Billboard Book of Number One Adult Contemporary Hits

by Wesley Hyatt

Description by OLDIES.com:

This indispensable guide to the adult contemporary (AC) genre - a.k.a. "easy listening" and "pop standard" - lists every AC chart-topper from July 1961 to March 1999, when R. Kelly and Celine Dion's "I'm Your Angel" finally dropped out of the #1 slot after a three-month reign. Like the other books in the best-selling Billboard Number One Hit series, this volume offers insider's information on the songwriters, artists, producers, and label execs who crafted each of the 677 songs that made it to the top. The author takes us on a 38-year musical tour, from the 1960s, when easy listening specialists like Dean Martin and Andy Williams had limited appeal to pop audiences, to the end of the 1990s, when #1 AC hits by artists like Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Toni Braxton, Seal, and Boyz II Men were also #1 pop.