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this week when Omi's "Cheerleader" topped the Hot 100, Billboard listed previous reggae songs that have gone to #1:
http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6627373/omi-cheerleader-hot-100
Johnny Nash, "I Can See Clearly Now" (No. 1, four weeks, 1972)
Eric Clapton, "I Shot the Sheriff" (one week, 1974) (written by Bob Marley)
Two by UB40: "Red Red Wine" (one week, 1988) and "Can't Help Falling in Love" (seven weeks, 1993)
Ini Kamoze," Here Comes the Hotstepper," (two weeks, 1994)
Two by Shaggy: "It Wasn't Me" (two weeks) and "Angel" (one week), both in 2001
Sean Paul, "Get Busy" (three weeks, 2003)
Sean Kingston, "Beautiful Girls" (four weeks, 2007)
MAGIC!, "Rude" (six weeks, 2014)
― some dude, Saturday, 18 July 2015 02:44 (eight years ago) link
Poor UB40, will always be remembered as a second-rate pop band playing codreggae when they were really a legit reggae band playing codpop.
WTF I was confused about Cheerleader but apparently I'd only heard some remix; jeez I'm really out of the loop these days. Nice breezy hit! I'm a fan... the previous two reggae #1s were pretty wretched; never thought we'd recover.
― Adam J Duncan, Saturday, 18 July 2015 03:01 (eight years ago) link
the singer is not a boy, I realise that.
this is supposedly an English translation of the lyrics, I don't know if anyone here is qualified to confirm
I live with my grandmother,
I live with my grandfather.
My father and mother go to visit us.
It has become fashionable one
Toddler have all
And then throw the old people!
Chorus:
I have no sisters,
My little brother is not,
They say that a great deal of trouble with the children .. What will happen to the earth
After a hundred years of the next,
If the fashion for children will take place at all!
Chocolate full house
Marmalade full house
No place to put toys for a long time.
I am happy to grow,
This bought dog,
It is of course very nice, but ...
Chorus.
Grandma wants to knit,
Grandpa wants to sleep
I have one hanging around the yard.
It is a pity that no mothers and fathers
A person can not by itself
To have a sister or brother.
Chorus:
I have no sisters,
My little brother is not,
They say that a great deal of trouble with children ...
What will be on the ground
After a hundred years of the next,
If the fashion for children will take place at all!
I have no sisters,
My little brother is not,
They say that a great deal of trouble with children ...
What will be on the ground
After a hundred years of the next,
If the fashion for children will take place at all!