Sweetheart (Franke and the Knockouts song)
"Sweetheart" is a 1981 song by Franke and the Knockouts. It was their debut single and greatest hit, reaching the U.S. Top 10 during the spring of that year. It spent 19 weeks on the charts and is ranked as the 50th biggest hit of 1981.[2]
| "Sweetheart" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | ||||
| Single by Franke and the Knockouts | ||||
| from the album Franke & the Knockouts | ||||
| B-side | "Don't Stop" | |||
| Released | March 1981 | |||
| Genre | Soft rock[1] | |||
| Length | 4:11 | |||
| Label | Millennium | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Franke Previte, William Elworthy | |||
| Producer(s) | Steve Verroca | |||
| Franke and the Knockouts singles chronology | ||||
| ||||
The song was the group's first of three U.S. Top 40 hits, the others being "You're My Girl" (#27) and "Without You (Not Another Lonely Night)" (#24).
"Sweetheart" also charted moderately on both the U.S. Adult Contemporary and Mainstream Rock charts. Internationally, "Sweetheart" charted only in Canada (#18).
Chart history
Weekly charts
|
Year-end charts
|
gollark: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.02.429430v2
gollark: There was a cool paper recently on reconstructing eye input from fMRI scans.
gollark: There's one company which claims to have solved the display problem through sorcerous optics of some kind, but I don't know how true their claims are.
gollark: Anyway, I'm hoping consumer AR-type things come before neural interfaces, and this seems fairly plausible right now.
gollark: Oh yes, just remove wires surgically implanted in your brain casually.
References
- "Albums from the Lost and Found: Franke and the Knockouts / Silver Condor". The Great Albums.
- "Top 100 Hits of 1981/Top 100 Songs of 1981". musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
- "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 1981-06-13. Retrieved 2018-06-09.
- Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
- Whitburn, Joel (1993). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961–1993. Record Research. p. 92.
External links
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.