Throughout their sizzling spell as hitmakers on the U.Ok. singles chart, Rainbow by no means fairly rang the bell in the identical method in America. For all their success on the album charts and at rock radio, the band didn’t robotically cross over to pop airplay.
Their scorecard included only one High 40 look, and even then, solely simply, with 1982’s No.40 single “Stone Cold.” On November 17, 1979, Ritchie Blackmore and the band appeared on the Billboard Sizzling 100 for the primary time with “Since You’ve Been Gone,” which had peaked at No.6 within the U.Ok. on October 13.
The track (typically listed as “Since You Been Gone”) was written by former Argent member and hit composer Russ Ballard, who had recorded the primary model of it, on his 1976 album Successful. Rainbow’s cowl grew to become the definitive model, but it surely wasn’t the primary interpretation. Clout, the South African band who had a world hit with “Substitute” — not the Who track — did it on the 1978 album that additionally contained that track. The Illinois onerous rock band Head East recorded it in 1978, too.
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Rainbow’s model, produced by Roger Glover, featured vocals by the band’s frontman of the time, Graham Bonnet. The English rock singer had beforehand recorded in his personal proper and had visited the British charts totally 11 years earlier than, because the singer with the Marbles on their High 5 hit written by the Bee Gees, “Only One Woman.”
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Different new entries to the US chart that week included Kenny Rogers’ nation crossover “Coward Of The County,” Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ “Don’t Do Me Like That,” and Herb Alpert’s “Rotation.” Sadly, within the week earlier than Christmas, the Rainbow observe ran out of steam at No.57. The fourth studio set that it got here from, Down To Earth, had a 15-week run on the Billboard 200, reaching No.66.
Purchase or stream “Since You’ve Been Gone” on Rainbow’s Down To Earth album.
