s the Radio Know
33	Ready to Rock (In a Country Kind of Way)
34	Drill Here, Drill Now
35	East Bound and Down

Artist Countdown: Sweet Top 35 Hits 4pm ET @radiomax #artistcountdown

Sweet (also referred to as The Sweet) were a British rock band that rose to worldwide fame in the 1970s as a prominent glam rock act, with their most prolific line-up: lead vocalist Brian Connolly, bass player Steve Priest, guitarist Andy Scott, and drummer Mick Tucker.

Sweet were formed in 1968 and achieved their first hit “Funny Funny” in 1971 after teaming up with songwriters Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman and record producer Phil Wainman. During 1971 and 1972, their musical style followed a marked progression from the Archies-like bubblegum style of “Funny Funny” to a Who-influenced hard rock style supplemented by a striking use of high-pitched backing vocals.

The band achieved notable success in the UK charts, with thirteen Top 20 hits during the 1970s alone, with “Block Buster!” (1973) topping the chart, followed by three consecutive number two hits in “Hell Raiser” (1973), “The Ballroom Blitz” (1973) and “Teenage Rampage” (1974). the band turned to more Hard Rock style with their mid-career singles like 1974’s Turn It Down. Their first self-written and produced single “Fox on the Run” (1975) also reached number two on the UK charts. These results were topped in West Germany and other countries on the European mainland, where the band was very popular.

The Sweet had their last Top 10 hit in 1978 with “Love Is Like Oxygen”. Connolly left the group in 1979 to start a solo career and the remaining members continued as a threesome until disbanding in 1981.

Since the mid-1980s, Scott, Connolly and Priest have each played with their own versions of Sweet during different periods of time. Connolly died in 1997, and Tucker died in 2002. The two surviving members are still active in their respective versions of the band; Scott’s is based in the United Kingdom and Priest’s in the United States. (Source: Wikipedia)

1	Fox on the Run
2	Ballroom Blitz
3	Action
4	Wig-Wam Bam
5	Block Buster!
6	Little Willy
7	Teenage Rampage
8	Co-Co
9	Love Is Like Oxygen
10	Poppa Joe
11	Hell Raiser
12	The Six Teens
13	Funny Funny
14	The Lies in Your Eyes
15	Turn It Down
16	Lost Angels
17	Fever of Love
18	Alexander Graham Bell
19	California Nights
20	Peppermint Twist
21	Stairway to the Stars
22	Call Me
23	Funk It Up (David’s Song)
24	Slow Motion
25	Lollipop Man
26	All You’ll Ever Get from Me
27	Get on the Line
28	4th of July
29	Big Apple Waltz
30	Give the Lady Some Respect
31	Sixties Man
32	Discophony
33	Stay With Me
34	Hold Me
35	Jeanie

Artist Countdown: Commodores Top 35 Hits 2pm ET @radiomax

The Commodores are an American funk/soul band of the 1970s and 1980s. The members of the group met as mostly freshmen at Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) in 1968, and signed with Motown in November 1972, having first caught the public eye opening for The Jackson 5 while on tour.

The group is best known for their ballads, such as “Easy” and “Three Times a Lady“, but, for the most part, the group recorded funky, driven dance-floor hits which include “Brick House“, “The Bump“, “Fancy Dancer”, and “Too Hot ta Trot“.

Today, the Commodores consist of Walter “Clyde” Orange, J.D. Nicholas and King “WAK”, along with their five piece band, known as the “Mean Machine”. The group continues to perform, playing at arenas, theaters and festivals around the world. The band’s websites are www.Myspace.com/TheCommodoresNow  & www.CommodoresLive.com (Source: Wikipedia)

1	Nightshift
2	Three Times a Lady
3	Still
4	Sail On
5	Oh No
6	Brick House
7	Easy
8	Sweet Love
9	Animal Instinct
10	Machine Gun
11	Too Hot ta Trot
12	Lady (You Bring Me Up)
13	Just to Be Close to You
14	Fancy Dancer
15	Only You
16	Wonderland
17	Flying High
18	Goin to the Bank
19	Slippery When Wet
20	Old-Fashion Love
21	Janet
22	Heroes
23	I Feel Sanctified
24	Painted Picture
25	Why You Wanna Try Me
26	This Is Your Life
27	United in Love
28	Take It from Me
29	The Zoo (The Human Zoo)
30	Solitaire
31	The Bump
32	Lighin’ Up The Night
33	Lucy
34	Reach High
35	Turn Off The Lights

 

Artist Countdown: Rosanne Cash Top 35 Hits 12pm ET

Rosanne Cash (born May 24, 1955) is an American singer-songwriter and author. She is the eldest daughter of country music icon Johnny Cash and his first wife, Vivian Liberto Cash Distin.

Although Cash is often classified as a country artist, her music draws on many genres, including folk, pop, rock and blues. In the 1980s, she had a string of chart-topping singles, which crossed musical genres and landed on both C&W and Top 100 charts, the most commercially successful being her 1981 breakthrough hit “Seven Year Ache“, which topped the U.S. country singles charts and reached the Top 30 on the U.S. pop singles charts. In 1990, Cash released Interiors, a spare, introspective album which signaled a break from her pop country past. The following year Cash ended her marriage and moved from Nashville to New York City, where she continues to write, record and perform. Since 1991 she has released five albums, written two books and edited a collection of short stories. Her fiction and essays have been published in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Oxford-American, New York Magazine, and various other periodicals and collections.

She won a Grammy in 1985 for “I Don’t Know Why You Don’t Want Me“, and has received nine other Grammy nominations. She has had 11 No. 1 country hit singles, 21 Top 40 country singles and two gold records.

She was portrayed, as a child, by Hailey Anne Nelson in Walk the Line, the 2005 Academy-award winning film of her father’s life.

1	Seven Year Ache
2	I Don’t Know Why You Don’t Want Me
3	Blue Moon with Heartache
4	Hold On
5	Runaway Train
6	The Way We Make a Broken Heart
7	Tennessee Flat Top Box
8	If You Change Your Mind
9	I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party
10	It’s Such a Small World (with Rodney Crowell)
11	Never Be You
12	My Baby Thinks He’s a Train
13	Ain’t No Money
14	Second to No One
15	If It Weren’t for Him (with Vince Gill)
16	I Wonder
17	Couldn’t Do Nothing Right
18	No Memories Hangin’ Round (with Bobby Bare)
19	What We Really Want
20	Take Me, Take Me
21	Black and White
22	One Step Over the Line (with Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (with John Hiatt))
23	On the Surface
24	It Hasn’t Happened Yet
25	The Wheel
26	Seventh Avenue
27	You Ain’t Going Nowhere (with Mary Chapin Carpenter and Shawn Colvin)
28	September When It Comes (with Johnny Cash)
29	Radio Operator
30	Sea of Heartbreak (with Bruce Springsteen)
31	I’m Movin’ On
32	Big River
33	Rules of Travel
34	Got You Covered (with Blackie and the Rodeo Kings)
35	Real Woman

 

Artist Countdown: Bobby Darin Top 35 Hits 8pm ET

Bobby Darin (born Walden Robert Cassotto; May 14, 1936 – December 20, 1973) was an American singer, songwriter, and actor of film and television. He performed in a range of music genres, including pop, rock, jazz, folk, and country.

He started as a songwriter for Connie Francis, and recorded his own first million-seller “Splish Splash” in 1958. This was followed by “Dream Lover“, “Mack the Knife“, and “Beyond the Sea”, which brought him world fame. In 1962, he won a Golden Globe for his first film Come September, co-starring his first wife, Sandra Dee (m. 1960–1967).

Throughout the 1960s, he became more politically active and worked on Robert Kennedy’s Democratic presidential campaign. He was present on the evening/morning of June 4-5, 1968, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles at the time of Kennedy’s assassination. The same year, he discovered that he had been brought up by his grandparents, not his parents, and that the girl he thought was his sister was actually his mother. These events deeply affected Darin and sent him into a long period of seclusion.

Although he made a successful television comeback, his health was beginning to fail, as he had always expected, following bouts of rheumatic fever in childhood. This knowledge of his vulnerability had always spurred him on to exploit his musical talent while still young. He died at 37, following a heart operation in Los Angeles.      Source: Wikipedia

1	You’re the Reason I’m Living
2	Mack the Knife
3	Dream Lover
4	Things
5	You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby
6	Splish Splash
7	If I Were a Carpenter
8	What’d I Say
9	Irresistible You
10	Lazy River
11	La Mer (Beyond The Sea)
12	Artificial Flowers
13	Clementine
14	Queen of the Hop
15	Early in the Morning
16	Multiplication
17	Plain Jane
18	Won’t You Come Home Bill Bailey?
19	Lovin’ You
20	Treat My Baby Good
21	If A Man Answers
22	Milord
23	Eighteen Yellow Roses
24	I Found a New Baby
25	Nature Boy
26	Mame
27	Baby Face
28	Happy
29	The Girl That Stood Beside Me
30	Be Mad, Little Girl
31	Long Line Rider
32	Beachcomber
33	The Things In This House
34	I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now
35	Theme From ‘Come September’