Would you add me please. I just want to follow along and see how Boston and The Doobie Brothers do.
Sorry to say, but they will not be doing well. They’re not top 7 of any year, so won’t be in!
Doobie Brothers from Billboard’s Top 40 Hits boof from 1955-2000.
1972 - Listen to the Music - great
1973 - Jesus is just Alright
1973 - Long Train Runnin’
1973 - CHINA GROVE - one of their best
1975 -Black Water
1976 - Takin’ It to the Streets
1979 - What A Fool Believes
with a few others inbetween
Boston:
1976 - More Than A Feeling
Just cruising the “B” section -
Bread - one of the best groups of their time, along with The Association, Guess Who and The Grassroots
1970 - Make It With You
1970 - It Don’t Matter to Me
1971 - If
1971 - Baby I’m A Want You (Ok)
1972 - Everything I Own
etc.
Alicia Bridges -
1978 - I Love The Night Life
Brotherhood of Man
1970 - United We Stand
Jackson Browne
1972 - Doctor My Eyes
1978 - Running on Empty
Brownsville Station
1973 - Smokin’ in the Boy’s Room
Jimmy Buffet
1977 - Margaritaville
Bullet
1971 - White Lies, Blue Eyes
Just for the letter “B” you had a great range of songs that showed the growing diversity of rock/pop music occurring then.
About 25% of the top 100 songs on the list could be omitted and others from 101-150 or 199 substituted and the quality would be the same.
And if you liked to dance, it was a cornucopia of sound.
Perhaps Rock and Roll is best summed up as a type of music by several songs:
* The Showmen - It Will Stand
* Danny & The Juniors - Rock and Rock Is Here to Stay
* Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band - “Old Time Rock & Roll
* Billy Joel - “It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me”
and lastly,
* Chuck Berry - “Rock and Roll Music” (the 5th 45 record I bought (1957).
Old Rock and Rollers never die. They just “Dance the Night Away”.