Number Ones Album Series
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New Number 1’s Album Series packed with chart-topping hits in Dance, Country, Jazz and From Soundtracks
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Four (4) new albums in the new and ongoing UMe Number 1’s album series bring together chart-toppers in the Dance, Country and Jazz genres as well as from movie and television Soundtracks. Dance Number 1’s, Country Number 1’s and Soundtrack Smashes, all on Hip-O/UMe, and Jazz Number 1’s on Verve/UMe, was released on April 3, 2007 in a ground-breaking environmentally-friendly packaging format. A first for the music industry, the standard package (both sleeve and tray) will be completely paper-recyclable.
Dance Number 1’s spans the dance floor from 1974 to 1991 with 15 #1 hits, including a quartet of disco era crossover blockbusters:
Soundtrack Smashes ranges even wider with its 16 #1’s.
Country Number 1’s provides a condensed history of country music with 20 #1’s from 1951 to 1989.
Jazz Number 1’s collects 17 recordings that were the best selling jazz discs of their time.
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Track Lists
Dance Number 1’s
1. Donna Summer – Hot Stuff
2. Lipps, Inc. – Funkytown
3. Thelma Houston – Don’t Leave Me This Way
4. Kool & The Gang – Celebration
5. ABC – The Look Of Love
6. Gloria Gaynor – Never Can Say Goodbye
7. Irene Cara – Fame
8. Brothers Johnson – Stomp!
9. Ce Ce Peniston – Finally
10. Rick James – Super Freak
11. Jody Watley – Looking For a New Love
12. Ollie & Jerry – Breakin’… There’s No Stopping Us
13. Diana Ross – I’m Coming Out
14. Gwen Guthrie – Ain’t Nothin’ Goin’ On But The Rent
15. Cathy Dennis – Touch Me (All Night Long)
Country Number 1’s
1. Hank Williams, Sr. – Hey, Good Lookin’
2. Johnny Cash – I Walk The Line
3. Marty Robbins – El Paso
4. George Jones – White Lightning
5. Patsy Cline – I Fall To Pieces
6. Roger Miller – King Of The Road
7. Loretta Lynn – Coal Miner’s Daughter
8. Conway Twitty – Hello Darlin’
9. Tom T. Hall – The Year That Clayton Delaney Died
10. Dolly Parton – Jolene
11. Crystal Gayle – Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue
12. The Statler Brothers –Do You Know You Are My Sunshine
13. Kenny Rogers – The Gambler
14. Don Williams – I Believe In You
15. Barbara Mandrell – I Was Country When Country Wasn’t Cool
16. The Oak Ridge Boys – Elvira
17. Willie Nelson – Always On My Mind
18. Randy Travis – Forever and Ever, Amen
19. Kathy Mattea – Eighteen Wheels And A Dozen Roses
20. Patty Loveless – Timber, I’m Falling In Love
Jazz Number 1’s
1. Louis Armstrong – What A Wonderful World
2. Ella Fitzgerald – Mr. Paganini (You’ll Have To Swing It )
3. Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd – Desafinado
4. Nina Simone – I Put A Spell On You
5. Oscar Peterson Trio –Happy-Go-Lucky Local a/k/a Night Train
6. Jimmy Smith – Walk On The Wild Side
7. Ramsey Lewis Trio – The “In” Crowd
8. Astrud Gilberto & Stan Getz – The Girl From Ipanema
9. Quincy Jones – Killer Joe
10. The Crusaders – Put It Where You Want It
11. John Handy – Hard Work
12. Ramsey Lewis – Wade In The Water
13. Etta James – At Last
14. Richard “Groove” Holmes – Misty [single version]
15. Gene Ammons – My Foolish Heart
16. Dinah Washington – Baby Get Lost
17. Billie Holiday – Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)
Soundtrack Smashes
1. Isaac Hayes – Theme From “Shaft”
2. Jennifer Holiday – And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going(obc “Dreamgirls”)
3. Joe Cocker/Jennifer Warnes – Up Where We Belong(from “An Officer And A Gentleman”)
4. Dolly Parton – 9 To 5
5. Christopher Cross –“Arthur’s” Theme (The Best That You Can Do)
6. Diana Ross – Theme From “Mahogany”(Do You Know Where You’re Going To)
7. Rose Royce – Car Wash
8. The Beach Boys – Kokomo (from “Cocktail”)
9. Jan Hammer – Miami Vice Theme
10. Simple Minds – Don’t You Forget About Me(from “The Breakfast Club”)
11. Harold Faltermeyer – Axel F(from “Beverly Hills Cop”)
12. Lionel Richie & Diana Ross – Endless Love
13. Michael Sembello – Maniac (from “Flashdance”)
14. Boyz II Men – A Song For Mama (from “Soul Food”)
15. Aaron Hall – Don’t Be Afraid (from “Juice”)
16. Coolio – Gangsta’s Paradise (from “Dangerous Minds”)track list not final sequence
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