Denice Williams -- American Top 40: The Countdown of the Century

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Date Posted: 21:46:46 06/23/02 Sun
Author: Christopher Elliott
Subject: Denice Williams
In reply to: Dave 's message, "A couple of FB ironies" on 09:06:59 06/22/02 Sat

Denice Williams is one of those R&B acts whose pop chart career was sporadic but she was a big time R&B chart act.
Back in the 60s and early 70s virtually any top 10 R&B song made the top 40 on the Hot 100, and big time R&B acts like the Temptations etc. charted regularly on both charts.
By the late 70s and speeding up in the early 80s, R&B and Pop began to get further and further apart. Now you could have a #1 R&B hit and not even have it cross over to the Hot 100. Unthinkable in the 60s.
Denice Williams fits perfectly here. She was a regular visitor to the R&B Top 40/Top 10 from 1977-on yet only a handful of her hits managed to cross over. Her followup single to "It's Gonna Take a Miracle" called "Waiting By the Hotline" made the R&B top 40 but failed to make the Hot 100. While "Next Love", the followup to "Let's Hear It For the Boy" only made it to #81 on the Hot 100 despite hitting #22 on the R&B chart.
Christopher

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