Old Song Lyrics: oldies, 80s, 90s, Videos

Album: On the 6
Genre: R&B
Writers: Cory Rooney, Rodney Jerkins, LaShawn Daniels, Fred Jerkins III
Released: May, 1999
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This song was the lead single debut of Jennifer Lopez on her role as a singer. If You Has my Love was released on May 11th, 1999. It reached the peak position number one on Billboard during four weeks. For this single were made different officially versions: Pablo Flores, Tropical and Dark Child Remix are some of them. If You Had My Love also was a hit on Canada, Australia, Dutch, Belgium, German, Irish, Swiss and New Zealand. For this song, Jennifer won an Alma Awards as Outstanding Music Video Performer and a Billboard Music Award for Best Pop Clip. Besides that, the single received four 1999 MTV Video Music Awards nominations for Best Dance Video, Best Female Video, Best New Artist and Best Pop Video. It hasn0t been confirmed, but it is probably she releases a new compilation album in 2009.

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Album: Karyn White
Genre: Rhythm and blues
Released:  1989
This song reached the #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks in 1989. Also it reached #8 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and #12 on the U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary. The song has been remade by several artists including Gladys Knight (help from Patti LaBelle and Dionne Warwick) and the Chinese singer Faye Wong, although this singer made a new version entitled “Because of Him”. “Superwoman” is part of the debut album of Karyn White. More recently, in 2006, the song was covered in a TV contest (Malaysian Idol season 1) by the winner of the contest: Jaclyn Victor.

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Album: Never Say Never and The Boy Is Mine
Genre: Rhythm and Blues
Released: 1998
“The Boy is Mine” was inspired by the song of Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson: “The Girl Is Mine”. It talks about two women disputing the love of a man. It is one of the most successful R&B songs of all time. Curiously, the vocals of the song by Brandy and Monica were recorded separately and had some rumors of mutual dislike between the singers. The song peaked the U.S. Hot 100 for thirteen weeks and actually it was ranked #2 on Top Hot 100 Hits of 1998, only surpassed by Too Close (Next). In UK, the song reached the #2 on the UK Singles Chart. Also, “The Boy is Mine” is known to be the R&B breakthrough song in Asia.

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Album: TP-2.com
Genre: Rhythm and blues, pop, rap
Released: 2001
In 2001, this song spent five weeks at #1 on the US R&B chart and also reached #6 on the US pop chart. Robert Sylvester Kelly (R. Kelly) is an American R&B and pop singer-songwriter, rapper and music producer. Shawn Corey Carter (aka Jay-Z) is an American rapper and one of the richer hip hop artists. He also was CEO of a company (Roc-A-Fella Records). Billboard ranked the song as the most important R&B/Hip-Hop song in 2001. R. Kelly and Jay-Z have worked together several times with a great success. In 2003, they launched the album Kingdom Come which sold 680,000 copies in its first week.

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Album: Make It Big
Genre: Pop, Rhythm and blues
Released: 1984
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“Careless Whisper” was a huge commercial success around the world. Not only in United States or UK. The song was co-written by George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley, which were the two members of the duo called Wham! (disintegrated in 1986, two months after Michael released his second solo single). Apparently, the song talks about the guilt felt by a man over an affair and his acknowledgement that, eventually, his partner would find out that. “Careless Whisper” reached number one in nearly twenty-five countries and sold about six million copies around the world. The song is the 31st highest selling single of all time, according to the United World Chart.

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Album: Dru Hill
Genre: R&B
Released: 1996
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In 1996, this song reached #1 on the US R&B chart during three weeks and #4 on the US Pop chart. Dru Hill is an American singing group whose repertoire included R&B, soul, and gospel music. They were famous during the late 1990s mainly. One of his members, called Sisqo, had a hit single (”Thong Song”) in 2000 and made Sisqo one of the biggest stars in R&B music for that year. The video of “In My Bed” shows Sisqo with his girlfriend while he thinks she’s cheating on him with another man, but then, she is discovered by him while she is flirting with another woman at the end of the video. The song was included on their 1996 debut album.

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Album: Mr Personality
Genre: R&B
Released: 1959
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This song was one of the most important hits from that reached the peak position #2 on Billboard Pop Chart and #1 on Billboard R&B Chart. Personality got a certified Gold. Lloyd Price born in Kenner, Louisiana in 1933, and he is active since 1952. His genres have been the R&B and the Rock and Roll. In 1998, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Other of his hits are: Lawdy Miss Clawdy, I’m Gonna Get Married, Misty, Just Because, Come Into My Heart, Lady Luck, Question and No If’s - No And’s. Currently, he has a company of Icon Food Brands.
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Album: Talking Book
Genre: Funk, R&B
Released: November, 1972

Superstition reached the peak position number seventy-four on the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and now it has returned into the UK chart again. The song was written by the same Stevie Wonder that got to be a hit number one in United States in 1973. This single has many cover versions, it has been used by Alicia Keys, Widespread Panic, Stevie Ray Vaughan among others. The entire album was considered as one of the best crossover records of all times. Other well-known songs included into this material were: You Are the Sunshine of My Life and Blame It on the Sun. Stevie Wonder born in Saginaw, Michigan, United States in 1950. His genres have been he R&B, Soul, Pop and Funk, and it is active since 1961.
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Album: Boomerang
Genre: R&B
Released: 1992
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This song is the most successful one from the group Boyz II Men. This single became a number one hit in different charts like: ARIA, Canadian, Irish, UK, Swedish and U.S. Billboard Single Chart. The song received a certified platinum on December, 1992 for selling 1,000,000 copies. The song has versions like pop edit, LP and instrumental version. The song makes part of the soundtrack Boomerang a romantic comedy film starring by Eddie Murphy. It expects a new album for 2009 whose title is unknown yet.
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Album: The Bodyguard Soundtrack
Genre: Soul, Pop
Released: October, 1992
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The original version of this song was performed by Dolly Parton into her album Jolene in 1974. But it was Whitney Houston who became this single so popular around the world when the one was used as a soundtrack cover for the film The Bodyguard starring by Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston. I Will Always Love You won Record of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at Grammy Awards, Favorite Pop Female Single and Favorite R&B/Soul Female Single at American Music Awards, Top Selling Single Of the Year, Top Hot 100 Single of the Year, Top R&B Selling Single of the Year and Top R&B Single on Billboard Music Awards, World’s #1 Single of 1993 at World Musics Awards, Best Song at MTV Movie Awards, Favorite Female Music Video on People’s Choice Awards and Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul Single Female at Soul Train Music Awards. The Bodyguard soundtrack also received 17x certified Platinum and sold more than 17 million copies only in United States. Besides that, received certified platinum in UK, United Kingdom and Canada, and certified diamond in Brazil, Germany, France and Japan.
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