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The Valentinos (lead vocal Bobby Womack with brothers Cecil, Curtis, Friendly Jr. and Harry) "Lookin' For A Love" (J. W. Alexander - Zelda Samuels) peaked at number eight on the R&B chart and got to seventy-two on the Billboard pop chart in 1962. The

Mungo Jerry (lead vocalist Ray Dorset, Mike Cole, Colin Earl and Paul King) with the original chart topping "In The Summertime". The single is on the album "Electronically Tested". Despite hitting number one throughout the world, this peaked at number

Just check out the writers of The Coasters (lead vocalist Carl Gardner, Billy Guy, Leon Hughes and Bobby Nunn) 1957 hit "Young Blood" (Jerry Leiber - Mike Stoller - Doc Pomus) with Leiber and Stoller taking care of production and it's obvious why the song

From his 2000 LP "And Another Thing" talented singer and songwriter Graham Gouldman with "Heart Full Of Soul" (Graham Gouldman). Graham was with The Mindbenders and 10CC. Graham has written more hits than you and I and that guy over there put together.

From the 2016 LP "Jim Peterik - The Songs" this is the writers studio version of "Caught Up In You" (Jim Peterik - Don Barnes - Jeff Carlisi). 38 Special (lead vocalist Don Barnes, Carol Bristow, Steve Brookins, Jim Carlisi, Jack Grondin, Larry

Jim Peterik performs "Vehicle" on Indiana's Lakeshore FM 89.1 in 2013. In 1964 Jim and some friends from J. Sterling Morton High School West formed the Ides Of March. The Ides Of March (Jim Peterik, Bob Bergland, Mike Borch, John Larson, Larry Millas

The group Survivor was founded by Jim Peterik and this is his version of "Eye Of The Tiger" (Frank Sullivan - Jim Peterik) from the movie "Rocky lll". The song was commissioned especially for the film by Sylvester Stallone after Queen denied him use of

Academy Award winning Victor Young wrote and recorded "Theme From Medic" in 1955. The Emmy winning television show starred Richard Boone who went on to star in "Have Gun, Will Travel". Richard turned down the role of Steve McGarrett on Hawaii 5-0. Victor

The Four Aces (lead vocals Al Alberts, Dave Mahoney, Lou Silvestri and Rosario Vaccaro) recorded "Sin"(George Hoven - Chester R. Shull) in 1951 on the small Philadelphia label Victoria Records. The single peaked at number four on Billboard. The 1957

Songwriter, producer, recording artist, television host and actor "Whispering" Bill Anderson wrote and recorded "Mama Sang A Song" in 1962. The single spent almost two months on top of the Country chart. The openly sentimental single is on the album "Bill

Spandau Ballet (lead vocalist Tony Hadley, Gary Kemp, John Keeble and Steve Norman) released the LP and the single "True" (Gary Kemp) in 1983. The song peaked at number four on the Top One Hundred while topping the Adult Contemporary chart. P.M. Dawn

Co-writer of "Spiders And Snakes" David Bellamy of the Bellamy Brothers (David and Howard) with the duo's take on the hit. Wikipedia: "The Bellamy Brothers live in Florida on a 200-acre family ranch in Darby where they raise Brahman cattle and quarter

This is the demo of "You Showed Me" (James McGuinn - Gene Clark) composed by the writers when they were performing as a duo. The song was recorded by The Byrds (David Crosby, Gene Clark, Michael Clarke, Chris Hillmann and Jim McGuinn) in 1964 but not

From the 1973 album "Sladest" it's Slade (lead vocalist Noddy Holder, Dave Hill, Jim Lea and Don Powell) with the original single "Cum On Feel The Noize" (Noddy Holder - Jim Lea). This topped the U.K. charts, in the U.S. it barely got onto the Top One

Former Miss New York State Linda Clifford's "All The Man I Need" (Dean Pitchford - Michael Gore) was written especially for her, arranged by Luther Vandross and released in 1981 as a non-charting single. The next year it was on her album "I'll Keep On

One half of the duo Boy Meets Girl, George Merrill wrote "How Will I Know" (George Merrill - Shannon Rubicam) with his wife at the time and the other member of Boy Meets Girl, Shannon Rubicam. They intended it for Janet Jackson but it was thought to be

The Carter Family's (A. P. Carter, wife Sara and sister-in-law Maybelline) 1930 recording of "Worried Man Blues" (traditional) is the oldest on record. Pun intended. They are related to President Jimmy Carter and the family tree includes Johnny Cash.

"I Go Blind" (Neil Osborne - Phil Campbell - Brad Merritt - Matt Johnson) is from the self titled 1986 album aka "the Green Album" by Vancouver, Canada's 54-40. This original written by the group members did not chart. Hootie And The Blowfish (Darius

This may not have been a giant hit but the story is worth the post. "Put A Ring On Her Finger" (Robert Duke) was not a hit in the U.K. for England's Eddie Silver. The composer was aka Joe Meek! The end result following the Les Paul and Mary Ford release

El Chicano (lead vocals Jerry Salas, Bobby Espinosa, Andre Baeza, John De Luna, Mickey Lespron, Rudy Regalado and founder Freddie Sanchez) supplied the original theme from the Stephen J. Cannell produced detective television series Baretta, "Keep Your Eye

Co-writer Marc Beeson performs "When She Cries" (Marc Beeson - Sonny LeMaire) at the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville. Restless Heart (lead vocals John Dittrich, Larry Stewart, Paul Gregg, Dave Innis and Greg Jennings) took "When She Cries" to number two

The Mosquitos (lead vocalist Vance Brescia, Tony Millions, Ian Morrison, Steve Prisco and Mitch Towse) recorded "That Was Then, This Is Now" (Vance Brescia) for their lone EP with the same title in 1985. Vance became the musical director for Herman's

The Michael English 1991 self-titled album contains the original "Mary, Did You Know" (Lowry - Greene). Michael was a member of the Gaither Vocal Band. Grammy winning a cappella group Pentatonix (Scott Hoying, Mitch Grassi, Avi Kaplan, Kirstin Maldonado