Neil Sedaka (Brooklyn, 13 March 1939) is an American singer. He was best known in the 1950s and 1960s of the 20th century and was the most productive in the 70 's. He brought in the years 1975 and 1976 fourteen albums.
Sedaka broke in 1958 by with The Tokens. In 1959 he came with his first solo album, Neil Sedakaand then two years later to bring out Universal Boxing Manager .
The first hit was in Netherlands in 1960 ("Oh! Carol "). Also in 1974 , he had a hit with "A little lovin'". Sedaka had a dozen or so hits in Netherlands, but only one hit album:Timeless in 1992.
He also wrote many songs for other artists, including Gene Pitney, Tony Christie and ABBA.
His most recent album came out In 2012, The Real Neil.
Discography[Edit][]
Singles[Edit][]
Single (s) with any charts in the
the Dutch Top 40 |
Date of
appear |
Date of
entry |
Highest
position |
Number Of
weeks |
Comments |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oh! Carol | 1959 | 02-01-1960 | 1 (9wk) | 23 | # 11 in the Single Top 100 |
Stairway to heaven | 1960 | 28-05-1960 | 18 | 1 | # 18 in the Single Top 100 |
Calender girl | 1960 | 01-04-1961 | 11 | 10 | # 11 in the Single Top 100 |
A little lovin' | 1974 | 30-03-1974 | 32 | 2 | |
Laughter in the rain | 1975 | 08-05-1975 | 35 | 3 | |
Bad blood | 1975 | 24-05-1975 | 33 | 2 | |
The queen of 1964 | 1975 | 05-07-1975 | tip11 | - | |
Breaking up is hard to do | 1976 | 28-02-1976 | tip18 | - |
Single (s) with chart positions
in the Flemish Ultratop 50 |
Date of
appear |
Date of
entry |
Highest
position |
Number Of
weeks |
Comments |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oh Carol | 1959 | 01-12-1959 | 2 | 28 | |
Calendar girl | 1961 | 01-03-1961 | 7 | 8 | |
Little devil | 1961 | 01-07-1961 | 20 | 4 | |
King of clowns | 1962 | 01-06-1962 | 19 | 4 |
Radio 2 Top 2000[Edit][]
Number (s) with markings
in the Radio 2 Top 2000 |
' 99 | ' 00 | ' 01 | ' 02 | ' 03 | ' 04 | ' 05 | ' 06 | ' 07 | ' 08 | ' 09 | ' 10 | ' 11 | ' 12 | ' 13 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Breaking up is hard to do | 1864 | 1988 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Oh! Carol | 1187 | 1732 | 1994 | 1894 | 1065 | - | - | 1886 | 1988 | 1924 | - | - | - | - | - |
One way ticket | 1978 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |