On the modern -rock side, Lit led the way Singles recap. Ricky Martin's pop crossover with "My Own Worst Enemy" (RCA). Everlast hit, "Livin' La Vida Loca" (C2), ranks second. was No. 2 with "What It's Like" (Tommy Boy), Cher and Ricky Martin finish in the same and the Red Hot Chili Peppers were hot at order on the top Maxi- Singles Sales Artists list modern rock as well as mainstream rock, com- The Vengaboys, in third place, are the top ing in No. 3 on both lists with "Scar Tissue." group. Warner Bros. dominates the imprint The Offspring is the No. 1 modern -rock artist, and label recaps, while WEA is the No. 1 dis- followed by Sugar Ray and Everlast. RCA, tributor. strong with Lit and the Dave Matthews Band, "Believe" pulls a double, giving Cher the Heller is is the No. 1 modern -rock imprint, and top Club Play single, as well. Pete Interscope the top label. runner -up with "Big Love" (Subliminal Strictly Rhythm). Cher has two titles in the RAP top 10, as "All Or Nothing" (Warner Bros.) The word that shows up the most on the ranks fourth. that Cher is the No. 1 YEAR IN CHARTS ROCK year -end rap recap is "featuring." The top six So it's no surprise Dat" by Club Play artist, followed by Whitney Continued from page YE -104 Florida -based Creed placed three chart singles, including chart leader "Who entries in 1998's top 10 Mainstream Rock JT Money featuring Sole (Tony Mercedes) are Houston, Madonna and the Vengaboys. The the 100 -week mark on the chart at the end of Tracks, but the highest- ranked was "My Own all collaborations, as are eight of the top 10. 1999, is No. 5 for this year. Two Canadians Prison," at No. 2. This year, Creed goes that Jay -Z, who had one of two solo efforts in the take the top two spots for '99: Sarah hit one better, as its song "One" (Wind-up) is top 10 with "Hard Knock Life (Ghetto is 1 rap artist McLachlan is No. 1 with "Angel" (Warner Anthem)" (Roc -A- Fella), the No. Sunset) from the "City Of Angels" soundtrack, of 1999, followed by Sole and JT Money. By and Shania Twain is No. 2 with "From This virtue of her collaboration with Busta Rhymes Moment On." Britain's Phil Collins, who tied Dion's record -setting 19 -week stay at No. 1 with "Because You Loved Me" with his own "You'll Be In My Heart" (Walt Disney/ Hollywood), ranks No. 3 with that "Tarzan" song. The highest -ranked U.S. act on the year- end AC chart is 'N Sync, No. 4 with "(God Must Have Spent) A Little More Time On You" (RCA). One major difference from last year: Twain and LeAnn Rimes are the only country acts in the top 25 of 1999 (and Rimes is only there in a duet with Elton John). In 1998, five coun- try artists were represented in the top 25. Shania Twain is the No. 1 AC artist. The act is one reason Groovilicious is the Backstreet Boys are No. 2 for two years run- latter just top Club Play imprint and Strictly Rhy ning, and Sarah McLachlan is No. 3. Phil LeAnn Rimes top label. Combining Maxi -Singles Sala Collins is the top male AC artist, followed by the Play, Groovilicious is the No. Edwin McCain. Jive is the leading AC imprint, the leading mainstream -rock track of the year. and Club Bros. the No. 1 label. and IDJMG the top label. Collective Soul has its best year -end showing ,v sync and Warner For the first time in three years, the Adult since 1995, when "December" was the top Top 40 recap is not led by a new artist. rock track of the year, with "Heavy," the No. on the No. 2 rap song, "What's It Gonna Be ?!" JAZZ two artists who had the top two Duncan Sheik and Natalie Imbruglia had the 2 song of 1999. The Red Hot Chili Peppers (FlipMode /Elektra), Janet Jackson is the No. 6 The same 1998 repeat in the same order with top songs of 1997 and 1998, but this year the come in third with "Scar Tissue" (Warner rap artist. With 26 titles charted, Priority is the albums of 1999 releases. Harry Connick Jr. is No. Goo Goo Dolls are in first place, with "Slide" Bros.). Metallica has two of its Elektra tracks in leading rap label, and EMD is the top distrib- their 1 By Me" (Columbia), and Diana (Warner Bros.). New act Sixpence None The the top 10: "Turn The Page" at No. 7 and utor. with "Come Krall is No. 2 with "When I Look In Your Richer is runner -up with "Kiss Me" "Whiskey In The Jar" at No. 8. Eyes" (Verve). Krall is also in the top 10 with (Squint/Columbia). Matchbox 20 had the No. Creed is the No. 1 mainstream -rock artist DANCE MUSIC "Love Scenes" (Impulse!) at No. 4. That helps 2 song last year with "3 AM," and this year it for the second year in a row, followed by last Rap singles came out on top of the Hot explain Connick and Krall switching places is in third place with "Back 2 Good" year's No. 3 act, Metallica. Lenny Kravitz, at Dance Maxi- Singles Sales year -end tally from Artists ranking, where Krall (Lava/Atlantic). The Goo Goo Dolls are the No. 3, is the top solo artist. Based on the 1995 -1997, but pop won out in 1998, when on the Top Jazz & Boy Is Mine" was is No. 1 for 1999. Two artists of note in the No. 1 Adult Top 40 artist, followed by Sugar strength of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Goo Brandy Monica's "The 10: Phil Collins Big Band gives the Ray and Sarah McLachlan. Lava is the top Goo Dolls and Tom Petty & The Heart- the top seller. Pop rules again in 1999, as top the appearance on imprint and Atlantic the leading label, both breakers, the top mainstream -rock imprint is Cher's "Believe" (Warner Bros.), the No. 1 British musician an unusual late Louis Armstrong con. for the second consecutive year. Warner Bros. Interscope is the leading label. pop single of the year, also leads the Maxi- the jazz list, and the

hobo" had PASSINGS poser and conductor for more than four The Grapevine" and "I Want To Be Your son, Mo. "The world's favorite been a member of the Grand Ole Opry since Continued from page YE -42 decades. He grew up in Los Angeles' Central Man." Avenue jazz scene and played with Eric Musician E. William Tucker, in Chicago. 1981. He was also the most popular country a rousing debut at Musician Alexander "Skip" Spence, in Dolphy, Don Cherry, Lionel Hampton and Tucker was an accomplished guitarist, song- artist in the U.K., after in 1979 and a best -selling Santa Cruz, Calif. Spence was a founding many others. writer, producer and remixer who had Wembley Hall member of the 1960s San Francisco bands Jazz vocalist Leon Thomas, in the Bronx, worked with Ministry, Foetus, Chris album. Young, in Chicago. Jefferson Airplane and. Moby Grape. In late N.Y. Thomas toured with Art Blakey's Jazz Connelly, Revolting Cocks, Ween, Pigface, Bluesman Mighty Joe /guitarist played behind Jimmy 1968, he recorded the influential solo album Messengers, Ahmad Jamal and the Count My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, KMFDM, The singer "Oar" in Nashville; it was released by Basie Orchestra. Increasingly identified with 16 Volt and many other acts. Rogers, Otis Rush and Billy Boy Arnold and Willie Dixon and Columbia in 1969. jazz's avant -garde in the '60s, he gained fame Singer Katie Webster, in League City, recorded with Magic Sam, first bluesmen Singer Dusty Springfield, near London. with his unique yodeling style on saxophon- Texas. Blues singer /pianist Webster record- others. He was one of the to gain populari Beyond her dozen pop hits, Springfield was ist Pharaoh Sanders' late -'60s albums. ed prolifically for such independent from Chicago's West Side labels as Goldband and Excello ty with young white audiences. one of the most soulful pop singers to . Jazz stylist Mel Tormé, in Beverly Hills, Louisiana emerge from England. The smoky, sensual Calif. One of the top jazz singers of the last during the 1950s and 1960s. She was a mem- voice of "Wishin And Hopin"' was intro- three decades, the "Velvet Fog" was a first - ber of Otis Redding's band in the '60s and EXECUTIVES co- founder Herb Abramson, in duced to a new generation in the 1994 film class jazz baritone with great scatting ability. is heard on his album "Live At The Whisky Atlantic producer in "Pulp Fiction," which featured her "Son Of He wrote a number of standards, including A Go -Go." Henderson, Nev. An upcoming 1947, Abramson was recruited by Ahmet A Preacher Man." "The Christmas Song," and received a Drummer Ken Wilkinson, in Wiltshire, in forming Atlantic Rock pioneer Jesse Stone, in Altamonte lifetime- achievement award from NARAS in England. A drummer for the Waterboys, Ertegun as his partner recorded the label's first Springs, Fla. A part of Atlantic Records from 1999. Wilkinson had also played with Squeeze, Records. The two Wine Spo- Dee -O- Dee," and its earliest days, Stone was an architect of Singer /songwriter /actor Bobby Troup, in China Crisis, Bonnie Raitt and the hit, "Drinking Brown. Abramson left rock 'n' roll through his work as a writer and Sherman Oaks, Calif. Troup was best -known Proclaimers. At the time of his death, he was signed singer Ruth arranger of such milestones as Big Joe for writing "(Get Your Kicks) On Route 66," touring with Howard Jones and had recent- the label in the '60s. In 1998, he received the Rhythm & Blues Turner's "Shake, Rattle And Roll" and Ray as well 'as Sammy Kaye's 1941 No. 1, ly rejoined the Waterboys to record a new Pioneer Award from the Charles' "It Should Have Been Me." "Daddy," and other songs. In the mid -'50s, studio album. Foundation. Drummer Darrell Sweet, in New Albany, Troup married singer Julie London, with Singer Joe Williams, in Las Vegas. For Art director Bob Cato, in New York. Cato creative services at Columbia Ind. Sweet was a founding member of whom he starred on the TV series four decades, Williams sang some of the was VP of Nazareth, which, at his death, was set to "Emergency." most sophisticated blues and ballads in jazz Records in New York from 1960 to 1970, embark on the second leg of a U.S. tour. Funk innovator Roger Troutman, in history. After joining the Count Basic where he created or supervised some of con- most notable album cow Nazareth celebrated its 30th anniversary in Dayton, Ohio. His vocoder- treated vocals siz- Orchestra in 1954, he recorded a finger- temporary music's 1998 and is best -remembered for its 1975 hit zled through a string of '80s hits with his poppin' version of "Every Day I Have The ers. executive Friedrich-Carl "Love Hurts." band Zapp. In a concurrent solo career Blues," which introduced the rock 'n' roll Manufacturing Jazz artist Horace Tapscott, in Los under the name Roger, Troutman notched generation to the Basie swing machine. "Fritz" Coch, in Roetgen, Germany. Coch joined WEA Germany in 1972 and helped Angeles. Tapscott was a jazz pianist, com- No. 1 R&B hits with "I Heard It Through Country singer Boxcar Willie, in Bran-

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